(RADICALISM) Group of Liberator magazines

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(RADICALISM.) Group of Liberator magazines. 15 issues, each 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, in original wrappers; generally moderate wear and dampstaining. New York, 1918-1922

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After Max Eastman's Socialist monthly "The Masses" was shut down in 1918, he launched "Liberator" in its stead, featuring work by many of the leading leftist writers and artists of its time. It was printed on notoriously poor paper stock; few copies survive, and those which do generally show the weight of their years. This run is no exception. The paper became an official Communist Party USA organ after the period of this run, and merged into "The Workers Monthly" in 1924.

Includes issues dated November 1918 (about 1/4 inch of vermin damage to lower margin, featuring "On Intervention in Russia" by John Reed); January 1919 (Lenin portrait on cover, and featuring his "A Letter to the American Workingman"); February 1919 (a bit of vermin damage near end, Lincoln portrait by Boardman Robinson); March 1919 (lacking rear cover, front cover detached and worn); April 1919 (more dampstaining); June 1919 (more dampstaining, features "Follow Us!" by Maxim Gorky); August 1919; October 1919; December 1919; April 1920; September 1920 (more dampstaining, cover by Hugo Gellert); October 1920 (featuring "Farmer Strikers in Spain" by John Dos Passos); March 1921 (featuring "The Easter Flowers" by Claude McKay); August 1921 (worn and dog-eared, cover by Gellert, 8 poems by Claude McKay); and January 1922 (cover by William Gropper, poem "At the Gates of Tombs" by Carl Sandburg, lacking part of rear cover).