National Home Monthly Magazine, August (Aug.) 1939 - Baseball's Centenary? / Wake Island / King of Yugoslavia
by Healy, W.; Stewart, H.; Davis, D.; Bentley, E.; Roberts, T.; King, S.; Brown, J.; Drummond-Hay, Lady; Batley, Vera; Bayne, E.; Ardwyn, L.; Dutton, G
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About This Item
Winnipeg: Stovel / National Home Monthly, 1939. Book. Illus. by Smith, Hal (cover); Holmgren, John; Burke, May C.; Garland, George; Smith, Ralph C.. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 48 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Canadian fish inside front cover; News digest topics include - dark influences at work, the anti-Russian case, An Alternative Pact, A policy of wreckage, One's own business, the plight of German churches, 90% heroic, and the problem of Palestine; Baseball's Centenary? - argument over whether or not baseball's centenary actually occured in June - article with photos of Honus Wagner, Eddie Collins, Joe Vosmik, Tony Lazzeri, Babe Ruth, Grover Cleveland, George Sisler, Walter Johnson, and others; Vernight Stop - photo-illustrated article of a trip to Wake Island; A Penny In Her Shoe (short story); The Genuine Tabard (short story); The Perdu (short story); Fairyland of the Boy-King Peter II of Yugoslavia - photo-illustrated article on his picturesque nation; If I Die Before I Wake (mystery); Half-page photo ad for the Canadian National Exhibition (C.N.E.) which offers 'a thousand thrilling things to see'; Hollywood news, with photos of Frank Lloyd, Cecil B. De Mille, N.S. Van Dyke, Arthur Nornblow Jr., Lubitsch, Anatole Litvak, Eugene Forde, Edward H. Griffith and William Wellman; Photo and bried write-up on Ellen Drew; Woodbury soap ad features photo of Miss Nadine Beardmore; Dare to Smile - article for ladies; Pond's cold cream ad features photos of Mrs. Robert W. Armstorng of Toronto, and Blanche Brewer of Clarksdale, Mississippi; Small photo ad for Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby, Ontario shows girls on horseback with school in background; Sayings from around the world; Back cover colour Coke ad features man in white double-breasted suite with lady, and inset black and white photo of soda jerk; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue..
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- Title
- National Home Monthly Magazine, August (Aug.) 1939 - Baseball's Centenary? / Wake Island / King of Yugoslavia
- Author
- Healy, W.; Stewart, H.; Davis, D.; Bentley, E.; Roberts, T.; King, S.; Brown, J.; Drummond-Hay, Lady; Batley, Vera; Bayne, E.; Ardwyn, L.; Dutton, G
- Illustrator
- Smith, Hal (cover); Holmgren, John; Burke, May C.; Garland, George; Smith, Ralph C.
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Stovel / National Home Monthly
- Place of Publication
- Winnipeg
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- National Home Monthly Magazine, August (Aug.) 1939 - Baseball's Centenary? Palestine the Reality Jeffries Mostar Bridge River Nerevta Sarajevo Senior Regent Prince Paul Karageorgevitch ad for Canadian fish inside front cover; News digest topics incl
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- Sport;
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
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