All Brides Are Beautiful
London: Jarrolds Publishers, (1936). Small 8vo. Cloth. 336 p. 1st British ed. Hanna 297. Blake p. 271. Rideout p. 297. INSCRIBED & SIGNED. A couple of small ink blots on endpaper, some wear at top of spine; else about fine in d.w. with a chip at top edge of front panel, chipping at top, middle & base of spine & separated front flap. [70874]
"Most representative of traditional realism" in radical novels "perhaps, is such a book as Thomas Bell's quiet and surprisingly pleasant 'All Bridge Are Beautiful,' the record of the first two-and-a-half years of married life for a young working-class couple in Depression New York. Here the strikes and militant demonstrations impinge only on the periphery of the story, which is concerned rather with the harassments of a tight budget, Peter Cumming's unemployment - his wife, Susan, keeps them going with her small salary as a book-store clerk - and his reëmployment at the end of the book in a machine shop where he can help organize a militant labor union" - Walter B. Rideout, "The Radical Novel in the United States"
Price: $350.00