Skip to content

Search Results: Rideout from Lorne Bair Rare Books

You searched for:
  • Subject: Rideout from Lorne Bair Rare Books
Results 1 - 20 of 26
100%: The Story of a Patriot

100%: The Story of a Patriot

by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] SINCLAIR, Upton

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$125.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Pasadena: Published by the Author, 1920. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (19.25cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 329,[1],[5]pp ads. Crown gently nudged, small circular sticker shadow to upper right corner of front endpaper, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is gently spine-sunned, showing moderate edgewear and dust-soil overall, with several small edge chips, a small puncture at mid-spine, and a handful of tears; Good to Very Good. Novel "of a man who becomes a spy upon Communist and Socialist groups during World War I. The Mooney case is part of the background" (Coan, p.128). A close companion piece to Jimmy Higgins, covering roughly the same time period. AHOUSE A27a; HANNA 3242.
Item Price
$125.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
Bottom Dogs

Bottom Dogs

by DAHLBERG, Edward (novel); LAWRENCE, D.H. (introduction)

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First UK Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$150.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. First UK Edition. Limited Issue, consisting of 520 copies for sale by private subscription and preceding the American edition published the following year. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; top edge gilt; 285pp. Some very faint foxing to preliminary and terminal pages, else Near Fine. Dahlberg's first novel, and the first volume in his proletarian trilogy, which includes Those Who Perish (1934) and From Flushing to Calvary (1932). A novel portraying the seamy side of American life through the eyes of a man who spent his early years as a ward in an orphanage and his later life as a salesman and hobo. Though Dahlberg rejected this early work later in his career, these three novels remain a high water mark of the literature of the Great Depression, documenting with sympathy and poetry the lives of hoboes, immigrants, slum-dwellers, B-girls, and others of the vast American underclass of the thirties. COAN p.81. HANNA 895.… Read More
Item Price
$150.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
The Chasm

The Chasm

by COOK, George Cram

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$60.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. Original decorated cloth boards; 379pp. Spine darkened, boards rubbed and soiled; owner's name to front endpaper; text clean and unmarked. A solid reading copy. Socialist novel, written shortly after Cook's conversion to Socialism under the influence of Floyd Dell. Rideout: "The 'chasm' of the title is partly objectified in the conflict faced by a wealthy American girl between the philosophy of Nitezsche...and that of Marx, as represented by her father's handsome young Socialist gardener." The setting is divided between Russia and Moline, Illinois. RIDEOUT p.293. HANNA 786.
Item Price
$60.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
The Chute

The Chute

by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] HALPER, Albert

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$50.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: Viking Press, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm). Original tan cloth, red topstain, 558pp; dustjacket. Slight lean to spine, trivial spotting to foredge, else binding tight and pages clean. Dustjacket is unclipped but front panel is separated at spine fold, chipped with several closed tears. Good or better. Presentable copy of Halper's most straightforwardly radical novel, written after his decided move to the Left following negative responses by leftist critics to his first two novels. HANNA 1548. RIDEOUT p.298.
Item Price
$50.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
Comrade Yetta

Comrade Yetta

by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] EDWARDS, Albert (pseud. of Arthur Bullard)

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$75.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); dark blue cloth, blocked and titled in burgundy and gilt on spine and front cover; viii, 448, [8]pp ads. Neat, contemporary owner's name and date to front endpaper (a "Dr. L.W. Truman"). Mild external wear, with light rubbing to corners and spine ends; hinges very lightly pulled; a clean and unmarked copy, easily Very Good. Among the more nuanced Socialist novels of the 'teens and, according to Rideout, one of the first serious portrayals of the I.W.W. in American fiction. The book is also noteworthy for offering a woman protagonist who, in contrast to the formulaic society-girl-turned-socialist so common to the radical "conversion" novels of the period, is here a sweatshop worker who must do battle with her instinctive militancy (which initially attracts her to the IWW) to finally join the Socialist Party. RIDEOUT p.294. HANNA 508.
Item Price
$75.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
The Death and Birth of David Markand: An American Story

The Death and Birth of David Markand: An American Story

by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LIT] FRANK, Waldo; KENT, Rockwell (cover design)

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$200.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); lime green cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 542pp. Sunning to cloth at spine and extremities, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), gently spine-sunned and lightly dusty, with a few short closed tears; Very Good+. Frank's sequel to Dark Mother, a strike novel in which a tobocco company executive searches for social order among farmers and workers. A much better example than usually seen of this wear-prone title. HANNA 1299, BLAKE p.252, RIDEOUT p.296.
Item Price
$200.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
From the Kingdom of Necessity
More Photos

From the Kingdom of Necessity

by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] SCHNEIDER, Isidor

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$250.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); variant bound in smooth red vertically-ribbed cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover, and textblock bulking 1 5/16"; dustjacket; vi, 450pp. Vintage bookplate to front pastedown, with faint offset onto front endpaper, else Fine in a Very Good+ price-clipped dustjacket, with light sunning to spine and mild wear to extremities. "A proletarian novel of the life of an Austrian Jew in New York. Young Isaac is brought by his parents from a village in Eastern Europe at an early age, his father fails successively as tailor, janitor, candy store owner, and Isaac and his brother suffer from timidity and poverty, until Isaac finds his own niche. Long, detailed picture of Isaac's growth, the lives of the family and friends, the background of slums, abortive business ventures, racial antagonisms. Sordid in many spots, and at times heavy going" (Kirkus Review, Sept.19, 1935). HANNA 3146; RIDEOUT p.297; COAN p.176.
Item Price
$250.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
The Great Midland

The Great Midland

by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] SAXTON, Alexander

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$125.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc, 1948. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.25cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [iv],352pp. A few pinpoint rubs to spine ends, else Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.00), with a shallow loss to crown, a few small nicks and closed tears. Attractive copy of Saxton's second book, which "has as its background the city of Chicago and the yards of one of the midcontinent railroads from the year 1912 to the outbreak of World War II. The rather complex web of lives and events, spun out within an arbitrarily shifting time sequence, is primarily centered on the relationship between Communist railroad worker, Dave Spaas, and his wife Stephanie, although considerable attention ih the first half of the book is also given to Dave's Negro comrade, Pledger McAdams, whose gradula acceptance of white men and of Communism is effectively handled" (Rideout, p.268). HANNA 3127.
Item Price
$125.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
Home Is The Sailor: The Story of an American Seaman

Home Is The Sailor: The Story of an American Seaman

by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] MCHENRY, Beth & Frederick N. Myers

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$50.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: International Publishers, 1948. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (20cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-250,[6]pp. Clean and unmarked in original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped and generally clean but for a moisture stain extending halfway up the rear flap-fold; this had bled through to cause a faint line of discoloration to fore-edge of rear board. Very Good. Fictionalized biography of a worker-radical in the National Maritime Union. "...written as vigorously as [its] central characters lived, but in almost all other ways...quite lacking in the art of the novel" (Rideout, p.267). Still, very representative of the post-war Communist literary aesthetic, and uncommon in such nice condition. The authors - she a Daily Worker reporter and he a waterfront strike organizer - met and married during the maritime strike of 1936-37. RIDEOUT p.267. HANNA 2592. SEIDMAN M196.
Item Price
$50.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
Jews Without Money

Jews Without Money

by GOLD, Michael (novel); SIMON, Howard (woodcuts)

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$25.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: International Publishers, 1942. Reprint. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; [12],309,[1]pp; illus. Previous owners name to front endpaper, spine sunned, corners tapped, with extensive underlining throughout text in graphite and colored pencil; Good. Wartime reprint of Gold's classic proletarian novel, set in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the Teens and Twenties. HANNA 1442. RIDEOUT p.295.
Item Price
$25.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
Judios Sin Dinero [Jews Without Money]

Judios Sin Dinero [Jews Without Money]

by GOLD, Michael

  • Used
Condition
Used
Edition
Second Spanish Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$125.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Madrid: Editorial Fenix, 1933. Second Spanish Edition. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, lightly worn at extremities; faint vertical crease to front cover; Very Good. Spanish-language edition of Gold's classic portrayal of Jewish life in Manhattan's Lower East Side. First published in the US in 1929; the first Spanish edition followed in 1930 (Madrid: Cenit); the current edition is uncommon, with fewer than 5 holdings in North America according to WorldCat.
Item Price
$125.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
La Croisade De Lee Gordon (Lonely Crusade)

La Croisade De Lee Gordon (Lonely Crusade)

by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] HIMES, Chester (novel); WRIGHT, Richard (preface); MALARTIC, Yves (translation)

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First French Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$200.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Corrêa, 1952. First French Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); original printed wrappers; [7],8-384,[4]pp. Light wear to extremities and base of spine, with a tiny tear and attendant crease at right edge of front wrapper; page untrimmed; Near Fine, lacking the scarce pictorial dustjacket. First French edition of Himes's second book, issued the same year as his emigration from the U.S. to Paris. Originally published as Lonely Crusade by Knopf in 1947. A penetrating and subtle left-wing (but intensely anti-Communist) novel concerning race conflict at a California aircraft factory during World War II, which managed to offend African-Americans, whites, and communists alike. The French edition notably includes a preface by Richard Wright, which did not appear in the American edition. RIDEOUT p.299. HANNA 1729 (for the American edition).
Item Price
$200.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
A Lantern For Jeremy: A Novel

A Lantern For Jeremy: A Novel

by JEROME, V.J. (novel); GELLERT, Hugo (cover art)

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Trade Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$40.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1952. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); grayish-green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 288pp. Gentle sunning to spine and upper board edges, small tear to front hinge, else Very Good+. In the Hugo Gellert dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.50), with sunning to spine, several short tears and attendant creases, with modest wear overall; Very Good+. Autobiographical novel with a Polish setting, by the prominent American Marxist essayist and critic; a sequel was published posthumously in 1966. RIDEOUT p.300.
Item Price
$40.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
A Little Brother of the Rich

A Little Brother of the Rich

by PATTERSON, Joseph Medill

  • Used
Condition
Used
Edition
Second printing
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$35.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1908. Second printing. Octavo. Gilt-pictorial boards; 361p. Light overall wear; ownership signature (Cornelia B Patterson, no clear relation) to front endpaper; a tight, straight attractive copy with the spine and cover lettering bright and unflaked. An unusually well-preserved copy, rarely found thus. A socialist romance written in the midst of Eugene Debs's first Presidential campaign. The book went through four printings in the first two weeks. Patterson later renounced Socialism, underwent a political reincarnation, and emerged as the publisher of the reactionary New York Daily News. HANNA 2797. RIDEOUT p.66ff.
Item Price
$35.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
The Moneychangers

The Moneychangers

by SINCLAIR, Upton

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$60.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: B.W. Dodge & Company, 1908. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); olive green pictorial cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black and white on spine and front cover; [4],316pp. Slight forward lean, wear to cloth at base of spine, some light foxing to text edges and rough erasure to previous owners name at upper front endpaper; white spine lettering unrubbed, but a bit dulled; Very Good+. Attractive copy of Sinclair's sequel to The Metropolis (1908), "an attack on the methods used by Wall Street to refinance steel companies and railroads" (Coan, p.98). AHOUSE A12.a; HANNA 3239.
Item Price
$60.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
The Naked and the Dead [Signed]
More Photos

The Naked and the Dead [Signed]

by MAILER, Norman

  • Used
Condition
Used
Edition
Limited Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$95.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1979. Limited Edition. Octavo; full dark brown bonded leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; all edges gilt; silk moiré endpapers; xxii,683pp; illus. Signed by the author following the half-title page. Mild fading to endpaper margins (as usual), else Fine. Specially signed 30th anniversary edition of Mailer's novel set during World War II, detailing "the capture of a Japanese island in the Pacific by amphibious assault and jungle fighting. Studies the relationship of the individual soldier within the Army organization, shows what the act of fighting does to character, and explores the forces and philosophies that create men's fates" (Coan, p.126). HANNA 2355; RIDEOUT, p.299.
Item Price
$95.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
Native Son

Native Son

by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] WRIGHT, Richard

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$60.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. Reprint, issued by the Book-of-the-Month Club, with "First Edition" and "A-P" code on copyright page (see Ahearn). Octavo (21cm); second binding in gray cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine; gray topstain; dustjacket; xii,359,[1]pp. Base of spine a bit nudged, lower rear board corner gently tapped (though still sharp), else Near Fine. Dustjacket is gently spine-sunned, showing modest external wear, shallow losses to spine ends, several nicks and tears, and a tiny puncture to upper front panel; just Very Good. Attractive copy of Wright's first novel, which catapulted him into national fame. "The book is a shattering portrait of Bigger Thomas, the protagonist, who is a product of racism and oppression. The novel takes its readers through treacherous corridors of violence and retribution as it reflects much of the unrest in the American racial system" (BLOCKSON 76). "Bigger, hemmed in by the restrictions of white-dominated Chicago, commits a… Read More
Item Price
$60.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
The Road: A Romance of the Proletarian Revolution

The Road: A Romance of the Proletarian Revolution

by [PROLETARIAN FICTION] [RIDEOUT NOVELS] MARLEN, George (pseud. George Spiro)

  • Used
Condition
Used
Edition
Second Printing
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$125.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: Red Star Press, 1933. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm). Original tan cloth boards, lettered in red on cover and spine; price-clipped dustjacket; 632pp. A few small losses to jacket extremities with some subsequent creasing, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket just about free of toning. Socialist romance, described by Rideout as the "...only radical novel published in the thirties which was deliberately written as a romance...even to its stilted prose, an unrepresentative anachronism." Spiro/Marlen, a one-time leader of the Trotskyist Communist League of America, was also the author of the sensational anti-CP tract "Earl Browder: Communist or Tool of Wall Street" in 1932. HANNA 3308. RIDEOUT, p. 296. SEIDMAN M-191.
Item Price
$125.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
Samuel The Seeker

Samuel The Seeker

by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN FICTION] SINCLAIR, Upton

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$500.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: B.W. Dodge & Company, 1910. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); olive green pictorial cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in white and dark green to spine and front cover; dustjacket; [4], 315, [1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, some trivial rubbing to lower corners, with mild offset to endpapers and pastedowns; Near Fine. Dustjacket shows even sunning to spine and panels, light shelfwear overall, with a few small tears, nicks to base of spine and corners, and a small chip to upper right corner of rear panel, affecting a single letter; Very Good+. Socialist conversion novel with some Wall Street content, described by Ahouse as Sinclair's contribution to "the literature of the guileless fool, whose sincerity, innocence, and purity of heart carry him forward to the attainment of wisdom in a generally complacent world." AHOUSE A15.a; HANNA 3244; RIDEOUT p.293.
Item Price
$500.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
Samuel The Seeker

Samuel The Seeker

by SINCLAIR, Upton

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$75.00
$6.00 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: B.W. Dodge & Company, 1910. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); olive green pictorial cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in white and dark green to spine and front cover; [4], 315, [1]pp. Slight forward lean, rough erasure to previous owners name and price at upper front endpaper, with some mild external wear and pinpoint rubbing to spine lettering; Very Good+. Socialist conversion novel with some Wall Street content, described by Ahouse as Sinclair's contribution to "the literature of the guileless fool, whose sincerity, innocence, and purity of heart carry him forward to the attainment of wisdom in a generally complacent world." AHOUSE A15.a; HANNA 3244; RIDEOUT p.293.
Item Price
$75.00
$6.00 shipping to USA
Add to Want List

Didn’t find what you’re looking for?

Try adding this search to your want list. Millions of books are added to our site everyday and when we find one that matches your search, we’ll send you an email. Best of all, it’s free.

Add to Want List
Book lovers can save on books by joining our Bibliophiles club

Are you a frequent reader or book collector?

Join the Bibliophile's Club and save 10% on every purchase, every day — up to $20 savings per order!

Biblio is a socially responsible company

Social Responsibility

Did you know that since 2004, Biblio has used its profits to build 16 public libraries in rural villages of South America?