[Item #17236] Poor People. RADICAL, PROLETARIAN LITERATURE, Isaac Kahn.

Poor People

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); gray pictorial cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine, and decorative panel in black and orange on front panel; 244pp. Hint of a lean, with some soiling and staining to spine, right edge of rear panel, and upper edge of textblock; light, general edgewear, and lacking the rear endpaper; Very Good.

The second of Friedman's three works of long fiction, a sentimental tale of local-color about a Chicago tenement's inhabitants. Discussed by Rideout, though not cited among his list of radical novels, and quite uncommon. RIDEOUT p.14.

Price: $125.00

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