From Broadway to Moscow

New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good+ in Fair dj. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [modest shelfwear, slight darkening to spine cloth, humorous fictional inscription (non-authorial) on front pastedown, another name written in pencil on front endpaper; the jacket's a bit of a mess, though, missing a big chunk (about 1-1/4" deep) from the top of the spine, a vertical crack in the spine panel (with old internal tape-repairs), numerous other edge-tears, shallow chipping, etc.; it's also a bit "stretched," and fits somewhat loosely on the book]. Uncommon memoir by a New York newspaperwoman who accompanied her husband, American communist and cartoonist Ryan Walker, on a visit to the Soviet Union in 1931. He was an official delegate to the November 7th celebration, but she was just a tourist, and her book tells "a simple story of the author's reactions [to the country], and of her gradual understanding of the Russian people," which is also enriched by "sidelights on the inner circle from her husband's experiences." .