Search Results: Communism from Charles Agvent

At sea: Hillacre, September, 1917. First Edition. Manuscript. Occasional staining, some aging to paper, normal folds from mailing. Very Good. Nine pages typed on four 8-1/2" x 11" leaves of Hotel Brevoort letterhead and Scandinavian-American Line letterhead with Reed's name typed at the top right corner of the first page, and pages numbered at the tops of the following pages. With the original envelope addressed in Reed's hand, postmarked twice and stamped "Opened by Censor." Reed's important unpublished typescript was written while he was traveling on board a Danish liner from the United States to Norway during World War I. It was intended to be published in THE MASSES, but the delay in transit -- the first postmark is dated 3 September 1917, and received in Croton-on-Hudson on 11 August 1919, addressed to Mrs. B[oardman] Robinson -- as well as that magazine's legal battle under the Sedition Act must have precluded its publication. Reed begins his essay with a transcription of a notice that was… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Durant's ink stamp at the top of the front free endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some internal staining and foxing, not visible on the exterior. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. The printed script for the film THE NORTH STAR starring Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Erich Von Stroheim, and Farley Granger in his debut performance. Nominated for 6 Academy Awards including for Hellman's script. The House Committee on Un-American Activities would later cite THE NORTH STAR as one of three noted examples of pro-Soviet movies made by Hollywood. This copy is INSCRIBED "For Jed & Kenneth/with much love" and SIGNED by the author as "Lillian" to American pro-Soviet journalist Kenneth Durant and his wife, poet Genevieve "Jed" Taggard, who died at the age of 54 in 1948. A fine association copy.