(RADICALISM) Bound run of the antifascist magazine The Lante

Sale 2517 - Lot 192

Price Realized: $ 750

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(RADICALISM.) Bound run of the antifascist magazine The Lantern. 13 issues in one volume. 4to, contemporary buckram, sunned, with stiff illustrated wrappers for Volume II issues bound in; faint musty scent, minimal wear to contents; 1963 gift inscription on front free endpaper. Boston, October 1927 to August 1929

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Includes all 10 issues from Volume I (captioned "Focusing upon Fascism and other Dark Disorders of the Present Day") and issues 1-3 of Volume II (captioned "A Monthly Counter Current Publication"), apparently a complete run of all published issues. Frequent topics include the horrors of Mussolini's Italy, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, Charles Lindbergh, race relations, and "Il Duce Hoover." Includes work by prominent left-leaning authors such as John Dos Passos ("A City that Died by Heartfailure," February 1928) and Clarence Darrow ("The New York Fascist Frame-Up," February 1928). Rockwell Kent provided the illustration used on the front wrapper of Volume II, issues 1 and 2. None others traced at auction.