Original poster: Labor Champion Tom Mooney / Free Mooney: a Class War Prisoner 19 Years, July 27, 1935 / Victim of a Monstrous Capitalist Class Frameup / Member of International Molders' Union 33 Years [alt. title: Labor Martyr Immortalized in Prison / Stone Face]
by [SOCIALISTS] [TOM MOONEY MOLDERS' DEFENSE COMMITTEE] RIDGE, Lola
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About This Item
San Francisco: Tom Mooney Molders' Defense Committee, 1935. First Edition. Original photo-illustrated broadsheet poster (71x86cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; features two of the most well-known photographic portraits of Mooney on recto and verso. Previous folds, just a hint of foxing, else Very Good or better. Large fund-raising poster issued by the Committee "for Labor Day, May Day, Working Class and Mooney parades and demonstrations, mass meetings, Unions' halls and Workers' headquarters" (bottom edge of both recto and verso). Left-hand panel of poster verso features anarchist author Lola Ridge's poem about Tom Mooney, first published in The Nation in 1932.
Mooney was framed on a murder charge following the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916. Despite the patent mistrial, and decades of advocacy from both moderate and leftist legal activists, Mooney was not pardoned until 1939. Scarce: Berkeley only in OCLC as of September, 2016.
Mooney was framed on a murder charge following the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916. Despite the patent mistrial, and decades of advocacy from both moderate and leftist legal activists, Mooney was not pardoned until 1939. Scarce: Berkeley only in OCLC as of September, 2016.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31545
- Title
- Original poster: Labor Champion Tom Mooney / Free Mooney: a Class War Prisoner 19 Years, July 27, 1935 / Victim of a Monstrous Capitalist Class Frameup / Member of International Molders' Union 33 Years [alt. title: Labor Martyr Immortalized in Prison / Stone Face]
- Author
- [SOCIALISTS] [TOM MOONEY MOLDERS' DEFENSE COMMITTEE] RIDGE, Lola
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Tom Mooney Molders' Defense Committee
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1935
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry; Labor History; Posters;
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About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
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- Offset
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.