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FARSON (Negley)
Seeing Red: Today in Russia.
1st Ed., x+275pp., col. reproductions of 24 Soviet political posters. Eyre & Spottiswoode.
1930
#64265
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James Scott Negley Farson was a widely travelled & enigmatic American, who worked as a factoryhand, salesman, newspaper journalist, airman (in WW1, with the RAF). He witnessed the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution in Petrograd in 1917. He seems to have returned to Russia when he was foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News (1924-1935). Having lived in Russia both under the Tsar & under Stalin, he came to conclude that much was wrong with the country in the latter period. The resulting book is critical of the system, its propaganda, workers' conditions, &c. It is also the rarest of Farson's works & is remarkable for the 24 striking colour reproductions of Russian propaganda posters of the period. Orig. red cloth, titles in black, VG. See illustrations on our website.
£125
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