Published in September 1941, in the midst of the European War, a few months before Pearl Harbor, this is the Autumn 1941 issue of the Yale Review. Thirtieth Anniversary Issue. Tiny bit of edge wear to wrappers, this is a very good copy. Thick, heavy issue. 

Highlights include:

Walter Van Tilberg Clark's new story, "The Portable Phonograph."

S.T. Williams on F.O. Matthiessen's classic American Renaissance.

Robert Frost's new verse, "I Could Give All to Time."

Arnold Wolfers essay on the first two years of the European War.

Van Wyck Brooks's pens an essay on "What Is Primary Literarture?

Ortega y Gasset offers a first-rate essay on "Kant and the Modern German Mind."

Archie Macleish on "American Writers and the New World."

Chauncey Brewster Tinker's essay on "Shelley Once More."

Editor Wilbur Cross on the history of the first 30 years of the quarterly.

Booth Tarkington on Margaret Kennedy's Where Stands a Winged Sentry.

216 pages plus more than 40 pages of ads and short reviews.