Life Magazine 1936 - 1937

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How To Place An Order Magazine Title Index Magazine Condition Grading

Issue Date:	Cover/Issue Description:	Condition:	Price
July 30, 1936	This Is a “Dummy”. 1^st Scarce advertising “dummy’ published to promote advertising in the future picture magazine. Approx. 3,000 copies printed.	Not Available	NA

September 24, 1936	Rehearsal Magazine – a “Dummy”. 2^nd Scarce advertising “dummy” published to promote the new (and yet unnamed) Life Magazine. 15,000 copies printed. Picking Cotton, “Romeo and Juliet”, Air Transport, Stalin, Hitler, Helen Hayes, Alice Marble, Nurnberg 1936, Black Widow Spiders. 80 pages	Good, lower spine edge tape repair, small edge tape repair	$75.00
	Same	Good, tape repairs to cover edge and spine, other edge tears	$75.00
	Same	Good, cover wear, small cover edge tears	$75.00

November 23, 1936	First Issue – Vol. 1 No. 1. Fort Peck Dam cover by Margaret Bourke-White. NBC Radio Studios, Brazil, Fort Knox, President's Album, Robert Taylor, Helen Hayes profile, “Camille”	G/VG, 2 tears at bottom	$45.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good	$40.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good, tears at top of cover	$30.00
	Same	Good, cover gouge, tape	$25.00
	Same	Fair – stain, spine repairs	$15.00

November 23, 1936

MINIATURE Copy of the first issue, measures approx. 6.5” x 8.5”, 96 pages. Exact reproduction except that color ads are b&w. Issued in 1962 as a promotional gift to advertisers and friends. Often misrepresented as a “preview issue” from 1936. – 2 copies

Good

$20.00

November 30, 1936	Vol. 1 No. 2 issue. West Point Cadet. FDR at Sea, Picture Life of Stalin, Rembrandt, Hitler Paintings, West Point, Argentine, Football	G/VG	$35.00
	Same	Good	$30.00
December 7, 1936	Vol. 1 No. 3 issue. Skiing cover. Noel Coward on Broadway, Hitler, Russian Ballet, Norfolk, Galli-Curci, Rachmaninoff, Lloyds of London, Skiing, German Navy – 6 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good	$20.00
	Same	Good, spine tears	$17.50
December 14, 1936	Archbishop of Canterbury. Bicycle Race, Designer Nettie Rosenstein, Salvador Dali, “Lost Horizon”, Mrs. Simpson, Gold, English Parliament – 7 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good	$20.00
December 21, 1936	Lord Beaverbrook's Daughter cover. Abdication, Tattoos, Merle Oberon, London Crystal Palace, Wildfowl by Scott, Spanish Bomb Madrid – 3 copies	G/VG	$25.00
December 28, 1936	Metropolitan Opera Ballet. Speaker of the House Bankhead, “Gone With the Wind” book, Burchfield Paintings, Lindy Hoppers, Dancing, Fred Astaire, Ballet, Life of Christ in Art, The Cruel Chinese & Japan – 4 copies	G/VG	$30.00
	Same – 2 copies	G/VG – torn back cover	$25.00
	Same	G/VG, edge tear through all pages	$25.00
	Same – 3 copies	Good	$25.00
	Same	Fair/Good, cover scuff	$15.00

January 4, 1937	President Roosevelt cover. Met Opera, WPA Murals, Roosevelt's Record (22 pages), "The Plainsman", How to Ride – 3 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same – 5 copies	Good	$20.00
	Same	Good, spine tears	$17.50
	Same – 3 copies	Good – 2 with minor insect damage	$17.50
January 11, 1937	Japanese Soldiers cover. Governor of NY, Margaret Sanger, Winslow Homer, Dinosaurs, 1936-37 Broadway Season (w/color photos), Japan's Army	G/VG	$25.00
	Same – 4 copies	Good	$20.00
January 18, 1937	Henry & Edsel Ford at Dearborn. Sit-Down Strike, Table Tennis, Britain’s Noble Beauties, Spanish War, “The Good Earth”, Luise Rainer - 5 copies	G/VG	$30.00
	Same – 8 copies	Good	$25.00
January 25, 1937	England's Royal Lion cover. China's Communists, Greyhound racing, US Army in the Air (4 planes in color), "The Women" (in color) - 3 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same	Good, crease	$20.00
February 1, 1937	Indoor Tennis cover. Roosevelt's 2^nd Inaugural, Vassar, Modern Art (Sloan, Marsh, etc.), Camper-trailers, Chinese communists, "Fire Over England"- 3 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same – 4 copies	Good	$20.00
February 8, 1937	Winter on the Range cover. Mississippi Floods of 1937, Grant Wood double page painting, Hermann Goring, Winter in Wyoming, “Maid of Salem” – 12 copies	G/VG	$20.00
February 15, 1937	General Senjuro Hayashi cover. Flood Victims, Supreme Court "Packing", Darryl Zanuck, Van Gogh Art, How to Undress, Oxford Group – 3 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same	Good	$20.00
February 22, 1937	Triton Sculpture for St. Louis. Leon Trotsky in Mexico, Marion Anderson, Barcelona Revolution, Table Tennis, Carl Milles Sculptures – 11 copies	G/VG	$20.00
March 1, 1937	274 Laboratory Mice. US Science Battles Cancer, Golden Gate Bridge Deaths, Belgrave Babies, Court Tennis, Thomas Hart Benton Art (in color), “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” & Joan Crawford – 10 copies	G/VG	$20.00
March 8, 1937	Ski Lift at Sun Valley. Studebakers, Labor Politics, Met Opera’s “Tristan”, Sun Valley photo essay, Charles Evans Hughes Close-up	Good	$20.00
March 15, 1937	Throne in Westminster Abbey. Steel Worker, Tyrone Power, Eleanor Roosevelt Album, The Coronation, Crown Jewels, Mecca, “Love Is News”, If London is Bombed, How a Man Undresses – 10 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same	Good	$17.50
March 22, 1937	Parachute Test with Dummy cover. Austria and Habsburgs, Mayor La Guardia, Parachute jumping, George Washington Carver, "The Soldier and the Lady", Chain Gang – 6 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same	Good	$17.50
March 29, 1937	Easter Choristers cover. Air Stewardesses, Texas School Tragedy, Harvard Swimmer, Smith College, Paul Cadmus Art, “The King and the Chorus Girl”, Palm Springs – 3 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same – 4 copies	Good	$17.50
April 5, 1937	Terrier Barking Up Tree. Sit-Down Strikes (Chrysler), Gas-House Gang in Training (Baseball), “Silent Barriers”, Richard II, The Amish & One–Room Schools – 2 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same	Good, crease	$17.50
April 12, 1937	Centenarian cover. Oldest man, "Elephant Boy", Quezon, Cezanne Art, Spanish Loyalists, Quezon of the Philippines, Beer for Kansas – 7 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same	Good	$17.50
April 19, 1937	Queen Mary (Liner). US Navy, Queen Mary Becomes Widow of Windsor, Lead Belly Music, “Marked Woman”, Junk Becomes Munitions – 8 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same	Good	$22.50
April 26, 1937	White Leghorn Rooster (only cover with Logo moved from upper left position - is in small letters at the bottom). Wagner Act, Oil Wells, "Captains Courageous", Pacific Defense, Hawaii, Gardens, Neville Chamberlain, Lou Gehrig ad back cover – 6 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same	Good	$20.00
	Same	Good, creases	$17.50
May 3, 1937	Harlow in Hollywood. England Fills Up for Coronation, Hollywood photo essay, Shirley Temple, “A Star Is Born”, Edward Hopper Art, India’s Northwest Frontier, Religion in Russia – 7 copies	G/VG	$35.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good	$30.00
May 10,1937	Migs (Boy shooting marbles). Middletown (Muncie, IN), Glenn Martin, "The Prince and the Pauper", Westminster Abbey, Mexican Propaganda Movie, Trout Fishing – 3 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same	Good, tear	$17.50
May 17, 1937	The Dionne Quints. Hindenburg Disaster photos, Kentucky Derby, Sam Goldwyn, John Kane Art, Tallest King, British Character Cartoons – 7 copies	G/VG	$30.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good	$25.00
May 24, 1937	Spring Lamb cover. Cordell Hull and State Dept., Roosevelt Fishing Vacation, Lamb Breeding, "Kid Galahad", Coronation Photos – 7 copies	G/VG	$20.00
May 31, 1937	Golden Gate Bridge. Theatre & Censorship, Henry Ford, Kent School Rowing, The Coronation, Water Colors, Elkton Marriage Mill Ends - 5 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good, edge tears	$17.50
	Same	Good – spine damage	$15.00
June 7, 1937	The Class of 1937. Big Missouri, Virginia Campus, Harvard Library, 1937 Students – 5 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same – 4 copies	Good	$17.50
June 14, 1937	A United States Senator. Senate & Senators, “Parnell”, Dachshunde, Waugh’s Seascapes, Eye & Ear – 8 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same	Good, library stamp, crease	$15.00
June 21, 1937	Reno Divorce Myth. “A Day at the Races”, Braddock vs. Louis, The Windsor Wedding, U.S. Dust Bowl – 3 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same	Good, crease	$17.50
June 28, 1937	Sea, Sand and Siren. Flight to Bermuda, “The Road Back”, Confederate Reunion, “You Can’t Take It With You”, “Room Service”, German Racer, Priests on Mussolini – 4 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good	$17.50
July 5, 1937	July Corn. Steel Strike, Paper Production, Renoir, Palestine, “Knight Without Armor” – 5 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good	$17.50
July 12, 1937	Grace the Dummy (Mannequin). Death in Spain (Robert Capa Spanish Civil War photos), East Indian Dummy, Pilgrims, Lunt & Fontaine, Audubon’s Birds, Transcontinental Trucking - 3 copies	G/VG	$35.00
July 19, 1937	Summer Shower. Amelia Earhart Disappears, Scottsboro Boys, Billy Rose’s Shows, Vermont, Vanderbilt Cup Racer, Puppeteers – 7 copies	G/VG	$25.00
July 26, 1937	Polo Pony. US Fascists, Infant Behavior, “Topper”, Charlie McCarthy, Rockettes in Paris, Picasso Painting – 3 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same	G/VG – 2” cover tear	$17.50
	Same	Good	$17.50
August 2, 1937	Sister Making Salad. Wheat, Pre-Fab House, Cup Yachts, “Toast of New York”, Iceland – 8 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same – 3 copies	Good	$17.50
August 9, 1937	Watermelons to Market. Motorized Maneuvers, Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket, Democratic Split, Archery, “Life of Emile Zola” – 8 copies	G/VG	$25.00
August 16, 1937	Young Camper. Madame Chiang Kai-shek, President’s Album, Private Flyers, How To Fly, Long Island Aviation Club, Summer at Camp – 4 copies	G/VG	$20.00
	Same	Good	$17.50
August 23, 1937	Transoceanic Transport (Airplane). Summer Theatres, Egypt’s King, Golf, Girl Scouts Jubilee, London Holiday – 4 copies	G/VG	$25.00
August 30, 1937	Life Goes on a Frog Hunt. Military Cemeteries in Europe, Ku Klux Klan & Justice Black, Atom Smasher, The Japanese, “Dead End” – 8 copies	G/VG	$20.00
September 6, 1937	Harpo Marx. National Labor Relations Board, Lily Pons, Shanghai Bombed, Deanna Durbin, “A Hundred Men and a Girl”, Paris Fashions & Reporters – 3 copies	Good	$25.00
September 13, 1937	Weir of Weirton. Chinese Fight Japan at Shanghai, Lilly Dache, Twins Convention, Photoelectric Signs, Robert Riggs Art, “The Prisoner of Zenda”, Amateur Golf, Where Robert Ripley Lives	G/VG	$25.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good	$20.00
September 20, 1937	Menuhin’s Hands. New York Prepares to Pick a Mayor, Battle of Antietam 75^th, Bacteria, Avaitors, Doris Lee, Mussolini & Hitler Caricatures, Hollywood Starlets, Carole Lombard, Iowa Farm photo essay – 4 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same	Good	$20.00
	Same	Good, tape repair, , label	$15.00
September 27, 1937	Nelson Eddy. Woods Hole, Dressing for Football, MGM Photographer, “Stage Door”, Mountain Climber’s Album photo essay – 3 copies	G/VG	$25.00
October 4, 1937	7:15 In a Legionnaire’s Home. New York Legion Parade, Legion Biography, Hong Kong Typhoon, “Victoria the Great”, Three Di Maggios Make Good, Australian Flight	G/VG	$25.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good	$20.00
October 11, 1937	No. 1 Trojan (Football Player). Leviathan Junked, New Boeing Bomber, The X-Ray, Grand Coulee Dam, Dude Ranch Church, Myrna Loy, Lou Little, Queen Mary Sister Ship, Murals by Palmer – 5 copies	G/VG	$20.00
October 18, 1937	Veils Today and Tonight. Roosevelt & Foreign Policy, Romans in Ethiopia photo essay, Brain Waives, Life of Kettering, McCrady Paints Oxford, Miss., Star’s Doubles – 4 copies	G/VG	$25.00
October 25, 1937	Hunting Spaniel. George M. Cohan Plays FDR, Canada’s Governor General, Spanish Propaganda, James Daugherty’s Murals of America, “Heidi”, Danielle Darrieux, How Spaniels Are Trained to Hunt – 5 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same	Good	$20.00
November 1, 1937	Jupiter and Mercury on Broadway. Stock Market Crash, San Francisco Ballet, Italy in Spain, Foreign Cars, Rockwell Kent Portfolio, Football, Harvard Law School photo essay, “Stand-In”, The Lunts – 4 copies	G/VG	$35.00
	Same	Good, spine tear	$30.00
November 8, 1937	Greta Garbo. Windsors in America, Six-Man Football, Universe Through Mt. Wilson’s Telescope photo essay, Czechoslovakia photo essay, “Conquest”, 200-In. Telescope – 2 copies	G/VG	$30.00
	Same – 6 copies	Good	$25.00
November 15, 1937	And Many a Lightship Lad (Mrs. Simpson). Republicans Carry New York, “It’s Love I’m After”, Old Cars on Screen, American Housing photo essay, Field Hockey – 7 copies	G/VG	$20.00
November 22,1937	One Year Old (Baby cover). Joe Kennedy Reports on American Merchant Marine, Caldwell & Bourke-White Look at Cotton Country, Ramsay MacDonald obit, Fall of Shanghai, Bennington photo essay, French in North Africa, “The Hurricane”, Madame Curie by Daughter Eve – 2 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same	Good	$20.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good, spine splitting	$17.50
November 29, 1937	United States Capitol. Government and Business, Supreme Court Portrait, Tuberculosis photo essay, Period Rooms in Miniature, “Damsel in Distress”, Memo to Walter Wanger – 9 copies	G/VG	$20.00
December 6, 1937	Fatalist With Machine Gun (Japanese Soldier). Americans Go Hunting, “Nothing Sacred”, “Wild Bill” Wellman, Conquest of Asia photo essay, Cosmic Rays, Skating Craze – 3 copies	G/VG	$25.00
	Same – 3 copies	Good	$20.00
	Same	Good, cover wear	$17.50
December 13, 1937	Billions of Dollars & Millions of Men (Trains). Dream House, ICC, Biggest Toy Train Maker -Lionel, Black Haiti photo essay, Disney’s “Snow White” (in color), “True Confessions”, Antiaircraft Guns – 3 copies	G/VG	$45.00
	Same	Good, soiled, sun fade	$35.00
December 20, 1937	Prettiest Girl in Paradise. The Kennedy Family, Japanese Front, Wines of Burgundy (photo essay), Riverside Church photo essay, “Tovarich”, Deana Durbin is 15, Europeans Sweep Carnegie Show	Good – spine damage	$17.50
December 27, 1937	The Frick Collection. “Panay” Incident, New York Deb, Television, Portfolio from Frick Collection, New Movies of 1938: A Long Look at Hollywood, Xmas With the Quints	G/VG	$25.00
	Same – 2 copies	Good	$22.50

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