Published by Society, GB, 1930
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Minor spotting.
Published by Cooperative Printing Society), (Manchester, 1930
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
8vo. flexible paper-covered boards, decorated endpapers. ix, 92 pages. Jubilee Souvenir. Commerates the 50th anniversary of the Society, a trade union of employees in the printing industry. Compiler was General Secretary of the union. Letter of congratulations from Prime Minister J. Ramsay McDonald (the first Labour Prime Minister), along with similar letters from other organizations of printers. Foreword by Rt. Hon. C.W. Bowerman, M.P. Historical summary of the Society. Includes detailed information about various labor disputes, including the General Strike of 1926. Table of benefits paid. Black and white plates, mostly of union officers and members. Boards rubbed at edges and along spine. Bookplate of previous owner, collector Gavin D.R. Bridson, on front pastedown. flexible paper-covered boards, decorated endpapers.