SIgned and inscribed copy of Union Square, Albert Halper’s first novel Union Square, a Manhattan-set novel concerning labor and social change. "A Yankee workman, a Southern girl communist, a barber, a clerk, a frustrated radical, a young girl in a rooming house".

This copy is not only signed and inscribed (to Stuart Oderman, writer and famed composer of the silent screen), but also includes a type-written letter from Halper (on his own letterhead) tipped in. In the letter he critiques a story Oderman was working on, and recommends he reads Jean Rhys to better understand how to write women on the verge of nervous breakdowns. A fascinating piece of ephemera.

Literary Guild, 1933. Early reissue, published same year as the Viking Press first.

Hardcover, Good. Bumping, edge wear, clean inside. jacket VG. Some very mild chipping and edgewear. Bright.