Author: (Sandburg, Carl). Luce, Henry R. (editor).
Title: Fortune. January 1934. Volume IX, Number 1. [Magazine].
Description: Jersey City, NJ: Time Inc. 1934. 1934. - Quarto, 14 inches high by 11-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, color pictorial wraps illustrated by Ernest Hamlin Baker. The covers are lightly soiled with some minor stains and the corners slightly creased. The joints are rubbed and the tail of the spine is chipped. 134 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white throughout. There is some light foxing to the edges of the first and last few pages and a few page corners are bumped. Very good.

Among the contents is an article on "The New York Stock Exchange", illustrated with a full-page reproduction of an etching by Karl Dehmann picturing "The Exchange"; an article on "Fourteen Notable Modern Paintings" with full-color reproductions; a full-page poem by Carl Sandburg, "Moonlight and Maggots", is a satire on the captains of finance; an article, "The Miracles of Lourdes" is well-illustrated after photographs; an advertisement for the magazine "The Farmer's Wife" features a nearly full-page color illustration of a little girl with dolls by Mary Anderson. Very good .

Keywords: AMERICANA; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; FORTUNE; MAGAZINE; PERIODICAL; ECONOMICS; BUSINESS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; HENRY R. LUCE; ERNEST HAMLIN BAKER; CARL SANDBURG; NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE; KARL DEHMANN; MODERN PAINTING; MOONLIGHT AND MAGGOTS; M

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