This is a rare edition of the iconic Picture Post Magazine from August 1949 featuring a young Marilyn Monroe on the cover.

In reasonable overall condition for a paper item that is over 70 years old. The magazine is complete. The cover is loose. Staples are rusted. Minor creases are present.

Picture Post's innovative use of photojournalism captured the imagination of the British people. In the era before television, it became the window on the world for ordinary people, bringing the major social and political issues of the day into popular consciousness.

Above all, Picture Post provides a fascinating snapshot of British life from the 1930s to the 1950s, with thousands of photos of ordinary people doing ordinary things -- from boys rolling a tyre, to a view of a postwar bedsit, to young women on a rollercoaster - all caught in a single moment in time.

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