Art Young's Inferno

Rare signed frst edtion/first printing of the limited edition of this work. It is numbered 447 of 1,000. This copy was originally housed in the Library of Congress library. The withdrawal stamp in on first, red colored, flyleaf page. Young's signaure is at the top of the second flyleaf page. Except for the covers the book is in excellent condition. Binding is tight; pages are clear, clean and without tears, marks, folds or toning/foxing. All the cartoons/illustrations are in similarly excellent condtion. Re. the covers: Both front and back have serious wear and were separated from the spine and the spine itself was missing its covering. The covers have been fastened to the spine and the spine covered with black tape. The last (red) flyleaf page is loose.

Book will be priority mailed for domestic sales.

From Wikipedia (abridged): "Arthur Henry Young (January 14, 1866 – December 29, 1943) was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known for his socialist cartoons, especially those drawn for the left-wing political magazine The Masses between 1911 and 1917....Young started out as a generally apolitical Republican, but gradually became interested in left wing ideas, and by 1906 or so considered himself a socialist. He began to associate with such political leftists as John Sloan and Piet Vlag, with both of whom he would work at the radical socialist monthly The Masses. He became firmly ensconced in the radical environment of Greenwich Village after moving there in 1910. He became politically active, and by 1910, racial and sexual discrimination and the supposed injustices of the capitalist system became prevalent themes in his work. He explained these sentiments in his autobiography, Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)...."