The Negro and the Democratic Front by [AFRICAN-AMERICANS] [CPUSA] FORD, James W - 1938

New York: International Publishers, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Political work by Ford (1893-1957), an African-American activist, politician, and Vice Presidential candidate for the Communist Party in 1932, 1936, and 1940. The volume "deals with fundamental issues confronting the American Negro in the struggle for economic, political, and social equality; with the need for unity of the Negro population and all other democratic forces in a common front against reaction, fascism, and war..." (from front flap). With an introduction by A.W. Berry. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; photographic frontispiece, viii,9-222,[2]pp. Gentle sunning to spine and upper board edges, else Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $1.75), gently spine-sunned, edgeworn, with numerous tears, small nicks, and shallow losses, with two larger chips to upper edge of rear panel.