Hardcover. Condition: VG. Memorial Edition. Some rubbing & edgewear; light scratches; overall clean & tight. 160 pages.
Published by The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1942
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Crockwell, Douglass (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Our Next Two Years - What total war will demand of every American; The Terrible-Tempered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes - how to buy an Old Master at bargain-counter rates, with color photos (third of four articles); Booster No. 1 - Donald Kirk Thomas is managing director of the All-Year Club of Southern California; Plush-Covered Cactus - Texas' Tom Connolly, first member of Congress to shed his blood in WWII, fights to keep this 'America's War'. Stories: Home is the Sailor; Captain Tutt, Ahoy!; Joseph's Coat; The Ranger Meets the Family; Ride the Man Down; Tall in the Saddle. Pepsodent Powder ad features photos of Jack and Alan, the Sampson Twins of Norwood Park, Illinois. Nice one-page color-illustrated ad for Diamond T Trucks features scene of tandem truck in military service painted by Frederic Tellander. Nice back cover color Coke ad features lovely dame in lavender dress. Complete, clean and unmarked with light wear. A very well-preserved copy of this nostalgic issue.; Cover Art; Folio.
Published by The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1942
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Ludekens, Fred; Lee, Doris Belck (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Bible of Baseball - Taylor Spink and his 'The Sporting News' prove fans can take it by the ream; Treasure on the Ocean Floor - Gulf-coast Greeks go down, sponges come up; Tokyo Calls the Tune - Hitler rediscovers the Yellow Peril - Tokyo style; Russia Will Hold This Summer - by former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph E. Davies; How to Have Fun With Weeds - Don't Dump them at the garden's edge - eat them; Dorothy Lamour - Big Pie Plate - Jack Price is a demon dish salesman; I Escaped from Hong Kong (last of 3 articles) - flight across China, from Hong Kong's horrors, by Jan Henrik Marsman; Should Congress Vote a Sales Tax to Finance the War? Stories: Where is Tita?; Pike Pohlman Invades a Barony; Four-Cornered Turn; Destroyer from America; The Ranger Takes a Honeymoon; The Case of the Careless Kitten (part 5 of 8); Assignment in Brittany (conclusion). 102 pages. Nice color-illustrated one-page Mack Truck ad shows army green dump truck being loaded with earth. Interesting Bostitch ad shows huge stapler about to staple a prone Japanese soldier. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A well-preserved copy of this vintage WWII-era issue.; Cover Illustration; Folio.
Published by The Curtis Publishing Company, USA, 1943
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Rockwell, Norman; Scott, Howard; Bohrod, Aaron (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Asia Saved Our Bacon - few know what the Russo-Asiatic peoples have meant to us on the European front; One to Three You're Left-Handed - the human engineering laboratory examines southpaws; Freedom of Worship; How To Write a Song Hit - a blow-by-blow account of travail in Tin Pan Alley, with great photos!; Spain - The Next Step For Hitler? - the day draws near for Spain to make her choice; Aces are Aces - cropland is paramount in war and peace; The January Promise (2nd of 2 articles) - what comrade Stalin said to Mr. Churchill about a second front - and Mr. Wilkie's footnote; Camp Boardwalk - Atlantic City's paying guest is now the Army - article with many nice color photos. Short Stories: Sam and His Yankee Allies; Look Well on His Face; Uncle Jethro's Public Service; The Ranger is a Dame; Jungle Harvest (part 3 of 6); Death in the Doll's House (conclusion). Nice one-page color Goodyear ad features photo of Flossie Anson and E.K. Brown who build life rafts such as the one that saved Captain Rickenbacker and his crew mates. Half-page two-color ad for the Pan-American Coffee Bureau extolls the virtue of drinking this fine beverage during wartime shortages. Back cover color-illustrated ad for Sunkist oranges and lemons is captioned "The job of oranges and lemons in the serious business of war." One-page color ad for tourism to southern California features military theme. 100 pages. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A well-preserved vintage copy of this interesting issue.; Colour Illustrations; Folio.