Author: Frank, Waldo
Title: Dawn in Russia. The Record of a Journey [Signed by Author]
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First edition; 5 1/2 x 7 1/2; pp. [10], 3-272; signed by author on first free page; original orange boards with blue lettering; pictorial DJ; sun-fading and some discoloration to spine; faint foxing to first and last free page, else clean; jacket in protective Mylar cover with chips and nicks along edges and verso of lower margin stained (still the presence of the jacket is quite uncommon); overall in good to very good condition. Waldo Frank was a social activist and a prolific writer in the early 1900s. A self-proclaimed "naturalistic mystic" he vehemently declared his beliefs that the only solution to world problems was the achieving of one's complete unity with the whole universe. He has often been compared to D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce. His literary fame in the US was sporadic and began declining in the early 1930s, though it continued growing exponentially in South America. With his increasing devotion to literary "left" politics Frank traveled to Russia and later described his experiences in his current book. Ill.: 0. 3.

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