Electrotype plates for Lola Ridge’s The Ghetto and Other Poems, ca. 1918.

The Ghetto and Other Poems.

Lola Ridge.

Electrotype plates for Lola Ridge’s The Ghetto and Other Poems, ca. 1918.

The Ghetto and Other Poems.

New York:

B. W. Huebsch,

1918.

Plates are the gift of Smith College through the good offices of Martin Antonetti.

Written by Lola Ridge, a prominent avant-garde Modernist poet, The Ghetto describes the lives of Jewish immigrants in New York City’s Lower East Side. Her publisher, B. W. Huebsch, also brought out the work of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce. But the dissident-socialist ideals that defined Ridge’s work also contributed to its neglect. The electrotype printing plates for The Ghetto appear to have been made for an early, if not the very first, printing, as they bear repairs that correlate to corrections listed in the erratum sheet tipped into this uncorrected first edition.

From the collection of Rare Book School