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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Blue cloth gilt. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a little rubbing and soiling on the front panel. According to the dust jacket copy: "With the skill and the profundity of the Russian novelists, the author portrays a true story of the radical Jews on the East Side. This is the first book dealing with the subject, where the author reveals their lives and loves, as he has seen them, after living among them for nearly two score years. It can not be denied that the majority of the radicals are honest in their convictions; that they sincerely believe in the doctrines they preach. It would be reasonable to expect that in order to justify their claims, when put to the test of practical life, they should live up to their principles. That in their everyday life, they show an example of that future ideal life they predict, when the great Revolution shall have been accomplished. The author presents an unbiased and unprejudiced spectacle; he portrays a true and startling account of the life of the Jewish people, as we have never known it. Let us take an intimate view into the lives of the radicals, and observe them as if their tomorrow were today." Very uncommon novel of young radical Jews on the Lower East Side of New York City, and a surprisingly overlooked novel on the subject. *OCLC* locates 11 copies.