New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Pencil name on front endpaper and pencil markings by titles of many poems; inch chip at base of spine with some loss. Very Good, lacking the scarce dustwrapper if there ever was one. Brown boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Her scarce first book. Ridge was an Irish-born New Zealand-American anarchist and modernist poet, and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She was active in radical causes and was among those arrested for protesting against the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. Her actions during the demonstration in front of the prison on the day Sacco and Vanzetti were executed were described by Katherine Anne Porter in her long essay, The Never Ending Wrong. Peter Quartermain described her in the DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY as the nearest prototype in her time of the proletarian poet of class conflict, voicing social protest or revolutionary idealism.

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Bookseller: Charles Agvent (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 021277
Title: THE GHETTO and Other Poems
Author: RIDGE, Lola
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Pencil name on front endpaper and pencil markings by titles of many poems; inch chip at base of spine with some loss. Very Good,
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: B. W. Huebsch, Inc.
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1918
Keywords: First Book, Radical Literature, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Irish Literature, Modern Poetry, Feminism
Bookseller catalogs: First Book; Irish Literature; Radical Literature;

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