Over 3,500 Vintage Magazines Coming Up for Sale

Grouped by general area, listed by title and ordered by date.

See notes for overall condition information.

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GENERAL INTEREST

Life -- 195 issues: 1940 (6 issues), 1942 (8), 1943 (12), 1944 (23), 1945 (8), 1946 (54 issues, some duplicates), 1947 (4), 1950 (17), 1951-54 (4), 1957 (18), 1958 (12), 1959-63 (23), 1967-69 (5), 1972: The Year in Pictures.

Look -- 26 issues: 1945-47 (9 issues), 1950-58 (10 issues), 1960-62 (6 issues), 1967 (1).

More Popular Magazines -- 26 issues: Colliers 1948-59 (16 issues), Facts 1946 (3 issues), Harpers 1948 (2 issues), Holiday 1947 (2), Liberty 1937-40 (4).

Saturday Review -- 144 issues: 1948-49 (15 issues), 1950-51 (75), 1954-55 (49), 1967-61 (4), 1971 (1).

Other Literary Magazines -- 6 issues: Atlantic 4/44 and 2/46; New Yorker 10/16/37, 4/9/49, 4/16/49, and 11/27/72.

Readers' Digest -- 262 issues: 1/36, 1938 complete year, 1939 complete, 1940 complete, 1941 (10 issues), 1942 complete year, 1943 (10 issues), 1944 complete, 1945 (11 issues), 1946-49 (16 issues), 1950 complete, 1951 complete, 1952-53 (21 issues), 1954 complete, 1955-56 (11 issues), 1957 complete, 1958-69 (13 issues), 1970 complete, 1971 (2 issues), 1972 = 50th Anniversary Issue, 1976 complete, 1977 complete, 1978-79 (22 issues).

National Geographic -- 50 issues: 1951 (4 issues), 1953 (10 issues), 1954 complete year, 1955 complete year, 1956 (2 issues), 1976 (2 issues), 1980-82 (6 issues).

Saturday Evening Post -- 49 issues: one issue dated November 1, 1913; and 48 issues from 1946-63, including 4 Rockwell covers.

Small Magazines and Digests -- 194 issues: American Mercury 1945-55 (89 issues), Coronet 1941-59 (16), Digest and Review 1945-46 (5), Encore 1946 (1), Everybody's Digest 1946-59 (6), In Short 1946 (2), Inside Story 1957 (1), Intellectual Digest 1943 (2), International Digest 1945 (1), Journal of Lifetime Living 1948-60 (34), Journal of Living 1944-55 (24), Magazine Digest 1948-54 (7), News Story 1945 (1), Omnibook Magazine 1943 (1), Pageant 1949-65 (10), Path Finder 1943 (1), Read 1945 (1), Your Life 1938-49 (4), The Magazine of the Year - 1948 (1).

News Magazines -- 29 issues: Newsweek 1950-58 (16 issues), Time 1944-57 (5 issues), U.S. News and World Report 1954-65 (8 issues).

Political Magazines and Newspapers -- 38 issues: Capital News 1948 (1 issue), Conservative Digest 1976-77 (11 issues), National Review 1960-63 (6 issues), New Masses 1946 (2 issues), New Republic 1946 (13 issues), The Nation 1946 (1), The New Leader 1946 (4).

Radio Broadcast Transcripts: American Forum of the Air 1940 (1 issue), Town Meeting of the Air 1940-47 (22 issues), University of Chicago Round Table 1947 (7 issues).

Catalogs, etc: Sears 1937 Annual Catalog; The R.C.A. 1930 Annual Report; World Almanacs for 1942, '43, '44, '45, '46.

Women's Magazines -- 6 issues: August 1912 Ladies Home Journal, McCalls 1958 (2), Cosmopolitan 1959 (1), Redbook 1957 and 1987 (2).

Black Magazines -- 3 issues: Ebony October 1951, Our World May 1947 (Jackie Robinson) and June 1947 (Sara Lou Harris).

Movie and Photography Magazines -- 11 issues: Click 1941-42 (2 issues), Color Photography Annual 1958 (1), Foto 1938 (1), Photo Story 1943 (1), Photography Annual 1958 (1), Poloroid Land Photography 1963 (1), Movie Life 1948 (1), Pic 1939 and 1942 (2), Screen Guide 1938 (Carole Lombard cover).

GENTLEMEN'S READING

 Playboy -- 42 issues: 1957-1964 (29 issues), 1967-83 (13 issues).

Unusual Older Men's Magazines -- 68 issues: Blue Book for Men 12/62, Bold 1951-57 (3 ), Cavalier 1951-56 (5), Challenge 11/67, Dare 7/65, Escapage 1957-1962 (5), Exotic 1950, Fate 5/49, Figure 1959 (1), Frolic 4/59, International Tomboy 1958 Vol 1. # 5, Jane Mansfield Magazine (no date), Laff 1945 (1), Life Study No. 13, Men's True Adventure 9/58, Modern Man 1956-59 (9), Monsieur Vol 1 #5, Night and Day 1/49, Nugget 1957-62 (4), Nus (2), Outdoor Adventure 1/59, People 1952 (2), Playtime 1958 Vol. 1 # 1, Revealed 4/58, Saunte 1947 Vol. 1 #1, See 1944-57 (8), Sensation 10/46, The Duke 3/62, True 1940-63 (10), Vue 8/52.

Penthouse -- 9 issues: 1974 - 1984.

Detective and Other Fiction -- 11 issues: Argosy (4) 1941, Crime Detective True Police Stories 1940 (1), Detective Fiction Weekly (4) 1941-46, Special Detective Thrilling Cases (1) 1947 (1).

Science Fiction -- 13 issues: Analog (11) new in wrappers 1963-64, Fantastic Science Fiction Stories (1) 1959, Galaxy (1) 1954.

Military Magazines -- 10 issues: American Legion Magazine 1951 (1), Bally-Hoo 1938 (1), Ernie Pyle 1944 (1), March of Evil 1945 (1), Pearl Harbor Banner 1943 (1), Salute (2) April 1946 Vol. 1 #1 and 1947/4, True War 1976 (1), War Monthly 1974 (1).

Esquire -- 27 issues: 1940-1952, includes several Varga fold-outs and calendars.

Out Door Titles -- 39 issues: Audabon 1963 (1), Field and Stream 1949-61 (20 issues), Hunting and Fishing 1950-51 (2), Outdoor Life 1950-59 (14), Outdoorsman 1950 (1), Sports Afield 1955 (1).

Gun Magazines -- 264 issues: including American Rifleman, Fire Arms, Gun Annual, Gun Digest, Gun Sport, Gun World, Guns, Guns and Ammunition, Hunting Annual, Rifleman, and Shooters Bible.

Nudist Magazines -- 22 issues: Nudism 1959 (1), Sun and Health 1947-1960 (9 issues), Sun Magazine 1951 (1), Sunbathing 1956-58 (5), Physical Culture 1944-46 (5), New Physical Culture 1946 (1),

Calendars, etc: -- Esquire (Petty?) 1948, Nudism 1959, Assorted 1940s-1950s Girlie Calendars, Apollo Burlesque Theatre Pass.

INDUSTRY, SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY

 Radio & TV Magazines -- 176 issues: Television News 1932 (4 issues), Short Wave Craft 1932 (2), RCA 1930 Annual Report (1), Radio TV Repair 1972 (1), Radio TV Experimenter (1962-69 (5), Radio Trouble Finder 1930 (2), Radio News and the Short Wave 1933-34 (12), Radio News and Radio Call 1931-34 (14), Radio News 1927-32 (16), Radio Electronics963-89 (96), Radio Craft 1932-34 (13), Radio - TV Experimenter 1963-68 (3), Lafayette Radio Catalog 1937, Amateur Radio1969 (4).

Aviation Magazines: -- 246 issues Aereo Digest 1936-50 (56 issues), Airoplane 1936 (1 issue), Air News 1945 (1), Air Progess 1943-58 (4), Air Trails 1939-49 (37), Air Travel 1940-45 (7), Air Travels Annual 1941 (2), Aircrafts and Jets 1946 (1), Airplane Power 1943 (1), Air Progress - Air Trails Annual 1939 (1), American Aviation 1953-56 (3), American Helicopter 1945-46 (3), Aviation 1940 (1), Aviation Age 1953-57 (14), Aviation Equipment 1942-44 (22), Aviation News 1943 (2), Aviation Service Magazine 1942 (1), Aviation Week 1974 (1), Bee Hive Aircraft Quarterly 1967 (2), Flight 1940 (1), Flying 944-56 (5), Flying and Popular Aviation 1940-41 (2), Flying Aces (1945 (1), Model Airplane News 1939-45 (30), Naval Aviation News 1954 (3), Pegasus 1943-54 (45), Popular Aviation 1935-40 (7), Space Age (1959 (1), Space Journal 1958 (1), World of Flight Airpower 1946 (2)

Automotive Magazines -- 70 issues: Auto Merchandising 1938-41 (9 issues), Car and Driver 1981 (1), Car Life 1957 (1), Changing Times 1971-81 (2), Karting 1961 (1), Motor Age 1981 (2), Motor Service Magazine 1938-43 (34), Motor Trend 1954 (1), Motor: Automobile Business Magazine 1939-43 (18), GMAC News and Views 1938 (1).

Etc: Lafayette Radio 1937 Catalog; Buick Shop Manuals for 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, and 1965; Brownell Gun Catalog 1953-54; "How to Pass U.S. Govt. Radio License Exams" 1929.

Popular Science -- 404 issues: dating back to 1932, and including complete years for 1937 through 1941, two complete sets of 1942, a complete run of 1946-50, and full years for 1952, 1955, 1956, 1960, and 1962.

Industrial Titles -- 21 issues: Steel 1939 (2 issues), Steel Horizons 1940-47 (10 issues), Steel Ways 1945-61 (5 issues), Mechanical Package Magazine 1931 (4 issues).

Scientific American -- 24 issues: 1931 - 1975

Popular Mechanics -- 450 issues: including over 100 issues from each decade of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, with complete years for 1931 through 1944, 1946-1949, and 1951-1955.

Science Digest -- 198 issues: 1937 - 1984, including complete year collections for 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, and 1947.

Physics Today -- 36 issues: 1949 - 1951

Other Tech Magazines -- 66 issues: Mechanics (1) 1934; Mechanics and Handicrafts - (5) 1933 - 1937; Mechanix Illustrated - (23) 1936 - 1976; Modern Mechanix and Inventions - (27) 1932 - 1936; Modern Mechanix Hobbies and Inventions - (1) 11/36; Practical Mechanics (1) Vol. 1 #1 1932; Science and Mechanics - (8) 1933-64; Science Mechanic Inventions - (2) 1933.

Other Assorted Science -- 18 issues: Journal of Chemical Education 1933 (1 issue), Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 1948-49 (4 issues), Research Labratory Record (1 issue) 11/33 vol 2 no 8, Rhodomagnetic Digest (4 issues) 1951-52, Science Illustrated 1946-49 (4 issues) Science Experimenter 1959-69 (6 issues).

Electronics Illustrated -- 52 issues: 1952 - 1962.
Electronics World -- 43 issues: 1962 - 1971.
Elementary Electronics -- 40 issues: 1967 - 1977.
Popular Electronics -- 124 issues: 1961 - 1989.
Science and Electronics -- 13 issues: 1969 - 1971

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