The Dissenters. A Novel
by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN FICTION] [HOBOES] SIMONSEN, S.J. [Sigurd Jay]
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- first
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Fortuny's, 1941. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 205pp. Small adhesive label to front free endpaper; faint scratches to foredge of text block, else a tight, straight copy in the original dustwrapper. Jacket is complete but worn; price-clipped, with closed tears at front flap-fold and shallow losses at head and heel of spine panel (not approaching jacket text). A Very Good copy. Somewhat uncommon proletarian hobo novel, set on Seattle's skid row, by a Seattle author. In the words of one contemporary reviewer: "The Dissenters is as poorly written as it is poorly edited, and that is saying a lot...but through all this there does come, astonishingly, an interesting recapitulation of thirty years of recent American history as seen from the Seattle Skidway...and [of] the Skidway socialism which is the thesis of the book..." (Joseph B. Harrison, "The Dissenters" [book review]. Pacific Northwest Quarterly vol. 33 no 1 (Jan. 1942). Somewhat scarce in dustwrapper. Not in Hanna.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41773
- Title
- The Dissenters. A Novel
- Author
- [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN FICTION] [HOBOES] SIMONSEN, S.J. [Sigurd Jay]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Fortuny's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Social Fiction; Hoboes;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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