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September 14, 1901

Assassination Attempt on President McKinley

Good

$15.00

October 24, 1914

Fall of Antwerp, The Boer Disaffection, War Atrocities, European Nationalities to Remain Intact, Russia's War for Culture, Admiral Mahan on Sea War, Sad Return of the Fairies, Films As Salesmen, Germany's Debt to French Culture

Good

$12.50

April 3, 1915

Przemysl Simplified by the Czar, Turk’s Naval Toll, Labor Troubles in England, Obliterating French Forests, Rodin’s Gift to Britain

Good

$15.00

April 17, 1915

WWI Reports, Republican Victory in Chicago, Neuve Chapelle Advance, Journalism in the Trenches, Belgium’s Religious Life

G/VG

$15.00

July 10, 1915

Our Grievance Against England, Socialist Power for Peace, New Drug Laws, Fighting the War Gas, The Revolt of Young Mormonism – 2 copies

Good

$15.00

July 24, 1915

Deadlock with Germany, Thomas Edison photo, Bomb-Mysteries on Munitions Ships, The Hopes of Lithuania, Bathing an Army, Kipling Tells Why Britons Should Fight

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

July 31, 1915

WWI - with maps of the conflict (one folds out). Other articles on Movies and the Eyes, Ireland. Coca-Cola ad on back cover.

G/VG

$17.50

August 25, 1915

Dockyard Workers Loading Crates. The Attack on the "Arabic" ship, Mob Law in Georgia, How France Estimates England, WWI Reports

G/VG

$15.00

October 16, 1915

Woodrow Wilson for Suffrage, Wireless Telephone Message Across the Sea, Everything by Electricity, Kipling

Good

$12.50

November 6, 1915

German Bomb Plots in the US, Cabinet Upheaval in France, Edith Cavell execution, How the Wireless Phone Works

Good

$12.50

 

January 22, 1916

The Mexican Murders, Dardanelles Failure, Motion-Study for War Cripples, More and Better Motor-Cars

Good

$12.50

April 15, 1916

William Shakespeare cover. Roosevelt or Hughes?, Japan’s Fear of America, Limning Shakespeare

Fair/Good, loose cover, torn page

$10.00

April 29, 1916

Seaside scene cover by Guy C. Wiggins. Final Word to Germany, Republican Presidential Choices, Tesla's Million-Dollar Mystery, Richard Harding Davis obit

Good, torn piece from top of cvr

$12.50

 

March 9, 1918

Marching Soldiers by F.X. Leyendecker cover. US Aviation & the War, Hungarian Fury at Austria, German U-Boats, Diving Shells

G/VG

$15.00

June 29, 1918

Admiral cover. WWI News, Drive in Austria, Expected Coal Famine, Problem of Intervention in Russia, Dropping Victory from the Air (with photo of "A Huge British Bombing Plane"), Japanese Workshop, Reeducating the Crippled Soldier

G/VG

$12.50

July 13, 1918

WWI Soldiers Cover. Spiritual Union of the Free Peoples, Our First Million in France, The Liberty Motor, Fighting German Gas, Jewish Legion of Honor, Hand Held Out to Roumania

Good

$12.50

 

October 23, 1920

The Mayflower cover. Full Text of the League of Nations Covenant within. Census, How Edison Won the War, Jenny Lind, Man Who Killed the Czar

Good

$20.00

February 16, 1924

Winter scene cover. Woodrow Wilson Obituary, Teapot Dome Scandal

Good

$17.50

March 13, 1926

Mountain Lake cover. Governor Smith's Plan to End NY Slums, German Version of Tyrol Tyranny, Measles Control, Wet England & Dry America

G/VG

$12.50

March 20, 1926

Rail Mergers, Battle of Passaic, Bolshevik Menace to India, Designs for City Airplane Landings, Japanese Art Turns West, Prohibition

Good – minor insect damage

$10.00

May 15, 1926

Joseph Pennell Obit, Roger Hornsby article

G/VG

$12.50

April 23, 1927

Special Italy Number. Mussolini, Fascism

Fair/Good

$7.50

May 21, 1927

Peremptory Peace in Nicaragua, Lumber Kings, New Beauty in the Skyscraper

G/VG

$15.00

August 6, 1927

Row Over Russian Oil, Germany & Russia, The “Use” of a Lindbergh, King Michael of Roumania

Good

$12.50

 

January 19, 1929

Franklin’s Bookshop” cover. A Week in the Sky (Aviation), King Alexander, Dumas & “The Three Musketeers”

G/VG

$15.00

March 29, 1929

Air Raids Conquering the Frozen South, Mexico’s Revolutionary Art (Diego Rivera, etc.), Salvation Army

Good

$15.00

August 24, 1929

Hunting Scene cover. Bigger & Better Prisons, Russian Ballet Modernism, World’s Biggest Plane,

Good

$15.00

 

February 1, 1930

Watford Bridge Bermuda cover. Prohibition’s Next 10 Years, Naval Conference, Double-Width Movies

G/VG

$15.00

February 7, 1931

“Lace Maker of Bruges” cover. Colonel Anderson's Substitute for Prohibition, Mahatma Gandhi, World-Wide Gathering of Persian Art, and 1/2 the magazine on Building articles

Good, cover browning

$12.50

February 28, 1931

“White Man’s Meat” by Jack van Ryder cover. Arkansas’s Fight for Life, Holy Land, New Turmoil in Spain, Hitler’s Great Walkout, “Peter Ibbetson” Opera

Good

$12.50

November 28, 1931

“Lady in Blue” by Fechin cover. Grandi’s Visit, Wildfire Spread of German Fascism, Good Times for Gold

G/VG

$15.00

 

January 2, 1932

“A Modern Madonna” by Paul Swan. International Bankers, Japan and Manchuria, Sorry Days for European Jews

G/VG

$15.00

January 9, 1932

“Rockport Fishing Boats” by Anthony Thieme. Dawes & Young Plans, Depression Cure, Transformation of Adolf Hitler, Met Opera Crisis, 1932 Automobiles

Good

$12.50

February 20, 1932

George Washington by Gilbert Stuart. Prohibition Poll, Japan & China, Al Smith, Dartmoor Prison Mutiny, George Washington's 200th Anniversary of his Birth – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

March 12, 1932

News from Mount Vernon cover. Jack Garner, Prohibition Poll Results, Challenge of the Lindbergh Kidnapping, Henry Ford, Fascist Fiasco in Finland, Is the Great Depression Killing Family Life?, NICE Double page Chevy Trucks ad, Sir Malcolm Campbell and his "Blue Bird" Speed car

Not Available

NA

June 4, 1932

“Echo Lake Colorado” by Florence Hazeltine cover. Vacation Suggestions, Franklin Roosevelt, Folger Library, Methodists Challenge the Wets, Hoover Dam

G/VG

$15.00

June 25, 1932

“Sir Wilfred Grenfell” cover. Herbert Hoover, Prohibition Poll, Voilet Sharpe Suicide, Unknown Shakespeare, High Accident Drivers

G/VG

$15.00

July 9, 1932

Lure of the Rockies by Frank Tenney Johnson cover. Democratic Convention, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Japan Warns the World, Siam’s Pink Tea Revolt, Golf’s Gene Sarazen

Good

$15.00

August 27, 1932

“Tor Mor” Ireland cover. King Cotton & the Depression, Hoover, Why America Wins at the Olympics, Ottawa Conference, Posters for Peace in Europe, Profile of Babe Didrikson

Not Available

NA

October 15, 1932

Norman Thomas cover. Presidential Polls, Pavlowa, Civil War Ended in Brazil, Japan Guilty of Aggression in Manchuria

G/VG

$15.00

 

January 7, 1933

Yankee Clipper "Flying Fish" by Frank Vining Smith  cover. Buy American Movement, Two Governors Battle for a Chain-Gang Fugitive, Japan & Manchuria, Katherine Cornell, Islan's Rebirth in Turkey

G/VG

$15.00

Feb 18, 1933

“A Little Terrier” by Diana Thorne cover. TVA, Japan & Geneva, Map of Bolivia & Paraguay, H.G. Wells,

Fair/Good, stain, center ad pgs missing

$10.00

September 16, 1933

The American Woman and the Automobile.  Intervention Policy in Cuba, High Murder Rate in the South, Cancer Treatment progress, Eleanor Roosevelt, Football

G/VG

$15.00

September 23, 1933

Future of Farming & The New Deal. Life of the National Recovery Act (NRA), Fascist Austria, Art Colonies, Top 10 in Tennis, Collegiate Baseballers (including Lou Gehrig)

G/VG

$15.00

December 16, 1933

Senator Robert F Wagner. Lindberghs travel around the Atlantic, Radio Dislikes, The Caribbean, Austria's Fight Against Hitlerism, Streamlining Planes, Birth Control Conference, Winter Travel

G/VG

$15.00

 

Special Publication

Literary Digest 1930 Atlas of the World. 94 pages, softbound

Good

$12.50

 

Literary Digest 1934 Atlas of the World. 104 pages, softbound

G/VG

$15.00

 

January 6, 1934

Washington – What Will Congress Do? Pan-America, Motion Pictures Move Into the New Deal, Reichstag Arson Verdict, Monte Carlo Ballet Arrives, Asia Awaits Choice of New Dalai Lama

Good

$12.50

January 27, 1934

Road to More Game Birds. Dollar Revaluation, Cuba's Presidents, Philippine Problem, Billy Sunday in NY, Southern Women Fight Lynching Evil, Cricket

G/VG

$15.00

February 17, 1934

Henry Morganthau Jr – Secretary of the Treasury

G/VG

$15.00

February 24, 1934

Washington Hears the Voice of the People. Austrian Strife, The Army & the Airmail, Veteran Relief, Ellis Island, Jugoslavia, Indoor Track, FDR's mother

G/VG

$15.00

March 10, 1934

Secretary of War George Dern. NRA Criticism, Air Mail in Politics, Enthronement of Manchuria's First Emperor, Trend in Billiards

G/VG

$15.00

March 24, 1934

Britain's Grand National Horse race. New Aviation policies, Profile of Robert Moses of New York, Atoms, NY War of Firetrap Tenements, The Circus business

G/VG

$15.00

April 7, 1934

The US Supreme Court. Brain Trust, France’s Unrest, Giant Telescope, Modern Mayas, Songs of Yesterday

G/VG

$15.00

April 28, 1934

America’s Most Traveled First Lady – Eleanor Roosevelt. FDR, Haiti, George Lott, Horse Racing

G/VG

$17.50

May 26, 1934

Soldiers cover. Relief Jobs in College Students, View of Philippine Independence, Komodo Dragons

G/VG

$15.00

June 2, 1934

Elections in November. FDR & Congress, Toledo Strike, Prisons, Bulgaria Goes Fascist, Fannie Brice & Willie Howard, Davis Cup Tennis

G/VG

$15.00

June 23, 1934

William Green - President of the AFL. 73rd Congress action, Legion of Decency Boycotts Films, Wimbledon Tennis

G/VG

$15.00

June 30, 1934

The New Deal. FDR's Summer Odyssey, Roosevelt Policy poll, Brisish Fascism (Mosley), Nazi Germany Economic Crisis, Ancient Man in America, American Art

G/VG

$15.00

July 7, 1934

Boys Fishing cover. FDR Sails, Du Pont Record-Breaking Glider Flight, German Upheaval, Billy Rose, Mickey Cochrane

G/VG

$15.00

July 14, 1934

Behind the Scenes at the Whit e House. Nazi Germany’s Second Revolution, Film Boycott, Admiral Okada, Inspector Sullivan of New York, Ballet

Good

$15.00

July 21, 1934

Honolulu Harbor. FDR's Trip, Movie Czar Will Hays, New Navy Telescopes, Ku Klux Klan Officers

G/VG

$15.00

August 4, 1934

War cover. Murder of Austrian Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss (by the Nazis), Government Control & Radio, John Dillinger, World's Fair Art Exhibit

Good

$15.00

August 11, 1934

Senator Robert M La Follette Jr. Interview with Hitler, Hindenburg Obit, Decency Returns to Theaters, Hervey Allen, Rochester Presents Century on Parade

G/VG

$17.50

September 1, 1934

Premier of Japan Okada cover. Japan Is For Peace, NYC Cash Robbery Record, Hirota - Apostle of Concrete Diplomacy, Religious Persecution in Mexico, Cup Race

Good

$15.00

September 22, 1934

Football. 1934 politics, Textile Strike, Morro Castle Disaster Investigation, 1 page on Football, Tennis Player Frederick J Perry

Not Available

NA

October 6, 1934

College Football Captains. 1934 Political Races Poll, New Jersey Ready to try Hauptmann, Jane Wyatt in "Lost Horizon" play, Lapland

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

October 13, 1934

Fox Hunt by George Wright cover. England “Muddling Through”, Chiang Kai-shek

G/VG

$15.00

October 20, 1934

Hot Spots in Fall Election (FDR). Assassination in Marseilles of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, Manchuria, Cuba Boils Again, Churches & Taxes

G/VG

$15.00

November 10, 1934

Geese cover. Roosevelt Policies, Chancellor vs. Vice-Chancellor in Austria, Mexican War on Religion

Good

$15.00

November 17, 1934

Textile Worker in Moscow Factory. New Deal Landslide (elections), Better Times for Russia, "The Farmer Takes a Wife" American Athletes aiming for the 1936 Nazi Olympics, Harmonica King Borrah Minevitch, Gatti-Casazza to Retire from the Met

G/VG

$15.00

December 1, 1934

Donald R. Richberg – at the President’s Elbow. Quezon Plan in the Philippines, New Era in Flying

Good

$15.00

December 8, 1934

The Saar Plebiscite. Administration Tackles Relief Problem, “Anything Goes

G/VG

$20.00

 

January 19, 1935

Skier cover. New Deal & Supreme Court, Amelia Earhart’s Record Flight, Saar Plebiscite, “The Petrified Forest

G/VG

$20.00

January 26, 1935

Viscount Cecil. War Threats, FDR's Social Security Plan, Boston Publick Latin School, Patriarch of Wrestling "Strangler" Lewis – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

February 9, 1935

25th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts (cover illus. by Remington Schuyler)

G/VG

$20.00

February 16, 1935

Sir John Simon – British For. Minister. Work-Relief Plan, Saar Problem After Plebiscite, Sports, Midget Cars

G/VG

$15.00

March 2, 1935

Youth – Education vs. War. National Recovery Act, Beating Criminals with Their Own Weapons (FBI), Asian Team Work of China and Japan, Dinosaur Hunting, Shaw's 50 Years of Plays,  Negro Stars in Sports – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

March 9, 1935

Etching cover (winter scene). FDR's first 1/2 term report, Young France, President Masaryk's 85th Birthday, Children and Parents, "The Green Pastures"

G/VG

$15.00

March 23, 1935

Senator Hiram W Johnson. Aerial Pacific Route, Student Strike Against War, Connecticut Tercentenary – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

April 13, 1935

Pierre-Etienne Flandin. Scottsboro Ruling, Stresa and Locarno, New Plants to Check Drought, Cornelia Otis Skinner

Good, pencil marks within

$10.00

May 4, 1935

Kentucky Derby. Bonus Issue, FDR Fireside Talk, George V's 25th Anniversary on the throne, Battle Against Noise

G/VG

$17.50

May 11, 1935

Military Chess Pieces – England Playing with War. Adolf Hitler, Relief Work

Good

$15.00

May 18, 1935

San Diego, Scene of Exposition. Marshal Pilsudski obit, 400 million Voters

G/VG

$15.00

June 1, 1935

Summer Vacation Number. FDR Message to Congress, Senator Carter Glass, Bonuses for War Veterans, Jane Addams, Streamlined Trains, New Air Routes

G/VG

$15.00

July 6, 1935

Speaker Byrns. New Labor Bill, Peace & Militarism in Europe (2 pages of photos), New Richard Strauss Opera, Joe Louis profile- Good – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

August 31, 1935

Aviator Col. Roscoe Turner. New Deal, President's Challenge to Youth, Washington Workers photos, New York Hippodrome

Good

$17.50

December 7, 1935

Congress of American Industry. AAA Arguments at the Supreme Court pending, British - Japanese Tension, Photographic Hobby

Good

$12.50

 

May 9, 1936

Anchors Aweigh – National Defense. Alaska Farmers, Ethiopia for Duce

Fair/Good

$10.00

September 26, 1936

Strikes in San Francisco, Presidential Poll, Spanish Civil War, American Photographers’ Salon photos, King Edward VIII and His Guests, Motor Boat Regatta

G/VG

$15.00

October 10, 1936

Vigilantes Hunt Reds in California Lettuce Fields, Presidential Poll, Map of Spain, Edward VIII, Television Experimenters

G/VG

$15.00

October 17, 1936

Duck Season Starts. G-Men Collect Clues by Fingerprints, Presidential Poll, Spanish Civil War, Zeppelin “Hindenburg” Demonstration (2 pages), Boulder Dam

G/VG

$20.00

October 24, 1936

Aviation Grows UP. Facts and Fancies About Marijuana (or “marihuana”), Presidential Poll, Mrs. Simpson, Flying Yankee Clippers Over Pacific, Moslems Pray for World Unity

G/VG

$17.50

October 31, 1936

Presidential Poll – Famous issue where the Digest Predicted Alf Landon to Beat Roosevelt – Roosevelt ended up winning in a landslide. This poll leads to the demise of the magazine 2 years later. Also within: Witchcraft, Spanish Civil War, Spiritualists

Not Available

NA

November 7, 1936

Football. Mrs. Simpson, War-Ridden Madrid, New Car Designs, Velvet Fashions, Book of Kells, Pacific Air Bases

G/VG

$15.00

November 14, 1936

Autos on Parade. Roosevelt Wins 2nd Term - What Went Wrong With the Polls?, Madrid in Shambles, Oregon ROTC, Hostesses for Air-Lines, New Cars for 1937 (many pages, and a number of auto ads within)

G/VG

$25.00

November 21, 1936

Dog Shows. Labor Meeting in Tampa, Ramadan, Drys Battle On for Temperance, President’s Health, Melvin Purvis of the FBI

G/VG

$17.50

November 28, 1936

Thanksgiving. Civil Service Vs. Patronage, War in Spain, Split Syria, Floating Hospitals

G/VG

$15.00

December 5, 1936

Pan-American Peace. Wanted: 13 Million Homes, Surgeon Cuts Twins, Noel Coward Returns to Broadway, Coronation: Greatest Pageantry, Picking 1936 Football Champions

Fair/Good, detached covers

$10.00

December 19, 1936

Winter Travel Issue. Edward VIII Abdicates, New King George VI, Besieged Madrid, Metropolitan Opera, Cruising, 1936 Clippers

G/VG

$17.50

 

January 2, 1937

New Congress. China, Search for Rejuvenation, Left-Handed People, Boom in Ballroom Dance, Basketball

G/VG

$15.00

January 9, 1937

England’s Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Social Frenzy of Washingtonians, Charles Lindbergh, Workers’ Mexico, Television, Sonja Henie

G/VG

$15.00

January 16, 1937

Skier cover. Labor’s Battle of the Century, Royal Dutch Wedding, Pneumonia, Radio & the Inauguration

G/VG

$15.00

January 23, 1937

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 44th Inaugural, Hitler Reassures France In Crisis, Planes As War Machines, Childbirth, Denmark, Pulp Magazines

G/VG

$20.00

January 30, 1937

Warm Springs Hopefuls. States Vie for Divorce Clientele, Current Fad for Picture Magazines, US Aerial Progress on Parade

G/VG

$15.00

February 9, 1937

Cardinal Dougherty Heads Catholic Pilgrimage. Secretary Perkins & Labor Strikes, World’s Refugees in France, Westminster Kennel Club Show

G/VG

$15.00

May 15, 1937

King George VI – Coronation cover. The Coronation, Hindenberg Airship Crash, Liquor Use, Wheeled Nomads, “Shall We Dance”

G/VG

$25.00

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