The Miraculous Horde and Other Stories
- Hardcover
- London: Jonathan Cape, 1939
London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 315pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Tan cloth over boards, with title in red on the backstrip and front board. Darkening to the spine and subtle fading at the board edges. Spine mildly sloped. No dust jacket. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. Stories from the Spanish Civil War, set in Spain and Mexico. Some of the stories deal with early-1930s trade unions struggles. British writer and political activist Ralph Bates (1899-2000), enlisted with the Government Forces on the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, helping to organize the International Brigades. "The Haunted Man," in this collection, is listed in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
An American journalist, D. M. Miller commented that: "Bates knows the middle class of Spain. He has helped to organize its workers. He has been in close contact with its peasants. And when the war broke out, he fought side by side with his Spanish comrades in the common struggle against fascism
An American journalist, D. M. Miller commented that: "Bates knows the middle class of Spain. He has helped to organize its workers. He has been in close contact with its peasants. And when the war broke out, he fought side by side with his Spanish comrades in the common struggle against fascism