Living My Life, 2 Vols.
Goldman, Emma. Living My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Thick 8vo, vii, 503pp; [504]-993pp; + [i]-xvi (Index); frontispiece photographs of Emma Goldman and other illustrations; some mild age-toning to endpapers; offsetting to half-title page and opposite leaf from something laid in (Vol. 1); two short (1/2”) pieces of tape to top edge of preliminary leaf (Vol. 2); coarsely woven blue cloth lettered in black front and spine; bindings bleached at spines and unevenly sunned (Vol. 2) with tips and edges a bit worn; some light rusty spots front cover (Vol. 1).
First edition. Signed in a large bold hand by Emma Goldman at the front flyleaf of Volume 1. Living My Life is Goldman’s great work. To quote its description in 500 Great Books By Women:
She wends her way through the labyrinth of American, Russian, and European radical politics...[giving] a graphic description of the labor movement in the United States; of bitterly fought battles and ensuing jail terms over free speech, free love, and the right to birth control; and of day-by-day political and personal life in Russia immediately following the 1917 revolution. Emma Goldman applies the same unrelenting scrutiny to her political actions and the actions and philosophies of governments that she does to her personal relationships. The power of this book lies in the intimate nature of her narrative—in the daily accounts of the friendships, love affairs, doubts, and joys of Emma Goldman and her revolutionary colleagues—overlaid on the canvas of major world events. (500 Great Books by Women, by Erica Bauermeister, et al., Penguin Books, p. 238).
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