[RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] VORSE, Mary Heaton

Strike!

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; orange topstain; [6],7-376pp. Touch of sofening to spine ends, gentle sunning to spine, with light wear to extremities and some faint foxing to text edges; a Very Good, sound copy, lacking the scare dustjacket.

An early fictional version of the Gastonia strike (one of six noted by Walter Rideout), describing "in excruciating detail the efforts to organize a Southern textile mill. Under the leadership of Ferdinand Deans the workers strike, learn to cooperate, establish a form of self-government and develop working class consciousness. They are defeated by the vicious combined attacks of millowners and government agencies but determine to continue organizing until America has become a land of justice. The author uses her experiences as a journalist, but the book is more a step-by-step manual for strike organizers than a realized novel" (Blake, The Strike in the American Novel, p.247). HANNA 3641; RIDEOUT, p.295. 88977.

Price: $200.00

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