Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin

Published by The Leonard Press, New York, 1922

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48 pp., small 8vo. With an introduction by Scott Nearing. Poems of the well-known Wobbly (the first poem, "Mourn Not the Dead," was set to music and recorded in the 1990s by Steven Taylor, poet and member of the revived Fugs). Front hinge of binding partially cracked, otherwise very good, in a near very good jacket with small edge chips and closed tears. This copy inscribed by Evelyn Preston to Spencer Miller, Jr., in November of 1922, with the question: "Tell me how long we are to keep Christ writhing on the Cross?" Preston was a philanthropist, reformer, and labor activist, friend of the Roosevelts, who married Roger Baldwin, also a Wobbly and the founder of the ACLU. She helped Fannia Cohn and others to establish the Workers' Education Bureau in 1921, of which Spencer Miller was a director. A nice association.

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Title
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin
Author
Chaplin, Ralph
Publisher
The Leonard Press, New York
Publication year
1922
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First printing.

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Passages Bookshop stocks fine, rare, and unusual books and graphic art, with a concentration on modern and contemporary literature and art (particularly poetry and the avant-garde), artist's books, fine printing, and the book arts. The successor to New York City's Bridge Bookshop (late 1980s), Passages opened in Albuquerque in 1994 and relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1997. We are open most days by appointment or chance in our new location in NW Portland. To see more images of most of our books, please visit our website. Proprietor: David Abel…

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