PAGE, Myra [pseud. Dorothy Markey]

With Sun in Our Blood

New York: Citadel, 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket; [8],245pp. Closed 1-inch split at top of upper jacket panel with subsequent creasing, additional shelf wear with a few tiny losses along extremities, that at spine foot touching text without loss of sense, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket.

Page began her career as the Soviet correspondent for the Daily Worker; she was also a prolific contributor to Communist Party periodicals such as Soviet Russia Today, The Southern Worker, and New Masses. The present work, set in the Pennsylvania coal fields, deals specifically with the role of miners' wives during a prolonged labor dispute. Later republished as Daughter of the Hills: A Woman's Part in the Coal Miners' Struggle (NY: Feminist Press, 1986). HANNA 2766. RIDEOUT, p. 299.

Price: $25.00

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