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Cassel, Gustav; Joseph Stalin; Paul Scheffer; Harold Nicolson; Georg Popoff; Walter Savage Landor; Heinrich Hauser; Edmond Jaloux; Jean Cocteau - The Living Age - No. 4369 - October, 1930

Boston, M.A. The Living Age Company, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. pp. [109-111], 112-219. Royal octavo. measuring 20 x 27 cm. Twice-stapled wrappers. A single issue of the venerable magazine. This issue comprises a variety of articles by Gustav Cassel, Joseph Stalin, Paul Scheffer, Harold Nicolson, Georg Popoff, Walter Savage Landor, Heinrich Hause, Edmond Jaloux, Jean Cocteau (who contributed an article entitled "In Praise of Opium", published in the same year he would publish his personal account of his addiction, and subsequent recovery from the drug in the identically-titled novella: Opium), alongside several other articles and poems, together with some period advertisments. Light wear along the edges, else, bright, unmarked, and tightly-bound. Rare in commerce. ¶ The Living Age was a long-running and intellectually driven periodical (especially so its 1920s - 30's issues) which offered readers a rich cross-section of early 20th-century thought. Notable for its curated selections of travel writing, literary criticism, political commentary, and poetry drawn from major European and American journals, it is particularly valued for its insight into interwar cultural discourse and transatlantic intellectual currents.
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 64 | £UK 55.5 | JP¥ 11035] Book number 7491

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