[RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] CHEYNEY, Ralph, ed.

Banners of Brotherhood: An Anthology of Social Vision Verse

North Montpelier, VT: Driftwood Press / Walter John Coates, 1933. First Edition. Small, slim 12mo (16cm.); publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers, yapp edges; [2],38pp.; printed on stiff tan handmade stock. Light edge wear, faint dampstaining along spine edge of upper and rear cover (not bleeding into textblock); Very Good overall, internally fine and unopened. "Driftwood Chapbook No. 2."

Anthology edited by the founder of the "Rebel Poets," the present title including poems by Witter Bynner, Stanton A. Coblentz, Carl Sandburg, and many others. From the introduction by the series editors: "They [the editors] share with Ralph Cheyney a preference for the spirit of Gandhi rather than the spirit of Lenin, though admiring both men. They favor non-violent noncooperation, over mass violence, as a method of social change" (p. 4).

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