HARVEST: Collected Poems SIGNED

Dewitt, S. A. (Sam)

Published by Author / Burmond Press, New York, 1937

About this Item

1st edition, 1937. Good. SIGNED by author on title page. 8vo., 217 pp. Bound in publishers red cloth covered boards. 2 holes rubbed through on spine, title faded, sunned, edges soiled. Front hinge cracked but holding, end papers soiled, otherwise clean and unmarked. A SCARCE title by an interesting New Yorker. Samuel Aaron DeWitt (November 1, 1891 - January 22, 1963) was a businessman, poet, playwright, and politician. He was a New York State Legislator who represented Bronx's 7th district from 1919 until his expulsion from the assembly in 1920 during the First Red Scare. DeWitt was a long-time friend of left wing writer Upton Sinclair. In Sinclair's famous muckraking novel The Jungle, published in 1906, one of the main characters, Nicolas Schliemann, is said to be based on Sam DeWitt. Throughout his life, DeWitt was a poet and a playwright, publishing books in both genres.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HARVEST: Collected Poems SIGNED
• Publisher: Author / Burmond Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1937
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry