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Imperial City [Signed Copy]
by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] RICE, Elmer
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Coward-McCann, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Tan cloth boards, lettered in maroon on spine, with vignette illustration on front board; dustjacket; 554pp. Tight, Near Fine copy; red top-stain deep, even and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, rubbed at extremities with a few closed tears and slight fading to red portions on spine; Very Good. Generically signed by Rice on front free endpaper. Nice copy of Rice's first novel, set in New York and dealing with an Electrical Workers strike viewed from the perspective of a wealthy, dysfunctional family. Rice is best known for his prolific output of plays in the Twenties and Thirties, most on social themes reflecting his leftist sympathies. His 1929 play Street Scene, set in the Jewish ghetto of New York City, won the Pulitzer Prize. Rice was the first director of the New York office of the Federal Theatre Project, but resigned after government censorship of one of the theatre's left-leaning productions. HANNA 2994. BLAKE p.262.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55958
- Title
- Imperial City [Signed Copy]
- Author
- [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] RICE, Elmer
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ABAA-BOSTON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
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