(Old Magazines, Early 20th Century Magazines, Americana, Illustrated Magazines, Periodicals, Literature).

The American Magazine.
Published February, 1931, Springfield, Ohio by The Crowell Publishing Company.
164 pages. Text in English. Cover art by John LaGatta.

Profusion of illustrations and nice assortment of illustrated Deco style advertising, some of it in color. Ads for cars, cigarettees, gum, soup, food, radios, soap, home goods, health products, books, etc

Very nice early 20th century magazine with pleasing visual content, a rich mine of images, stories and art work.

Binding remains sound, various mostly small signs of age, time and handling, nothing offensive or major. A nice looking example.

Small age flaws or defects include possible random old creasing, edge chipping, small light old staining, etc. 

Overall entirely acceptable example. The pictures give a very good sense of how the item survives.

Many periodicals of this era are very scarce today as loose complete issues. Like most random survivals of old periodical printing, any specific example (like this one) is likely among a relative handful still extant. As each decade goes back from 1950, the rate of scarcity for any specific magazine or paper item increases noticeably.

Text block remains overall clean.

Magazine remains attractive on the shelf. It displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws easy to overlook or forgive. 

Please review photos for more detail and our best attempt to convey how this antique item survives. This item is not new- it is old and has been handled by different owners in the past.

Magazine Measures c. 11 3/4" H x 8 1/2" W.

[B1824].