The Masses: The Best Number of the Best Socialist Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 6. June 1911. by Winslow, Horatio [ed]; Wood, Eugene; Young, Art; et al - 1911

Folio. 18pp, illustrated, frontispiece. Stapled wraps printed in red ink on brown paper. Frontispiece is a photographic portraiture of Eugene Debs. The Masses was an important and inflential radical magazine that was published in Greenwich Village from 1911 to 1917 when it was forced to shut down after a lengthy showdown with the government in which they stood trial accused of trying to "unlawfully and willfully…obstruct the recruiting and enlistment of the United States [military]". This issue touted "With an Uncommonsensible Essay by 'Gene Wood and Five Other Splendid Features". Includes contributions by Eugene Wood, Hermann Sundermann, Carlo de Fornaro, George Williams, George Allen England, Hugh O. Penticost, and Horatio Winslow. Illustrators include Art Young, Horace Taylor, Frank van Sloun, Carlo de Fornero, Anton Otto Fischer, and Marjorie Hood. Hinge reinforced with tape, 6" closed tear from the top edge of front panel, repaired with the same tape, chipping and creasing to edges, particularly the top, lengthwise creasing, otherwise contents clean and intact. About Good.