[RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] PICCOLI, G[irolamo] (cover); HUGHES, Langston (contributor)

The Workers Monthly - Vol.IV, No.5 (March, 1925)

Chicago: The Daily Worker Society, Publishers, 1925. First Edition. Slim quarto (26.75cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[193]-240; illus. Mailing label and rubber stamps of the Union Theological Seminary Library to front and rear wrappers; faint vertical bend at center, light wear to extremities, with a few small tears and attendant creases to wrappers; contents clean, complete; Very Good.

A well-preserved issue of this magazine "combining and replacing Labor Herald, Liberator, and Soviet Russia Pictorial, this monthly became the forerunner of the Communist, official organ of the Workers (Communist) Party of America" (Goldwater 306). Contents include contributions by William Z. Foster, Thurber Lewis, Alexander Bittelman, P. Yuditch, William F. Dunne, Harrison George, Earl Browder, Tim Buck, Maurice Becker, and others. Notably, the issue contains two poems by Langston Hughes – "Drama for Winter Night (Fifth Avenue)" and "God To Hungry Child." Cover by Italian-American artist Girolamo Piccoli.

Price: $250.00

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