The Reader's Digest: August 1939

Pleasantville, NY, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc, 1939. Paperback. 122p. A small, staplebound magazine in very good condition. Edges rubbed; front cover and foredges foxed. Otherwise clean and tight. August 1939 issue (vol. 35, no. 208) of READER'S DIGEST, containing such varied articles as "America's Gunpowder Women," "Fingerprinting for Protection," and "The Human Firecracker. Very Good .

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Book number: 186329

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The Reader's Digest: October 1928

Pleasantville, NY, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc, 1928. Paperback. Pages 321-384. A small, staplebound magazine in good condition. Spine chipped, and small piece torn off bottom left corner of front cover. Interior is still tightly bound, and text is unmarked. October 1928 issue (no. 78) of READER'S DIGEST, containing such varied articles as "American Women and Religion," "How to Become a Flyer," and "Doing Without Women. Good .

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Book number: 186330

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The Reader's Digest: November 1924

Pleasantville, NY, The Reader's Digest Association, 1924. Paperback. A staplebound magazine in very good condition. Mild age-toning, and bottom front corner torn. Two tiny pencil marks on front cover; otherwise clean and tight. November 1924 issue (no. 31) of THE READER'S DIGEST magazine. Includes articles on the negative health effects of tobacco on the human body, and a German soldier's memory of the Kaiser. .

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Book number: 201198

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The Reader's Digest: March 1931

Pleasantville, NY, The Reader's Digest Association, 1931. Paperback. A staplebound magazine in very good condition. Scattered small markings in red colored pencil; otherwise securely bound. March 1931 issue (no. 107) of THE READER'S DIGEST magazine. Includes articles on birth control, the death penalty, and Germany's payment of war reparations. .

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Book number: 201202

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The Reader's Digest: April 1941

Pleasantville, NY, The Reader's Digest Association, 1941. Paperback. A staplebound magazine in very good condition. Spine rubbed, but otherwise clean and tight. April 1941 issue (no. 228) of THE READER'S DIGEST magazine. Includes articles on the prospect of Hitler invading America, how chlorophyll works, and how to be a responsible patient at a doctor's visit. .

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Book number: 201209

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The Reader's Digest: September 1941

Pleasantville, NY, The Reader's Digest Association, 1941. Paperback. A staplebound magazine in very good condition. Spine rubbed, but otherwise clean and tight. September 1941 issue (no. 233) of THE READER'S DIGEST magazine. Includes a section of vocabulary exercises and reading quizzes. .

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Book number: 201210

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The Saturday Evening Post: April 6, 1963

Philadelphia, The Curtis Publishing Company, 1963. Paperback. 82p. A large, staplebound magazine in very good condition. Light creasing at the corners, and old address label on the front. Otherwise clean and tight. April 6, 1963 issue of the Saturday Evening Post, containing a feature on President John F. Kennedy's foreign policy and "All the Blood Within Me" by Kingsley Amis. Measures approx. 14" x 10.75. Very Good .

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Book number: 184568

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Scribner's Magazine: October 1932

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Paperback. 63p; 24p ads. A softcover magazine in very good condition. Edges lightly worn and faded; mild chipping at ends of spine. Old price sticker on front cover. Text unmarked and binding tight. October 1932 issue of SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE. Contains Clarence Darrow's own account of the Massie Trial, and part 2 of FLOWERING WILDERNES by John Galsworthy. Very Good .

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Book number: 184295

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A Sheed & Ward Anthology: A Publisher's Choice of Pages from Fifty Chosen Books

London, Sheed & Ward, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 401p. Ex-library, original cloth. A hardcover book in FAIR condition. Corners of boards and edges of spine are worn. A few scratches on the front cover and tan doscoloration on foredge. Call number on spine and small label on back cover; bookplate and card pocket on endpapers; additional library marks on title page. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Contains works by Ronald Knox ("A New Cure for Religion," "Parables," and "Post-Script for Anglicans"), C.C. Martindale ("Australia -- Last Thoughts" and "The Boyhood of Aloysius"), Jacques Maritain ("Art and Morality," "Spiritual Life in the Modern World," and "Rousseau and Debased Christianity"), Dietrich von Hildebrand ("Purity as a Positive Virtue"), Hilaire Belloc ("Blessed Thomas More as a Witness to Abstract Truth" and "Anti-Clericalism in Europe"), G.K. Chesterton ("The Black Virgin" and "Dedication to GREYBEARDS AT PLAY"), and much more. Fair .

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Book number: 198602

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Songs Madrigals and Sonnets. A Gathering of Some of the Most Pleasant Flowers of Old English Poetry

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Co, 1849. Vellum. A small hardcover book bound in full vellum with gilt foredges. Boards slightly warped outward. Otherwise, pages unmarked and crisp, and binding tight. A fine binding by Kenneth Hobson. Features pretty color vignettes in the margins. Measures approx. 5.5" x 4.4.

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Book number: 176583

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St. Patrick's: March 1900 to March 1902 (Volumes 1-2)

Dublin, Stephen Holland, 1902. Hardcover. 2 vols. A set of two large, green cloth hardcover books in very good condition. Corners bumped and worn. Margins tanned and endpapers foxed, but pages otherwise clean and binding tight in both volumes. Two-years' worth of issues of the rare Irish Catholic periodical ST. PATRICK'S bound in two hardcover volumes. Includes Volume I, no. 1 (March 1900) through volume II, no. 104 (March 1902). Both volumes measure approx. 11.5" x 9.5.

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Book number: 166914

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Temple Bar (Volumes 74-5 in 2 Books)

1885. Hardcover. Ex-library blue buckram. Volumes 74-5 covering the year 1885 in 2 books. Books in very good condition. These two volumes contain pieces by Mrs. G.W. Godfrey, Mrs. J.H. Riddell, Annie Edwardes, Charles Reade, and more. Temple Bar was a literary periodical of the mid and late 19th and very early 20th centuries (1860-1906). The complete title was Temple Bar - A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers. It was initially edited by George Augustus Sala, and Arthur Ransome was the final editor before it folded, while he developed his literary career. It was also edited by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Temple Bar was founded a year after the first publication of William Thackeray's The Cornhill Magazine, by one of Charles Dickens' followers, Sala, who promised his readers that the periodical would be "full of solid yet entertaining matter, that shall be interesting to Englishmen and Englishwomen..and that Filia-familias may read with as much gratification as Pater or Mater-familias", appealing to a solid, literate middle-class. It sold for about one shilling, and was one of the leading literary magazines of the era. 553 issues were published - up to 1906, about one a month. It published work by writers such as Amy Levy, Jane Austen, Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, Arthur Conan Doyle, E. F. Benson and Jessie Fothergill. Initially the magazine achieved a circulation of some 30,000 which eventually settled at around the 13,000 mark in the late 1860s. In 1868 Bentley's Magazine was merged into it. By 1896 it had dropped to about 8,000. .

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Book number: 124595

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Temple Bar (Volume 80 in 1 Book)

1887. Hardcover. Ex-library 3/4 black leather on decorative boards. Volume 80 from the year 1887 in 1 book. Spine tearing. Book in good condition. Temple Bar was a literary periodical of the mid and late 19th and very early 20th centuries (1860-1906). The complete title was Temple Bar - A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers. It was initially edited by George Augustus Sala, and Arthur Ransome was the final editor before it folded, while he developed his literary career. It was also edited by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Temple Bar was founded a year after the first publication of William Thackeray's The Cornhill Magazine, by one of Charles Dickens' followers, Sala, who promised his readers that the periodical would be "full of solid yet entertaining matter, that shall be interesting to Englishmen and Englishwomen..and that Filia-familias may read with as much gratification as Pater or Mater-familias", appealing to a solid, literate middle-class. It sold for about one shilling, and was one of the leading literary magazines of the era. 553 issues were published - up to 1906, about one a month. It published work by writers such as Amy Levy, Jane Austen, Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, Arthur Conan Doyle, E. F. Benson and Jessie Fothergill. Initially the magazine achieved a circulation of some 30,000 which eventually settled at around the 13,000 mark in the late 1860s. In 1868 Bentley's Magazine was merged into it. By 1896 it had dropped to about 8,000. .

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Book number: 124596

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Temple Bar (Volume 88 in 1 Book)

1890. Hardcover. Ex-library 3/4 black leather on decorative boards. Volume 88 from the year 1890 in 1 book. Book in good to very good condition. Contains fiction by Annie Edwardes, Rhoda Broughton, and others. Temple Bar was a literary periodical of the mid and late 19th and very early 20th centuries (1860-1906). The complete title was Temple Bar - A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers. It was initially edited by George Augustus Sala, and Arthur Ransome was the final editor before it folded, while he developed his literary career. It was also edited by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Temple Bar was founded a year after the first publication of William Thackeray's The Cornhill Magazine, by one of Charles Dickens' followers, Sala, who promised his readers that the periodical would be "full of solid yet entertaining matter, that shall be interesting to Englishmen and Englishwomen..and that Filia-familias may read with as much gratification as Pater or Mater-familias", appealing to a solid, literate middle-class. It sold for about one shilling, and was one of the leading literary magazines of the era. 553 issues were published - up to 1906, about one a month. It published work by writers such as Amy Levy, Jane Austen, Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, Arthur Conan Doyle, E. F. Benson and Jessie Fothergill. Initially the magazine achieved a circulation of some 30,000 which eventually settled at around the 13,000 mark in the late 1860s. In 1868 Bentley's Magazine was merged into it. By 1896 it had dropped to about 8,000. .

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Book number: 124597

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Temple Bar (Volume 95 in 1 Book)

1892. Hardcover. Ex-library 3/4 tan leather on decorative boards. Volume 95 from the year 1892 in 1 book. Book in good to very good condition. Temple Bar was a literary periodical of the mid and late 19th and very early 20th centuries (1860-1906). The complete title was Temple Bar - A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers. It was initially edited by George Augustus Sala, and Arthur Ransome was the final editor before it folded, while he developed his literary career. It was also edited by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Temple Bar was founded a year after the first publication of William Thackeray's The Cornhill Magazine, by one of Charles Dickens' followers, Sala, who promised his readers that the periodical would be "full of solid yet entertaining matter, that shall be interesting to Englishmen and Englishwomen..and that Filia-familias may read with as much gratification as Pater or Mater-familias", appealing to a solid, literate middle-class. It sold for about one shilling, and was one of the leading literary magazines of the era. 553 issues were published - up to 1906, about one a month. It published work by writers such as Amy Levy, Jane Austen, Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, Arthur Conan Doyle, E. F. Benson and Jessie Fothergill. Initially the magazine achieved a circulation of some 30,000 which eventually settled at around the 13,000 mark in the late 1860s. In 1868 Bentley's Magazine was merged into it. By 1896 it had dropped to about 8,000. .

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Book number: 124600

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