MG001. THE ALDINE - THE ART JOURNAL OF AMERICA. Vol. VII, No. 21. September 1875. Paper 11.25" x 15.75", pp. 403 - 422 [20 pages], gilt edges, glue and paper strip binding (pre-staples era). THE ALDINE was published from 1868 until 1879. It featured fine commissioned images by famous artists. In 1876 it became a bi-monthly and continued as such until it was discontinued in December 1879. Although it published prose and poetry, the magazine remains interesting today for its impressive full-page engravings. The quality of the Aldine engravings was without peer in the American magazine field. This issue continues the serialization of the historical romance of the American Revolution, "The Spur of Monmouth," by "An Ex-Pension-Agent." There is also an article on England’s Chester Cathedral (illustrated), a review of recently published books of poetry by B.P. Shillaber, John G. Saxe, and Paul H. Hayne, a story by Einna Stjierne Farlsen, and an article on Martha’s Vineyard, entitled "An Avilion of the West," by Henry Morford. Poems by Augusta von Bubna, F. L. Seaton, Earl Marble, Alice Williams. Artwork includes: "Dolce Far Niente," by John S. Davis (after Charles Landelle), engraved by Jonnard (on cover, nearly full page); "Lovers’ Walk, Sawkill Glen, Pa.," and "Triple Cascades on the Sawkill, Pa.," by H. Bisbing (both three quarters of a page); "Avenged!", by H. von Angeli (full page); and "First Come, First Served" (landscape with Bison and Elk), by W.M. Cary. This copy in remarkable condition, with just soft and slight darkening of pages, small closed tear last page, minor stain last page (blank), else no cutting or marking (a complete copy of this issue, which has never been bound into a larger volume). $29.
MG002. THE ALDINE - THE ART JOURNAL OF AMERICA. Vol. VII, No. 22. October 1875. Paper 11.25" x 15.75", pp. 423 - 442 [20 pages], gilt edges, glue and paper strip binding (pre-staples era). THE ALDINE was published from 1868 until 1879. It featured fine commissioned images by famous artists. In 1876 it became a bi-monthly and continued as such until it was discontinued in December 1879. Although it published prose and poetry, the magazine remains interesting today for its impressive full-page engravings. The quality of the Aldine engravings was without peer in the American magazine field. This issue continues the serialization of the historical romance of the American Revolution, "The Spur of Monmouth," by "An Ex-Pension-Agent." There is also an article on the city of Strasbourg with several wonderful illustrations. Poems by Margaret F. Preston, Francena Gore, Mary H. Field. Artwork includes: "The Christening," by John S. Davis (after Merle), (on cover, nearly full page); "The Odalisque" by Richter and "Ondine" by Miss Stare (both three quarters of a page); "La Lavandiere" (not credited) 6.75" x 9"; "The Peutelsteiner Chasm, Near Ampezzo, In the Tyrol," by K. Heyn (full page); "A Rest By The Way," by N. Jayne 6.25" x 8.75"; and "Old Fort Dumpling, Newport," by J.D. Woodward (full page). This copy in remarkable condition, with just soft and slight darkening of pages, else no cutting or marking (a complete copy of this issue, which has never been bound into a larger volume). $29.
MG010. AMERICAN HERITAGE. October 1967. Vol. XVIII, No. 6. [Hard cover] The complete issue for that date. Articles include: Benedict Arnold (2), The Marianas Turkey Shoot (WW II), Baseball ("Casey at the Bat"), Horace Greeley and the"New York Tribune," more. No writing or cutting to this very nice copy. [ssd%] $7.
MG030. CHINA PICTORIAL 8/1988. 9.75" x 12.75", 46 pp. Numerous color and b/w photos. English version. Articles include Guangxi Turns Thirty, Cross Assault on Qomolangma, Remembering Shen Congwen, Limbering Up For The Olympics, Stamps, Bird and Flower Painting, In The Delta. This copy: excellent condition, intact, light wear at extremes, no writing to text or covers. $14.
MG031. COLLIER'S THE NATIONAL WEEKLY. March 2, 1918. 10.75" x 14.75", 40 pp., including wraps. The complete issue for that date. In this wartime issue: cover color drawing by Herbert Paws of ocean liner being sunk by submarine; "Wake Up!" by Mark Sullivan (article on the war); "The Adventures of Colin O'Rell - First Adventure, The Gun-Metal Case," by Arthur Somers Roche, illustrated by Henry Raleigh (fiction); "New Hands At A New Game," by Harris Dickson (article on Army training); "The Man Who Was Dead," by John Russell, illustrated by M. Leone Bracker (fiction); "From Base Ball to Boches - Second Inning," by H.C. Witwer, illustrated by F.R. Gruger & Arthur William Brown (fiction); "Sizing Up a Customer," by William Maxwell (article); etc. Great ads., especially for automobiles, which seem to have been available to buy, unlike the situation in WW II. This copy especially nice with just light coloring at spine, gentle rolls to text. No writing or marking to covers or text, which are complete and uncut. $17. [We also have the "Collier's" for March 30, 1918.]
SOLD !!MG300. HARPER'S WEEKLY - A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION. Vol. XII, No. 606. August 8, 1868. 11" x 15.75", pp. 497 - 512 (16 pages), in wraps. Illustrated article on the Maryland flood of July 24; conclusion of the "Harper's History of the Rebellion"; conclusion of Wilkie Collins' novel "The Moonstone" (first U.S. appearance ?); illustrated article on the "Wickedest Man in New York" (John Allen), who apparently kept a house of low repute on Water Street. This copy soiled and chipped, but intact with no cuttings or markings. Appears not to have ever been bound in a larger volume. $15. [We also have "Harper's Weekly" for March 11, 1871.]
MG301. HARPER'S WEEKLY. Vol. LVIII, No. 3003. July 11, 1914. 9" x 14", 50 pp., in wraps. The complete issue for that date. Cover article is "A Republican Suicide," by Howard D. Wheeler. Others: "Aristocracy and the Town Cow," by Walter W. Mills; "When Chesterton Is Angry," by Neith Boyce, with a great cartoon of Chesterton; "The Women on the Farm," by Honore Willsie; poem by Theodore F. MacManus; "Beckham of Kentucky," by C.P. Connolly; "When Sir Littleboy Quested in Vain," by C. Sterrett Penfield; "Pen and Inklings," by Oliver Herford, "Sports" by Herbert Reed (tennis, polo, Harvard-Yale boat race, crew, golf); "Ball and Strikes," by Billy Evans (article on Cleveland's Larry Lajoie); "The Real Merkle," by William B. Hanna (Fred Merkle, with mention of Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Sherwood Magee,others); "Around the Capitol," by McGregor; "The Affair of Harry Maingaye," by Frank Danby, with illustrations by Everett Shinn; "Food and Health," by Lewis B. Allyn (discussion of the use of alum in food); "Finance," by Albert W. Atwood; "One For The Ant," by R. W. Sneddon, and more, including a great photo of Sir Thomas Lipton "The man who is going to try to prove that it is really an English year in sports by adding the yachting cup to the golf and polo trophies." This copy very nice with light soiling, gentle roll to text. A bit of darkening at bottom of front cover, else no writing or marking to covers or text, which are complete and uncut. $27. [We also have "Harper's Weekly" for March 11, 1871.]
MG321. MEXICAN LIFE - MEXICO'S MONTHLY REVIEW. September 1937, No. 9, Vol. XIII. 9" x 13.25", 66 pp., in wraps. In English. Authors and artists: Serge de Beaurne (story); James Hinton (story); Aletheia Garrison (poem); Howard S. Phillips (story); Max Miller (travel); Ricardo Barcenas (watercolor); Francisco Lemuz E. (wood sculpture); W.A Breyfogle (story); Frans Blom (essay "The Mayas"); Hugo Brehme (photo "Fishermen"); Phillips Russell (travel "The Iguana Banquet"); J. Bernard (drawing "Yucatan"); Guillermo Rivas (art critique "Federico Cantu"); Beatrice Newhall (article "Chocolate In New Spain"); Vane C. Dalton (essay "Autochthonous Celuloid"). This copy is complete with no cutting or markings. Darkening to wraps, front cover beginning to pull away from binding, rear cover moisture stain, general wear at corners of text but overall a nice copy of this rarely seen magazine. Beautiful cover art in color; A guache of Xochimilco by Hector D. Falcon. $23.
MG330. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - APRIL 1945. Vol. LXXXVII (87), No. 4. pp. 385 - 512, plus ads. Articles: Paris Freed (14 illus.) (F. Simpich); Seeing Paris on a 48-Hour Pass (12 color photos); England's Historic and Scenic Treasures (24 illus. + map) (E. Underwood); South from Saipan (12 illus. + map + 17 color photos) (W.R. Moore); Photoflashing Western Owls (6 illus. 7 color photos) (L.W. Walker); Crimea Reborn (23 illus., map) (E. Gilmore). This copy: intact, no cuttings or writing, light general wear. $15.
MG331. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - AUGUST 1944. Vol. LXXXVI (86), No. 2. pp. 129 - 256, plus ads. Articles: Aerial Invasion of Burma (20 illus.) (H.H. Arnold); Gliders -- Silent Weapons of the Sky (8 illus.) (W.H.Nicholas); Land of Lakes and Volcanoes [Nicaragua] (11 illus. + map + 17 color photos) (L. Marden); Women at Work (23 illus.) (L. Bradley); Low Countries Await Liberation (10 illus.); Palms and Planes in the New Hebrides (17 illus., map) (R. Heinl, Jr.); Navy Wings over the Pacific (12 color photos). This copy: intact, no cuttings or writing, light general wear. $12.
MG332. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - JULY 1944. Vol. LXXXVI (86), No. 1. pp. 1 - 128, plus ads. Articles: Landing Craft for Invasion (26 illus.) (M. Grosvenor); Britain Fights in the Fields (17 illus.) (F. Flood); America Fights on the Farms (21 color photos); Review of the Society's Maps of Europe (1 illus.); Indians of Our Western Plains (14 illus., 16 paintings) (M. Seirling, W. Kihn); Behind the Lines in Italy (20 illus.) (M. Reed, Jr. This copy: intact, no cuttings or writing, light general wear. Lacks large fold out map. $12.
MG333. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - JUNE 1944. Vol. LXXXV (85), No. 6. pp. 641 - 768, plus ads. Articles: Idaho Made the Desert Bloom (21 illus., map, 20 color photos) (D. Clark, M. Williams); Touring for Birds (3 illus., 24 color photos) (A. Allen); Exploring Wild West China (24 illus., map) (R. Johnson); Manipur -- Where Japan Struck at India (11 illus., map) (G. Heaney); Wales in Wartime (16 illus., map) (I. Hutchinson). 32 pp. of illus. in color. This copy: intact, no cuttings; red ink on cover, else no writing; light general wear. $12.
MG334. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - AUGUST, 1943. Vol. LXXXIV (84), No. 2. pp. 131- 256, plus ads. Articles: Iran in Wartime (26 illus., map) (J. Greely); Navy artist Paints the Aleutians (4 illus., 16 oil paintings) (W. Draper); Capturing Giant Turtles in the Caribbean (13 illus., map) (D. Duncan); Yanks in Northern Ireland (15 illus.); Coasts of Normandy and Brittany (5 illus., map) (W. Moore); French Provinces in Brighter Days (21 color photos); Fit to Fight Anywhere (26 illus.) (F. Simpich). 32 pp. of illus. in color. This copy: intact, no cuttings or writing; light general wear. $9.
MG335. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - MAY, 1943. Vol. LXXXIII (83), No. 5. pp. 525 - 650, plus ads. Articles: Valiant Russia's Industrial Might (27 illus., map) (J. Scott); Life with Our Fighting coast Guard (22 illus.) (F. Colton); coast Guard Patrol in Greenland (9 color photos) (T. La Farge); Land of a Million Smiles [Ozarks] (14 illus., map) (F. Simpich); Work and Play in the Ozarks (20 color photos); Climbing Mighty Minya Konka, Landmark of China's New Skyway (25 illus., map) (R. Burdsall, T. Moore). 24 pp. of illus. in color. This copy: intact, no cuttings or writing; light general wear. $12.
MG336. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - JULY 1940. Vol. LXXVIII (78), No. 1. pp. 1 - 140, plus ads. Articles: Old Masters in a New National Gallery (43 illus., 32 full color reproductions of Masterpieces from the "new" National Gallery) (R. McBride); The Celebes: New Man's Land of the Indies (33 illus., map) (M. Williams); Behind the News in Singapore ["Fortress Singapore," so-called] (26 illus., map); Greenland from 1898 to Now (25 illus., map) (R. Bartlett). This copy: intact, no cuttings or writing; light general wear. $9.
MG350. POPULAR MECHANICS - Volume 10, Nos. 1 through 6, January through June, 1908. 16 x 23 cm, 418 pp., + ads. Six successive issues in hard cover binding. Articles include: The Great American Waterway, Great Ocean Railway Florida to Key West, Aeorplane Makes First Long Flight, Motor Boats Cruise Rivers, Lakes and Ocean, Largest Steam Engine in the World, Artificial Production of Real Diamonds. This copy: Front hinge of HC binding splint, boards battered, first few pages of first number missing (limited to ads and cover of first issue), else appears complete for all six issues here bound, though many pages are worn, soiled. Scarce. $65.
MG401. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - A WEEKLY REVIEW OF PROGRESS IN INDUSTRY, SCIENCE, INVENTION, MECHANICS. Vol. CXXIL, No. 4. January 24, 1920. 11" x 14", pp. 81 - 104, in wraps. The complete issue for that date. Articles on: time, wood alcohol, vegetable parasites, inventor Frank Julian Sprague, New York State Barge Canel, tower telescope, early road signs in Wisconsin, old clocks, railroad cars, walnuts, etc. This copy light general soiling, wear. No writing or marking to covers or text, which are complete and uncut. $21. [We also have these issues of "Scientific American": (1919) January 4, 11, &18; (1920) January 3, February 7, 28; April 10; May 22; June 19; July 17; September 18.]
MG410. SCRIBNER'S September 1890. Vol. VIII, No. 3. 6.75" x 9.75", pp. 276 - 396, plus intro., plus ads., in wraps. The complete issue for that date. Articles: With Uncle Sam's Blue Jackets Afloat (The "White Squadron") by Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum; Dirge, by Frank Dempster Sherman; Jerry - Part Second, Chapters III-VIII by Anonymous; The Rights of the Citizen - V. - To His Own Property by James S. Norton; The Country House (New England, Eastern U.S. - illus. from drawings by Woodward, Bacher, Perard, Hawley, Fitler, and from photos) by Donald G Mitchell; African River and Lake Systems (with map) by Thomas Stevens; The Clerk of the weather by T. R. Sullivan; Where She Comes by Charles R. Going; The Shekh Abdallah (illus. by Chester Loomis, Kenyon Cox) by Clinton Scollard; Nature and Man in America - First Paper by N.S. Shaler; A Crown Jewel - Heligoland (illus. from drawings by Woodward, Perard, Fitler, H.W. Hall, and from photos) by C. Emma Cheney; Pity, O God! by Grace Ellery Channing; Miller and Recent Criticism by Walter Cranston Larned; The Point of View (Democracy and Distinction, Good Nature and the Ideal, Wanted: A Manual, The American Nomad; and cartoon strip by Arthur Burdett Frost. This copy very nice, no markings or cutting to text. Light soiling at text edges. Some chips to covers. $.
MG411. SCRIBNER'S April 1934. Vol. XCV, No. 4. 8.25" x 11", pp. 241 - 320 +28 pp. misc. & ads., in wraps. The complete issue for that date. Articles by Paul Hutchinson, Christian Gauss, Louis M. Hacker, Gilbert Seldes, Bernard Iddings Bell, Roy Durstine, John B. Waite, Ann Rivington, William Lyon Phelps; poems by Robert Frost and Isidor Schneider; first appearance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's TENDER IS THE NIGHT (Part IV). This copy light general soiling, firm binding, no writing or marking to text, covers and text are complete with no tears or cuts. $24.
MG412. SCRIBNER'S September 1934. Vol. XCVI, No. 3. 8.25" x 11", pp. 129 - 192 +18 pp. misc. & ads., in wraps. The complete issue for that date. Articles by Liddell Hart, John R. Tunis, Arthur Farwell, Stark Young, John Corbin, Elliott Merrick, Harold McGuire, Mary Heaton Vorse, William Lyon Phelps, Richard Gilbert. Stories by Grace Flandrau, Evan Shipman (harness racing), Benedict Thielen. Poems by Conrad Aiken (first appearance of "Escape The Pattern"), Jean Starr Untermeyer. This copy light general soiling, firm binding, no writing or marking to text. Backstrip separated in a couple of places, else covers and text are complete with no tears or cuts. $19. SOLD !!MG510. TV GUIDE July 15-21, 1995. Vol. 43, No. 28, Issue #2207. "Stellar Summer SCI-FI Issue" "Star Trek: Rapping with the cast of Voyager; The X -Files: An exclusive comic book; Mystery Science Theater 3000: ON the set of MST3K: The Movie." Cover photo: Jennifer Lien and Ethan Phillips as Kes and Neelix from Star Trek: Voyager. This copy: MINT condition, carefully preserved, unread, no browning or darkening, no tears, no writing or marks. GIFT QUALITY. qc%b5. $12.
MG511. TV GUIDE. July 8 - 14, 1995. Vol. 43, No. 27, issue #2206. Magazine 5" x 7.5", 214 pp. Cover story "Can This Game Be Saved? All-Star Cal Ripken Jr. Baseball's Best Hope; How To Get The Fans Back by Billy Crystal, Vanessa Williams, and others" Cover features color photo of Cal. Issued as Cal neared setting the new Iron Man mark, which he did the following September 7. This copy: MINT condition, carefully preserved, unread, no browning or darkening, no tears, no writing or marks. GIFT QUALITY for the baseball fan or collector. qc%b5. $12.
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