First Edition. 12mo, black cloth, gilt titles. 224 pages plus index, Illustrated frontispiece, plus 2 b/w illustrations and 3 photo plates within the text. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine. Blue/grey d/w with illustration and blue titles by Louis Lozowick; interior illustrations by Morris Pass.
Condition: Fine/Fine. A pristine copy in fine d/w with only a few tiny edge nicks; not price clipped. The best copy we have seen.
A history of the automobile industry, production methods, employee working conditions and efforts to organize [and methods employed to thwart unionization.] One ... View More...
A nonfiction account of Cesar Chavez and the struggles of the United Farm Workers to form a migrant workers' union to end the dramatic exploitation of temporary farm labor that was so prevalent in the 1960s and 70s. This book was the subject of a lawsuit, and later issues of the first edition came with a legal disclaimer pasted in. Matthiessen also revised it, and a new edition was issued a couple of years later. A significant piece of reporting and social criticism, chronicling one of the important labor movements of the Sixties. signed by Matthiessen and by Cesar Chavez, who comments "This... View More...
Publisher:
Los Angeles: UAW Western Region Six: 1969
Seller ID: s180622r
24pp, Union offprint from the June 21 and June 28, 1969 issues of the New Yorker. The origin of what would later be expanded to Sal Si Puedes. Fine and bright in stapled wrappers; no tears, chips or markings. Signed
by both Matthiessen and Chavez on the front cover. The only copy we are aware of signed by both.
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First draft, original typescript for an unpublished and unproduced screenplay about migrant farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley of California. A fictional treatment exploring some of the labor issues Matthiessen explored in his sojourns with Cesar Chavez and his 1969 nonfiction book Sal Si Puedes. 86 typescript pages, with a duplicate final page containing two holographic corrections by Matthiessen and handwritten delivery instructions to his Hollywood agent. Together with a brief handwritten note two decades later about the possibility that the screen-play might still be optioned. This... View More...
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