Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre
New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1914.
First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1914 and "Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1914" on copyright page.) 480 pp. with frontispiece of the author. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with black spine lettering. Very Good with bumped corners, some bubbling to cloth along spine,scuffs to back board, front hinge appears to have been repaired, former owner's name on front free endpaper. Uncommon. The first collection of the American anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre's political writings, poetry, and short fiction, published nearly two years after her death at age 45. While she is still obscure, many of her essays and arguments have weathered well-- showing her trajectory from abolitionism and the individualist anarchism that informed its radical wing (not a well-known fact today) to an iconoclastic feminist anarchism. Her 1912 essay "Direct Action," included here, is one of her best-known essays, grounding an appeal for anarchist direct action in America's conflicted history rather than the nuances of academic philosophy or the doctrines of Karl Marx.
Price: $750.00