first edition
[1937] · New York
by JOHNS, Orrick
New York: Stackpole Sons, [1937]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, black topstain; 353pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, two tiny holes to front jacket panel along flap fold, else Very Good to Near Fine. From the upper jacket panel: "Two generations on the social frontier, the Muckrake Era, the New Freedom, the Bohemian Interlude, the Emigre Period, the Rise of Fascism, the New Deal and the Intellectuals." The poet Orrick Johns was an active member of the Communist Party, his father George Sibley Johns the editor of Joseph Pulitzer's St. Louis Post Dispatch. (Inventory #: 34155)