Partisan Review A Bi-Monthly of Revolutionary Literature Published by the John Reed Club of New York Volume 1 Number 1
New York: John Reed Club of New York, 1934. First edition. Paperback. Scarce first issue of this periodical of revolutionary thought and literature. Edited by Dahlberg, Edwin Rolfe and others. Includes stories by James T. Farrell, Ben Field, Grace Lumpkin and Arthur Pense plus poems by Joseph Freeman, Alfred Hayes and Edwin Rolfe with reviews by Obed Brooks, Granville Hicks, Wallace Phelps, Philip Rahv and Waldo Tell. Soiling to covers. A good to very good example in stapled printed wrappers. A magazine first launched by the Communist Party in America which would later change its focus in a more mainstream direction with different editorial staffing, but the first few years of this periodical were marked by a serious socialist-leaning bent. Scarce. Very Good. Item #23242
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