Category: Americana

Current Affairs, Number 52: Transatlantic Soundings, September (Sept.) 25th, 1943

By: (British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs; Agar, Herbert

Price: $79.95

Publisher: Canada, (British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs / Government of Canada : 1943

Seller ID: 665h0412

16 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada, October, 1943. Contents:Talking of Americans; America Thinks Again; Is America United?; The American Way in Wartime; The Question We're Always Asking; How Can We Reach Each Other?; Index to issues 27-52 of this publication. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy.
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The New York Times Magazine, December 15, 1963 - When a Negro is on Trial in the South

By: Acheson, Dean; Hunter, Marjorie; Morris, Richard B.; Graubard, Stephen R.; Galphin, Bruce M.; Willig, John M.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, The New York Times & Arno Press : 1963

Seller ID: 202g4089

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

80 pages. Features:. Withdrawal from Europe "An Illustion" - we must have close co-operation with West Germany; Lest Us Reason Together - photo feature on LBJ; Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson (Lady Bird) - article with photo about the public servant without pay; The Muddled Problem of Presidential Succession - which was brought home by the death of JFK; After Five Years, de Gaulle Still Towers; The average height of Americans is increasing; A Master Builder at 75 - photo feature on the works of New York's Robert Moses; When a Negro is on Trial in the South - is the picture painted by novels and films...
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Harpers Magazine, September (Sept.) 1930, No. 964 - Racketeers and Organized Labor

By: Adamic, Louis; Hale, L.C.; Murray, G.; Adams, J.T.; Haldane, J.; Layman, G.; Ueland, B.; Dublin, L.

Price: $79.95

Publisher: USA, Harper & Brothers Publishers : 1930

Seller ID: 336h2841

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Pages 384-512 plus dozens of pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Racketeers and Organized Labor; Whoe Gets the Children - a wife's reflections on divorce; The New Stage Fright - talking pictures; The Real Value of the League of Nations; Is History a Fraud?; The Wallflower Complex; The Curious Statistics of Suicide; and much more. The following wonderful ads are worthy of mention: Nice Stetson Hats (for men) ad inside front cover; The Hotels Statler; Cadillac Motor Car Company - with illustration of their V-16-powered car; Japan Tourist Burea (color); Hawaii Tourist Bureau (color); and lastly a...
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The Granite Monthly - a New Hampshire Magazine, November 1895

By: Adams, Ida G.; Abbott, Hattie; Jenks, Edward A.; Linehan, John C.; Campbell, M.J.; Werder, Hans; Changler, Agatha B.E.; Griffith, Bancroft; Sanborn, F.B.; Sanborn, Franklin, Benjamin; Metcalf, H.B.; Chesley, Charles Henry; Whytmere, Henry; et al

Price: $129.95

Publisher: USA, Granite Monthly Company : 1895

Seller ID: 845g0860

Binding: Paperback

Pages 328-410 plus ads. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos; Features: Along the Piscataquog - a Sketch of Weare; Witch Hazel; From the Piazza - Mt. Washington from the Mt. Pleasant House; War Pictures (continued); Dethroned; Wild Reutlingen - a romance of the time of the great king; Home; The Charities of New Hampshire; Franklin Benjamin Sanborn; John B. Peaslee; Autumn Among the Hills; An Old Barn and its Swallows; The Dying Leaf; The Relation of the Agricultural College to the Common Schools; The Sentinels; New Hampshire Necrology. Good photos of two old asylums for ...
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This Week Magazine, December 22, 1963 - Insert to the Boston Sunday Herald: Christmas Issue

By: Albee, George Sumner; Paddleford, Clementine

Price: $199.95

Publisher: USA, United Newspapers Magazine Corporation / The Boston Herald : 1963

Seller ID: 302g3184

Binding: Paperback

16 pages. Features: Holiday Boy - tropical Christmas fiction; Six celebrities describe their unforgettable Christmas presents - William Menninger, Helen Keller, Kyle Rote, Edward Steichen, The Rt. Rev. James Pike, and musical comedy star Lisa Kirk; Artists and the Madonna; Food for Christmas Stockings; Knockouut Knickers - fashion story for the ski slopes with color photo; Color ads include: Del Monte Golden Sweet Corn, Kent cigarettes, Quaker Oats - colour photo ad features Mr. Benjamin Thomas and son David of Levittown, NY; Salem cigarettes (back cover) features young couple standing on ra...
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Newsweek Magazine, February (Feb.), 1974 - The Exorcism Frenzy

By: Alpern, David N.; Lansner, Kermit; Woodward, Kenneth L.; Friedman, Milton; et al

Price: $99.95

Publisher: New York, Newsweek, Inc. : 1974

Seller ID: 838g4880

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

100 pages. Features: Fantastic Chrysler/Plymouth color-photo 4-panel ad inside front cover features the Scamp, Valiant Brougham and Gold Duster; State of the President (Richard Nixon); Electronic Vision - research aims for artificial sight; Film "The Exorcist" leads to frenzy of interest in exorcisms; Pending coalminer strike in Britain; America's oil companies seen as villains in the energy squeeze; Dr. Thomas E. Deiker argues for gun control; Nice color-photo ad for the Ford Maverick; Watergate scandal - John Dean, H.R. Haldeman; Photo of President Nixon and family with Billy Graham; Illino...
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Newsweek Magazine, September (Sept.) 13, 1971 - Vietnam Combat Diary / The New Face of Adoption

By: Alsop, Stewart; Morgenstern, Joseph; et al

Price: $99.95

Publisher: New York, Newsweek, Inc. : 1971

Seller ID: 838g4879

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

122 pages. Features: Cover photo of New Jersey Couple Frank and Barbara Calabrese with adopted daughter Rachel; The New Face of Adoption; Vietnam combat diary; Sen. Strom Thurmond; New birth control techniques; Color photos of daily life on the Chinese Mainland; Can Wage-Price freezes work?; The Increasing Role of Computers in art - from music to poetry to visual works; One-page ad for Moneysworth with photo of Ralph Ginzburg; Dixie Takes the Bus; photo of burning school buses in Pontiac, Michigan; Reflecting on Black Panther George Jackson, killed in San Quentin recently; Sales of lottery ti...
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Give Me Liberty - A Weekly (Magazine) for Everybody

By: Armour, Richard (Introduction)

Price: $59.95

Publisher: USA, World Publishing : 1969

Seller ID: 116c8686

Binding: Hardcover

230 pages. "With hundreds of classic (and crazy) advertisements, covers in full color, and howling articles from America's favorite family magazine of the 20's, 30's & 40's." - from dust jacket. Former library copy with minimal library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this entertaining and nostalgic compilation.
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The American Mercury Magazine, Volume (Vol.) 19 (Nineteen / XIX), Jan-Apr. (January - April) 1930

By: Arnold, Chloe; Whelpton, Pascal K.; Prowitt, Alfred E.; Lowie, Robert H.; Et al

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, The American Mercury : 1930

Seller ID: 336h1533

ISBN: B00YI4JSHK

Binding: Hardcover

510 pages. Features include: The Centennial of Mormonism; The Last of the Boarding Houses; A Bohunk Woman; White Magic; Frankenstein, Inc.; Reb Samuel; "Freemasons" among North Dakota Indians; The Man Who Killed Tecumseh; Some Americans in Japan; A Negro Looks Ahead; Business Cycles; and many more. Bound in brown cloth. Binder's small stamp inside front board otherwise clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy.
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Collier's, The National Weekly Magazine, October 13, 1949 - Lincoln's Lost Speech / Clown Ed Wynn

By: Arnold, General H.H. (Hap); Sandburg, Carl; Hill, Gladwin; Davidson, Bill; Gresham, William Lindsay; Gehman, Richard B.; Fay, Bill; Brandon, William; Heinz, W.C.; Archer, Jules; Grubb, Dave; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Macaulay

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Springfield, Ohio, The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company : 1949

Seller ID: 534g1551

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

74 pages. Articles: Tradition Can't Win Wars - General H.H. (Hap) Arnold proposes a method of tightening civilian control of national defense - article with color photo; Confessions of a Congressman's Son - author anonymous; Lincoln's Lost Speech - an American Psalm; It's Ed Wynn Again - in Video - one of the greatest clowns in entertainment history; The Marvelous Mounties - As They Really Are (part 2 of 2); Doctor "Doc" J.S. Dorton - He Makes Our Hearts Gay at the Country Fair - Shelby, North Carolina; Blood and Thunder - Raymond L. Caldwell has assembled the world's best collection of "Penny...
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Image for International Magazine of Industry and Ridgway (Pennsylvania) Daily Record - Special Edition Descriptive of and Illustrating Elk County, Ridgway, St. Marys, Johnsonburg and Vicinity, September (Sept.) 1909, Volume III Number 8

International Magazine of Industry and Ridgway (Pennsylvania) Daily Record - Special Edition Descriptive of and Illustrating Elk County, Ridgway, St. Marys, Johnsonburg and Vicinity, September (Sept.) 1909, Volume III Number 8

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $299.95

Publisher: USA, The International Magazine of Industry / The Ridgway Daily Record / The Ridgway Advocate : 1909

Seller ID: 336h0484

Binding: Paperback

56 pages. Index. Printed upon glossy stock. Dozens of wonderful archival photos supported by text document the prominent businesses, people and buildings of the day in these Elk County, Pennsylvania communities. Includes original envelope in which this issue was mailed. Surprisingly light wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding tight. A quality vintage copy of this special local history item.
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Where Magazine: Where to go, What to do, When in Detroit, Week of November 25, 1961

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Detroit, MI, U.S.A., Where What When, Inc. : 1961

Seller ID: 845g1135

Binding: Paperback

16 pages. Cover photo of the cast of "The Captains and the Kings" including Charlie Ruggles, Conrad Nagle, Peter Graves, Dana Andrews and Lee Grant. Dozens of ads and suggestions of things to do. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this great memento from the glory days of Detroit.
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The Granite Monthly - A New Hampshire Magazine, August 1896 - M.W. Babcock Visits Genoa / Dublin, N.H.

By: Babcock, M.W.; Bartlett, John H.; Dana, Francis; Swaine, C. Jennie; Piper, H.H.; Wheeler, Mary H.; Metcalf, H.H.; Griffith, Bancroft; Bachelder, N.J.; Brown, Frank E.; Lauder, George B.; Roberts, Mrs. Caroline M.; Tenney, E.P.; Gowing, Fred

Price: $199.95

Publisher: USA, Granite Monthly Company : 1896

Seller ID: 845g0867

Binding: Paperback

Pages 63-124. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: From Naples to Genoa; The Harmony of Silence; The Benefaction of Melancthon Downs (concluded); Midsummer; A sketch of Dublin, N.H. - with many great photos of local mansions; The old stage coach; The Cogswell Homestead, Gilmanton; Halcyon Days; Mrs. Alice A. Dow; New Hampshire; The Anti-Vivisection Movement; The Elms of Concord; The legend of John Levin and Mary Glasse (continued); Educational department; New Hampshire Necrology. Some peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy.
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The New York Times Magazine, December [Dec.] 14, 1975: Peanut Farmer for President - Jimmy Carter / O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills

By: Baker, Russell; Anderson, Patrick; Alsop, Joseph; Sterling, Claire; Levine, Richard M.; Wood, Peter; Romagnoli, Franco and Margaret; Saroyan, Aram

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The New York Times Company : 1975

Seller ID: 143h5323

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Features: Peanut Farmer For President - Jimmy Carter thinks he knows something other politicians have not perceived; Open Letter To an Israeli Friend - Joseph Alsop argues that it was Israel's viciously competitive domestic politics that started the trouble between the U.S. and Israel; The Nightmare Spain Doesn't Want - A democracy yearns to be born but the ferocious efforts of the ultraright imperial the peaceful transition that most of Spain does want; As the TV World Turns - This week the TV show 'One Day at a Time' goes on the tube because 'Beacon Hill' bombed; What Makes O.J. Simpson Ru...
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The New York Times Magazine, November [Nov.] 28, 1976: Ma Bell Fights For Her Monopoly

By: Baker, Russell; Benjamin, Milton R.; read, William H.; Dowling, Colette; barone, Michael; Wolff, Anthony; Kirk, Donald; Tucker, Carll; Morris, bernadine; Berkeley, Ellen Perry; Claiborne, Craig; Franey, Pierre; Agel, Jerome

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The New York Times Company : 1976

Seller ID: 143h5318

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Features: Cover illustration of Ma Bell going to war to preserve her monopoly, which is also the feature story of this issue, which describes how the high profits of high tech has set off a huge battle between the communications giants; Gorgeous two-page ad for Piaget watches; New Ways for America's nuns is disturbing to some Catholics - and wrenching for the nuns; Lessons Learned from this year's Presidential Election between Carter and Ford; Building a Better Bug Trap - Using Love (sex pheromones) instead of Poison; Peace settles on Quemoy and Matsu - but they maintain constant vigilance aga...
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The New York Times Magazine, April [Apr.] 23, 1978: Dionne Quints Cover Photo / Tad Dorgan

By: Baker, Russell; Berton, Pierre; Perelman, S.J.; Miller, Lowell; brown, Blanche R.; Conniff, James C.G.; Penney, Alexandra; Brown, Erica

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The New York Times Company : 1978

Seller ID: 143h5315

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Features: Campari ad features photos of Steve Gibson, Joan Gringer, Mort Goldstein, Lea McIntyre, Jeff Landis, Iby Korody, John Gray, Greta Westfall, and James Barker; The Dionne Years - Looking back on the almost mythic 1930s birth and upbringing of the Dionne quintuplets - article with great photos; An Affectionate look back at comic artist Tad [T.A.] Dorgan; Nice color-photo ad for the Buick Electra (blue coupe); Is the S.E.C. Selling Wall Street Short?; Vantage cigarette ad features impression of Mike Barbano of Atlanta; Treasures of Pompeii - Unearthed artifacts are on tour; Aesthetic rea...
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The New York Times Magazine, February [Feb.] 29, 1976: Death of Red No. 2 Dye? / The Cajuns Resist the Melting Pot

By: Baker, Russell; Boffey, Philip M.; Reed, Roy; Phelan, James S.; Pellman, Donald R.; Morgan, Ted

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The New York Times Company : 1976

Seller ID: 143h5320

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Features: 80 pages. Death of a Dye? - The safety of Red No. 2, consumed daily by millions, remains uncertain nearly a century after its introduction; The Cajuns Resist the Melting Pot - The descendants of the Acadians discover a new pride in their heritage of Mardi Gras and 'laissez le bon temps rouler.' - Roy Reed visits Cut Off, LA; Looking for the Next World - Marshall Herff Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Trousdale Nettles, two pleasant middle-aged Texans, and an eager flock of converts prepare for a one-way trip by U.F.O. to the 'next level above human'; A New World - Urban-raised Donald R. Pel...
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Image for The New York Times Magazine, December [Dec.] 28, 1975: Roger Corman - King of Schlock / Vietnamese Refugees Finding Their Way in America / Adolph Coors

The New York Times Magazine, December [Dec.] 28, 1975: Roger Corman - King of Schlock / Vietnamese Refugees Finding Their Way in America / Adolph Coors

By: Baker, Russell; Dershowitz, Alan; FitzGerald, Frances; Davidson, Bill; Lichtenstein, Grace; et al

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The New York Times Company : 1975

Seller ID: 143h5322

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Features: Alan Dershowitz on Indeterminate Prison Sentences - and why they are now considered a mess by both left and right; Vietnamese Refugees in America - From Maine to Texas they are getting the hang of the American way; King of Schlock - Roger Corman has put out 150-ldd non-epics, but many top directors, actors and writers learned the ropes working for him; Rocky Mountain High - Sold only in the West, Coors beer is smuggled to the East; Nice one-page color ad for Kellogg's new Frosted Rice cereal features Tony the Tiger, Jr.; Pate recipes; Dress fashion photos; Magic Furniture - expanding...
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Image for The New York Times Magazine, December [Dec.] 19, 1976: Cover Photo of Northern Ireland Women Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan - Roman Catholic Peace-Seekers

The New York Times Magazine, December [Dec.] 19, 1976: Cover Photo of Northern Ireland Women Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan - Roman Catholic Peace-Seekers

By: Baker, Russell; Franks, Lucinda; Kotz, Nick; Daley, Robert; Saroyan, William; Davison, Jane; Wool, Robert; Skurka, Norma; Pepin, Jacques; Schwartz, Jonathan

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The New York Times Company : 1976

Seller ID: 143h5317

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Features: Cover photo of Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, who figure prominently in the feature article about their movement in troubled Northern Ireland to "declare war on war"; Gorgeous one-page color-photo Chanel ad featuring Catherine Deneuve; "Oilcan" Eddie Sadlowski - Rebel candidate for president of the Steelworkers union; The Heist of the Century - $10 million allegedly stolen from Societe Generale in Nice, France by the Sewer Gang consisting of Almoor Alfred, Homer Filippi, Francis Pellegrin, Alain Bournat, and Albert Spaggiari; William Saroyan encourages kids to "lay off these Ch...
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The New York Times Magazine, February [Feb.] 22, 1976: Sacrificing Freud / Jean-Pierre Rampal / A Professional Guide to Watching Tennis

By: Baker, Russell; Lasch, Christopher; Whalen, Richard J.; Westoff, Leslie Aldridge; Rottenberg, Dan; Hellman, Peter; Ashe, Arthur; Sokolov, Raymond A.

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The New York Times Company : 1976

Seller ID: 143h5321

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Features: Sacrificing Freud - The psychiatric priesthood - itself torn between Catholics and Protestants - hastens the nightmare of a society run by doctors; Is Ronald Reagan a Peach-Pit Conservative or Closet Moderate? - The struggle in New Hampshire tests his belief that he's the natural heir to the G.O.P. nomination - with photos of Reagan in his youth; Kids With Kids - more and more white, middle-class, teen-age girls are having babies out of wedlock - and keeping them; The Moneyweight Champion - The investments of Morgan Guaranty Trust, largest institution of them all, account for huge ch...
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Category: Americana