?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Smedley, Agnes (1892-1950) Three Signed & Inscribed Copies of her own Books. Including:
1) Daughter of the Earth, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1929], octavo, in worn red publisher's cloth, no dust jacket.
2) Chinese Destinies, New York: Vanguard Press, 1933, octavo, illustrated throughout, bound in publisher's worn yellow cloth, lacking the dust jacket.
3) Battle Hymn of China, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943, stated first edition, octavo, in publisher's brown cloth and worn jacket; each volume signed and inscribed to Thorborg Bundin Ellison on front free endleaf; the first two dated June and July 1934, the third dated September, 1943.
Thorborg was a member of the Communist Party whom Smedley encountered at a young age. Smedley married Thorborg's brother Ernest, and although the marriage to the brother was short, the friendship with the sister lasted a lifetime. Smedley was a journalist and political activist who traveled to China to cover the Chinese Communist Revolution. Her journalistic tenure in China is the longest of any reporter (of any gender) working in that country during wartime. See also an archive of Smedley's correspondence, lot 198 in this sale.
