[RADICAL & PROLETARIAN FICTION] [HOBOES] SIMONSEN, S.J. [Sigurd Jay]

The Dissenters. A Novel

New York: Fortuny's, 1941. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 205pp. Small adhesive label to front free endpaper; faint scratches to foredge of text block, else a tight, straight copy in the original dustwrapper. Jacket is complete but worn; price-clipped, with closed tears at front flap-fold and shallow losses at head and heel of spine panel (not approaching jacket text). A Very Good copy.

Somewhat uncommon proletarian hobo novel, set on Seattle's skid row, by a Seattle author. In the words of one contemporary reviewer: "The Dissenters is as poorly written as it is poorly edited, and that is saying a lot...but through all this there does come, astonishingly, an interesting recapitulation of thirty years of recent American history as seen from the Seattle Skidway...and [of] the Skidway socialism which is the thesis of the book..." (Joseph B. Harrison, "The Dissenters" [book review]. Pacific Northwest Quarterly vol. 33 no 1 (Jan. 1942). Somewhat scarce in dustwrapper. Not in Hanna.

Price: $85.00

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