LIVING MY LIFE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, twin volumes in publisher’s original pale blue woven cloth, upper covers and spines stamped in black. [5],vi-vii,[5],503,[1]; [11],504-993,[1],xvi,[4] pp. Thirteen photogravure plates across both volumes, including frontispiece portraits of Goldman in each of the two volumes, Alexander Berkman, and key figures in her life and movements she endorsed. Spines and edges uniformly toned, shelfwear at lower foretips and toes of spines, early bookseller's ticket to lower front pastedown, and a gift inscription from "Bob / 3/8/32 / Milwaukee" on the front free endpaper, else very good.
First edition. Emma Goldman's autobiography provides a first-hand account of the early American radical left, anti-war resistance, women's reproductive freedom campaigns, and her famous deportation to Soviet Russia following the 1919 Red Scare. Goldman publicly criticized the wisdom demonstrated by Knopf in the October 1931 publication of a two-volume set, at the exorbitant price of $7.50, in the midst of the Great Depression, making it unaffordable for working-class readers. Very good. Item #884
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