5 VTG New Yorker Magazine January March May June 1940 Complete Issues NYWF WWII

Description: 5 individual issues of the New Yorker from the months January, March, May, June, 1940 Select any single issue from the drop down menu. Condition is generally about VG with some varying degree of storage rubbing to spine edges and light handling wear to surfaces. A pair of copies with archival paper tape reinforcement to spine. Condition varies so rely on photos and descriptions. Contents generally clean and neat. Newsstand copies; no mailing labels. Individual Issues as follows: January 6, 1940 - Peter Arno cover of New Years Eve ballroom dancing with man trying to salvage his partner's wardrobe malfunction. Issue includes John Cheever story "It's Hot in Egypt," W. H. Auden poem "The Unknown Citizen," A. J. Liebling's "Letter From France," Theater review by Robert Benchley, and more. Some wear to the bottom right cover. Near VG $35.00 March 2, 1940 - William Cotton cover of a haughty couple and their doorman caught in a rainstorm. Issue includes John O'Hara Pal Joey story "Even the Greeks," A. J. Liebling "Letter from Paris," book review of Richard Wright's classic Native Son, and more. Archival paper reinforcement to the spine. VG- $30.00 May 11, 1940 - Peter Arno cover of the New York World's Fair. Issue includes Issue includes A. J. Liebling's profile "Generalisimo" of Maurice Gustave Gamelin, Liebling's "Letter from Paris," full page Rea Irvin cartoon on FDR's political dominance, theater review by W. Gibbs, Bemelmans' "Mespoulets of the Splendide," and more. Light sunning to the cover spine and faint wear to the page block edges. Cover bright and vibrant. VG $35.00 May 18, 1940 - Helen E. Hokinson cover of 5th Avenue shopping . Issue includes poem, "The Ritualists" by William Carlos Williams, Comment by E. B. White, part II of profile "Generalisimo" of Maurice Gustave Gamelin, Ogden Nash poem "Nevertheless," theater review of Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier's Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet, and more. Archival paper tape reinforcement to the spine. VG- $30.00 June 15, 1940 - Victor De Pauw cover of early morning elevated city train approaching in the distance between skyscrapers (commemorating the last run of the 9th Avenue El train). Issue includes Letter from Paris by A. J. Liebling, James Thurber piece "Footnote on the Future," Carl Rose "MAP: 1940 New York World's Fair," and more. Archival paper tape reinforcement to the spine.; moderate stress creasing to cover and paper tape reinforcement to inside surface of cover. G+ $13.5

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