SANGAR; To Lincoln Steffens
Riverside, CT: Hillacre, 1913. First Edition, One of only 500 copies of Reed's first or second book. Tall 8vo, pp. 6. Frontispiece photograph of Lincoln Steffens with tissue guard. Bound in printed boards, little foxed. A nice clean, untrimmed copy. From the colophon: "made into a book for the delight of a few friends by Frederick C. Bursch at Hillacre, Riverside, Ct. Scarce early work. Item #50385
A poem, the story of Sangar the mad recreant knight of the west (sic) by the important Harvard educated journalist and writer who experienced the Bolshevik Revolution in the USSR and helped to found the US Communist Party. Granville Hicks, Writing in One of Us, The story ofJohn Reed notes that Steffens, the muckraking, activist journalist was a friend of Reed's father and found Jack his first job, at the American Magazine.
Price: $300.00