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[1st ed] May Days: An Anthology of Masses Liberator Verse 1912-1924
First edition anthology of prose and verse culled from the pages of the American socialist magazines The Masses (1911-1917) and its successor The Liberator (1918-1924). Selected and edited by poet Genevieve Taggard and with woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. With contributions by John Reed, Max Eastman, Robert Wolf, E.E. Cummings, Muna Lee, Lydia Gibson, Claude McKay, Stirling Bowen, Louis Ginsberg, Carl Sandberg, Louis Untermeyer, Hazel Hall, Ruth Pickering, Clement Wood, Mark Van DOren, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, and Edmund Wilson, among others. 8vo (6” x 8.5”), hardcover with printed dust jacket, 306 pages, b/w woodcut illustrations. Scarce with the dust jacket. Some rubbing and chipping to extremities. Light foxing to fore edge and endpapers. Light rubbing, soiling and chipping to price-clipped dj, with mild foxing to rear cover, and small open tears to spine ends.
First edition anthology of prose and verse culled from the pages of the American socialist magazines The Masses (1911-1917) and its successor The Liberator (1918-1924). Selected and edited by poet Genevieve Taggard and with woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. With contributions by John Reed, Max Eastman, Robert Wolf, E.E. Cummings, Muna Lee, Lydia Gibson, Claude McKay, Stirling Bowen, Louis Ginsberg, Carl Sandberg, Louis Untermeyer, Hazel Hall, Ruth Pickering, Clement Wood, Mark Van DOren, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, and Edmund Wilson, among others. 8vo (6” x 8.5”), hardcover with printed dust jacket, 306 pages, b/w woodcut illustrations. Scarce with the dust jacket. Some rubbing and chipping to extremities. Light foxing to fore edge and endpapers. Light rubbing, soiling and chipping to price-clipped dj, with mild foxing to rear cover, and small open tears to spine ends.