{"product_id":"to-2026-010","title":"Before the Brave","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePATCHEN, Kenneth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBefore the Brave.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION — WITH THE PUBLISHER'S PREPUBLICATION REVIEW SLIP.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Random House, 1936.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. Original cream cloth printed in red over boards; in the original cream dust jacket printed in red, $2.00 price on the front flap, unclipped. Copyright 1936 by The Modern Library, Inc. (Random House's corporate imprint); manufactured at the Walpole Printing Office, Mount Vernon, New York. Dedication: \"For Miriam.\" Laid in is the publisher's prepublication review slip, headed \"Review Copy from Random House · 20 East 57 Street · N.Y.,\" giving the title, author, date of publication (January 27, 1936), and price ($2.00), and describing Patchen as a \"proletarian poet\" in the company of Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden, and C. Day Lewis. Book very good, square and tight, the text block clean and the internal hinges sound; dust jacket complete and unclipped, the $2.00 price intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePatchen's first book — the debut of the Niles, Ohio steelworker's son who would become, alongside Kenneth Rexroth, a foundational figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and a major influence on the Beat Generation. \u003cem\u003eBefore the Brave\u003c\/em\u003e is a politically charged Depression-era debut: angry, declamatory poems of social protest that call for collective awakening and rail against capitalism, war, and injustice, written in the urgent left-wing idiom of the 1930s. The presence of the review slip makes this a documented prepublication state, uncommon for the first book of a significant American poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-010\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patchen, Kenneth","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950891169,"sku":"TO-2026-010","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-010_01.jpg?v=1785778857","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-010","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}