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New York: Boni & Liveright, 1919. Third edition. Small octavo (19cm). Pictorial card wrappers; frontispiece portrait; ix,244pp. Creasing to paper on spine, faint stain to front cover at lower fore-corner, else a tight, clean copy, Very Good or better, of the uncommon wrappered issue. Ownership signature of an "Attilio Corbini (or Corbino)" to title page. Standard biography, written during the 1920 Presidential campaign in which Debs ran as a candidate from his jail cell in Atlanta's Woodstock Prison (and still polled nearly a million votes). Forbidden by his jailers to write, Debs reputedly composed the book's introduction verbally while Karsner transcribed it. Offers a detailed (though partisan) account of Debs's arrest and imprisonment for opposing U.S. entry in to the First World War, with additional chapters on his early career as a trade unionist and co-founder of the American Socialist Party. The paperback issue is uncommon.