Wasteland: a novel [1946 Harper Prize]
by Sinclair, Jo [pseudonym of Ruth Seid]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1946. Hardcover. 321p., very good first edition stated in blue cloth boards with red panels gilt-titled; the unclipped dj is a bit worn with closed tears. Ruth Seid was the lesbian daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants who worked for the WPA and began selling short stories to the likes of Harpers but also Crisis and New Masses. Her writing usually dealt with the struggles of immigrants in the USA. This, her first novel concerns Russian Jewish immigrants. In a blurb at the back Richard Wright compares the book favorably to Joyce's "Dubliners
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 219213
- Title
- Wasteland: a novel [1946 Harper Prize]
- Author
- Sinclair, Jo [pseudonym of Ruth Seid]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first edition; Labor - American; Judaica; 1940S; Immigration;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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