[Rarebooks] FS: Lola Ridge's First Book THE GHETTO, 1918

[Charles Agvent]

RIDGE, Lola. THE GHETTO and Other Poems. New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 
1918. First Edition. Brown boards with gilt lettering on the front cover 
and spine. Her scarce first book. Ridge was an Irish-born New 
Zealand-American anarchist and modernist poet, and an influential editor 
of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She was active in 
radical causes and was among those arrested for protesting against the 
executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. Her actions during the 
demonstration in front of the prison on the day Sacco and Vanzetti were 
executed were described by Katherine Anne Porter in her long essay, “The 
Never Ending Wrong.” Peter Quartermain described her in the DICTIONARY 
OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY as “the nearest prototype in her time of the 
proletarian poet of class conflict, voicing social protest or 
revolutionary idealism.” Pencil name on front endpaper and pencil 
markings by titles of many poems; inch chip at base of spine with some 
loss. Very Good, lacking the scarce dustwrapper if there ever was one. 
(#021277)        $500

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