Battle Song for Slaves and Other Lyrics and Satires
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1941. Very Good / Very Good. Item #001035
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1941. First Edition. Octavo; 128 pp. One full-color watercolor illustration by Roland Schweinsburg opposite p. 44. Illustrated dust jacket with original $1.25 price intact; book in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few shallow chips and tears along edges and some smudging to back. Boards are square with some nudging to spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
Miller wrote daily poems for the Youngstown [Ohio] Telegram and was, in his own words, the "titular leader of the Democratic party in the 19th Congressional District of Ohio," though a long contested election case before the House of Representatives decided that it did "not appear that [Locke] was a candidate." The author's preface contains a good bit of self-aggrandizement ("My complete poetic output is...the largest output of poetic creation of any English-speaking poet since Shakespeare"), and is raising his "battle songs" against the militarism and propaganda, which he casts as the "slave-lash of our day."
Price: $35.00