Sillen Samuel Edited (6 results)

Paperback. 94p., wraps, 5.25x8 inches, wraps lightly worn, penned number on front wrap, head of spine chipped, else very good condition.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Book has considerable wear. No highlighting or underlining. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. P.389-512. Brown printed wrappers. Light offsetting on front fly, spine ends nicked, else a very good copy. Containing "The Novel of Action" by Charles Humboldt, "Four Poems" by Nicolas Guillen, "Pablo Neruda: Poet In Arms" by Luis Enrique Delano, and others.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Edited with an introduction by Samuel Sillen. Octavo. 175pp. Heavy offsetting on the front fly from something once laid in, very good or better in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with a sunned spine, a few small chips, and modest soil.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 100th Anniversary Leaves of Grass Edition. Some very faint dampstains on bottom corners of boards, pages browned with some dog-eared corners, else very good in a good or better rubbed and lightly edgeworn dustwrapper with a few faint dampstains.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Volume 2, Number 8. Octavo. 96pp. Reproduces four woodcuts by Leoplodo Mendez and drawings by Hugo Gellert and Eugene Karlin. Wrappers with moderate general wear and a bit of sunning, very good. Prints "Maggot-of-the-Month," a scathing 2½ page review of Orwell's *Nineteen Eighty-Four* by editor Samuel Sillen. Sillen describes the book as "plodding" and "cynical rot"; Orwell as the "literary mouthpiece of imperialism"; and the book's ultimate message "People are no damn good." Even so incensed, Sullen is sure we have not yet reached the nadir of this "nihilistic literature of the graveyard" and closes thus: ".[T]here is hideous ingenuity in the perversions of a dying capitalism, and it will keep probing for new depths of rottenness which the maggots will find 'brilliant and morally invigorating.'" Also prints African-American Marxist educational scholar Doxey Wilkerson's "Negro Culture: Heritage and Weapon" and Alexander Serebov's "Life with Stanislavsky" among much else.…