Five issues of Pacific Weekly – A Western
Journal of Fact and Opinion from 1935-36. Leftist weekly magazine edited for a time in Carmel, California by
Lincoln Steffens. Sara Bard Field was one of the associate editors & Ella
Winter was the literary editor. Established in 1934 by W. K. Bassett and his
wife Dorthea Castlehoun, The Pacific Weekly was a Left-leaning weekly Carmel,
California journal. Lincoln Steffens, a columnist and associate editor for this
issue, would go on to seize control in June 1936 and push for a more hard-line
Communist Party agenda. Issues and featured articles: 9-23-1935 Decay of the Argonaut and San
Francisco gets its chance; 10-21-1935 The masses are on the Move by Earl du
Freyne French and Speak Up Buddy by R H Jamieson; 12-23-1935 American Skeleton
– Tenant farmer; 1-27-1936 Science in the Soviets and Under capitalism a reply
to Dr MacDonald and Sara Bard Field’s Credo and Lincoln Steffen’s column;
2-3-1936 The Strange case of Upton Sinclair by Carey McWilliams and France
Fights Fascism by George Connes. Light soiling and mild general wear. Printed
mail label on the back covers. Internally good. Sold as a lot of five issues
only.