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Strikers, Communists, Tramps And Detectives. ALLAN PINKERTON

Strikers, Communists, Tramps And Detectives.

ALLAN PINKERTON

Other works by ALLAN PINKERTON

Publication: G W Carleton & Co, 1882, New York

Later edition. Originally published in 1878. Original decorated brown cloth, tan front and rear endpapers, xii -412 pp., plus 8 pp. advertising, frontispiece, preface, illustrated. Light wear to the spine ends and corners, and rear cover lightly rubbed, else a very good copy with the Pinkerton "We Never Sleep" logo on front cover. Written by the man whose company was hired to fight unions, the book details strike-breaking and gives Pinkerton's take on shiftless tramps, rioting strikers, communists, and union brotherhoods.

Inventory Number: 45957

$85.00