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[005204] Debs, Eugene Victor. Walls and Bars. Chicago: Socialist Party, 1927. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Very Good / Fair. [19], 16-248pp, plates. Original cloth in DJ

Minor bump to bottom edge of upper board, very slightly rubbed to extremities. DJ spine faded, with tears to spine and upper joint, chipping to spine ends and a small hole to spine catching the ‘ebs’ in ‘Debs’, light water stain to foot of lower panel with small amount of associated staining, internally bright and clean. With a photographic frontispiece and three other photographic illustrations

Debs (1855-1926), was a socialist and trade unionist, working on the railways, he was instrumental in setting up the Socialist Party of America, and ran a campaign to be President of the USA on five occasions (see Fink, Biographical Dictionary of American Labor Leaders, pages 74-75). He was jailed for three years for violating the Espionage Law in a speech in Ohio, see Suvak, Memoirs of American Prisons: An Annotated Bibliography, 391; Egbert, Persons, and Bassett, Socialism and American Life, Volume 2, page 149

Uncommon, especially in the DJ