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Butterfield, Roger, ed. SATURDAY EVENING POST TREASURY, THE
New York Simon and Schuster 1954 First printing Cloth Very Good in Good + DJ
A compendium of outstanding stories, articles, and illustrations (color and black and white), from America's most loved magazine since 1728; more than two centuries of literary and treasures and illustrated delights. With thirty-two pages of Post color and black & white covers (16 pp.), and advertisements (16 pp). From the wisdom and writings of Benjamin Franklin, it's founder; articles on The Assassination of President Lincoln; Pershing At the Front; A Victory Dance (WWI), Alfred Noyes (to tales of Heroism in five wars); Humor of Irvin S. Cobb; poetry of Robert P. Tristram Coffin, "Vermont Praise"; humor of Robert M. Yoder, "Is There A Life After Forty?"; Jack London's, A Piece of Steak; Beyond the Bridge, by Joseph Hergesheimer; early glimpses of Churchill and F.D.R.; The Bolt from the Blue (Father Brown), C.K. Chesterton; In Alsace by Edith Wharton; Alibi Ike (Baseball Story), by Ring Lardner; Money by Gertrude Stein; Turn About by William Faulkner; Tugboat Annie, by Norman Reilly Raine; The Passing of "Third Floor Back," by Jerome K. Jerome; Babylon Revisited, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. And much more by Edna Vincent Millay, Stephen Vincent Benet, J.P. Marquand, Arthur Train, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe "The Black Cat," etc. And of course the Post's famous covers and drawings of: Norman Rockwell, J.C. Leyendecker, Constantin Alajalov, etc. A great collection of material. Wonderful illustrated sections of covers, ads, etc. many plates full page. DW not price clipped, black with Post illustrations. Few rub marks to spine, (one of the nicest condition DW I've seen). Previous owners name to pastedown, slight stain to lower edge of last 5 pages. Else very clean, tightly bound. Red boards, stamped in gilt with profile of Benjamin Franklin, backed by black tweed 1/4 cloth, black title panel to spine with gilt lettering. n mylar. First Printing stated. 4 to. 544 pp. In protective brodart mylar jacket.
Price:
14.50 USD
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