Beast in View by Rukeyser, Muriel - 1944

New York: Doubleday and Company, 1946. Second Edition. Very Good/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in black cloth over boards, white line-drawing to front cover. Printed, illustrated dust wrapper, moderately worn and with chipping along top edge, price-clipped, and with Brodart protector. The poet, according to another publisher "is a Left Winger" politically and a revolutionary. Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913 – February 12, 1980), according to her Wikipedia entry, "was an American poet, essayist, biographer, and political activist. She wrote poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her 'exact generation.'" Her collection, The Book of the Dead (1938) was an homage to all of the miners who lost their lives to silicosis in an industrial disaster. 98 pp. including… Read More

Doubleday, Doran, 1944. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944, First Edition, 8vo., 98 pages. Hardcover edition, small cut to top of front board. Jacket has numerous chips and edgewear, else book good and jacket in fair condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.