Rambling Kid
London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1930.
First edition, first printing. 313pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered spine. Very Good+ with sunned spine, light soiling to cloth and minor wear to extremities. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Light foxing to front and rear endpapers, contents bright. Lacking jacket. A scarce autobiographical novel of life on the road, not printed in the US until the 21st century. The author was an English labor activist, writer, and translator who became prominent in the American anarchist organization the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World) and later the Communist Party of Great Britain. Also he was romantically linked with the Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay on and off throughout the 1910s and '20s.
Price: $1,500