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200515888New Haven: Yale University Press 2005. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 327pp; includes bibliography. Clean tight and unmarked copy in crisp unworn jacket; Near Fine. Yale University Press unknown books
193134428New York: Horace Liveright 1931. First American Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in Art Deco dust jacket designed by Calman printed in yellow hot pink and dark blue black toptain; vii8-330pp. Jacket extremities quite chipped and worn with a number of closed tears and small losses none approaching text the whole quite dust-soiled cloth boards a bit darkened at extremities else a Near Fine still vibrant copy in Near Very Good jacket. Hungarian novel of a woman who runs away with a World War I deserter and the disappointments than ensue. Horace Liveright unknown books
193134581New York: Harper & Brothers 1932 but 1931. First Edition. Octavo 19.25cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial silver foil dust jacket printed in black; 6285pp. Some general shelf wear to jacket extremities a few tiny chips and closed tears some minor scratching to rear panel else Near Fine in a Very Good example of the uncommon dust jacket. Publication date on title page is 1932 though the letter code on copyright indicates this was printed in December 1931. Novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author describing the hours leading up to a man's execution and the prison warden and his wife's uncertainty of the man's guilt. Harper & Brothers unknown books
193633945New York: Random House 1936. 12mo 18.75cm.; publisher's salmon cloth black paper wrap-around band lettered in silver black topstain; 211pp. Spine a bit cocked and faded corners bumped minor soiling to textblock else Near Very Good and sound lacking the acetate jacket. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf: "To Nina and Hale / with love and gratitude / Gale." Wilhelm inscriptions are uncommon. Wilhelm's second book an epistolary novel in which a woman turns to prostitution while her lover is in prison at San Quentin. San Francisco setting. BAIRD 2621; HANNA 3806. Random House unknown books
198216389Willimantic CT: Curbstone Press 1982. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers; 50pp. Wrappers lightly edgeworn; old price-sticker residue to rear cover; text clean tight and unmarked. Very Good. Essays on revolutionary writing and aesthetics by the poet Cesar Vallejo originally written during his visits to the Soviet Union in the 1920s & 30s. Curbstone Press unknown books
192738380Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing Co. Inc 1927. Reprint. Octavo 20.75cm; dark red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; yellow topstain; dustjacket; viii280pp; illus. Slight forward lean spine ends gently nudged with a handful of small stains to right edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustjacket is edgeworn spine-sunned with a few small chips at spine ends several short tears and attendant creases; Very Good. "Despite its cheery-sounding title Circus Parade is light years away from Toby Tylerland presenting a dark violent and thoroughly unromanticized portrait of life on the road with a traveling show -- described by Tully as "generally a canvas nest of petty thieves and criminals among the lower gentry." The book's depictions of casual brutality -- including a shocking account of the troupe's exploitation of a young black girl's sexual favors -- got it banned in Boston and caused an uproar with circus fans and unsurprisingly circus owners which helped to put the kibosh on a proposed film adaptation by James Cruze" PROUTY 4. Garden City Publishing Co., Inc unknown books
192838527London: Alfred A. Knopf 1928. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; purple cloth with titling and decorative elements stamed in pale metallic green on spine and front cover; 248pp. Forward lean small stain to lower left corner of front board with a hint of sunning to spine; clean throughout; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is price-clipped lightly edgeworn and a bit spine-sunned with some rubbing to joints and a few small nicks and short tears; Very Good. "Despite its cheery-sounding title Circus Parade is light years away from Toby Tylerland presenting a dark violent and thoroughly unromanticized portrait of life on the road with a traveling show -- described by Tully as "generally a canvas nest of petty thieves and criminals among the lower gentry." The book's depictions of casual brutality -- including a shocking account of the troupe's exploitation of a young black girl's sexual favors -- got it banned in Boston and caused an uproar with circus fans and unsurprisingly circus owners which helped to put the kibosh on a proposed film adaptation by James Cruze" PROUTY 4. Uncommon particularly in dustjacket - among the titles by American author's published during Knopf's short-lived London years. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
194338377Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company 1943. First Tower Books Edition. Preceded by the 1936 edition published by Greenberg. Octavo 21cm; navy blue cloth with titles stamped in mauve on spine and front cover; dark pink topstain; vi248pp. Edgeworn spine ends nudged and a bit frayed with a bit of board exposure along upper and lower edges; internally clean; Very Good and sound. "Tully had been boxing professionally for several years on and off in his twenties the jacket blurb credits him with 43 bouts and had long been urged by Mencken and others to use this experience as fodder for a novel. He finally gave in influenced in no small part by his disdain for previous boxing fiction by such non-pugilists as Ernest Hemingway and George Bernard Shaw" PROUTY 11. HANNA 3566. The World Publishing Company unknown books
193618111New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; gold cloth with titling and decorations stamped in blue on spine and front panel; blue topstain; dustjacket; 287pp 2. Topstain a bit unevenly applied with some minor offset to pastedowns; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped lightly edge-rubbed with one short tear a touch of soil along the flap folds and contemporary date in ink written at the top of the front flap; and attractive Very Good example. The author's second book a satire on New Deal bureaucracy and politics. HANNA 3563. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
194633456Mexico City: Ediciones Estela 1946. First Mexican Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 289 5pp. Old damp-stain to rear wrapper; text paper age-toned with pulp endpapers somewhat fragile; just Very Good. The first Mexican and first Spanish-language edition of Traven's epic novel first published in German in 1927. This translation is significant given that Traven spent most of his career in Mexico and the action of the novel is entirely set in the high desert of Chihuahua. Uncommon. TREVERTON 269. Ediciones Estela unknown books
193446744New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1934. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.75cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and decorative elements embossed to front cover; burgundy topstain; dustjacket; viii3724pp. Tiny crinkle at crown with a touch of offset from jacket flaps onto endpapers else Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped shelfworn gently spine-sunned and lightly dusty with shallow loss to crown a small scuff to front panel a faint stain at mid-spine and several short tears six of them neatly tape-mended on verso; Very Good only. Traven's own translation of his first novel which was translated from the German by Eric Sutton for the UK edition published by Chatto & Windus. A novel set in the aftermath of World War I centered around a group of merchant seamen who lack citizenship money and papers; it is in equal part an adventure novel and a scathing indictment of abusive labor practices and authority. TREVERTON 32. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
193318786New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1933. Reprint. Octavo 20.5cm; light blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; red topstain; 342pp. Subtle darkening to cloth at spine and edges light offsetting to endpapers and a few tiny nicks to rear pastedown; Very Good to Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped with shallow chipping tears and creasing to extremities and an old faint dampstain along spine panel most noticeable on verso; Very Good. Tichenor's satirical portait of a Depression-era banker touted on the jacket blurb as "the most withering portrayal of financial boobery in high places that has ever appeared in print." Scarce in or out of dustjacket. HANNA 3512. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
191638743Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1916. First Edition. First printing. Green textured cloth boards stamped in white on spine and front cover; 538pp. Straight well-preserved copy lightly rubbed at board extremities and mildly dusted at text block edges; Very Good to Near Fine and unusual thus. Uncommon New Thought novel set in Utah with a strong anti-Mormon subplot. A contemporary review in The Overland Monthly stated that ".the author believes he has a sacred message for the human race; it is clothed in this book for the purpose of reaching many readers." We doubt he succeeded in that purpose; this is one of the more obscure publications from the Chicago socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr never before seen by us and represented only by some scattered 20 institutional holdings in OCLC one of which - British Library - incorrectly provides a 1914 publication date. SMITH S-799. FLAKE 8357. Missed by Hannah despite clear social content; and by Bleiler despite clear fantasy content; and by Sargent despite probable utopian content. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
193814416New York: Harper & Brothers 1938. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Tan cloth boards stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 340pp. Author's presentation copy inscribed on front endpaper: "Paul Jordan Smith - his book - Wessel Smitter - his Friend / W.H.S. / Feb. 1939." Mild toning to boards with a couple of small spots of discoloration; jacket lightly edgeworn; a tight VG copy overall. A worker's life and hard times in the Detroit auto industry written by a one-time Ford employee. The inscribee Paul Jordan-Smith 1885-1971 was a California journalist and editor who achieved notoriety in 1931 as the founder of the so-called "Disumbrationist School of Aesthetics" - an artistic hoax which took in a number of well-known art critics who responded positively to his exhibition of intentionally bad and technically inept paintings. HANNA 3285. COAN p.87. Harper & Brothers unknown books
46769V.p.: 1946-47. Archive of six TNS typed notes signed five TLS typed letters signed and one Western Union telegram from Upton Sinclair to the Paris literary agent and translator Jean-Robert Lamour better known by his pseudonym Yves Malartic. Together with ten of Lamour's retained carbons of communications to Sinclair and others. Correspondence spans the period January 1946 to December 1947 and deals with Lamour's efforts to secure publishing contracts for French-language translations of Sinclair's works including The Jungle They Call Me Carpenter Our Lady and others as well as Sinclair's ongoing work on the Lanny Budd series. Sinclair's letters range from notes of as few as four lines to letters of two pages the entirety comprising approximately 2500 words with numerous hand-corrections and signatures in blue or black ink. Lamour's letters to Sinclair comprise nine pieces of correspondence of which three are partial and one draft contract with a total of approximately 3000 words. Three of Lamour's letters are in French addressed to French correspondents all on matters concerning the translation and publication of Sinclair's works. Occasional toning; old folds; onion-skin carbons creased at margins; Very Good. Excellent archive of original correspondence dating from Sinclair's productive wartime and post-War period during which he produced the monumental eleven-volume Lanny Budd series of novels including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dragon's Teeth. <br/><br/>The correspondence appears to have been struck up by Lamour in late 1945 those letters not present here seeking rights to translate and publish a number of Sinclair's early proletarian novels including The Jungle They Call Me Carpenter Samuel the Seeker as well as such shorter works as No Pasaran! The Flivver King Depression Island and others. Lamour born ca. 1911 at this date in the early stages of his literary career would go on to translate numerous works by American authors in particular Chester Himes and Alex Haley under the pseudonym "Yves Malartic." In his letters to Sinclair Lamour/Malartic shows careful reading and textual analysis of the novels under consideration expresses admiration for Sinclair's body of work and is clearly excited about exercising a newly-available liberty to publish leftist works after the long occupation of Paris stating in one undated letter: "France is groping for a notion of human socialism and french sic people are very interested in everything that refers to U.S.A." At another point Lamour dismisses the publisher Bernard Grasset who had turned down several of Sinclair's works for translation during war-time: "In 1944 Grasset has been deprived of his ownership for collaboration and a manager has been appointed by the government." indeed following the dismissal of its principal the firm of Grasset would become the primary publisher for many of Sinclair's works in France. <br/><br/>Sinclair's replies range from long admiring letters to brief acknowledgments and notes of transmittal. Throughout he shows concern not only for his own legacy among French readers but for the wellbeing of his putative translator - Lamour who does in fact appear to have been driven by a somewhat altruistic impulse at one point appears to suggest that he is willing to translate and edit Sinclair's works without compensation to which Sinclair replies: "." Sinclair's ongoing consuming work on Presidential Mission and One Clear Call the eighth and ninth installments in his Lanny Budd series forms a backdrop to the entire correspondence; at one point he attempts to engage Lamour's assistance with background research on One Clear Call; at several others he begs off new writing assignments because of the all-consuming nature of his work even declining to read a recently-published short story by Lamour claiming that all his energies are consumed by the Lanny Budd project. Indeed Sinclair's output during this period was phenomenal: in the two-year span in which these letters were written Sinclair well into his sixties produced three massive novels - A World to Win Presidential Mission and One Clear Call - and was well along on a fourth O Shepherd Speak! published in 1949. <br/><br/>While Sinclair letters are hardly an oddity in commerce the current archive of correspondence is noteworthy for providing real insight not only into Sinclair's working methods but also into the post-war literary climate in France where it is clear that writers on the left who had been radically disenfranchized during the long Occupation were eager to take on any project that might re-establish their careers while also hopefully putting food on the table. unknown books
19358568Pasadena: By the Author 1935. First Edition. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 124pp. Tight straight copy about Fine in the uncommon dustjacket lightly rubbed and soiled but still attractive and free of losses VG or better. Satirical stage drama based on Sinclair's 1933 pamphlet "The Way Out." Produced as a fund-raiser during Sinclair's EPIC campaign but probably never staged since. Unlike most other Sinclair works from this period there was no simultaneous issue from a trade publisher. According to Ahouse Sinclair had planned this as a film and thus there are no act or scene divisions in the printed play. The film was never produced.Uncommon in jacket. AHOUSE A55a. By the Author unknown books
192750941New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1927. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; maroon cloth with titling and pictorial elements stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; vi5273pp. A few faint surface scratches to boards; small stain to front free endpaper; still a tight straight copy with bright even top-stain and text clean and unmarked; Near Fine lacking the scarce dustjacket. A novel "largely concerned with the social education and disillusionment of the son of an oil tycoon set against the background of the oil scandals of the Harding Administration. There is also the background of southern California society movie stars evangelists Wobblies and social reformers of all stripes" BAIRD 2267. Basis for Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award-winning 2007 film "There Will Be Blood." AHOUSE A40; COAN p.98; HANNA 3241. Albert & Charles Boni unknown books
193528980New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; variant bound in smooth red vertically-ribbed cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover and textblock bulking 1 5/16"; dustjacket; vi 450pp. Vintage bookplate to front pastedown with faint offset onto front endpaper else Fine in a Very Good price-clipped dustjacket with light sunning to spine and mild wear to extremities. "A proletarian novel of the life of an Austrian Jew in New York. Young Isaac is brought by his parents from a village in Eastern Europe at an early age his father fails successively as tailor janitor candy store owner and Isaac and his brother suffer from timidity and poverty until Isaac finds his own niche. Long detailed picture of Isaac's growth the lives of the family and friends the background of slums abortive business ventures racial antagonisms. Sordid in many spots and at times heavy going" Kirkus Review Sept.19 1935. HANNA 3146; RIDEOUT p.297; COAN p.176. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
19418551New York: House of Field 1941. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; tan linen boards stamped in fuchsia; red top-stain; 382pp. Hint of dusting to text block edges else a Fine tight copy. In pictorial dustjacket slightly spine-darkened with a few nicks and brief closed tears to extremities VG or better. Strike novel set in the fictional industrial center of "Rollinsburg." The author described in the jacket blurb as "a worker in those phases of the momentous labor movement that in 1933 were launched as the New Deal's noblest advenure" offers a grim view of both labor and company seeing both sides as riddled with ideology and hucksterism. Rare; not in Hanna or Blake; OCLC gives just 8 locations as of December 2018. House of Field unknown books
19168373New York: Small Maynard & Co 1916. First Edition. Green cloth boards stamped in white; 363pp; frontis. Light wear to tips of corners and spine ends; brief splits to front hinge internal; bit of offsetting to title page from color frontispiece. A solidly Very Good copy. HANNA 1096: ".young bank employee falsely convicted of embezzlement spends two years in Sing Sing before being cleared." Octavo. Small, Maynard & Co unknown books
198316106Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1983. First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 403pp. Minor external rubbing and soil; internally clean tight and unmarked; VG to Near Fine overall. Study of American ethnic social and proletarian literature. Text entirely in German. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft unknown books
193839048New York: Doubleday Doran & Co 1938. Reprint. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's red cloth decorative spine stamped in black and gilt red topstain; 6365pp. Cloth rather discolored from damp and soil most heavily so to rear cover spine cocked brief and shallow loss of cloth and board at top edge of rear cover. Good to Very Good only. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper along with the ownership pressure stamp of the United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America CIO. From the manuscript note on front free endpaper verso: "This book was won at a Party given by Dave Thompson and Barney Dreyfus at 311 1/2 Filbert St. San Francisco California on March 11 1939. Won by John Coon expelled S.U.P. member who fought for Democracy in Spain. Guests attending. followed by sixty-two signatures covering the remaining leaf and the half title page recto and verso." Included among the signatures are H.F. Dean member of the aforementioned Socialist Union Party a shortlived De Leonist organization founded by Abraham Ziegler after his own expulsion from the Socialist Labor Party; Thomas Norton another Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran; the Australian-born American union leader Harry Bridges co-founder of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union; and the hosts Thompson and Dreyfus. Doubleday, Doran & Co unknown books
193238355New York: E.p. Dutton & Co. Inc 1932. First Edition. Quarto 31cm; turquoise cloth with black and yellow printed title labels applied to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 822pp; illus. Moderate offsetting to front pastedown from binders glue faint discoloration to cloth along upper and lower edges with a gentle bump to upper front board corner and a paper-clip impression at upper front endpaper; clean throughout; Near Fine. Dustjacket with trivial wear to extremities two shallow nicks to crown with a few short tears and four unnecessary tape reinforcements on verso; Near Fine. A stunning copy of Hirschfield's first book an iconic volume dedicated to capturing the the personalities behind the counter at Manhattan's various speakeasies. Published the year prior to the repeal of Prohibition the book features 36 full-page illustrations by Hirschfeld with accompanying text describing each establishment and a signature cocktail recipe suggested by the bartender. With an introduction by Heywood Broun. A superior copy of this wear-prone Jazz Age classic. E.p. Dutton & Co., Inc unknown books
194232920New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1942. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.75cm; beige buckram with printed title label applied to spine; reddish-brown topstain; dustjacket; 10210pp. Hint of sunning to spine else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 with light wear to extremities some faint creasing along front panel edges and a sharp vertical fold slightly left of the front joint; still an attractive Near Fine example. Attractive copy of the National Book Award-winning author's first book a novel based on a roadtrip Morris took with his father from the midwest to the west coast. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
8076London: William Reeves. Second Edition. 1891. Original printed wrappers; iv 117 2pp. Losses to spine; covers chipped at extremities; early ownership signature to title page. Text intact and quite fresh; a Good or better copy of the ephemeral second British edition issued as No. 12 in the publisher's "Bellamy Library." The author was a nephew of John Humphrey Noyes and grew up as a resident of Noyes's Oneida Community. The novel promotes the technique of "Male Continence" as practiced at Oneida and suggests that women are entitled to withhold sex from their husbands as a means of birth control the "Strike of a Sex" of the title. Octavo. William Reeves unknown books
