Fine Books & Manuscripts

[LITERARY MAGAZINE]. 26 Issues of Dial Magazine. New York: The Dial Publishing Company, 1921–29. Tall 8vo. Issues include: Vol. 70, Nos. 2, 4 (1921); Vol. Vol. 71, Nos. 3, 5–6 (1921); Vol. 72, Nos. 2–4 (1922); Vol. 73, Nos. 2 (1922); Vol. 75, Nos. 2, 6 (1923); Vol. 76, Nos. 1–2, 6 (1924); Vol. 77, Nos. 2–3, 5 (1924); Vol. 78, No. 2 (1925); Vol. 80, No. 6 (1926); Vol. 81, No. 6 (1926); Vol. 82, No. 2 (1927); Vol. 84, Nos. 4–5 (1928); Vol. 85, No. 2 (1928); Vol. 86, Nos. 2–3 (1929). Numerous plates from paintings, photos and drawings, woodcuts throughout. Publisher’s printed salmon wrappers (occasional dust soiling to wraps, few volumes with tiny chips to spine panels). Originally founded in 1840 as a transcendentalist magazine edited by Margaret Fuller and later Ralph Waldo Emerson that re–established itself in 1880 as a “socially humanitarian” fortnightly composed of letters, ideology, and propaganda much in the vein of the later Partisan Review (Moore, 363, No. 1). Contributions seen here include: Picasso, Van Gogh, E. E. Cummings, Sherwood Anderson, Georgia O’Keefe, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Matisse, Carl Sandburg, Marc Chagall, and many others. Rarely seen in this condition.