[Item #11819] The Ghostland. GREAT DEPRESSION, RADICAL, PROLETARIAN FICTION.

The Ghostland

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1940. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); pictorial cloth with matching pictorial dustjacket; 350pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly worn jacket with brief losses at crown of spine.

A Brooklyn family on relief relocates to dustbowl-era Oklahoma, where they organize local farmers to stage a sit-down strike for redistribution of food and land. Based on actual events. Rothermell authored several well-written novels, and worked on the New York Federal Writers' Project. HANNA 3076. BLAKE p.270.

Price: $65.00

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