16 individual issues of the New Yorker
from the months January through June, 1968.
Select any single issue from the drop down menu. Priced between $10 - $25.
Condition is generally VG or better, a few G to VG- with varying degrees of shelf rubbing and/or furring to spine, mild foxing to front edges or some shelf wear. . Contents clean and neat. Newsstand copies; no mailing labels. See photos and individual descriptions for condition.
Individual Issues as follows:
January 6, 1968 - Abe Birnbaum abstract cover of jazz band piano and drummer. Issue includes fiction by Andre Dubus, theater review by Edith Oliver, film review of Andy Warhol film Fuck (Also titled Blue Movie) and James Coburn and Godfrey Cambridge film The President's Analyst, and more. ... Storage ripples and waves through the whole magazine and rubbing to edges. Last 6 leaves stress creased and dogeared top front corner. Good only. $10
January 13, 1968 - Charles E. Martin cover of ski slope. Issue includes short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Talk of the Town by Geoffrey T. Hellman, poetry by Jane Cooper, cinema review by Pauline Kael, and more. .. Light storage wave to covers and pages; some furring and short separation at spine edge. G+ $12.5
January 20, 1968 - Charles Addams cover of various fish species in water. Issue includes poetry by Adrien Stoutenburg, convert review by Winthrop Sargeant, Pauline Kael lengthy film review of Norman Mailer's "Wild 90," and more. ... Solid and bright with trace rubbing at spine edge. VG+ $25
March 23, 1968 - Abe Birnbaum abstract cover of heron in grass. Issue includes short story "Malcolm and Bea" by Mavis Gallant, concert review by Winthrop Sargeant, poetry by Ralph Pomeroy, Robert Shaplen's "Letter From Saigon" about the Vietnam War, and more. ... Superficial shelf rubbing edges and mild furring at spine; light reust to binding staples. VG $20
March 30, 1968 - Charles Saxon cover of older women watching younger women walk by in current fashion. Issue includes Comment by John Updike, fiction by Julian Mazor, Brendan Gill theater review, poetry by Maxine Kumin and more. .. Bright clean copy with light rubbing at spine. VG+ $20
April 6, 1968 - Andre Francois cover of Walrus doing fish math. Issue includes fiction by Penelope Gilliatt, poetry by James Wright, Pauline Kael cinema review of Goddard film "La Chinoise," and more. ... Just mild storage wear to covers. VG+ $22.5
April 20, 1968 - Laura Jean Allen cover of New Yorkers walking through thick rain and fog. Issue includes fiction by Penelope Gilliatt, poetry by Howard Moss, and Calvin Trillin piece "The Last Peaceful Place," about Cornell transformation and opposition to the Vietnam War, and more. ...Mild shelf wear to covers. VG or better $15
April 27, 1968 - Abe Birnbaum cover of a blossoming apple tree by a barn. Issue includes W. H. Auden poem “City Without Walls,” Anne Sexton poem “It Is A Spring Afternoon,” music review by Winthrop Sargeant, and more. ... VG++ $22.5
May 4, 1968 - Saul Steinberg cover of medieval knights and tower in a hilly sea side region. Issue includes Talk of the Town by Burton Bernstein, Calvin Tomkins profile of famed dancer Merce Cunningham, Naomi Bliven literature review, and more. ... Solid neat copy with trace foxing to front edge. VG+ $20
May 11, 1968 - William Steig cove of sleeping cat and caged bird in colorful apartment. Issue includes Allen Ginsberg poem "Wales Visitation," Talk of the Town by Constance Feeley, fiction by S. J. Perelman, and more. ... Solid clean copy with trace foxing front edge. VG+ $20
May 18, 1968 - Arthur Getz cover a of barn door shadow in the sloping sun. Issue includes poetry by Ruth Fox, Talk of the Town by Lillian Ross, book review by Peter Gay, fiction by Amy Witting, and more. ... Solid and neat with trace foxing front edge od page block and tiny tears to spine at top binding staple. VG $15
May 25, 1968 - Ilonka Karasz cover : marriage of two lush trees with a picnic table underneath the canopy. Issue includes Isaac Bashevis Singer story “The Dead Fidler,” Ann Stanford poem “Night of Souls,” poetry by Howard Moss, and more. .. . Spot of light furring to cover edge base of spine. VG+ $17.5
June 1, 1968 - Charles E. Martin cover of beached dinghies on a rocky shore. Issue includes experimental fiction by Colleen Brooks, poetry by Alastair Reid, fiction by Arturo Vivante, interview with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi by Ved Mehta, and more. ... Nice clean copy with trace rubbing at spine edge. VG+ $20
June 8, 1968 - Robert Stevenson cover illustration of an alumnus back on campus for Homecoming. Issue includes Mavis Gallant short story “Saturday,” poetry by William Heredity, theater review by Brendan Gill, and more. ... Mild shelf wear to cover and light furring to spine edge. VG $15
June 22, 1968 - Beatrice Szanton cover of travel agency in Florence, Italy. Issue includes poetry by Frederick Bock, Talk of the Town by Geoffrey T. Hellman, cinema review of Bunuel film “Nazarin,” and more. ... Mild shelf wear to covers. VG or better. $20
June 29, 1968 - Classic Arthur Getz cover of a library in the late afternoon. Issue includes Anne Sexton poem “Days Without You,” experimental fiction by Thomas Meehan, Ted Walker poem “Grass,” and more. ... Mild shelf/storage evidence to covers. VG. $20