PUNIKKI v. 24, 1934 Full Year Rare Finnish-American Socialist Magazine

  
1 (Jan 1, 1934) to Vol. Author: [FINNISH-AMERICAN IMPRINTS] FINNISH FEDERATION; K. 15, 1934 Publication: Brooklyn: Punikki, 1934 Edition: First Edition. Description: Complete bound run of semimonthly issues for 1934.

Quarto (28cm); cloth-backed paper-covered boards; contents on newsprint, each issue 12pp. Expected toning and slight fragility to text, from aging newsprint; slight external wear; complete, sound and Good. Text entirely in Finnish, excepting masthead which appears in Finnish and English. A magazine of left-wing humor and commentary, published under the auspices of the American Finnish Federation, the primary Finnish Left Socialist association in America. The journal was published under this title from 1921 to 1936, first from Superior, Wisconsin, then from 1931 on in New York.

The editor during this period was K. Suvanto, the most prominent of Finnish-American left-wing cartoonists of this period, and his drawings illustrate many pages of the journal. Punikki during this period was primarily oriented towards anti-Fascism, with a great deal of coverage (and caricature) of right-wing populist movements in Europe. A predecessor, "Lapatossu, " ran from 1911 to 1921; a successor, "Kansan Huumori, " appeared from 1936-38.

Rare; OCLC notes only four North American institutions with any holdings. HOERDER (The Immigrant Labor Press in North America: an Annotated Bibliography) 1:225. Subject: Foreign Language Imprints, Immigration, Periodicals, Radical, Utopian, Labor & Reform Movements, Socialism. Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA. We are one of the country's leading specialists in the history, literature and art of American social movements.

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