Bars and Shadows. Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin

by Ralph Chaplin

$275 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Signed

New York: The Leonard Press, 1922. 12mo, 48 pp. Photographic portrait frontis. Printed paper-wrapped boards. Light wear and spotting to boards; very good. Inscribed by Bruce Rogers on recto of frontispiece. § A collection of poetry written by labor organizer and Wobbly Ralph Chaplin while serving four years of a 20-year sentence for conspiring to hinder the draft and encourage desertion during the First World War. This copy has been inscribed to a friend by the

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