7 early VTG New Yorker Magazine 1929 - 1939 Complete Issues Art Deco

Description: 8 individual issues of the New Yorker from the years 1929 to 1939 Select any single issue from the drop down menu. Condition varies from issue to issue. Most have some condition issues including a missing pair of pages, clipped ads, shelf bumping etc. See individual descriptions and photos Individual Issues as follows: August 3, 1929. Late summer Rea Irvin cover illustrations of an overheated custodial worker pining over an advertisement for the Swiss Alps. Issue includes John O'Hara story "The Boss Talks," Shouts and Murmurs: A Preface to Lippmann by Alexander Woolcott, cinema review of Delores Del Rio's Evangeline and Greta Garbo's The Single Standard, and more... Missing page 7-8, some archival tape mending to the spine edge. Good only.$65 December 7, 1929 - Julian de Miskey cover of intimidated men Christmas shopping for women's lingerie at a department store counter. Issue includes E. B. White poetry "The Fox of Peapack," John O'Hara story "Merrie, Merrie, Merrie," classic Peter Arno cartoon "We'd Like to Report a Stolen Car," Talk of the Town on first show at MoMA, a piece on Alexander Calder's toy circus, tons of pre-Christmas art deco styled ads, and more... Page 19/20 ripped out, cover loose from binding staples and superficial damp line along the spine edge. Uncommon issue. Good only. $75 December 20, 1930 - Constantin Alajalov illustrated collage cover of Christmas cards and the people who sent them. Issue includes E. B. White story "Eeny Meeny Miny Mo," Cinema review of Marlene Dietrich classic "The Blue Angel," James M. Cain poem "Auld Lang Syne," John Held woodcut, A Reporter at Large "Your Honor..." by Morris Markey, and more... pages 9/10, 29/30, 33/34, 69/70 have had areas of the page roughly torn out. Fair only; as is. $25 November 28, 1931 - Harry Brown illustrated abstract cover of two opposing football teams lined up against each other; one in blue, one in red. Issue includes E. B. White poem "Harvest of Half-Truths," John O'Hara story "... His Partner, Henry T. Collins," James Thurber piece "The Curb in the Sky", short piece on William Faulkner and his upcoming book "A Light in August," and more... Archival tape mend to spine edge; page 15/16 mostly torn out. Faint library ink stamp to the front cover; mild rippling to covers and contents. Fair to Good only. $15 December 18, 1937 - Will Cotton illustrated cover of a couple purchasing a modern minimalist style artificial Christmas Tree. Issue includes James Thurber story "Pepper for the Belgians," fascinating piece on pre-war Nazi Germany by A. J. Liebling "A Reporter at Large: Frau Weinmann and the Third Reich," Lucky Strike ad with Joan Crawford on back cover, and more... Shelf bumped top of the spine with stress creasing to the covers and pages at the crown. Archival paper tape mend to the spine edge. G+ $20 February 26, 1938 - Helene E. Hokinson illustrated cover of a little girl and boy taking desert from a cafeteria service machine while their chauffeur waits. Issue includes fiction by Kay Boyle and Hugh Walpole, theater review by Robert Benchley, book review of Thomas Mann's "Joseph and His Brothers," cinema review of Cecil B. DeMille's "The Buccaneers," and more... Light wear to the spine; stress bump/scrunch bottom edge of cover and contents. Small Ad or cartoon cut out of page 23/24. Good only $35 April 29, 1939 - New York World's Fair. James Thurber illustrated cover of the opening of the 1939 World's Fair depicting the Trylon and the Perisphere and a crowd of gawkers all in yellow. Issue includes John O'Hara story "The Ideal Man," James Thurber story "Fables for Our Time - IV" Letter from Paris by Genet, book review of C. S. Forester's "Captain Horatio Hornblower," and more... Top two inches of of the back cover torn away. 1939 New York World's Fair Map by Carl Rose missing. Light shelf/strage wear to cover edges and light soiling to cover. Fair to Good only ... $30

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