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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 355 pages; index; numerous b & w photos and drawings; one is of a "tractor that walks like a horse". Black letters on tan cloth. Text block ends have darkened. Very sparse amount of lt. stains on pages. Scans e-mailed upon request.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 416. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1924 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 416.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. This landmark American anthology is the work of Hamilton Holt (18721951), long-tenured publisher of the progressive and internationalist magazine The Independent and vocal advocate for social reform, immigrant rights, and international peace, and later a founding member of the NAACP, an executive member of the League to Enforce Peace, and the first Director of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. From 1902 to 1906, Holt printed a series of "lifelets," or mini-autobiographies, sharing the lives of diverse working-class Americans, and out of the 75 he published in The Independent, he selected 16 for publication in this 1906 first edition of The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans, As Told by Themselves (the entire 75 would later be published in an edition by Routledge in 2000). These "Undistinguished Americans" tell their stories of both the challenge and the promise of life in the United States at the turn of the centuryof immigration, exploitation, racism, and prejudice (expressed not infrequently by the subjects themselves), as well as the pursuit of freedom, labor organizing, finding community, and making a home and family. The Americans recorded here include: a Lithuanian meatpacker in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle-era Chicago, a Midwestern farmer's wife who dreams of a literary career, a Mohawk medicine man's son at a government residential school, a Black laborer's first-hand account of "The New Slavery" in Georgia, and what is believed to be the first autobiographical memoir of an "ordinary" Chinese-American, a laundry-owner in New York, joining a chorus of voices from fellow "Undistinguished Americans," which remain, ringing true across a century. 7 3/4" X 5 1/2". vii, 299pp. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in blue ribbed cloth over boards, ruled in blind and titled and decorated with American eagle motif in gilt to upper board, with spine lettered in kind. Mild wear to binding, with small wrinkle to cloth at upper board, gentle bumping and rubbing to extremities, and lean to spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Several leaves unopened. An overall well-preserved and handsome first printing of this landmark collection of American autobiography.