8 VTG New Yorker Magazine 1961 Complete Issues Updike Cheever Vivante

Description: 8 individual issues of the New Yorker from the months January through December 1961 Select any single issue from the drop down menu Condition ranges from G++ to NF with some issues showing mild rubbing or furring at spine and vertical stress creasing to cover. Contents and covers generally clean and neat. See photos and descriptions for condition. Newsstand copies; no mailing labels. Individual Issues as follows: January 7, 1961 -- Charles E. Martin cover art of a ski run at night with skiers headed down a hill toward a cozy lodge. Issue includes John Updike poem "A Vision," "Journey to the Interior" by Theodore Roethke, cinema review of Cary Grant film "The Grass in Greener," Fred Keefe poem "A Dragon is Not a Flower," and more. ... Just superficial vertical stress line to the cover. VG++ $20 April 22, 1961 -- Abe Birnbaum abstract cover art of horse jockeys racing. Issue includes John O'Hara story "The Man With the Broken Arm," Arturo Vivante short story "The Rats," cinema review of Antonioni classic "L'Aventura," and more. ... Trace shelf rubbing to spine edge. VG+ $20 October 7, 1961 -- Robert Kraus cover art of abstract artist welding in his studio. Issue includes John O'Hara short story "Call Me, Call Me," famed poem and translator Richard Wilbur poem "The Movement of Fish," cinema review of Rod Steiger film "The Mark," and more. ... Pair of vertical stress creases to the cover and mild stress at spine and top front corner of the cover. G++ to VG- $13.5 December 9, 1961 -- Anatol Kovarsky cover art of two children by a busy street full of Christmas shoppers looking in a toy store window full of toy rockets, tanks and planes. Issue includes John Cheever short story "The Traveller," Comment by John Updike, Brendan Gill cinema review of "The Camancheros," and more. ... Minor silverfish predation paper loss at spine edge and superficial vertical stress crease to cover. G++ to VG- $15 December 16, 1961 -- Ilonka Karasz cover art of city scape as an advent calendar. Issue includes John Updike piece "Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car," Edith Oliver theater review of "The Apple" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," poetry by Howard Moss, and more. .. Spine edge archivally mended with japanese paper tape. Light vertical stress crease to spine. G+ $12.5 December 23, 1961 -- Abe Birnbaum cover art of a living room reflected in a red Christmas tree ornament. Issue includes Comment by John Updike, Frank Sullivan piece "Greetings, Friends!" John Cheever story "Christmas in St. Botolph's," John O'Hara story "Two Turtledoves," and more... just trace shelf evidence to cover edges. VG++ $20 December 30, 1961 -- New Year's Eve issue. Beatrice Szanton cover art of balloons floating by a clock at midnight on New Year's Eve. Issue includes Winthrop Sargeant profile of famed anthropologist Margaret Meade, poetry by Elder Olson, Talk of the Town by Goeffrey T. Hellman, and more. ... Just superficial shelf evidence to edges. VG+ $20

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