LOWENFELS, Walter; Rockwell Kent (jacket design)

American Voices

New York: Roving Eye Press, 1959. First, Limited Edition. Small octavo. Rust cloth (hardcover); 63pp. Limited to 1,000 copies. A clean and unmarked copy in a moderately dusted, spotted dustjacket, two tiny closed tears, else VG. Jacket illustration by Rockwell Kent.

Lowenfels (1897-1976) was a key figure in the Paris avant-garde during the 1930s, where he was a close friend of Henry Miller and Anais Nin (and was in fact the model for the character Jabberwhorl Kronstadt in Miller's Tropic of Cancer ). Returning to the US, he became a central Communist Party organizer and an editor of the Philadelphia Daily Worker. He was arrested, tried and convicted under the Smith Act in 1953, but eventually exhonerated for lack of evidence.

Price: $30.00

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