3 items:
• Joseph Kling, editor. International Arts, A Monthly Magazine. (New York; Volume I, Number 1, June 1925) Original pictorial wrappers, with front cover drawing by R. Ferryman 42pp.+ 2pp. of ads. Illustrated by John Vassos, et al.
• Jack Conroy, editor. The Rebel Poet / Official Organ of Rebel Poets, the Internationale of Song (New York?; Vol. 1, Nos. 10-12; October-December 1931) Original wrappers.12pp. Illustrated by a full-page Linoleum Black portrait of Lenin.
• Dynamo / A Journal of Revolutionary Poetry. (New York; Volume 2, No. 1, May-June 1935) Original wrappers. 32pp.
“International Arts” was a short-lived left-wing magazine ahead of its time, conceived in editor Joseph Kling’s New York book shop, a center of 1920s “Salon Socialism”, where artist John Sloan communed with fledgling poet Hart Crane. This rare first issue – there were only two – besides poems and short stories, notably included an early drawing by 27 year-old John Vassos, the future famed Art Deco book illustrator and industrial designer. Six years later, after the Stock Market crash, The Rebel Poet was the first of many obscure American “little magazines” that emerged during the Depression in which avant-garde New York intellectuals gave a voice to “radical” , often pro-Communist, “working-class” dissent. Dynamo was one its successors, with more prominent contributors like Kenneth Fearing, Muriel Rukeyser and African-American poet Langston Hughes, who wrote the lead article about a Haitian Black poet and novelist imprisoned for distributing a French magazine of “Negro liberation.”