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ONE OF US, THE STORY OF JOHN REED
by HICKS, GRANVILLE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1935. Spine lettered in gilt. Light fading bottom front cover.Full-page black and white illustrations by Lynd Ward on each recto with text on adjacent page. A very clean copy throughout. John Reed (1887-1920) was an American journalist, poet, and Communist activist. He gained prominence as a war correspondent durin World War 1, and is best known for his coverage of the October Revolution in Russia, about which his book "Ten Days That Shook The World" was written. He became a hero of the generation of radical intellectuals. He died at age 33 in Moscow of spotted typhus. Unpaginated.. First Edition. Black and Red Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Lynd Ward. Thin Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014677
- Title
- ONE OF US, THE STORY OF JOHN REED
- Author
- HICKS, GRANVILLE
- Illustrator
- Lynd Ward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Equinox Cooperative Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Size
- Thin Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Communism, John Reed, Radical Intellectuals
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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