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Behold My Brother
by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] ROSENSTEEL, George
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: House of Field, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); tan linen boards stamped in fuchsia; red top-stain; 382pp. Hint of dusting to text block edges, else a Fine, tight copy. In pictorial dustjacket, slightly spine-darkened, with a few nicks and brief closed tears to extremities, VG or better. Strike novel, set in the fictional industrial center of "Rollinsburg." The author, described in the jacket blurb as "a worker in those phases of the momentous labor movement that in 1933 were launched as the New Deal's noblest advenure," offers a grim view of both labor and company, seeing both sides as riddled with ideology and hucksterism. Rare; not in Hanna or Blake; OCLC gives just 8 locations as of December, 2018.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8551
- Title
- Behold My Brother
- Author
- [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] ROSENSTEEL, George
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- House of Field
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- L&R2022
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Fiction; Great Depression;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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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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