"The Company" 1930 SEAVER, Edwin (SOLD)
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SEAVER, Edwin
Edwin Seaver (1900-1987) was a 20th-century American publisher, writer, editor, and critic, best known for his work with left-wing magazines (including the Call, Leader, New Masses) and newspapers (Daily Worker), as well as book publishing houses including Book-of-the-Month Club, Little, Brown and Company, and George Braziller.
[209] pp.
The Macmillan Company
1930
Jacket design by "N.G.R."
7 3/4" x 5 1/2"
Novel set in "the world of the great American office, the world of boss and of clerk." It's a one-character-at-a-time portrait of a large business, "a series of brilliant characterization, by means of deft portrayer, interior monologue, witty comment, and a bantering affection that suddenly provokes our laughter and as suddenly turns our laughter to sorrow."
(The dust jacket illustration -- indeed, perhaps the whole book itself -- suggests that King Vidor's great 1929 film THE CROWD may have been a source of inspiration.).