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New York: Coward-McCann, 1959. 1st paper . Soft cover. Very Good+. indexed b/w photos. very good+, quality trade paperback 256 pgs

New York: Coward-McCann, 1959. Hardcover. 256p., illus., very good condition in a worn dust jacket. Riffe, raised in Kentucky, became a coal miner and activist in UMWA. He moved from the UMWA to SWOC in the 1930s. This biography also describes his conversion to the ideology of Moral Re-Armament.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition paperback 256 pages illustrated Very good condition,No inscriptions

New York: Coward-McCann, [1959]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 256pp.; 8 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities else Very Good or better. Biography of the former Executive Vice President of the CIO who began his career as a union organizer for the United Mine Workers and, later, Steelworkers.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1959.. 1st ed. Biography of John Riffe, a pioneer of the labor movement. Pp. 256, 19 b/w illustrations. Grey cloth, portrait illustrated d/w edges rubbed. VG/G+.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: Coward- McCann, Inc.;, 1959. First Edition. Signed presentation from Grogan on the front endpaper: To Senator Ray Dzandzel with all good wishes, Bill Grogan." , to a John Vernon Riffe [1904-1958] was an American labor unionist. Born in Jenkins, Kentucky, Riffe worked at a local coal mine from the age of 14, initially as a trapper, and then as a mule driver. He joined the United Mine Workers of America, and was elected as president of his local union when he was only 16 years old. In 1933, he was appointed as a full-time organizer for the union, based in West Virginia and then moving upward in the labor movement. Grogan was a personal friend of Riffe and his family. Raymond D. Dzendzel [1921-2018] was an American politician who was a Democratic member of both houses of the Michigan Legislature between 1955 and 1970. He had an association with the AFL-CIO. 8vo., gray cloth in dust jacket; 256 pages. Illustrated.. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); minor wear d/j. A nice copy!