10 individual issues of the New Yorker 

from the months July through September, 1961. 

Select any single issue from the drop down menu. 

Condition is generally VG or better. Contents clean and neat. Newsstand copies; no mailing labels. See photos and individual descriptions for condition.

Individual Issues as follows:

July 8, 1961 - Highpoint Charles Addams (Addams Family creator) cover art of graveyard ghosts watching a nearby drive-in movie. Issue includes fiction by John O'Hara, short story by Silvia Townsend Warner, cinema review of Brigitte Bardot's "The Truth," and more. ... Mild storage wave but otherwise bright and fresh, VG or better.  $65

July 15, 1961 - Beatrice Szanton cover art of children at summer camp walking down dirt road. Issue includes Ted Hughes poem "Still Life," fiction by Nadine Gordimer, Talk of the Town by Lillian Ross, and more. VG++ $15

July 22, 1961 - Anatole Kovarsky cover art of Sikh family looking down from the Empire State Building observation deck. Issue includes 1st print appearance of Sylvia Plath poem "On Deck," John Updike story "A & P," film review of Ingmar Bergman's "Secrets of Women," and more.  Trace shelf evidence to cover edges. VG+  $110

July 29, 1961 - Abe Birnbaum cover art of a summer sky at the beach. Issue includes John Cheever short story “The Seaside Houses,” poetry by Ogden Nash, “A Letter From Nagasaki” by E. J. Kahn, and more. ... Mild storage curl at front edge. VG $17.5

August 5, 1961 - Charles D. Saxon cover art of women viewing abstract art and whispering with artist nearby. Issue includes John O’Hara short story “Mary and Norma,” John Updike story “Mr. Ex-Resident,” James Dickey poetry, literature review by A. J. Liebling, and more. ... Trace shelf evidence edges. VG+ $25

August 12, 1961 - Enda Eicke cover art of children reading the newspaper under verdant trees on an idyllic summer day. Issue includes Comment by John Updike, fiction by Mavis Gallant, Letter From London, by Mollie Panter-Downes, and more. VG+ $20

August 19, 1961 - Garret Price cover art of freight cars on a barge on the East River. Issue includes John Updike short story “Pigeon Feathers,” fiction by James Thurber, Brandan Gill cinema review and more. Trace shelf curl front edge. VG+ $20

August 26, 1961- William Steig cover art of poche couple in a red convertible being held up by a passing herd of cows. Issue includes poem by famed translator Richard Lattimore, “The Krakenhaus of Leutkirch,” Benedict Kiely short story “A View From The Tree Top,” fiction "A Basket of Peanuts" by Arturo Vivante, Talk of the Town by Geoffrey T. Hellman, and more. VG+ $17.5

September 2, 1961 - Robert Kraus cover art of people leaving a country playhouse and going to a concession stand. Issue includes translator and poet Richard Wilbur’s poem “The Aspen and the Stream,” fiction by Donald Hall, short story by Shirley Hazzard, and more. .... Drink ripple to cover and first few pages; light shelf wear edges. G++ $13.5

September 9, 1961 - Saul Steinberg abstract cover art of man looking at fall foliage. Issue includes Robert Graves poem “Sullen Moods,” poetry by Theodore Roethke, fiction by Robert Henderson, Peter Matthiessen's account of a 1000 mile journey through Peru, and more. Bright and neat VG++ $35