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New York: Coward McCann, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition First Printing. Top edge of orange boards are sunned. Book is clean and complete with no other marks. Jacket is chipped on the top of the spine. Spine is sunned..

New York: Coward, McCann, 1933. First edition. 253 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange cloth. Fine in fine orange and black dj. First edition. 253 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; x,253pp.; photographic frontispiece. Gentle sunning to upper board edges, touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock and lower board edges; clean internally, but for a tiny stain to rear endpaper; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, and a little dusty, but without loss or tears; Very Good+. Perhaps the most staunchly proletarian and anti-capitalist of Rice's many plays. Though it was produced at the height of Rice's career, We, The People received lukewarm reviews, its agit-prop style holding little appeal for mainstream playgoers and the price of admission being too dear for the unemployed workers who would have been its natural audience. The play opened at the Empire Theatre on Broadway in January, 1933 and closed after only 49 performances.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1933. First Edition. Minor offsetting stain on the front endpapers; fine in dust jacket. Social protest in the Depression.

New York: Coward-McCann, [1933]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; x,253pp.; photographic frontispiece. Light edge wear to jacket extremities, including tiny close tear at top edge of upper panel, spine just a hint faded, tiny dampspot to upper panel, top textblock edge foxed, else Very Good to Near Fine. Perhaps the most staunchly proletarian and anti-capitalist of Rice's many plays. Though it was produced at the height of Rice's career, We, The People received lukewarm reviews, its agit-prop style holding little appeal for mainstream playgoers and the price of admission being too dear for the unemployed workers who would have been its natural audience. The play opened at the Empire Theatre on Broadway in January, 1933 and closed after only 49 performances.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1933. First Edition, First Printing. An angry, Depression-era play that chronicles the impoverishment of a factory worker's family and shines a spotlight on the corruption of the American financial and political systems. Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times theatre critic, called the play "a bristling indictment of the American political system." (The New York Times, January 23, 1933, page 9). "We, the People" premiered at the Empire Theatre in New York on January 21, 1933. Rice himself directed the play, which consisted of 20 scenes and featured more than 40 actors. While some critics dismissed the play as left-wing agitprop, "We, the People" was an important contribution to realism in the American theatre, showing how working-class and middle-class people were brutalized and degraded in the Depression years. Rice wrote a number of dramas with left-wing themes and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for Street Scene, about New York tenement life.
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New York: Coward-McCann , (1933). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 253p octavo, A very good copy in a good dust jacket , lightly chipped on the spine heads. Inscribed by Rice to author, playwrite George Fred Hummel and his wife in 1933. Fred Hummel was known as the 'King of Long Island' who wrote plays, novels and local history. This novel was Rice's Proletarian novel.