Pankhurst Press (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Signed, May '95 on fep. Mild wear. Signed by Author(s).

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Covers rubbed, else sound Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Not Ex-Library. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Condition: Very Good. Large format paperback in publisher's original plain white card wrap covers (soft back). Landscape 8vo. 6'' x 9''. Contains 40 pp with archive monochrome photographs. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. FEMINISM & FEMINISTS.

A complete run of Pankhurst's radical socialist journal. Named after Émile Zola's novel and aimed at a working-class audience, Germinal was "intended to assist in the artistic expression of current thought, in order to bring art into contact with daily life" (No. 1). It was a "fuller expression" of Pankhurst's "interest in the interrelations between political identities and imaginative representations" than her earlier paper, The Workers' Dreadnought (Shiach, p. 103). Germinal was co-founded by the Italian anarchist Silvio Corio, a printer and typographer who was later Pankhurst's partner. Each issue is introduced by Pankhurst and features fiction by Maxim, drama by Ernst Toller, and poetry by Anna Akhmatova and Alexander Blok. The advertisements include promotions for learning Esperanto (in which Pankhurst was keenly interested), Molinari's Restaurant (a Suffragette hotspot), and the Students' Bookshop Limited (associated with the Workers' Educational Association). The distinctive cover designs are by Ludovic Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952), son of Camille Pissarro. An anarchist like his father, Rodo participated in the first Fauve exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants and produced wood engravings for several other politically motivated journals; some of his first were published in Le Père Peinard, and during his years in England he contributed to The Apple, Satire, and The Workers' Dreadnought. Elizabeth Crawford, Catalogue 180, 2013; Morag Shiach, "Sylvia Pankhurst: Labour and Representation", Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930, 2004. 2 works, quarto. Woodcuts and illustrations by Maurice Becker, Cornelia Barnes, Amy K. Browning, Herbert Cole, Hugo Gellert, Emerich Gondor, M. C. Haythorne, F. S. Manner, Wyndham Payne, Grace Potter, Joseph Southall, Austin O. Spare, Bertram M. Stephens, Adelaide Swift, Marcel Vertes, and A. Wardis. Errata leaf pasted to rear wrapper verso of No. 1. Original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched. Soiling to wrappers, extremities a little creased and chipped, occasional foxing to contents, wire-stitches rusted, faint offsetting to rear wrapper verso of No. 2: in very good condition.…