signed first edition Hardcover
1940 · Boston
by Maltz, Albert
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.
(Inventory #: 310722)