WE, THE PEOPLE

by Elmer Rice

$750 · Offered by Johnnycake Books

First edition · Signed

NY: Coward McCann, 1933. Hardcover. Rare first edition of socialist, Pulitzer Prize wiinning playwright Elmer Rice, signed, with obvious sarcasm, on the ffe: Heil Hitler! E. R. Apr 1933 Rice wrote We, The People as a warning shot to Americans about the rise of Hitler and fascism. Rice was one of the founders in 1938 of the Playwrights' Company, along with Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, Kurt Weil and lawyer John F. Wharton. The Adding Machine has been

• Binding: Hardcover

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