RIDGE, Lola — THE GHETTO and Other Poems

New York. B. W. Huebsch, Inc.. 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