FRANZEN, Andrew

The Story of a Toiler

[Portland, OR? n.d. but ca. 1917]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's grey printed staplebound card wrappers, yapp edges; 24pp. Some faint soil along spine edge, light wear to wrapper fore-edges, else Very Good and sound. Long, privately-published poem, told in the voice of a paper mill worker, whose "mighty boss controls my will" (p. 3). Despite the misery of his situation, the narrator promises that "Now I am not a socialist, / Nor love the blood-red anarchist. / For me no far Utopia gleams. / Nor see they all the world awry..." (p. 6). Place of publication based on OCLC.

Price: $50.00

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