BELLOW, Saul

Mosby's Memoirs

New York, New Yorker Magazine, 1968. Paperback. 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 80pp. Illustrations, numerous advertisements (many color and full page). Near fine. Faintest of wear to outer wrappers (only). Handsome full issue of the July 20, 1968 issue of "The New Yorker." Among its usual array of fiction and nonfiction, poems and essays, is the first appearance of Bellow's short story "Mosby's Memoirs" (pp. 36-49), which would be published later that same year in Bellow's first short story collection, "Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories." On the upper right corner of the front wrapper, Andre Francois' color rendering of a flock of birds, Bellow signs boldly in blue ballpoint. Unusual in this form. .

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N° du livre: 50023

Catalogue: Magazines

ROSS, Harold (editor)

The New Yorker: April 16, 1938

New York, F-R Publishing Corporation, 1938. Paperback. 4to. Stiff color wrappers. 64pp. Illustrations, line drawings, advertisements. Near fine. Slightest spine "roll," else exceptionally bold and bright, complete lacking in edge tears. Tight and attractive copy (Volume XIV, Number 9) of the famed weekly begun in 1925. Front wrapper art by Rea Irvin (1881-1972), illustrator who created the iconic Eustace Tilley portrait for the magazine's 21 February 1925 debut issue, depicts a Margaret Dumont-type society woman standing and singing in church, the little girl in the pew in front of her turned around to face her and watch. .

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N° du livre: 44215

Catalogue: Magazines

Mots-clés: Rea Irvin

ROSS, Harold (editor)

The New Yorker: February 10, 1940

New York, F-R Publishing Corporation, 1940. Paperback. 4to. Stiff color wrappers. 68pp. Illustrations, line drawings, advertisements (some color). Near fine. Quite bold and bright and entirely free of edge tears. Tight and attractive copy (Volume XV, Number 52) of the famed weekly begun in 1925. Superb front wrapper art by the Russian-born American illustrator Constantin Alajalov (1900-87), the only artist to paint covers for both "The New Yorker" and "The Saturday Evening Post," best remembered for his famed cubist-style watercolor front covers. Scene here depicts the packed lobby of a theater, the foreground crammed with smiling social elite and overflowing staircase in background trying to squeeze in. An exceptional condition copy with killer graphics. .

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N° du livre: 44217

Catalogue: Magazines

ROSS, Harold (editor)

The New Yorker: April 17, 1943

New York, F-R Publishing Corporation, 1943. Paperback. 4to. Stiff color wrappers. 72pp. Illustrations, line drawings, advertisements (some color). Very good. Lacks rear wrapper and first inner leaf a bit rumpled. Attractive copy (Volume XIX, Number 9) of the famed weekly begun in 1925. Front wrapper art by Will Cotton shows an elderly Navy officer in uniform and colleague leaving a swank soiree, glancing angrily at the derby hat being offered him by a maid at the coat check. Contributors include Alfred Hayes ("The Doctor's Here Now"), A.J. Liebling ("A Reporter at Large") and Grace Flandrau ("All the Modern Conveniences"). Cartoons featured include examples by Garrett Price, George Price, Peter Arno, William Steig and Helen Hokinson. .

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N° du livre: 47621

Catalogue: Magazines

ROSS, Harold (editor)

The New Yorker: August 28, 1943

New York, F-R Publishing Corporation, 1939. Paperback. 4to. Stiff color wrappers. 60pp. Illustrations, line drawings, advertisements (some color). Very good. Ever-so-faint vertical fold along center; rear wrapper tear discreetly, expertly, archivally mended. Decent copy (Vol. XX, No. 50) of the famed weekly begun in 1925. Charming front wrapper by Polly Borland shows a snowy rural scene with a smiling pipe-smoking mail carrier handing a V-mail letter at a farm house porch to a woman. Contributors include John O'Hara, Jean Genet and Kenneth Fearing and cartoonists include Charles Addams, Helen Hokinson and George Price. .

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N° du livre: 48250

Catalogue: Magazines

ROSS, Harold (editor)

The New Yorker: January 27, 1945

New York, F-R Publishing Corporation, 1945. Paperback. 4to. Stiff color wrappers. 64pp. Illustrations, line drawings, advertisements (some color). Very good. Chip at lower right corner of front wrapper, with hint of inoffensive dampstain along lower 1" here and there throughout. Decent copy (Vol. XIX, No. 28) of the famed weekly begun in 1925. Delightful front wrapper art depicts two farm couples in overalls reclining with drinks alongside their hobby crops, with uniformed maid serving drinks and oeur d'oeuvres and in-ground pool in background. .

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N° du livre: 48254

Catalogue: Magazines