17 individual issues of the New Yorker
from the months January, March, April, May, June, 1970.
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Condition is generally VG with some varying degree of storage rubbing to spine edge and mild foxing to page block edges. A few copies with more surface wear. Contents generally clean and neat. Newsstand copies; no mailing labels. See photos and description for condition
Individual Issues as follows:
January 3, 1970 - James Stevenson cover of greeting card for the 1st years of the 1970's. Issue includes Comment by John Updike, poetry by Richard Shelton, fiction by Sylvia Townsend Warner, dramatic fiction by Roger Angell, and more. ... Light offset discoloration to covers and mild shelf rubbing at spine; light foxing to first few pages. Near VG $12.50
January 10, 1970 - Arthur Getz cover of children sledding in the sunset. Issue includes Talk of the Town by Geoffrey T. Hellman, poetry by Jon Swan, fiction by W. S. Merwin and more. ... Trace foxing edges. VG or better. $20
January 17, 1970 - Charles Addams cover of the geological eras layered beneath New York City. Issue includes fiction, " Car Games" by Frank Conroy, poetry by Marianne Moore, "Summer Afternoon, Summer Afternoon" by Hannah Green, Pauline Kael cinema review, and more. ... Trace foxing edges. VG or better $17.5
January 24, 1970 - Charles E. Martin cover of woman walking into the Guggenheim. Issue includes Talk of the Town by E. B. White, Reflections "One Touch of Nature" by Mary McCarthy, Isaac Bashevis Singer story "Guests on a Winter Night," and more. ...Light shelf bump bottom front corner and trace foxing edges. VG $15
January 31, 1970 - Saul Steinberg illustrated cover of the word "Today" taking off like a rocket from the word "Yesterday." Issue includes John Updike story "Rich in Russia," poetry by Ted Walker, cinema review by Pauline Kael, and more. ... Mild foxing cover edges. VG $20
March 14, 1970 - Charles E. Martin cover of cruise ship preparing to port at tropical destination. Issue includes Talk of the Town by Geoffrey T. Hellman, poetry by W. S. Merwin, fiction by Penelope Gilliatt, and more. ... Moderate adhesion rubbing to coverand trace foxing to edges. Good only $8
April 18, 1970 - Charles Saxon cover of man trying out golf clubs in garage. Issue includes fiction by John Bailey, short story by W. S. Merwin, Winthrop Sargeant concert review, Jonathan Schell on drug use and the opiate trade in the Vietnam War, and more. ... VG or better. $17.5
April 25, 1970 - Laura Jean Allen cover of a potted tree budding on an apartment balcony. Issue includes Jorge Luis Borges story "Ibn Hakkan Al-Bokhari- Dead in his Labyrinth," Talk of the Town by Jonathan Schell, theater review by Edith Oliver, and more. ... Just trace shelf rubbing and foxing spine edge. Bright and neat. VG+ $15
May 2, 1970 - Arthur Getz cover of figure painting class. Issue includes fiction by W. S. Merwin, theater review by Brendan Gill, poetry by Ramon Guthrie book review of James Dickey's classic novel Deliverance, and more. ... Trace storage run to cover adjacent to spine. VG+ $13.5
May 9, 1970 - Charles E. Martin cover of balloon vendor walking by a playground. Issue includes poetry by Mark Strand, poems by Christopher Geoffrey, cinema review by Penelope Gilliatt, and more. ... Solid and neat. VG+ $15
May 16, 1970 - Andre Francois illustrated cover - faces. Issue includes poem by John Updike "Upon Shaving Off One's Beard," Muriel Spark story "The Driver's Seat," and more. ... Hint of foxing edges. VG+ $13.5
May 23, 1970 - Arthur Getz cover of skyscraper construction. Issue includes Jorge Luis Borges story "The Challenge," Vladimir Nabokov poem "How I love You," Edmund Wilson book review, and more. ... Superficial abrasion rub top edge of cover; mild foxing front edge. VG- $13.5
May 30, 1970 - William Steig's florid floral cover of woman reading a book on wild flowers in her house. Issue includes Schell's observation on Cambodia escalation in the Vietnam conflict, poetry by Richard Howard, Roger Angell story "Turtletaub and the Foul Distemper," Howard Edith Oliver theater review, and more. VG+ $13.5
June 6, 1970 - Saul Steinberg cover of artist/s painting a line of men out in the desert. Issue includes article "Word Game" by Burton Bernstein, Five Poems by W. S. Merwin, Edmund Wilson book review, and more. ... Light storage rubbing to front cover and heavier storage rubbing to rear. VG- $12.5
June 13, 1970 - Classic Charles E. Martin cover of fish and fisherman at a creek. Issue includes short story "Estrangement" by Ted Walker, Talk of the Town by Constance Feeley, poetry by John Ciardi, Donald Barthelme illustrated story, "A Nation of Wheels," and more. ... Light storage wear to cover edges. VG $25
June 20, 1970 - Andre Francois cover of clouds in an elevator. Issue includes Woody Allen short story "Hassidic Tales, With a Guide to Their Interpretation by the Noted Scholar," poetry by Jon Swan, Penelope Gilliatt cinema review, and more. ... Mild shelf evidence at edges and light foxing front edge. VG $15
June 27, 1970 - Ronald Searle cover of a firefly and other insects in the garden. Issue includes Margaret Atwood poem "Descent," Calvin Trillin piece "West Chester, PA. I've Always Been Clean," and more. ... Just mild storage evidence. VG+ $15