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Issue Date:

Cover/Issue Description:

Condition:

Price:

January, 1950

Young Couple photo cover. Fiction, The Real Margaret Mitchell by Robert C Ruark - part 2, Fashions, Food

Not Available

NA

February, 1950

Model cover. Cancer In Our Breast by John Gunther, Ethel Barrymore profile – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

March, 1950

Model cover 

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same

Good

$15.00

April, 1950

Baby Girl photo cover. Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Pandit, Divorce from Each Side

Good, back cover cutout

$15.00

May, 1950

Sundial Fashions. Eisenhower Talks to John Gunther – 3 copies

G/VG

$20.00

June, 1950

Model cover. The Untold Story of Ernie Pyle

Good

$17.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good, spine fray

$15.00

July, 1950

Mother with Baby

Not Available

NA

August, 1950

Lime Iceberg cover. Helen Hayes on her Daughter’s Polio

Good

$15.00

September, 1950

Model cover.

Not Available

NA

October, 1950

Flower Box cover. Food, Fiction, Fashions, Interiors, Kids. 160 pages

Not Available

NA

November, 1950

Model in leather cap cover. Meet Mamie Eisenhower, 134 Christmas Gifts

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1951

Model cover. Cutting the High Cost of Eating, Fashions, Washington’s 10 Most Powerful Women

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good, spine fray

$15.00

February, 1951

Valentines cover. Fiction, The Private World of a 14-Year-Old Girl, I Married an Alcoholic, My Life With Harvey by Mary Chase, Food, Fashions

Good

$15.00

March, 1951

Mother with Twins in Matching Outfits & Hats. “I Live With a Hero” by Mrs. Jackie Robinson. Mrs. Alben Barkley at Home

Good, light stain

$15.00

April, 1951

Lemon Meringue Pie cover. John Gunther on Religion, Avoiding Heart Attacks

G/VG

$20.00

May, 1951

Your Children Will Love to Play with Betsy McCall (Introducing Betsy McCall paper doll). Ray Bradbury fiction, Hollywood Tackles Sorority Problem, My Life As a Spy

G/VG

$25.00

June, 1951

(Greta) Garbo Poses). I Joined the Red Underground, Hollywood’s 10 Most Beautiful, The Great Gary (Indiana) Cleanup

G/VG

$25.00

July, 1951

Summer Beauty Secrets (Model in Swimsuit cover). Summer Eathing, Walt Disney Creates a New Alice (In Wonderland)

Not Available

NA

August, 1951

Bab Bathing cover. Kefauver and Women by John Gunther, Prize Living Rooms, Martha Rountree, the Stewart Grangers

G/VG, missing back cover

$15.00

September, 1951

Model cover. My Bedroom Contest, New Fashions, Education

G/VG

$20.00

October, 1951

Baked Ham Dinner cover. Mary Margaret McBride on the New White House, 8 Pages of Square Meals, We’ve Learned to Live With TV

G/VG

$20.00

November, 1951

Model cover. 100 Christmas Gifts, Should High-School Boys Play Football?

Good

$17.50

December, 1951

Merry-Go-Round Christmas Candy & Cookies Decoration. My Life's History" by Grandma Moses, Mrs. Don McNeill on Her Husband

G/VG

$25.00

 

January, 1952

Young Girl Drying After Bath cover. Sex Education in Our Schools?, Fiction Issue

Not Available

NA

February, 1952

Baked Beans in Pot cover. Eva Peron, Peggy Dow, Betsy McCall Gets a Valentine, California Fashions – Hollywood Beauty

G/VG

$20.00

March, 1952

Model photo cover. The Strange Private Life of Edgar Bergen, How To Decorate Your Living Room, Fiction, The Woman Alcoholic, Betsy McCall Speaks Her Piece

G/VG

$25.00

April, 1952

Baby cover. Prince Charles of England, How to Defeat Sex Criminals, I Live with Leo Durocher by Laraine Day

G/VG

$20.00

May, 1952

Model photo cover. Meet the Next First Lady - Mamie Eisenhower & others. Jane Froman, Prize Table Settings from Eight Cities, Betsy McCall Goes on a Picnic

G/VG

$20.00

June, 1952

Ice Cream Sundae photo cover. Margaret Truman, Babies Don't Smother, A Child's Guide to Fun in the US

G/VG

$20.00

July, 1952

Model photo cover. Princess Margaret, Helen Hayes, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Case of the 11 Orphans

G/VG

$20.00

August, 1952

Salad & Seafood cover. Dear Dorothy Dix, Polio, Teens Discuss Their Parents

G/VG

$20.00

September, 1952

Model cover. Fiction, Preventing Bicycle Accidents, Food, Housekeeping, Fashions

G/VG

$2.00

October, 1952

Cake cover. Arthur Godfrey, Take-It-Easy Cooking, First Baby, Public Schools

G/VG

$20.00

November, 1952

Model cover. Fiction by John P Marquand, others, Gifts for Christmas, Black Market Baby, Imogene Coca profile, Washington Debutante

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

December, 1952

Make Our Merry Cookies For Your Tree. Xmas features, Food, Fashions

G/VG

$25.00

 

January, 1953

Baby photo cover. Why I Love Lucy by Desi Arnaz, Polio Is Being Defeated, Fed Up with Teenagers, Betsy McCall Finds a Surprise

Good

$17.50

February, 1953

Heart-Shaped Cake cover. Stalin and His 3 Wives, Mrs. Walt Disney, Fashions, Food – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

March, 1953

Model cover. Picture Book of Decorating Ideas, Mystery Woman in Stalin's Life, Easter Fashions, New Kitchen Color Schemes, Fiction, Food, Fashions, Betsy McCall paper doll page

Not Available

NA

April, 1953

Chicken-Shaped Pancakes. Pennywise Recipe Books, Private Life of Queen Elizabeth II, Women Behind Ike

Not Available

NA

May, 1953

Model cover. Diets, New Makeup, Fashions, How to Run a Happy Home

Good, tears

$17.50

June, 1953

Bride cover. Fiction by Ann Head, others, Wedding Etiquette, American Brides, Rosemary Clooney

Good

$17.50

July, 1953

Cherry Pie cover. John Mason Brown Talks About Women, Cooking – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, scuffed cover

$15.00

August, 1953

Baby photo cover. My Life Since "A Man Called Peter" by Catherine Marshall, 20 New Hairdos, Keeping House in a Trailer

Good

$17.50

September, 1953

Model cover. Fiction by Pearl S. Buck and others, Kinsey Finds Men Don’t Understand Women, Mamie Eisenhower in Augusta

G/VG

$20.00

October, 1953

Chicken Stew cover. Beginning "Sayonara" by James Michener, Meet the Queen of Greece, I Was an Ugly Duckling by Jo Stafford, Toby Jugs, Food, Fashions, Betsy McCall paper doll page

Good

$17.50

November, 1953

Model cover. All About Eve Arden, 100 Christmas Gifts, "Sayonara Means Goodbye" - part 2 by James A Michener, Fashions, Food

Not Available

NA

December, 1953

149 Christmas Ideas, "Where Kinsey Went Wrong" by Dr. Ashley Montagu, Ralph Edwards - by his wife, Cooking, Fashions, Betsy McCall Paper Doll Page

Good, cover edge soiling

$20.00

 

Same

Good, spine fray

$20.00

 

January, 1954

Model cover. The Tafts in Ireland - photo feature, The Power of Norman Vincent Peale, Bali, Cooking – 2 copies

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$15.00

February, 1954

Model cover. Edward R. Murrow profile, Cooking, Fashions, Betsy McCall Paper Doll Page

Not Available

NA

March, 1954

Shortcake cover. Mary Pickford Memoirs, Tommy Learns About Crime – 2 copies

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same

Good

$15.00

April, 1954

Easter Egg Animals cover. Mary Pickford's Tragic Marriage, New Diet

Good, edge soiling

$15.00

 

Same

Good, stains, spine fray

$12.50

May, 1954

Model & Umbrella cover. Fiction by Taylor Caldwell, others, Betsy McCall paper doll page

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, spine fray

$15.00

June, 1954

Peanuts on a Hat photo cover. Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor, Teacher of the Year, Mary Pickford

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Good, soiled

$15.00

July, 1954

Model cover. Duchess of Windsor, Sex is for Grownups, Food, Fashions

Not Available

NA

August, 1954

Summer Drink cover. Picture Book of Furniture, What Makes a Model Beautiful, Hospital Gave Us the Wrong Baby

Good, gouge

$15.00

September, 1954

Mother & Baby photo cover. Who’s Having a Baby?, In-Law Trouble, 12 Children Nobody Wanted

Good, soiled

$15.00

October, 1954

Model cover. Bing Crosby - My Four Sons & Me, Bring Color Into Your life, We Adopted 12 Children Nobody Wanted, The Senator's Wife Goes Back to School - JACKIE KENNEDY (with 2 pages of photos of Jack & Jackie)

Not Available

NA

November, 1954

Father & Daughter photo cover. Billy Graham Nobody Knows, Mooseheart - City of Orphans

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Good, cover gouges

$12.50

December, 1954

Christmas Ornaments Mobile cover. Prize-Winning PTA, Meet Perry Como, The Churches Rise Again

G/VG

$17.50

 

January, 1955

Fish Cutting Board. Betsy McCall Paper Doll, Fiction, The Roxbury Miracle, Fashions, Disneyland – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

February, 1955

Model in White Scarf photo cover. I Was Dead For 50 Minutes, Bachelor Prince Who Needs a Wife (Prince Rainier of Monaco), Report Cards – 4 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

March, 1955

Model cover. The Night Our Home Burned, My Mother Mary Martin, You and Your Emotions, $290 Pair of Shoes, Betsy McCall Plays a Game – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good, wear

$15.00

May, 1955

Suzy Parker cover. Fiction, Artificial Semination, What the FBI Knows About You, Home Repairs, Food, Fashions, Betsy McCall Paper Doll page – 2 copies

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same

Good

$15.00

April, 1955

Eleven Busiest Models. “Queen of the May” by Shirley Jackson, other fiction, The Fabulous Life of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle

Good, stain

$15.00

June, 1955

Young Girl with Flowers photo cover. Queen Elizabeth’s Beauty Secrets, Religious Revival, We Refused to Let Angela Die

G/VG

$20.00

July, 1955

Ice Cream Sundae cover. Rin Tin Tin Profile, Working Mothers – 2 copies

Good, stain

$15.00

August, 1955

Model cover. Jinx Falkenberg Scrapbook, Expand Your Living Outdoors, Alimony, For a Colorful Kitchen – 2 copies

Good

$15.00

September, 1955

Women in Kitchen photo cover. Win a New Kitchen, Rosalind Russell, Mystery of Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Food, Fashions

Not Available

NA

October, 1955

Model in Hat. Bob Hope on his Mother-In-Law, 20 New Hairdos, Paris Fashions

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good, spine damage

$15.00

November, 1955

New Italian Model. How Doctors Feel About the Miracles of Lourdes, Papa Married a Mormon, Thomas Jefferson's Own Recipes for your Thanksgiving – 3 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good, ink scribbling

$15.00

December, 1955

Fiction, What Children Teach Us About Christmas by Mrs. Peter Marshall, Elizabethan Christmas Feast, Men Who Make Teenagers Swoon, Betsy McCall page, Many other Christmas Features

Good

$20.00

 

January, 1956

Model cover. Fiction, Food, Fashions, President Lincoln & His Problem Sons, Susan Strasberg, Betsy McCall page – 3 copies

Good

$17.50

February, 1956

Fashions Straight Out of Disneyland cover. Helen Hayes by her Son, Raise Your Child to be a Rebel – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

March, 1956

Autobiography of the Duchess of Windsor, Fiction, Lonely Hearts Club, "The Woman Who Knows Too Much" by Alfred Hitchcock (short article on Mrs. Hitchcock) – 2 copies

Good, spine fray

$20.00

 

Same

Good, cover tear, fraying

$20.00

April, 1956

Suzy Parker cover. Duchess of Windsor's Own Story, Dream-Car Contest, Fiction by Shirley Jackson & Others, Food, Fashions

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 4 copies

Good

$17.50

May, 1956

Mother and Daughter cover. Ernest Hemingway, Autobiography of the Duchess of Windsor (part 3), Are Funerals Barbaric?, Fiction

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

June, 1956

Model cover. They Take the Rap for Ed Murrow, The 44 Days That Rocked an Empire by the Duchess of Windsor, Good Living at Teddy Roosevelt's – 3 copies

Good

$17.50

July, 1956

Model cover. The Drama of Abdication by the Duchess of Windsor, Old House Into New, Betsy McCall page (not paper doll) – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

August, 1956

Lounging Model & Dog cover. What Makes Children Misbehave, The Story of our Marriage by the Duchess of Windsor, The Johnstown Flood

Good

$17.50

September, 1956

Young Girl with Dog cover. How To Pray and What To Pray For, Hypnosis Is Not a Parlor Game, Those gaudy Hollywood Weddings, Henry Fonda, Betsy McCall page -=

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same

Good, spine fray

$15.00

October, 1956

Model cover. Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Her Life Story in Pictures. Are We Teaching Children Too Much About Sex, Fiction, 2 pages of color photos of Julie Andrews, Fashions, Food, Betsy McCall Paper Doll – 2 copies

Good, spine fray

$15.00

November, 1956

Model cover. 100 Best Books for Children, Teen-agers Case Against Parents, What Shall I Wear – 2 copies

Good, spine fray

$15.00

December, 1956

Christmas Issue. Prince Charles & Princess Anne Set Styles for Children, Bing Crosby Family Album, Julie Harris

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1957

Baby cover. Woman Who Protects the Pope, Montgomery Clift, Radioactivity is Poisoning Your Children, Betsy McCall page, Food, Fiction

Not Available

NA

February, 1957

Model cover. Truth About Faith Healers, Why Women Are In Love with Rock Hudson, Jan Clayton, At Home with the Abraham Lincolns by Anne Culver – 4 copies

Good

$17.50

March, 1957

Model cover. Dining Out with Children by Shirley Jackson, Day Christ Died by Jim Bishop (part 1), Marlene Dietrich on the Perils of Being Beautiful, New Orleans Fashions, McCall’s Visits Jerry Lewis, Food, Fashions, Betsy McCall page – 4 copies

Good

$15.00

April, 1957

Young Girl in Rocking Chair photo cover. The Day Christ Died by Jim Bishop, McCall’s Book of Family Manners, "The Real Me" by Judy Garland – 3 copies

Good

$17.50

May, 1957

Model cover. Queen Juliana's Story, Vera Miles, Going Steady, Food, Fashions, Betsy McCall paper doll page. 184 pages – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

June, 1957

Mother & Child photo cover. Summer Fiction, Interfaith Marriages, Can Children Inherit Allergies?, Food, Fashions, Betsy McCall paper doll page

G/VG

$20.00

July, 1957

Young boy & girl on Hammock. Child Prodigy Autobiography, What Do Your Dreams Mean?, 1010 Play Ideas for Children – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, spine fray

$12.50

 

Same

Good, cover smudges

$12.50

August, 1957

Couple & Baby cover. Fiction by Charlotte Armstrong, Diets, Senator Kennedy – Young Man in a Hurry, Food, Fashions – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

September, 1957

Model cover. Diet in Secret, Can You Make Your Child Be Helpful?, Comeback of Mickey Rooney

Not Available

NA

October, 1957

Sam Houston’s Favorite Chocolate Cake cover. Is Marriage A Mistake?, “D” for Dangerous by John Steinbeck, 1500 Mother’s to Be Reveal Their Feelings During Pregnancy, Paris Fashions

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same – 4 copies

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Fair/Good, torn cover, pencil marks

$7.50

November, 1957

Model cover. Mother Who Lived a Miracle, 29 Ways to Serve a Snack, Dear Abby vs. Dear Ann, Food, Fashions

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Fair/Good, cover stain

$7.50

December, 1957

Sugar Candy House cover. Walt Disney’s “Christmas Carol” (9 pages in color), Secrets of President’s Diet

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1958

Kitten & Flowers cover. "Three Women of Courage" by Senator John F Kennedy, Are Sex Manuals a Threat to Happy Marriage, New Houses for '58, 129 Ways to Get a Husband, Danny Kaye photo book

Not Available

NA

February, 1958

Mother & Child by Joe Bowler. The Man I Love by Mrs. Pat Boone, Why Men Desert Their Wives, Europe's Princesses, Betsy McCall paper doll page, Homemaking, Fashions, Cooking – 2 copies

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$15.00

March, 1958

Model cover. Kinsey Report on Pregnancy Birth & Abortion, The Hermitage, Teacher of the Year, Betsy McCall paper doll, food, fashions – 7 copies

Good

$15.00

April, 1958

Girl & Puppy by Joe Bowler. The "Demon" Children We Adopted, Kinsey Institute Report, Exotic Foods from South Pacific, Betsy McCall Paper Doll Page – 2 copies

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same – 6 copies

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Good, gouge at top left corner

$12.50

May, 1958

10 Pages of Carefree Summer Cottons. Phony Marriage Counselors, Fiction, David Niven profile – 5 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, label torn off

$15.00

June, 1958

Young Girl & Parents by Joe Bowler. Child Care in Hollywood, Family Vacation in Yellowstone – 4 copies

Good

$17.50

July, 1958

Millie Perkins - new Hollywood Star. The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Fiction by Ann Head, Jean Kerr, Betsy McCall page – 2 copies

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Good, insect damage

$12.50

August, 1958

Girl and Boy Looking at Butterfly. Jack Paar, The Most Heroic Doctor, Down the Mississippi, Patterns, Betsy McCall Paper Doll Page – 2 copies

Good

$15.00

September, 1958

Model cover. Riddle of Cary Grant, Story Nobody Tells You About the South, McCalls Visits Joanne Woodward, Food, Fashions – 2 copies

Good

$15.00

October, 1958

Dolores Hawkins. Paris Fashion, Eleanor Roosevelt – Her Life Story in  Pictures, Fiction

Not Available

NA

December, 1958

Marshmallow Castle cover. “Madeline and the Gypsies” by Ludwig Bemelmans, Shirley Temple’s Picture Album – 2 copies

G/VG

$30.00

 

Same

Good, tear

$25.00

 

Special Publication

Christmas Make-It Book, Vol. 1 1958

Fair/Good

$12.50

 

January, 1959

Suzy Parker cover. Robert E Lee House, Skin Cancer, TV Western Stars – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

February, 1959

Children in Oval Frame. Tree Number 3 by Dr. Seuss, Princess Margaret, Fiction – 5 copies

Good

$17.50

March, 1959

Couple. Fiction, Debbie Fisher – Eddie Fisher, The Disgrace of Hollywood, 70 Fraternity Pins, Patterns – 2 copies

Good, spine fray

$15.00

April, 1959

Model cover. Why Women Go to Fortune Tellers, Fred Astaire’s Own Life Story, Teachers of 1959 – 3 copies

Good

$20.00

May, 1959

Model cover. Bing Crosby's Boys, Duchess of Kent, Florida or California, Bathing Suits, Party Sandwiches – 3 copies

Good

$17.50

June, 1959

Couple on Boat photo cover. The Groucho Marx Story - By Groucho, Hypnosis, Honeymoons, Window Treatments – 3 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

July, 1959

Women & Baby cover. Mrs. Marlon Brando, I Am a Geisha, Maternity Fashions, BBQ

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, ink smudges on cover

$15.00

August, 1959

Little Girl in Old-Fashioned Dress. Fiction, Betsy McCall Paper Doll, Patterns

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good, heavy wear

$15.00

September, 1959

Model cover. Joan Crawford profile, Dear Abby, To My Adopted Child

G/VG

$20.00

October, 1959

Model cover. Case for Chiropractors, Art Linkletter, The Women in My Life by Bob Hope, Jean Kerr article – 3 copies

Good

$17.50

November, 1959

Model cover. Arthur Godfrey, Barbara Hutton, Cigarette Habit, Ed Sullivan in Moscow

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good, spine fray

$15.00

 

Same

Good, wear

$15.00

December, 1959

Christmas Issue – Girl with Poinsettia cover. Gifts, Christmas in America 50 Years Ago, Santa Claus, Primer to Fathers, 18 Toys Children Will Love – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Good

$20.00

 

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