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New York: International Publishers. Very Good. (c.1929). Unstated edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [light shelfwear, age-toning to edges of text block, small indentation in top of text block (with minor damage to the top edges of a few pages), non-authorial gift inscription dated 1934 on front endpaper]. Short fiction and non-fiction pieces, drama and verse, by this New York-born Jewish writer (1894-1967), who during the 1930s and 1940s was one of the most prominent and outspoken Communist writers on the American literary landscape. The first section of the book consists of a dozen "Proletarian Sketches" (a mix of short stories, essays and (truncated) reportage), with evocative titles like "The Damned Agitator," "Death of a Negro," "On a Section Gang," "Love on a Garbage Dump," etc. The second section is entitled "Proletarian Chants and Recitations, and contains ten pieces of varying types; most are in a blank verse format, although one, entitled "Strike!" (subtitled "A Mass Recitation"), is more or less a one-act play. (One of the other recitations is entitled "Vanzetti in the Death House.") . (Inventory #: 28801)