TWICE A YEAR. A SEMI-ANNUAL JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, THE ARTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES by Norman, Dorothy, et al [eds] - 1948

New York, 1948. Whole numbers one through fifteen (in nine issues), lacking the final, 10th anniversary number. Variously printed wrappers, printed wrappers over boards, and cloth, in printed dust jackets (as below). Nine volumes, including double numbers. Edited by Dorothy Norman. One of the most important journals of its times, founded and maintained in part under the influence of Alfred Stieglitz, 291 and American Place. Literary contributors include Rilke, Bourne, Olson (his first appearance in print), Cummings, Malraux, Dreiser, Nin, Kafka, Williams, Proust, Laughlin, Mann, Toller, Rukeyser, Patchen, Saroyan, Beecher, Miller, Anderson, Frank, Crane, Stein, Wright, Ignatow, Murray, et al. Included are superior reproductions of photographs and other artworks by Stieglitz, B. Weston, Marin, Porter, Wright Morris, Norman, O'Keeffe, Adams, Grosz, et al. An original silver gelatin print of a photograph by Todd Webb is mounted and bound into double number X/XI. Equal attention is paid to progressive, humanistic concerns for justice under the law at home and abroad, and the ongoing worldwide tragedy of the war, race discrimination, transgressions against civil liberties and the like. In this set, Issue I is in stiff wrappers, about fine; II - IX and XII-XIII are in cloth, with dust jackets (small chips to a few dust jackets; a small tea spot to the front panel for that for V/VI; that for XII/XIII with chipping to spine ends), and X/XI and XIV/XV are fine in printed wrappers over boards. HOFFMAN, et al, p. 344.