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Issue Date:

Cover/Issue Description:

Condition:

Price

January 1, 1895

(Named “Ladies Home Companion”). New Year’s cover. 20 pages

Good

$20.00

May 1, 1895

Woman & Lawn Statue of Cupid. 20 pages

Good

$20.00

June 1, 1895

Roses cover. 20 pages

Good

$20.00

October, 1896

Full-page color print by Alice Barber Stephens within (For Proctor & Gamble), Three Women in Iceland, Decorating Fine China

G/VG

$25.00

November, 1896

Woman in Winter cover. Women’s Clubs, Three Women in Iceland, Decorating Fine China

Good

$20.00

March, 1898

(Now named “Woman’s Home Companion”). Indian Women of Alaska and Their Handiwork, Physical Culture for Girls, Cookery for Girls

Good, edge tears

$20.00

March, 1899

Cover by Karl Anderson. Fiction, In Europe With Lillian Bell, Where the Southern Confederacy Was Born (Columbia SC), Women Who Write Plays, Lace-Making, Modern Home at Moderate Expense, Fashions, Food

Good

$20.00

June, 1899

Fiction, In Europe, Oberlin College, Gardening, Apple Blossom Lunch Set (embroidery), Nine-Room Suburban Cottage plans, Fashions, Food

Good

$20.00

November, 1912

Woodrow Wilson portrait cover. The New Meaning of Government by Woodrow Wilson (Printed prior to his election to the Presidency, Fiction, A Winter Resort at Home, full-page color print by Marion Powers, Food, Needlework, Embroidery, Crochet, "The Kewpie Kutouts" by Rose O'Neill - full-page

Good

$35.00

October, 1917

Woman in Red Cap by G.P. Nikolai. Military Camp at Chickamauga, The Women Go to War by Ida Tarbell, Full-page Fashion print by Coles Phillips, other fashion pages, needlework, much more! Ads by Coles Phillips for Luxite Hosiery,  Kellogg’s Corn Flakes ad in color on inside back cover

Good

$35.00

 

April, 1931

Baby by Maud Tousey Fangel. Fiction by Clarence Budington Kelland, J.P. Marquand, Kathleen Norris, others, Cooking, Fashions

G/VG

$25.00

May, 1933

Baby by Maud Tousey Fangel.

G/VG

$25.00

July, 1933

Cover by E.A. Georgi.

Fair/Good, spine, cover tears

$15.00

May, 1935

Doves by John Atherton. Fiction by Dorothy Thomas, Willa Cather, Kathleen Norris, others, Articles on Myrna Loy, Heyday of the Middle-Aged Woman (illus. by Gluyas Williams), Fashions, Food

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Good

$20.00

October, 1935

Cover by Malte Hasselriis. Fiction, Treasure Islands of America, Bridge, Food, Gardening, Fashions, etc.

Good

$20.00

September, 1936

Sea Gulls by John Atherton

Good

$20.00

April, 1937

House Planning by Leslie Ragan. Two Weeks in A Trailer, Motor Holiday Abroad

Good

$20.00

March, 1938

Baby by Maud Tousey Fangel. Spring Fiction Issue, Better Babies Silver Jubilee

Good

$20.00

August, 1938

Floral Cover by  Marion Powers. Fiction, Illus. by Norman Rockwell – 2 copies

Good

$20.00

January, 1939

Baby by Maud Tousey Fangel. Fiction by Kathleen Norris, Edna Ferber, others, Articles, Food, Fashions – 2 copies

Good

$20.00

April, 1939

Cover by Frank MacIntosh. Books for Cooks, The Perfect Servant, Let’s Make a Movie

Good

$20.00

 

Special Booklet

Keep Fit and Keep Your Figure, Prepared by Dorothy Nye for Readers of Woman’s Home Companion, 1941. 12 pages

Good

$10.00

 

March, 1941

Girl & Valentine Markings on Window photo cover. American Production, Keeping Up With Hollywood, Records, Food, Fashions

G/VG

$15.00

April, 1941

Boy Playing with Toy Car & Gas Pump photo cover. Women and Their Work, They're Your Dogs, Hot Meals for Motorists, Other Cooking, Spring Fashions in color photographs

G/VG

$15.00

July, 1941

Girl with Dog photo cover. Gifts for Boys at Camp, Vacation Fashions, How Democratic Are We?

G/VG

$15.00

August, 1941

Woman Diving cover. New Ideas for Entertaining, Englishwomen and War Work, Mexico, House Design, Fashions, Food

Good

$15.00

October, 1941

Puppy cover. Raising Tulips, Pennsylvania Markets and Fairs, You're Off to College, Food, Fashions

Good

$15.00

December, 1941

Young Girl & Doll photo cover. Fiction, Christmas Gifts, Books for Children, Many other Xmas features – 2 copies

Good, cover stain

$12.50

 

February, 1942

Woman & Old-Fashioned Valentine photo cover. Food, Fashions, What Every Schoolgirl Ought to Know

Not Available

NA

April, 1942

Flowers photo cover. Young America Does Its Share, United Nations & Radio

Not Available

NA

May, 1942

Baby photo cover. Your Kitchen in Wartime, High Jinks Fashions

Not Available

NA

June, 1942

School Girl with War Bonds Stamp Book photo cover. Fashions, Food, Military Weddings

Not Available

NA

September, 1942

Girl with Pigeons photo cover. New Fall Clothes for School and Job, Low-Cost Health Menus.

Good

$15.00

December, 1942

Black Cat & Broken Xmas Ornament photo cover. 249 Wartime Christmas Gifts, Dozen New Hollywood Hairdos

G/VG

$20.00

 

May, 1943

Woman with Dog in Wheelbarrow photo cover. Painless Childbirth, Hollywood

Good, cover wear

$10.00

July, 1943

Model, War Bonds & Flag cover. Henry Ford at 80, Pennsylvania Wartime Recipes, Fashions

Good, torn cover corner

$15.00

August, 1943

Sisters Getting Ready photo cover.

Good

$12.50

October, 1943

Girl with Halloween Mask photo cover. 650 WACs defy the Subs, War Letters, Secret Service

Good, small cover tear

$12.50

 

January, 1944

Mother & Daughter in Sleigh photo cover. J. Edgar Hoover Appeals to Mothers

Fair/Good

$10.00

March, 1944

Red Cross Nurse & Junior Nurse photo cover. Jap Concentration Camp, VD, Mexican Medico

Good

$12.50

May, 1944

Young Girl with Baby photo cover. California Fashions for Wartime Living, I Saw the Wounded Come Home

Good

$15.00

 

January, 1945

Girl with Saint Bernard

Good

$12.50

June, 1945

Soldier & Bride photo cover. Fiction, War Letters, Movies, Food, Fashions

Good

$15.00

July, 1945

Model with Parasol cover

Good

$12.50

 

February, 1946

Girl & Mirror photo cover. California Fashions, On the Way to Peace

Good

$12.50

August, 1946

Two Girls on Carousel photo cover. Pearl S. Buck, Margaret O’Brien

Good, missing back cover

$10.00

October, 1946

Farm Girl.  My Life Behind the Iron Curtain, Food, Fashions

Good

$15.00

 

October, 1947

Model cover 

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

 

February, 1948

Puppy & Kitten photo cover. Supreme Court, Shirley Temple

Good

$15.00

July, 1948

Model cover.

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

August, 1948

Young Girl cover

G/VG

$15.00

October, 1950

Baby in Tub photo cover. The Democratic Party by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Twins, Food, Fashions

Good

$12.50

November, 1948

50th Anniversary

Not Available

NA

 

February, 1949

Kids Reading Sunday Comics by Harry Anderson. Fiction by Shirley Jackson, others, Child Labor, Arthritis

Good

$15.00

March, 1949

Brother & Sister

G/VG

$15.00

April, 1949

Brother & Sister off to Church (Easter)

Good

$15.00

July, 1949

Boy & Girl on Beach with Starfish by Harry Anderson.

Good, fraying

$12.50

August, 1949

Kitten cover  - 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

September, 1949

Model cover. Paris Fashions, Is Chastity Outmoded?

G/VG

$15.00

October, 1949

Brother & Sister off to Bed cover – 3 copies

G/VG

$15.00

November, 1949

Model with Cat – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

December, 1949

Christmas Issue

Good

$12.50

 

January, 1950

Model cover

G/VG

$15.00

February, 1950

Kittens cover. Betty Hutton’s Nursery – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

March, 1950

Model cover

Good

$12.50

April, 1950

Model in Hat cover. Menace in the Medical Labs

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

May, 1950

Baby cover. Ten Pages of photos of Birth, Women in Strait Jackets, Fashions  – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

July, 1950

Model on Beach cover. How to Keep Cool, Why I Believe in God by A.J. Cronin

G/VG

$15.00

August, 1950

Girl on Beach photo cover. Polio Panic, Summer Fiction Special

Not Available

NA

September, 1950

Model cover.

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Fair/Good

$10.00

October, 1950

Model cover. Fiction by Taylor Caldwell, Legal Gambling, Page of New Poems by Carl Sandburg, Fashions

G/VG

$15.00

December, 1950

Christmas

Fair/Good

$10.00

 

March, 1951

Young Girl photo cover. Sister Kenny Tells Why She Left America, Fabulous Mary Garden

Good

$12.50

April, 1951

Model. Fiction by Ludwig Bemelans, Pearl S. Buck, others, The War in Korea, Food, Fashions – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

May, 1951

Baby photo cover. Survival at Home, Trouble in Our Hospitals, Hollywood, Fashions, Good Looks, Homemaking, Cooking

G/VG

$15.00

June, 1951

Model with Tennis Racket cover. Make-Your-Own Wardrobe, I Married Alaska, Stop Narcotic Sales to Children, Fiction

G/VG

$15.00

August, 1951

Watermelon cover. Make Yourself a Sally Victory Hat, Mixed Marriage, Fashions, Food

Not Available

NA

September, 1951

Kitten cover. Two-Way Table Tricks, Tallullah Bankhead Goes to a Baseball Game by John Lardner, Cancer, Man Who Drives Your Kid to School

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Fair/Good – creased cvr

$10.00

October, 1951

Apple cover. Fiction by A.J. Cronin, others, How Minneapolis Beat the Bigos, 17 Pages of Fashions and Sewing

Fair/Good – torn cvr

$10.00

November, 1951

Baby photo cover. Fiction by Shirley Jackson, others, Smut Peddlers Are After Our Children, How to Eat Well and Save Money – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

December, 1951

Kitten photo cover. My Private Life by Lana Turner, Christmas Gifts, Fiction, Fashions, Food

Good, edge chip

$10.00

 

January, 1952

Roses cover. At Home with the Eisenhowers, Cake of the Month

Fair/Good

$10.00

March, 1952

Model cover. Pearl Buck, Spring Fashions & Hairdos

Good

$12.50

April, 1952

Frosty Deserts – Cowboy Cookies cover. Fall Fashion Preview

Good

$12.50

May, 1952

Flowers cover. How That Nice Girl Next Door Became a Dope Addict.

Fair/Good, spine torn

$12.50

June, 1952

Strawberry Cake cover.

Not Available

NA

July, 1952

Young Girl cover. Hollywood Fashions, Cool Food, Hedda Hopper Memoirs

Good

$12.50

August, 1952

Peach Desert cover. Fall Fashion Preview, Party Bachelor

Not Available

NA

September, 1952

Delicious Jelly Roll cover. Fall Fashions, Fiction, Food

Good

$12.50

 

Same

Fair/Good

$10.00

October, 1952

Girl with kitten cover. If I Had My Baby Out of Wedlock, New Fashions, Table Settings, Food – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

November, 1952

Ham Roast cover.  Fiction by Shirley Jackson ("The Box), others, Why Vote For Eisenhower, or Stevenson, Fashions, Food – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Fair/Good

$10.00

December, 1952

Fiction by Shirley Jackson - Helen MacInnes - others, Fashions, Food, Many Xmas features

G/VG

$15.00

 

January, 1953

Fragrant Fruit Loaf cover. Fiction, Food, Christian Dior on How to Be Well Dressed on Any Budget

Good

$15.00

February, 1953

Kitten & Yarn cover. Dinah Shore on her fight for happiness, Kitchen Planning, Heart Disease & Marriage, Fiction, Food, Fashions – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

March, 1953

Model cover. Gracie Allen's Own Gay Story - Inside Me, Spring Fashions, Mixed Religion in Marriage, Fiction, Food

 Good

$12.50

 

Same

Good, spine tears

$12.50

April, 1953

Model cover. Safe and Sure Diet, Dress To Your Hat, Fiction, Fashions

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

May, 1953

Baby cover. Our Babies Will be Happy by Lucille Ball, with photos by Desi Arnaz, Fighting Cancer at Home, Spring Fashions, Inside Washington Society

Good

$12.50

June, 1953

Coronation Cake cover. Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II articles. The Duke of Windsor on his niece (the queen), Fiction by Shirley Jackson ("The Shopping Trip"), others

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

July, 1953

Marlene Dietrich coverl, Fiction, Fashions, Mamie in the White House, Doctor Charges, Summer Eating Menus, Fiction, Food – 3 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Fair/Good

$12.50

August, 1953

Swimsuit cover. Kinsey Studies, New Paris Fashions, Mamie Eisenhower – 2 copies

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Fair/Good

$10.00

September, 1953

Model cover – Our Pixie Hat. What Kinsey Learned About Women, Kitchen Planning Ideas, Teaching Your Children About God

Not Available

NA

October, 1953

Kittens cover. Fashions, Fiction, Jack Benny by his wife Mary Livingston. 154 pages – 3 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 3 copies

Good

$12.50

November, 1953

Meet Our Young Mother to Be. Decorate Your Home With Plastics Picture Book

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

December, 1953

Christmas Issue. Many Christmas Features - Carols, Decoration, Nativity, etc., Easy Entertaining Picture Book

Not Available

NA

 

February, 1954

Lemon Meringue Pie cover. Picture Stories of Great Romances – Ma Perkins, Perry Mason, Guiding Light, etc.

Not Available

NA

April, 1954

Three New Hairdos cover. Special For Brides - Beaity, Food, Fashions, etc. New Hairdos, A Psychiatrist Discovers God, Fiction, Food

Not Available

NA

May, 1954

Model cover. Fiction by Shirley Jackson, others, articles on Food, Fashions, Children, Methodist Faith – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

June, 1954

Elizabeth II & Her Children, June Allyson, Breakfast Diet, Cakes, Fashions

Good

$15.00

July, 1954

Fourth of July Drum Cake cover. Fiction, Fashions, Five Eisenhower Brothers on their family, Food – 3 copies

Good

$12.50

September, 1954

Cake Idea cover. Women and Sex, Fiction, Food, Fashions, Children

Good

$15.00

October, 1954

Duke & Duchess of Windsor. 8 pages of photos of their home, 12 Modern Diets, Fiction, Fashions

Not Available

NA

November, 1954

Mother & Baby cover. Wonderful Story of Conception, Duchess of Windsor, "My Ordeal" by the Angel of Dien Bien Phu, Food, Fashions

Not Available

NA

December, 1954

Christmas Train Cake cover. Secret Life of Betty Crocker, Many Christmas articles, 2 large pages of color toys

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1955

Mary Martin & Joan Crawford. "Stories I've Never Told" by Joan Crawford, Fashions, Food, 108 pages – 2 copies

G/VG

$17.50

February, 1955

Valentine Doll & Cupid Cake. Fiction, Mary and Abe Lincoln's Love Story, "The Story I've Never Told" by Joan Crawford (part 2), Jill Corey, Fashions, Food – 132 pages

G/VG

$15.00

March, 1955

Model cover. Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care Cookbook - Complete, Fiction, Food, Fashions – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

April, 1955

Easter Eggs cover. Story of Mary Magdalene, Lutherans, Russian Diary, Table Settings Picture Book

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

May, 1955

Baby in High Chair cover. New Diets, Outdoor Cookbook, New Paris Fashions

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

June, 1955

Debbie Reynolds & Eddie Fisher, “Mary Anne” by Daphne du Maurier, June Allyson, Summer Fashions

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

July, 1955

Summer Sodas and Sundaes. Lilly Dache’s Secrets of Lifelong Glamour Book, Are You a Shrike?, Princess Margaret, Miscarriage

Not Available

NA

August, 1955

Model & Beach Postcards cover. Troubled Marriage, Easier Childbirth, Picnic Picture Book – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

September, 1955

Suzy Parker cover. Shocking Scandal of Adoption by Pearl S Buck, “Love Is A Many Splendored Thing” book condensation, Adlai Stevenson, Sewing Picture Book

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

October, 1955

Girl with Dachshund photo cover. Fashions from Paris, Abortion in America Today

G/VG

$15.00

November, 1955

Model cover. Clare Booth Luce Biography, Marlon Brando – 4 copies

Good

$12.50

December, 1955

Christmas Issue. Choosing Toys for Your Children - 8 color pages of 1955 era toys, Paper Decorations You Can Make, many other Xmas features, Food, Fashions

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 3 copies

Good

$12.50

 

January, 1956

Mary Martin and Daughter cover. Love – or Perish. Italian Fashions, Clare Boothe Luce – 3 copies

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same - 2 copies

Good

$15.00

February, 1956

Model cover. Imperial Woman by Pearl S Buck, Book of Beauty Secrets, Diets, Food, Fashions

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

March, 1956

Spring Fashions, Mrs. Mark Clark, God and Your Child, Book of Kitchen and Laundry Planning, Thrifty Gourmet Food – 3 copies

G/VG

$15.00

April, 1956

Model cover. Your Marriage Today, Book of Good Manners, Danny Kaye Bio, Easter by Mrs. Peter Marshall – 3 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Fair/Good

$10.00

May, 1956

Couple Under Orange Tree cover. Mary Margaret McBride's My American Cookbook, Salk Polio Vaccine, Why Frank Sinatra Fascinates Women, Freedom of Western Living – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

 

Same

Fair/Good

$10.00

June, 1956

Model cover. Children For Adoption, The Lonely Wife, Use Color in Your Life – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 3 copies

Good

$12.50

July, 1956

Model cover. Why You Can't Afford to be Sick, Help Your Child to Wonder by Rachel Carson, Deborah Kerr, Gracious Living in the East

G/VG

$15.00

August, 1956

Model cover. Can We Have Better Medical Care?, New Diet, Little Girls Hair – 3 copies

G/VG

$15.00

September, 1956

Young Girl with Sunday Funnies photo cover. Fiction by Francois Sagan - others, What Is a Beautiful Woman by Cecil Beaton, Carl Sandburg - Special Portfolio on Changes in Midwest Living, Any Man Can Keep House by Russel Wright, Food, Fashions – 3 copies

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same

Good

$15.00

October, 1956

Mother & Daughter cover. Marian Anderson’s Own Story, Fall Fashions from Paris, Sewing Picture Book – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

November, 1956

Couple with Fruit Basket – Apples. Your Unknown Husband, Election Quiz for Women Voters, The Lunts

G/VG

$15.00

December, 1956

Christmas. Fiction by Laura Z Hobson, Ann Head, others, Christmas Gifts, Storybook Christmas, Food, Fashions – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00