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The Desert of Wheat: A Novel
by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] GREY, Zane; W.H.D. Koerner, illus
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1919]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],376pp.; frontispiece & 3 leaves of plates. Extremities shelf-worn with a few tiny losses and closed tears, jacket spine rather sunned, else Very Good in About Very Good jacket. Anti-IWW and "anti-labor account of the ruin of a loyal German-American farmer in Washington state by striking I.W.W. farm workers" - HANNA 1504; see also BLAKE, pp. 239-40, and MILES 4995.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20877
- Title
- The Desert of Wheat: A Novel
- Author
- [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] GREY, Zane; W.H.D. Koerner, illus
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1919]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; IWW; Labor History; Social Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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