first edition Hardcover
1935 · New York
by HICKS, GRANVILLE
New York: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1935. Spine lettered in gilt. Light fading bottom front cover.Full-page black and white illustrations by Lynd Ward on each recto with text on adjacent page. A very clean copy throughout. John Reed (1887-1920) was an American journalist, poet, and Communist activist. He gained prominence as a war correspondent durin World War 1, and is best known for his coverage of the October Revolution in Russia, about which his book "Ten Days That Shook The World" was written. He became a hero of the generation of radical intellectuals. He died at age 33 in Moscow of spotted typhus. Unpaginated.. First Edition. Black and Red Cloth. (truncated)