Steel: the Diary of a Furnace Worker
by WALKER, Charles Rumford
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- first
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's black cloth, titled in yellow on spine and front cover; 157pp. Spine lettering somewhat age-darkened; mild toning to text; a tight, solidly Very Good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Walker's first book, a memoir of two years spent "undercover" as a rank-and-file worker at U.S. Steel in 1919, where he "...acquired the current Anglo-Hunky language and knew speedily the grind and the camaraderie of American steel-making." Walker, a Yale man, would go on to write several other books on industrial themes (including a 1927 novel, Bread & Fire, a fictionalized account of his experiences at U.S. Steel). In later decades, Walker served as a curator of rare books at Yale.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52200
- Title
- Steel: the Diary of a Furnace Worker
- Author
- WALKER, Charles Rumford
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1922
- Bookseller catalogs
- Labor History; WW1; Steel Workers;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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