New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition. First Printing, with (1) following final paragraph. Octavo (22cm); gray cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in dark purple on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-503,[1]pp. Tiny indentation to upper front board edge, some trivial dustiness to pastedowns, else a fresh, Near..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. Attractive copy of Wright's first novel, which catapulted him into national fame. "The book is a shattering portrait of Bigger Thomas, the protagonist, who is a product of racism and oppression. The novel takes its readers through treacherous corridors of violence and retribution..... More

London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. First UK Edition. Dahlberg's first novel, and the first volume in his proletarian trilogy, which includes Those Who Perish (1934) and From Flushing to Calvary (1932). A novel portraying the seamy side of American life through the eyes of a man who spent his early..... More

Madrid: Editorial Fenix, 1933. Second Spanish Edition. Spanish-language edition of Gold's classic portrayal of Jewish life in Manhattan's Lower East Side. First published in the US in 1929; the first Spanish edition followed in 1930 (Madrid: Cenit); the current edition is uncommon, with fewer than 5 holdings in North America..... More

New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1948. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-721,[7]pp. Bookplates of Charles John Muto mounted to front and rear pastedowns. Light wear to lower board edges, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. In..... More

New York: Citadel, 1950. First Edition. Page began her career as the Soviet correspondent for the Daily Worker; she was also a prolific contributor to Communist Party periodicals such as Soviet Russia Today, The Southern Worker, and New Masses. The present work, set in the Pennsylvania coal fields, deals specifically..... More

New York: Red Star Press, 1933. Second Printing. Socialist romance, described by Rideout as the "...only radical novel published in the thirties which was deliberately written as a romance...even to its stilted prose, an unrepresentative anachronism." Spiro/Marlen, a one-time leader of the Trotskyist Communist League of America, was also the..... More

New York: B.W. Dodge & Company, 1910. First Edition. Socialist conversion novel with some Wall Street content, described by Ahouse as Sinclair's contribution to "the literature of the guileless fool, whose sincerity, innocence, and purity of heart carry him forward to the attainment of wisdom in a generally complacent world."..... More

New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1933. First Edition. Conroy's first novel, cited by Walter Rideout as "one of the relatively few proletarian novels written by a working-class author." After the deaths of his brothers and father in a series of mining accidents, Conroy's protagonist bounces around the country, working an..... More

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); olive green cloth, with titling and cornstalk device stamped in black on spine and front cover; [vi],[2],3-302,[4]pp. Spine gently sunned, moderate wear to extremities, foxing to text edges, with a few spots of white paint spatter to rear..... More

New York: Viking Press, 1937. First Edition. Presentable copy of Halper's most straightforwardly radical novel, written after his decided move to the Left following negative responses by leftist critics to his first two novels. HANNA 1548. RIDEOUT p.298. Octavo (21.5cm). Original tan cloth, red topstain, 558pp; dustjacket. Slight lean to..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition. A quintessential novel of the Great Depression, and a masterpiece of understated desperation, written by a West Virginia drifter who famously scribbled his story down on scrap paper scrounged on the streets, in boxcars, and in hobo jungles. The novel was highly..... More

New York: International Publishers, 1948. First Edition. Fictionalized biography of a worker-radical in the National Maritime Union. "...written as vigorously as [its] central characters lived, but in almost all other ways...quite lacking in the art of the novel" (Rideout, p.267). Still, very representative of the post-war Communist literary aesthetic, and..... More