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First Edition. Quarto (32cm). Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; 40pp; illus. Partial split to paper at bound edge (but sound); moderate soiling to covers, mostly visible on rear wrapper; internally complete, VG overall. Rather uncommon one-off publication; an expensively-produced commemorative miscellany that would appear to celebrate the revolutionary history of May Day - except that only the opening editorial (unsigned, but likely by Olive Johnson) includes any tangible May Day content. Given the quality of the paper and production, this was probably intended as a recruiting document for the Socialist Labor Party. As with many SLP publications of the period, the handsome exterior belies the dreariness of the writing - the text proffers SLP founder Daniel De Leon as a revolutionary leader on the same plane as Karl Marx, and the SLP as the only American political party with "a definite and clear-cut revolutionary program." Includes contributions by Olive Johnson ("Pre-Revolutionary Building of a New Social Order"); Arnold Petersen ("Revolution"); an anonymous article, signed "M.M.S.", on the 1934 massacre of socialist workers in Vienna; poetry by Varley H. Lang, Joseph Carleton Borden, Jr., and others. The cover design is credited to Walter Steinhilber. One copy only noted in OCLC (NYPL).