The Underground Stream by Maltz, Albert - 1940

Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company, 1940. Extensive edge wear with some fraying and board exposure at the corners. Spine ends worn and fraying with some loss and chipping and a 1/2 in. tear at one spine corner. Some cover soil and several light damp stains. Light spine creases. Edge toned and light endpaper foxing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall, 349 Pages.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1940. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 in. 349 pp. Blue cloth with red lettering on cover and spine. Condition is VERY GOOD ; cornrers and ends of spine bumped with some wear. Covers clean with very slight rubbing and toning. Binding tight and text clean with private library card in trinagular pocket on rear pastedown. Otherwise no other markings at all. Maltz was one of the Hollywood Ten. Fiction. Stax.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. Hardcover. 348p., first edition, very good condition in a shelf worn dust jacket with minor toning, a small abrasion and hole in the panel and small holes along the front flap fold, inscribed & signed "To Ted [Edward] Lamb, In gratitude for his help in the making of this book, from Albert Maltz, June 1940." Lamb in 1940 was labor lawyer, always sympathetic to the left he went on the late 1940s and 50s to become a multimillionaire. *Rideout novel. "[H]istorically important because it initiated the whole series of books chiefly concerned with an examination of the Communist's personality and faith or with a depiction of his life as the only fully admirable mode of existence available in the United States today." * Walter B. Rideout, The radical novel in the United States, 1900-1954 p. 266.