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168 + viii ad pp. (4to) illustrated wrappers. Rare issue of the New Orleans based influential literary journal, featuring Sherwood Anderson's piece, "New Orleans, The Double Dealer and the Modern Movement in America," which laid out the editors' vision of a modernism that does not operate only at a national level but also embraces the cultural individuality of regions like the South. The Double Dealer was published monthly from January 1921 to May 1926, during what has been called the first golden age of little magazines. Described as "an incubator of local literary culture and a conduit of Modernism," it featured work by William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Amy Lowell, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, Hart Crane, and others. The Double Dealer was established in 1921 as a platform for contemporary Southern writers of a modernist bent. Its founders were cultural critic Julius Weis Friend (editor) and Basil Thompson, Albert Goldstein, and John McClure (associate editors). They saw their ideal reader as someone with a tolerant understanding of "the devious ways of the world." With its subtitle A National Magazine for the South, The Double Dealer positioned itself to combat a popular stereotype of Southern literature as a provincial and second-rate "Sahara of the Bozart," as H.L. Mencken termed it in a notorious 1917 essay. In pursuit of its inclusive vision, The Double Dealer published African-American authors, and an unusually high proportion of its writers were women.