I Change Worlds

New York: Garden City Publishing Co, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo. 22cm. publisher's royal blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt and blind to spine and front board. Dustjacket. [x]; 422pp. Light edgewear and discoloration to the cloth at the extremities, bumping to spine ends and a little sunning in places; internally clean, fore-edge untrimmed, top edge stained blue, bookplate to front pastedown; in a bright, clean priceclipped dustjacket with some shallow wear and chipping to extremities, and some largely unnecessary tape reinforcement to verso. A very good, handsome copy with some light wear.

Anna Louise Strong's autobiographical account of her wildly tumultuous and energetic life as a journalist, teacher and activist; radicalized by the Everett Massacre, and grittily determined to expose the social ills caused by unfettered capitalism, Strong's career was essentially a personalized history of labor and education activism that led her throughout Russia, China, and Asia during periods of enormous change, espousing the principles of communism but like many of her equally commited contemporaries; ultimately unable to square her view of what Communism represented with the knowledge of what Communist states were doing to their populations. (Inventory #: 83982)