New York: Coward, McCann, 1928. First Edition of the author’s first book, a proletarian novel. Fine in dust jacket and with the promotional wraparound band with blurbs by Ford, Lardner and Hemingway. Herbst, now nearly forgotten, was a Zelig-like figure in American letters and politics; resident in Greenwich Village in its literary heyday; expatriate friend and colleague of Dos Passos, Maxwell Anderson (a lover), Hemingway and others; at critical times, witness to events in Germany, Spain, Cuba and elsewhere; a champion of victims of the Depression, but as an admitted Communist, her services were rejected by the U.S. government during World War II.

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