The Warners: An American Story of To-Day (Today)

Chicago, IL: Jamieson-Higgins Co.. Offered is a first edition, first printing of "The Warners: An American Story of To-Day" written by Gertrude Potter Daniels and published in 1901 by the Jamieson-Higgins Co. out of Chicago, Illinois. A hardcover lacking dust jacket with splendid front cover art and containing 252 pages (two color schemes were used for the cover - this copy has a light steel-gray background). A engrossing, tragic novel, strongly anti-capitalist with socialist and anarchist themes throughout, involving Cyrus Warner, a man - homeless when young - who believed in the justice of the American system, one that would lift him out of poverty with hard work and perseverance. After obtaining a job at a factory, he meets Kirby and Ida Fisher, both radical socialists and orators, as well as his future wife, Betty Martin, a stenographer. The chance to purchase a small oil well provides the Warners and their daughter with a comfortable, although frugal, middle class income. After several years, Anthony J. Fellows - a ruthless oil magnate, who seeks to purchase all independent oil wells, "by a word" sends down the price of oil rendering the Warners and others like them impoverished. What follows is a chain of tragedies involving the Warners, their daughter, Kirby and Ida Fisher, and their son as their lives unravel due to capitalist greed. Gertrude Potter Daniels (1876-1940), daughter of a steel magnate and wife of a wealthy Chicago businessman, was an ardent socialist who complained that her works were "suppressed through the interference of capital." The outer covers show very light wear to the corners as well as upper and lower spine edges; one letter of the cover title lightly rubbed; very minimal, light browning to rear cover. A splendid copy. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1901.