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Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A bound, ex-library copy the January - June 1932 issues of The American Magazine, volume 113. It includes a title and author index bound in the front. Contents include stories and Depression Era articles by Archibald Rutledge (What Do People Expect of You - January, Square Fighters - May), Octavus Roy Cohen (A Diamond Setting - January, Cold Cash - March, Double Sixes - April), Faith Baldwin (Rich Man's Town, parts 3 - 5 of 5, January - March) , Zane Gray (West of the Pecos, parts 6 & 7 of 7, January & February), Calvin Coolidge (In Times Like These - February), Ida M Tarbell (What Big Business Expects of Young Men - February), P G Wodehouse (Three Mr Mulliner stories - The Bishop's Cat (The Story of Webster) - February, The Bishop's Folly (Cats will be Cats) - March, & Open House - April), Clarence Budington Kelland (Scattergood Takes to His Bed - February, Speaking of Taxes - March, Ex-Banker - April, Paper Flowers - May), Stephen Vincent Benet (The Delphinium Blues - March), Franklin D Roosevelt (Why We Need Politicians - April), Booth Tarkington (Out of the Dark - April), General John J Pershing (We Are at War - June), and others. Light rubbing to the spine. The front covers are present but the back covers have been removed, The top margin has been trimmed slightly, at times affecting the text at the top of the front cover. The library markings are fairly unobtrusive. They include "Mercer University Library - Macon, GA" stamps on the front covers and a Mercer University Library plate on the front paste down. Occasional neat tape repairs to a few pages and to the May front cover. Occasional soil spots in the margins. However the interior is very clean and tight overall. The binding is solid and tight. A very good copy with stories and serial installments by prominent authors, most notably three P G Wodehouse Mr Mulliner stories, and a nice selection of Depression Era articles. A heavy, oversize book that will require additional postage. Hatden Hayden, John E Sheridan, Eugene Iverd, Winold Reiss, (covers), B J Rosenmeyer, T D Skidmore, H R Ballinger, Frank Hoffman, Ray F Spreter, Paul Meylan, C W Massaguer, Agust Bleser, Jr, T D Skidmore (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 116 pages inc wrappers, art drawn cover by Steven Dohanos. With serial parts by C. S. Forester Commodore Hornblower (part 8 of 8) + B. J. Chute, "Q For Quitcalm" short story + Allan B. Bosworth "Breath of the Devil" (ss) and other fiction with articles "Must China Go Red?" + Hollywood letter from, etc, very clean copy, lots of colour adverts for food, oil and cars and tobacco, paper label on cover, "Vincent P Smith, Naugatuck, Conn". Folio. 1945.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 104 pages. Features: Cover illustration of busy train station; Two-page Chrysler photo ad - more room inside; Color (blue) Corvair ad; Nice Avis photo ad; After Khrushchev, Who?; Botts and the Picket Line (short story); The Disease that fooled X-Rays - Histoplasmosis; Marriage Mood (short story); When I Busted Out of the Navy - Part 4 of Norman Rockwell's "My Adventures as an Illustrator"; Color-photo-illustrated article on Marvin Glass, "Troubled King of Toys"; Next Window Please (humor); The road to St. Vivien (short story); Men and Capital, by John Kenneth Galbraith; Sip of Death (short story); Color-photo inside Strafford, Vermont's "meeting house"; Night without End (short story); The Man Who Rides Sharks - William R. Royal of Venice, Florida; Color-photo ad for the 1960 Turbine Drive Buick features light blue Invicta four-door sedan; Theh Monitor Affair (part 7); Interesting one-page ad for the new Dodge 'sweptline' trucks; Color Pontiac Catalina (red) ad; Photo ad for Matson cruises; ad for Chevrolet's Sturdi-Build large trucks; Color ad for Sylvania TVs features Jack Paar; and more. Average wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. A quality vintage copy. . Dick Sargent (cover); Walter Skor; McGill; R.G. Harris; Bruce Bomberger (illustrator). …

Stapled. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The April, May, June & July 1931 issues of The American Magazine. Fiction and articles include most notably the complete serialization, parts 1 - 4 of 4, of If I Were You, a novel by P G Wodehouse that is based on the play he wrote with Roy Bolton (precedes book publication). Other fiction and articles include parts 3 - 6 of 7 of War Paint and Rouge, a novel by Robert W Chambers, What the Man in the Street has Taught Me, an article by Heywood Broun (April), A Job You Wouldn't Want, an article by G K Chesterton (April), Of All Places, a short story by Clarence Budington Kelland (May), three articles by Archibald Rutledge - Ever Go Stale? Here's the Remedy (May), The Eagle is no Match for this Gallant Little Bird, about the Ruby Throated Hummingbird (June), & There's Magic in the Moonlight (July), parts 1 - 2 of 5 of High Summer, a novel by Booth Tarkington (June & July), In the Bag, a short story by Octavius Roy Cohen (June), The Worst Job in the World, an article by Mary Roberts Rinehart (July), Are You Afraid of the Unexpected?, an article by M K Wisehart on designer Norman Bel Geddes and his vision for the future, with a reference to his designs for the 1933 Century of Progress Chicago World's Fair, Daughter of the Skies, an article by Bruce Gould on pioneering female aviator Ruth Nichols, and others. Condition issues include: April - light edge wear to the front cover; small loss at the top & bottom of the spine; and small soil spot to the back cover; May - light edge wear to the front cover; light wear to the spine with small loss at the top; and light soil to the back cover; June - light edge wear to the front cover; closed tears at the top (.5") and bottom (1.5") of the spine; and light soil to the back cover; and July - light edge wear and soling to the front cover is missing; small loss to the bottom of the spine; light soiling to the back cover; a small chip to the bottom corner of pages 1 - 16; and pages 83 (Campbell's Soup ad)/84 (Ford ad) are missing. A very good set with the complete serialization of a P G Wodehouse novel. A heavy, oversize set that will require additional postage. Note this item plus my other listings (inventory #s 009696, 009697 & 009698) comprise the complete serialization of High Summer. John La Gatta, John E Sheridan, Jay Hyde Barnum & Edwin L Chase (covers), Frederick Chapman (If I Were You), George Clisbee, B J Rosenmeyer, Paul Meylan, John Vassos, Wallace Morgan, T D Skidmore, Charles Livingston Bull, Tenney Johnson (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 132 pages. Fiction: Shark Water; The Jacksboro Mob; Marriage is Not for Me!; The Lost City; The Girl He Remembered (part 1 of 2); The Artless Heiress (part 3 of 8). Articles: The Deep South Says "Never!" to Desegregation (part 1 of 5); I Call on Wyatt Earp - the real life of TV's fastest-drawing, straightest-shooting Western marshal, as played by Hugh O'Brian; How They Meet Payrolls in Russia - are Red industry executives as good as their American counterparts?; Mr. President! - the Presidential press conference; The Face of America - The Languid Sands of Ocean City (photo); Is Sherman Lollar Better Than Yogi Berra?; Boom in Part-Time Jobs - with photo of Elmer Winter and Aaron Scheinfeld of Manpower Inc.; The Gentlemen in the Garden - The Men's Garden Club of Los Angeles - wonderful color photos; Ads: Western Union ad features photo of Fred Cole, President, Cole of California; Whitman's Chocolates; Republic Steel; Chrysler Windsor Two-Door Hardtop - color-photo; Boeing 707; Hammond organs; Admiral fridges - nice two-pages in color; Interesting two-page Pure Oil ad; Hertz Rent a car; Frigidaire pink fridge; Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup; Two-page Pontiac photo ad; Nice color vintage Thermos ad; Ford color ad featuring the Fairlane 500 Town Victoria; Wheaties - with square dancing motif; Nice two-page color photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau instructs how to prepare Iced Coffee; Sunbeam percolator; L&M cigarettes with nautical theme; Nice color-photo ad for Johnson outboard motors; Nice two-page color American Airlines ad shows wealthy clientelle; Caterpillar ad displays work on the interstate highway system; Two-page GM ad for Fisher Body; Harrison air conditioning color-photo ad; National Cash Register ad for till that calculates change; Avis Rent-a car; Yale Hoist color-photo ad shows Hanford Atomic Plant nuclear waste being handled by one of their hoists, complete with men in hazmat suits; Union Pacific All Coach Domeliner ad; Wow- uncommon half-page color ad for Dairy Queen; Dogde Power Giant truck ad; Nice one-page color Viceroy cigarette ad features Sam Snead and Cary Middlecoff. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Hughes, George (cover); Anderson, Ralph H.; Buckham, Lynn; De Mers, Joe; Ludekens, Fred; Meyers; (illustrator). …