Le Prade Ruth Ed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Debs and the Poets by Ruth Le Prade ed. With an introduction by Upton Sinclair.A volume of poetry and short letters dedicated to and concerning Eugene Debs. Contributors include Seigfried Sassoon, GB Shaw, Upton Sinclair and HG Wells.From the introduction: The United States has an old man in prison in the Federal Penitentiary of Atlanta. The government regards this old man as a common felon, and treats him as such; shaves his head, puts a prison suit upon him, feeds him uponprison food, and locks him in a steel-barred cell fourteen consecutive hours out of each twenty-four. But it appears that there are a great many people in the United State.…

First Edition. Introduction by Upton Sinclair. First edition. Small 8vo. 99 pp. Inscribed on the front pastedown in the year of publication "From the author." Introduction: "[The contributors] have been moved to indignation by the treatment of [Eugene V. Debs] and they have expressed their indignation" in poems and letters, printed here; among those represented are Charlotte Gilman Perkins, Helen Keller, Max Eastman, James Whitcomb Riley, Carl Sandburg, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, and Israel Zangwill. Original gilt-stamped burgundy cloth. Very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Small octavo, 7.3 in. x 5 in., pp. 98, [11] (advertising). Signed in ink on the front free endpaper by Eugene Debs. [NOT a limited edition copy.] Red cloth boards with gilt title and decorative gilt design to front. Dark brown title to spine. Rubbing to boards with frayed spine ends and ciorners just showing. Scuffing to front board; darkening to spine. The signature ink was pressed against front pastedown while wet, leaving an imprint. Rear hinge just started. Unmarked save the signature. Light age-toning to leaves. Several poets and literary voices of 1920 turn their voices in support of Socialist Eugene Debs, who ran his 1920 presidential campaign while incarcerated in Atlanta. Poets and commentators include Frederic Bartholdi, H.G. Wells, John Swinton, Carl Sandburg, G.B. Shaw, Upton Sinclair, Whitcomb Riley, and dozens of others. Signed.…