by David Karsner
Signed by the book's subject, Eugene V. Debs
New York: Boni & Liveright Publishers, 1919. First edition. Signed by Eugene Debs, the book's subject, in ink on the front free endpaper. x, 244 pp. Bound in publisher's dark maroon cloth with gilt stamping. Very Good+ with slightly bumped corners, slight rubbing to spine lettering, former owner's name and March 1925 written on front free endpaper above Debs' signature. In Fair dust jacket, chipped along edges with small interior chip to spine, long closed tear in front gutter mended with archival mending tissue on verso, price intact ($1.50).
An uncommon signature from the American political dissident and activist, on a late-in-life biography advertising, "Though Jailed, He Speaks." Debs co-founded the famous anarchist union The I.W.W. or Wobblies (as they were popularly known) and ran for US president multiple times under the Socialist Party of America banner.