Lettres de la Prison. WITH an ALS from Dwight Macdonald to Harold Rosenberg.
Rosa Luxembourg, From Harold Rosenberg’s Library;
With An Autograph Letter From Dwight Macdonald to Rosenberg
Luxembourg, Rosa. Lettres de la Prison. Paris: Librarie Du Travail, 1933.
8vo.; grey sewn wrappers.
First French edition. From the library of art critic Harold Rosenberg, with a short autograph letter to Rosenberg from friend and fellow radical Dwight MacDonald loosely inserted, in which MacDonald mentions this work and refers Rosenberg to a Belgian book dealer for further purchases. MacDonald, like Rosenberg, worked at the New Yorker and, again like Rosenberg, was an intimate of both Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt. As this letter and book reveal, they also shared a common interest in book collecting.
Luxembourg (1870-1919) was a German socialist who founded the Spartacist party with Karl Liebknecht to oppose German war policies in WWI. She was a leading international figure as both a feminist and a socialist before she and Liebknecht were murdered after organizing a proletarian uprising inspired by the Bolsheviks.
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