Voltairine de Cleyre.
INSCRIBED
Goldman, Emma. Voltairine de Cleyre. Berkeley Heights,N.J.: Privately published by the Oriole Press,
1932.
8vo.; cloth-backed boards; wear to extremities.
First edition; one of fifty numbered copies printed on deckle-edged paper from a total edition of 250. A
presentation copy, inscribed, Roger Baldwin / with my love / Emma Goldman / New York. The date is
slightly smudged but it is probably Feb. 20, 1934; Goldman was only in the U.S. from February to April,
1934 when her visa expired.
After hearing Goldman speak in 1908 at a working class meeting hall in St. Louis, Baldwin was inspired to
dedicate his life to the cause of freedom. He later wrote her, “You always remain one of the chief
inspirations of my life, for you aroused in me a sense of what freedom really means.” In his old age,
Baldwin said, “Emma Goldman opened up not only an entirely new literature to me, but new people as
well, some who called themselves anarchists, some libertarians, some freedom lovers . . . bound together
by one principle – freedom from coercion.”
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