Vintage 1935 HC Book Carleton Parker Inscribed Labor Politics IWW American Idyll

Vintage 1935 hardcover book entitled “An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker” by Cornelia Stratton Parker. Little, Brown, and Company. Stated Eleventh Impression, July, 1935. Frontispiece of Carleton Parker with tissue overlay. Bookplate from “P. Vivian West” affixed to interior front cover. Label affixed to back endpaper is from Emily Mundy’s Book Shop of Syracuse, New York. This book is about the author’s marriage to Carleton Parker (1878-1918), a professor who specialized in labor politics, labor negotiations and the psychology of economics. Topics include UC Berkeley, the International Workers of the World and the Wheatland Hop Riot in California. Condition is used. Overall wear to front and back covers including fading and soiling. The front cover is starting to separate from the spine. Some pages in the front with small corner creases. There is some underlining and margin markings on a few pages. Page 50 has some loss of paper edge as shown in photos. Ink inscription on front endpaper reads “To Vivian - A worthy girl who should, and will, share all the wholesome experiences enjoyed by Cornelia Parker”. Please zoom all photos for more details. 190 pages. Measures approximately 5-3/4” x 8-3/8 inches.