PATTERSON, Joseph Medill

Rebellion

Chicago: Reilly and Britton, 1911. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); red textured cloth, with titling and rule in gilt on spine and front panel, with decorative paper medallion at center of front cover; 355, [1] blank + [4pp] ads; frontispiece and three illustrations by Walter Dean Goldbeck. Mild wear to spine ends; pp.7-10 loose; a bright, Very Good+ copy.

A novel about heredity, sex selection, and the injustice of the Catholic attitude toward divorce. Patterson was a major journalist and publisher who founded New York's Daily News. His 1908 novel Little Brother of the Rich is cited in Walter Rideout's "The Radical Novel in the United States." HANNA 2798.

Price: $30.00

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