The Masses: Women's Number. Vol. 1, No. 12. December 1911. de Winslow, Horatio [ed]; Wood, Eugene; Vlag, Piet; et al - 1911

Folio. 18pp, illustrated, frontispiece. Stapled wraps printed in orange ink on brown paper, featuring a portrait of an unnamed woman by Charles A. Winter on the front. This issue, as the title implies, focuses on the exploitation of women in the labor market. 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]". Includes contributions by Piet Vlag, Eugene Wood, Josephine Conger Kaneko, Lena Morrow Lewis, Carl Holiday, Wilby Heard, Matthew Ruskin Emmons, May Wood Simons, Benjamin Keech, Hank Jellis, Lida Parce, B. Keech, Emanuel Julius, Grace Potter, Eleanor Wentworth, Ethel Knapp Behrman, Inez Haynes Gillmore, Ida Crouch-Hazlitt, and Laeton Smith. Other illustrators include Anton Otto Fischer (frontispiece), H. J. Turner and Alex Popini. Hinge is reinforced with tapped the rear panel has several length tears repaired with the same. Internal contents clean and solid, with only minimal creasing and chipping to the foreedge. About Good.