HARPER'S New Monthly MAGAZINE; Volume CXL (140), Number DCCCXXXV, (835) December 1919; The Broomstick Trail (Comstock); La Sorda of Seville (Irwin); Eighty Years and After (Howells); The Escape (Glaspell); Small Frog (Rhodes); A Monk for a Night (Greenbie); Gospel According to Joan (Freeman); etc by Thomas B. Wells, editor; Sarah Comstock, Will Irwin, William Dean Howells, Susan Glaspell, Joseph G. Cannon, Harrison Rhodes, Sydney Greenbie, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Georgia Wood Pangborn, Forrst Crisssey; et al - 1919

New York, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good. Single issue. Small quarto, 10 1/4" tall, pages 1 to 144 + ads, illustrated wraps. A good issue over all with exterior wear and minor soiling, significant chipping to the back strip, internal binding solid, paper clean and just slightly yellowed BUT there is damstaining from the bottom fore-edge which is visible internally only at the margin. Text clean. This is an original issue and includes all of the editorial material (articles, stories, poetry, etc.) as well as the advertisements and covers. Note: ''Harper's Magazine' began publication in 1850 and recreated the American magazine, serving as a promotional vehicle for Harper and Brothers books as well as the new 'literary' fiction and essay of the time, using sophisticated illustration and the best authors. Subject matters range from art, fiction, and poetry to history and science. As such it makes a terrific read as an anthology of its moment in time.