LINN, Bettina

Flea Circus

New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1936. 12mo. Terra cotta cloth, stamped in brown & gilt. 318 p. 1st edition. Fine in d.w. with some minor chipping at edges, a bit of spotting & a tear at base of spine. [93669]

Novel of "American city life" involving three groups of people who are "connected by several items of front-page news on one day, and to a certain extent the courses of their lives cross one another ... The third group is made up of workers: on the one hand, Brand and Pauline and their Communist associates; on the other, Al, who heads the Unemployed League, wastes no time on theories about the working class, and manages to be of practical use to his people." The second group includes Arch Gillespie, whose "attractive young wife works for a relief organization" and his brother Gray, whose mistress is the "owner of the mills whose workers strike." We are assured that this epic of the class struggle "grinds no axe"

Price: $75.00