Harper's Magazine (December 1940,Vol. 182, No. 1087)
Chamberlain, William Henry; Chamberlain, John; Thompson, Sylvia; Edman, Irwin; Cranwell, John Philips; White, E.B. et al
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.Dark and Stormy Night Books
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Soft cover, 8vo, in grey wraps with printing in white and black. 1-112pp., plus extensive unpaginnated advertising sections to fore and rear. CONDITION: Very Good. Some wear, minor soiling and discoloration to exterior of wraps, however, inside is bright and clean.**Includes book review of Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls," by John Chamberlain. Extensive Book publisher pre-holiday advertising, including Macmillan Christmas Books; Viking Press; Harcourt Brace and Company; Houghton Mifflin; The Dial Press; Doubleday Doran; J.B. Lippincott; Little Brown & Company; Harvard Univ. Press; Bobbs-Merrill; Random House; Charles Scribner's Sons; Dodd, Mead & Co.; W.W. Norton & Co.; E.P. Dutton & Co.; Oxford Univ. Press, and more. Lead article: The United States Army by Frank C. Hanigan. Foreign correspondent and historian William Henry Chamberlin writes on "Europe's Revolt Against Civilization." Sidney M. Shalett contributes "Epitaph for the World's Fair." On economic matters, Milo Perkins pens "Exports and Appeasement," about the causes of economic woe to farmers from government tarriffs . Mr. Perkins was an administrator at the Dept. of Agriculture and Farm Security Administration. More on farming and soil conservation by Angus McDonald in, "My father was a Soil-Builder." Irwin Edman bemoans the loss of Europe as a source of cultural paradise with the invasions of WW2, in "Look Homeward, America!" Gustave Eckstein of the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology writes about primate research in "Ancestors." John Philip Cranwell writes "Air Power and Future History." Richard Hellman writes about the formation of Rural Public Health under the Farm Security Administration in an article entitled "The Farmers Try Group Medicine." Hal Lehrman reports a war story about German propaganda rogue editions of the Parisian newspaper, Paris-Soir. Short stories include: " Savora's" by Sylvia Thompson, about a romantic experience at a London restaurant. the final installment of Glenway Wescott's The Pilgrim Hawk." Finally, the American author E.B. White (of Charlotte's Web fame) pens a patriotic column, "One Man's Meat," conflating the war effort and need for a unification of the world's democracies with a dislike for the new year's (1941) automobile offerings.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Harper's Magazine (December 1940,Vol. 182, No. 1087)
- Author
- Chamberlain, William Henry; Chamberlain, John; Thompson, Sylvia; Edman, Irwin; Cranwell, John Philips; White, E.B. et al
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, New York
- Publication year
- 1940
- Condition
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft Cover
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Agriculture & Husbandry, Government and Politics, Periodicals - Magazines
Dark and Stormy Night Books
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