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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A bound, ex-library copy the July - December 1932 issues of The American Magazine, volume 114. It includes a title and author index bound in the front. Contents include stories and Depression Era articles by Archibald Rutledge (You Can't Put Out the Sun - July), Alexander Woolcott (I'm Glad I'm Absent Minded - July), Dashiell Hammett (2 Sam Spade stories - A Man Called Spade - July, Too Many Have Lived - October), Octavus Roy Cohen (The Knight's Errand - July, Hearts and Clubs - August, Grandstand Stuff - November), Amelia Earhart (Flying the Atlantic - August), Clarence Budington Kelland (Something to Tell the Folks Who Can't See Where Business is Going - August, Scattergood Meets a Gangster - September, The Touchstone: A Scattergood Story - October, Scattergood Tries an Experiment - November, Red Fingernails - December), Beverley Smith (The Man With the Flashlight Mind, The Story of Walter Lippmann - September), Walter Lippmann (Good Men Wanted - September), Tom Gill (Guardians of the Desert parts 1 - 4 - September - December), Kathleen Norris (Walls of Gold, parts 1 - 3, October - December), I A R Wylie (Pilgrimage - November) General John J Pershing (The Thing We Need Today - December), P G Wodehouse (A Cagey Gorilla - December), and others. Light rubbing to the spine. The front covers are present but the back covers have been removed, The top margin has been trimmed slightly, at times affecting the text at the top of the front cover. The library markings are fairly unobtrusive. They include "Mercer University Library - Macon, GA" stamps on the front covers and a Mercer University Library plate on the front paste down. Occasional neat tape repairs to a few pages. Occasional soil spots in the margins. However the interior is very clean and crisp overall. The binding is solid and tight. A very good copy with stories and serial installments by prominent authors, most notably Dashiell Hammett and P G Wodehouse, and a nice selection of Depression Era articles. A heavy, oversize book that will require additional postage. John E Sheridan, Hatden Hayden, Diana Thorne, Penrhyn Stanlaws (covers), Charles S Chapman, William Auerbach-Levy, Joseph Clement, George Howe, Clayton Knight, C W Massaguer, Floyd M Davis, Ralph Pullen Coleman, Paul Meylan, Pruett Carter and others (ilustrador).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Features: Color ad for International Harvester inside front cover features smoky combat scene and speaks of Canadian soldiers anxious for a crack at Japan as payback for Hong Kong in 1941; Editorial - Long-Service Men Should Get Home; Why Britain Went Left - Clement Attlee defeats Winston Churchill; What Price Shelter? - Four out of five families can't afford the favorite NHA home - labour and materias are in short supply; Meals Without Meat - Marcel Thomas, noted Chef-Steward of the Mount Royal Hotel, shows how he plans tasy menus on meatless days (resulting from rationing); The Amazing Mr. Rank - Arthur Rank put Britain's movie industry into the money; Russia's Quarrel With Japan - She needs an ice-free port, security for Siberia, and she has an old score to settle; How Hitler Lost the War - L.S.B. Shapiro claims German documents and witnesses make it clear that the Fuhrer's intuition upset long-term plans; Backstage Ottawa - Pearkes vs. Gardiner; Washington Memo - astonishment at Churchill's defeat; Howe Sound Salmon Derby!; Lie Trap - Photo-illustrated article on lie detection with what appears to be an early version of the polygraph; Hear No Evil (short story); Aunt Em (short story); Sawdust In Their Eyes (short story); School Lunches; and more. Nice ads for: Thor washing machines, Colgate dental cream (with sailor theme); Eveready Flashlight Batteries - featuring photo of radio singer Flora Montgomery, General Steel Wares, B.C. Pears, B.C. Peaches, Rolex watches (for returning troops), Pepto-Besmal (with illustration of little boy), Kreml, Vitalis, Caterpillar Diesel - featuring colour photo of dozer at work in a remote location, nice colour illustrated back cover ad by Mac Sheppard for Pep O Mint Life Savers features young pirates discovering hidden treasure. 52 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Gunther-Lipney; Skemp, R.; Jousset; Timmins; Sheppard, Mac (ilustrador).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. 64 pages. Features: Great photo ad for International Trucks on page 1; Junior Boxing Champion of Quebec - Laurier DesRochers is featured in full-page Cream of Wheat ad; Judgement (short story); Taming the Seven Sisters - gigantic hydro-electric development in Manitoba - article with photos; Dusty Courage (short story); Maker of Champions - Captain J.R. Cornelius trains the Hamilton Central Collegiate track team to success - article with photos; A Salute for the Constitution - a plea for veneration of the document that makes us what we are; Dancing Partners (short story); How I Do Love Water-Lilies!; The Kincade Mystery - Who Killed Ethel Kincake of Hamilton? - article with photos; The Beggar of Ur (shorted story); The Queen of the "Turks" - Turkey farmer Mrs. W.A. Freeman of Ardenode, Alberta - article with photos; Premier of Nova Scotia - Hon. Gordon Sydney Harrington - article with photo; Mr. Gobbins Falls In (short story); The Silver Scale (part I); Political article by Sir Austen Chamberlain, with his photo; Canada's pioneer steam engine, long lost, returned to Nova Scotia - the 'Samson'; full-page Dodge car ad; full-page ad for the new Reo Flying Cloud car; Nice full-page photo ad for Hoover vacuums features cute chilid on vintage phone; Nice full-page ad for Auburn cars features the 5-passenger 2-door Brougham $1445; De Soto Six ad; The School Lunch - article with photos; crossword; Transforming the Cellar - article and photos with ideas of how to transform waste cellar space for an extra games and play room; Nice full-page Studebaker ad; Nice colour Calay soap ad inside back cover; Colour Old Dutch Cleanser ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage issue. Farrelly, Joseph (cover art); Summers, Dudley Gloyne; Clymer, John F.; Davis, Henry; Dinsmore, E.J.; Mathieu, Hubert (ilustrador).…