Heavenly Discourse 1927 Charles Erskine Scott Wood ~ 2nd printing

Title: Heavenly Discourse

Author: Charles Erskine Scott Wood / With Drawing by Art Young / Frontispiece by Hugo Gellert

Description: Second printing, August 1927. Boards in gold-colored cloth. Soiling on rear cover. Previous owner's name penciled on front free endpaper; minor soiling on a few pages, else interior clean. 325, [2] pages.

A collection of politically and socially radical, satirical conversations between a variety of characters, including God, Mark Twain, Socrates, Rabelais, Tom Paine, Robert Ingersoll, Billy Sunday, Voltaire, and Theodore Roosevelt. Includes a foreword by Floyd Dell, the editor of the Max Eastman's magazine ''The Masses,'' which co-published Heavenly Discourse with the Vanguard Press.

The original owner, Winifred Winkler, graduated from the University of Oregon in 1932, and in 1934, married the notable Oregon architect Earl P. Newberry.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Vanguard Press
Place: New York
Year: 1927

Keywords: satire, freethought,