Paris: Corrêa, 1952. First French Edition. First French edition of Himes's second book, issued the same year as his emigration from the U.S. to Paris. Originally published as Lonely Crusade by Knopf in 1947. A penetrating and subtle left-wing (but intensely anti-Communist) novel concerning race conflict at a California aircraft..... 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

Shanghai: Shanghai dianying yizhichang (Shanghai Film Dubbing Studio), [n.d. but ca.1960's]. An early transcript for subtitling Stanley Kubrick's Oscar-winning 1960 film adaptation of Howard Fast's 1951 novel - an artifact reflecting the reach of the film which, for a Hollywood blockbuster, was uniquely acceptable in socialist countries. Perhaps the most..... More

New York: International Publishers, 1942. Wartime reprint of Gold's classic proletarian novel, set in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the Teens and Twenties. HANNA 1442. RIDEOUT p.295. Reprint. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; [12],309,[1]pp; illus. Previous owners name to front endpaper, spine..... More

Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1979. Limited Edition. Specially signed 30th anniversary edition of Mailer's novel set during World War II, detailing "the capture of a Japanese island in the Pacific by amphibious assault and jungle fighting. Studies the relationship of the individual soldier within the Army organization, shows what the..... More

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1908. Second printing. A socialist romance written in the midst of Eugene Debs's first Presidential campaign. The book went through four printings in the first two weeks. Patterson later renounced Socialism, underwent a political reincarnation, and emerged as the publisher of the reactionary New York Daily..... 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: 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: 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

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First Edition. "A proletarian novel of the life of an Austrian Jew in New York. Young Isaac is brought by his parents from a village in Eastern Europe at an early age, his father fails successively as tailor, janitor, candy store owner, and Isaac..... More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. First Edition. "Dave Washburn, a dedicated Communist, attempts to organize exploited California cannery workers thrown out of work by mechanization. The whole town of Caldwell is destroyed when the local dam is dynamited, but Dave escapes presumably to organize other workers more successfully. The..... More

New York: B.W. Dodge & Company, 1908. First Edition. Attractive copy of Sinclair's sequel to The Metropolis (1908), "an attack on the methods used by Wall Street to refinance steel companies and railroads" (Coan, p.98). AHOUSE A12.a; HANNA 3239. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); olive green pictorial cloth, with titling and..... More