May days; an anthology of verse from Masses-Liberator. With woodcuts by J.J. Lankes by Taggard, Genevieve, ed - 1925

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. xi, 306p., illus., rubricated title page, first edition cinnamon paper over boards with device gilt, gloss black cloth spine, bottom edges shelfworn with some cardstock showing, one corner bumped, top and tail a little crimped, an otherwise sound, fresh-looking copy, in dj that is heavily chipped along the edges and separated along the folds, old archival tape on verso, now further tacked with new document tape and enclosed in archival-grade brodart to size. Poetry by: Max Eastman, John Reed, E.E. Cummings, Claude McKay, C.E.S. Wood, Louis Ginsberg (Allen Ginsberg's father), Arturo Giovannitti, Louise Bogan, Charles Ashleigh, Elsa Gidlow, Floyd Dell, Ralph Chaplin, Michael Gold, and others. "This anthology is the most representative collection of poetry from the flowering of the cultural left before World War I." *Buhle 268.