[RADICAL LITERATURE] SANFORD, John B (pseud. Julian Shapiro)

The Old Man's Place

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); light gray cloth, titled in red and black on a black background on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; 263pp. Faint soil to rear cover; Near Fine or better. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50) with a few minor nicks and short closed tears to upper front panel; Near Fine.

Sanford's uncommon second novel (and the first using his nom de plume). Sanford went on to publish 24 books and several screenplays but, in the words of his bibliographer, he has remained "the finest unread author writing in English," owing in some degree to his intractability with editors but certainly also to his staunch leftist political leanings, which got him blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Not in Hanna.

Price: $175.00

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