Waldo Frank

Bittner, William: The Novels of Waldo Frank, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA University of Pennsylvania Press 1958 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover
Very Good

Black cloth on boards. Volume has mark on ffep, probably label that has dropped off. Edges and corners are slightly shelfworn. Jacket is worn all edges has a tear on the back panel towards the top. Some creases to bottom of front panel. Jacket is clipped all four corners, but not price. In clear cover which minimizes these defects. " The career of Waldo Frank as a man of letters has provided grist for many a literary critic's mill for four decades. Mr. Bittner has concluded that the key to Frank, his writings and his development, is his fiction. He therefore decided that this study would concern itself only with Frank's novels and the circumstances surrounding their creation. It would include, too, his biography and the placing of his cultural studies in appropriate perspective Good Hard Cover

[SW: Literary Criticism, Literature, Biography, Waldo Frank, Writers]

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Trotsky, Leon. Two typed letters signed, to Max Shachtman, 15 and 29 March 1937, with two signed photos.

The first a note signed "L.T." "I am sending you a copy of my letter to LaFollette....the seriousness and energy of our comrades in this matter in the next days is for me the condition sine qua non for our further collaboration." The second letter, addressed to [James P.] Cannon and Shachtman, 2 pages, single-spaced: "...I am very disturbed about the fate of the inquiry commission...The sending of a commission to Mexico was the first serious test. What happened? The liberal and social-democrat friends showed themselves to be cowards and preferred to remain aside. Only one man from the liberay circles revealed himself as a real man: old Dewey...The committee seeks absolutely impartial people...It is a thousand times more probable that a Waldo Frank is not only partial to Stalin, but also that he is directly connected with the GPU ... This is more probable than that Stolberg, LaFollette and the others are partial to an alliance of the Trotskyites with reaction. All the people who are intelligent, thinking, active, have sympathies for one side of the other. Absolutely 'impartial' people can only be idiots, but they are not of the slightest interest for the committee....Only active, passionate, firm people can resist the inevitable hindrances and guide the inquiry to its end....The question is not of non-existent 'absolute impartiality' but of personal honesty, of devotion to socialism, to the revolution. The Stalinists will in any case say that the commission is partial. Their agents (a la Waldo Frank) will possibly repeat this. For them the most impartial institution is the GPU or its dependents. If in the composition of the commission we adapt ourselves to the spectre of Waldo Frank, who is only the shadow of Browder, who is only the shadow of Vyshinsky, we will inevitably betray ourselves....the fact that Pioneer Publishers has sold only 10,000 copies of my Hippodrome speech [On 16 February Trotsky had spoken on the Moscow trials, by telephone from Mexico, to a large meeting at the New York Hippodrome] appears to me to be a complete catastrophe...If 99% our our forces were devoted to mass work and not to flirtation with the liberals, it would have been possible...to sell 50,000 copies....We have the truth on our side. On the other side are the greatest criminals in history, and their agents and semi-agents .... By our whole attitude we must show [Waldo Frank] that his criterion of impartiality, dictated by the GPU, is not ours.... We must have as many firm, solid workers in the commission as possible, and as few doubtful liberals, who will desert on the first occasion, as possible. That is my firm conviction...." With a 3-3/4 in x 5-3/4 in photo of Trotsky, inscribed on the verso "To my 'General Editor' M. Schachtmann (sic) / L. Trotsky, 12/vi 1938, Weksal", and another inscribed on the image.

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(Waldo Frank) Bittner, William [Robert] [Dust Wrapper photo of Waldo Frank by Willem Holst]: THE NOVELS OF WALDO FRANK, Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [1958] 1958 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed.
Very Good

Presumed first edition [no statement of printing]. 222 pages, frontispiece, index. VG+ copy in edgeworn Dust Wrapper with short tears and minor chipping to spine heel front corner, and dust-soiling to the rear panel. First Edition Good Hard Cover; First Edition

[SW: WALDO FRANK NOVELS LITERARY CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION]

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Bittner, William [Robert] [Dust Wrapper photo of Waldo Frank by Willem Hols. The Novels of Waldo Frank. Philadelphia, Penna: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1958.
VG/Acceptable 1st Ed. Glossy A Stieglitz photo of Frank on frontispiece. Tite full cloth black boards silver titles on spine, tips showing; edgeworn DJ with short tears and 2 inch triangle chip to spine head r corner, and dust-soiling to the rear panel. Usually mail within 12 hours. ; 0 pages.

First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good in Fair dust jacket.

[SW: American Fiction Literary Criticism Literary Biography 20th Twentieth Waldo Frank Lite,]

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