New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1910. First edition. Inscribed by Goldman on front free endpaper: "Emma Goldman / St Louis March 2nd 1911". 8vo. 277, (8, ads) pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Goldman. Publisher's cloth, stamped in black, spine darkened, boards unevenly toned, paper remnants on upper front board, spine ends frayed, soiling to boards; old ownership signature at top of front free endpaper; small short closed tear in bottom edge, p. 61.

Rare inscribed first edition of Emma Goldman's first published book, a collection of her influential essays on anarchism and other topics. Signed in St. Louis in March 1911, during Goldman's annual lecture tour. In 1911 alone she visited 40 American towns in six months, and delivered over 150 lectures on subjects including "Tolstoy-Artist and Anarchist", "Galsworthy's Justice", "Marriage and Love", "Danger in the Growing Power of the Church", "Victims of Morality", and "Anarchism Versus Socialism".