HICKS, Granville - The Great Tradition: An Interpretation of American Literature Since the CIVIL War

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1933. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. x, 317pp. Very good. Ownership signature on front pastedown. Tight, clean first edition of this classic Depression-era, Marxist-influenced study -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to inner flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Hicks, 1p, 5" X 8", Grafton, NY, 4 June 1940. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93), notable Lincoln/Civil War scholar. Near fine. On brown-bordered imprinted letterhead. In response to Gates having expressed admiration for Hicks just-released novel "The First to Awaken" and also sending him a copy of his 1939 15-page pamphlet "Amberglow of Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge," Hicks replies: "Your letter, coming so promptly after the appearance of the book, gives me great satisfaction. Thank you for writing it and for sending me 'Amberglow,' a charming and effective piece of writing." Boldly signed in black ink. Rather uncommon. This American literary critic, author and novelist (1901-82) gained fame as spokesman for the American proletarian literary movement of the 1930s, which made him one of the best-known Communists of his generation; he co-authored "John Reed: The Making of a Revolutionary" (1936) as well as quite a few nonfiction literary studies and some novels; in 1934 he became editor of the influential "The New Masses. .

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