Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (Signed and Inscribed by Alexander Berkman) Alexander Berkman Radical and Progressive

PLEASE NOTE condition, below. Offered is a signed and inscribed first edition, first printing, of "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist" written by Alexander Berkman and published in 1912 by the Mother Earth Publishing Association out of New York City. A hardcover lacking a dust jacket, the front and rear covers measure 5-3/8" by 8-1/8" and contains 542 internal pages (including endpapers, half title page, photo frontispiece, title, publishing, and dedication pages, poem by Oscar Wilde, Introduction by Hutchins Hapgood, table of contents, unpaginated Part 1 page, photo portrait of a young Alexander Berkman opposite the first page of Chapter 1, and 8-page "Anarchist Library" - a list of titles for sale). SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Alexander Berkman on the front free endpaper (first inside blank free page): "To Louis J. Gerson / for a better world without crime or prisons / Alexander Berkman / Jan. 1914 / N.Y." CONDITION: lacking the rare dust jacket, narrow tear along left edge of rear pastedown endpaper (binding is solid); outer covers show scuffing to corners, upper and lower spine edges, and periodic scuffing along the edges; outer covers show discoloration along the spine and edge areas due to previous sun and water exposure; first twelve page leaves (through Page 4 of Memoirs account) show brown water stains in varying shades to edge and corner areas (not affecting pagination) - the pages become clear beginning with Page 5 of the Memoirs through the end of the book. PLEASE SEE PROVIDED IMAGES.