Cat.No: 131041 American Stuff. An anthology of prose & verse by members of the Federal Writers' Project, with sixteen prints by the Federal Art Project. Henry G. Alsberg, Jim Thompson, Calude McKay, Harry Roskolenkier, Robert E. Hayden, Nathan Asch, Vardis Fisher, Sterling Brown, Kenneth Rexroth, Richard Wright.

American Stuff. An anthology of prose & verse by members of the Federal Writers' Project, with sixteen prints by the Federal Art Project

Alsberg, Henry G., Richard Wright, Kenneth Rexroth, Sterling Brown, Vardis Fisher, Nathan Asch, Robert E. Hayden, Harry Roskolenkier, Calude McKay, Jim Thompson, and others

New York: The Viking Press for the WPA Federal Writers' Project, August, 1937. Hardcover. xviii, 301p., offsetting at gutters of endpapers due to high-acid content of binding glues of the period, otherwise a very good condition first edition hardcover bound in dark wine cloth boards and gilt with blind-stamped vignette on cover, in a very good, unclipped dust jacket.

Early appearance by Richard Wright ,"The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch," which is arguably his first book appearance (preceding his first book, "Uncle Tom's Children" in 1938). At this time he had joined the CPUSA and became a Bureau Chief of the Daily Worker.

Cat.No: 131041

Price: $350.00

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