8 individual issues of the New Yorker from the months May through July 1964. Select any single issue from the drop down menu. Priced between $10 and $30.
Condition is generally VG to NF with some issues showing mild rubbing or furring at spine. Contents and covers generally clean and neat. See photos and descriptions for condition. Newsstand copies; no mailing labels.
Individual Issues as follows:
May 2, 1964 -- Joseph Low illustrated cover art of spring songbirds. Issue includes E.B. White "Notes and Comment" on Rachel Carson and the environment, Howard Nemerov poem "The May Day Dancing," Stephen Spender, and more. Solid bright copy with light foxing to page block edges. VG to VG+ $15
May 30, 1964- Arthur Getz illustrated cover of restaurant overlooking the Hudson. Issue includes, poem "Cadenza" by Ted Hughes, "Man's Face (A New Novel in Forty Coaxial Chapters)" by Donald Barthelme, fiction by Sylvia Townsend Warner, "Comment" by John Updike, "A Letter From Paris" by Jean Genet, and more. Bright fresh copy with trace foxing to page block edges. VG++ or better $35
June 6, 1964 -- Charles E. Martin collage illustrated cover of graduates becoming workers. Issue includes first publication of John Cheever story "Montraldo," Robert Graves poem "A Last Poem," Anne Sexton poem "Three Green Windows," and more. Solid copy with mild stress at spine around the binding staples and a thin area of foxing along the front edge of the cover. Light foxing to page block edges. VG- $22.5
June 13, 1964- Albert Hubbell cover art -- summer beach town with lighthouse. Issue includes first publication short story by Peter De Vries "The Conversational Ball", James Merrill, and more. Solid clean copy with mild furring to spine edge, VG to VG+ $20
June 20, 1964 -- Andre Francoise cover art -- Central Park city horse. Donald Barthelme fiction, "A Picture History of the War, Howard Moss, Barbara Howes, Calvin Trillin, and more. Solid clean copy with mild furring to spine and a tiny closed tear bottom of spine. VG $22.5
June 27, 1964 -- Kovarsky cover art -- tour guide and group in palace. Alan Moorehead after a visit to Antarctica, etc. Solid clean copy with trace furring to spine. VG $12
July 4, 1964 -- Steinberg's boldly imaginative patriotic cover art. John Updike poem, "Fireworks," Auden's "On the Circuit," and more. Bright clean copy with just a hint of shelf evidence to edges. VG++ to NF $35
July 11, 1964 -- Getz cover art -- opening night at the Cinema. Mild stress at spine edge and a thin swath of foxing along the front edge of the cover. VG- $15