May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DEBS, EUGENE V. Autograph Quotation Signed, 6 lines of free verse, famously repeated by him in his Statement to the Court when convicted of violating the Sedition Act in 1918. Written on a sheet excised from an autograph album with a few signatures by others written on verso. 1 page, 12mo; faint dampstaining affecting signature and small portion of text. New York, 23 April 1926

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"While there is a lower class / I am in it; / While there is a criminal element / I am of it; / While there is a soul in prison / I am not free."