Hoboes (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 70 pp with 24 b/w photos. Overall VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. SIGNED. 252pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Tan cloth over boards, with dampstaining to the bottom 1/4 of the boards, and some darkening, staining, and fraying to the backstrip. The text block is cracked a couple of times, and the front pastedown has a contemporary gift inscription. Best known as "the Hobo Poet," erudite tramp Harry Kemp was also called "the Poet of the Dunes." Kemp has inscribed the front free endpaper: "For Ivan Black- from the Author, Harry Kemp (?), January 23rd '33. Soldiers of God always keep their eyes toward the future. H. K.".…

First Edition. Small octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 205pp. Small adhesive label to front free endpaper; faint scratches to foredge of text block, else a tight, straight copy in the original dustwrapper. Jacket is complete but worn; price-clipped, with closed tears at front flap-fold and shallow losses at head and heel of spine panel (not approaching jacket text). A Very Good copy. Somewhat uncommon proletarian hobo novel, set on Seattle's skid row, by a Seattle author. In the words of one contemporary reviewer: "The Dissenters is as poorly written as it is poorly edited, and that is saying a lot.but through all this there does come, astonishingly, an interesting recapitulation of thirty years of recent American history as seen from the Seattle Skidway.and [of] the Skidway socialism which is the thesis of the book." (Joseph B. Harrison, "The Dissenters" [book review]. Pacific Northwest Quarterly vol. 33 no 1 (Jan. 1942). Somewhat scarce in dustwrapper. Not in Hanna.…

Soft Cover. Condition: fine. First Edition. Photo Illustrated (illustrator).

First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Beige linen over boards, titles stamped in brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; charcoal top-stain; decorated endpapers; 295pp; fore- and bottom text block edges untrimmed. Gentle toning to cloth at margins, still a tight, Near Fine copy. In the scarce original dustwrapper, clilpped by publisher on all for corner but price intact (priced $3.00 on front flap); somewhat worn and soiled, with old paper tape reinforcements to verso; just Good. Seminal collection of hobo, tramp, and Wobbly verse, collected first-hand by the author in boxcars, hobo jungles, and lumber camps. Milburn, a native Oklahoman who had alternated between riding the rails and college life through the 1920's, went on to publish a quantity of fiction, including a well-received collection of proletarian short-stories, No More Trumpets (1933). In later years he worked as a scriptwriter for radio and television, but the current work, unequaled as a sourcebook for vernacular American hobo lyrics, remains his most important contribution to American letters. With tail-pieces throughout by the prolific left-wing illustrator and cartoonist William Siegel. Quite uncommon in any sort of dustwrapper.…

Books are as follows;CULLEN, Clarence Louis. Tales of the Ex-Tanks: A Book of Hard-Luck Stories. New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 1903. Early printing. Tanks as in 'Drunk Tanks'.COTTON, Eddy Joe. Hoboes; A Young Man's Thoughts on Trains and Tramping in America. New York: Harmony Books, 92002. First edition.FLYNT, Josiah. The Little Brother: The Story of Tramp Life. New York; Century Co., 1902. First edition.FLYNT, Josiah. Tramping with Tramps. New York; Century Co., 1907. Later edition.HENNESSY, Dan. On the Bum: Sketches of Tramp Life. Girard: Haldeman-Julius Co., n.d.JOHNSTON, J. P. Twenty Years of Hus'ling. Chicago: Thompson & Thomas. 1900. Second edition. Spine faded.KELLEY, Edmond. The Elimination of the Tramp. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1908. First edition. Deaccessioned from the Library Company of Philadelphia.[LIVINGSTON, Leon Ray]. Life and Adventures of A-No. 1: America's Most Celebrated Tramp. Chicago; A-No. 1 Publishing, (1910). Fourth edition. Wear to lower front cover and pocket at rear (no other ex-lib markings)MAHARIDGE, Dale. The Last Great American Hobo. (Rocklin): Prima Publishing, (1993). First edition.MERIWETHER, Lee. The Tramp at Home. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. First edition.MERIWETHER, Lee. A Tramp Trip: How to See Europe on Fifty Cents a day. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. First edition.…