Fern Bisel Peat Art Dir Illus (1 results)
Children's Play Mate Magazine (6 vintage digest magazines)
Cooper, Esther (ed., sheet music); Fern Bisel Peat (art dir., illus.); Kathryn Worth, Bess Samuel Ayres, Marian Parker (songs); Ella Waterbury Gardner, Anne Paterson, Amy Bruner Almy, Jean Spencer Wynn, Nora Burglon, Frances Gorman Risser, Virginia McKee,
Published by A.R. Mueller Printing Co. 1936-39, 1936
- Softcover
Seller: Well-Stacked Books, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Well-Stacked Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 154.65
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Six vintage digest magazines devoted to children's crafts, nursery rhymes, illustration, entertainment, riddles, plays, recipes, forum with b/w photographs of child readers, and featuring iconic unheralded work by Peat, who drew nearly all covers, interior illustrations, cutout paper dolls, many elfin chara…cters and Dutch children. All-woman staff, series ran 1929 to 2008, early issues the scarcest, also known as "Children's Playmate Magazine," the title already in popular culture decades before Hefner's "Playmates of the Month." Several library holdings, including Texas A&M, Princeton, and Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland, OH). A nice entry collection of key issues. Included: V8 N7, December 1936, V9 N1, June 1937; V9 N2, July 1937 ("Li'l Napoleaon and the Watermillyun"); V9 N11, May 1938 (circus clowns); V10 N9, February 1939 ("Li'l Napoleon Says Thank You"); V10 N10, March 1939. All about 6 x 9 inches, 52pp, 15c cover price, color wrapper and internal plates, saddle-stapled. Good to Very Good overall, foxing, spine tears, brief fading and creases; a few pencil/ink notations (connect-the-dots), and all paper dolls present. May 1938 lacking pp13-18, February 1939 pp17-18, and March 1939, pp13-16.
