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Fighting Words
by STEWART, Donald Ogden (ed)
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 167pp. Bit of foxing to endpapers, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, foxed on verso and flap-folds but otherwise quite clean and crisp. Though not billed as such in the jacket copy, this work in fact comprises the Report of the Third Writers' Congress, held in the summer of 1939. Seidman: "...the report is a folksy, running commentary on the Congress. Sections deal with folklore, writing craft problems (including a brief mention of proletarian literature), the novel, the Negro in fiction [...] section titles are used to contrast the aims of writers with war aims, and the volume ends on an antiwar, anti-imperialist note." Dedicated in print to the CP-affiliated League of American Writers. A somewhat uncommon title, especially in jacket. This a quite nice copy. SEIDMAN S413.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26489
- Title
- Fighting Words
- Author
- STEWART, Donald Ogden (ed)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social History; Communism; Great Depression; WW2;
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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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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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