8 individual issues of the New Yorker
from the months July and August 1970.
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Condition is generally VG+ to NF with some issues showing trace shelf rubbing and/or foxing at spine. Contents and covers generally clean and neat. See photos and descriptions for condition. Newsstand copies; no mailing labels.
Individual Issues as follows:
July 4, 1970 -- Independence Day issue. Charles Addams cover art of Uncle Sam watching fireworks by a seaside fort. Issue includes Penelope Gilliatt cinema review of then controversial film Myra Breckinridge," Thomas Meehan short story "The Pied Piper," poetry by Jon Swan and more. ... Trace shelf evidence. VG++ to NF $20
July 11, 1970 -- Ilonka Karasz cover art of a stable type door opening out to a beach. Issue includes fiction, "Newsletter" by Donald Barthelme poetry by John Hall Wheelock and W.S. Merwin, Penelope Gilliatt cinema review of Liza Minelli's "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon," Talk of the Town by Lillian Ross, and more. ... Trace shelf rubbing and a hint of foxing to spine edge. VG++ $20
July 18, 1970 -- Saul Steinberg cover art of a cat opening a refrigerator door on the number five. Issue includes Ted Hughes' "Crow and Mama - Five Poems," "Noel Perrin piece "Dartmouth '70 and The War" on the college protests of the Vietnam War, Penelope Gilliatt cinema review of They Call Me Mister Tibbs, and more. ... Trace shelf rubbing and a hint of foxing to spine edge. VG++ $15
July 25, 1970 -- Arthur Getz illustrated cover of a night time concert at an open tent fairgrounds. Issue includes short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer "On a Wagon," poetry by John Berryman, Penelope Gilliatt cinema review of Born Yesterday, and more. ... Mild shelf rubbing and mild foxing to spine edge. VG+ $13.5
August 1, 1970 -- Andre Francois cover at of a man sunning himself on a deserted beach. Issue includes poetry by James Merrill, Penelope Gilliatt cinema review of horror legend Dario Argento's debut film The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, fiction by Robert Thompson, and more. ... Trace shelf evidence to spine edge. VG++ to NF $15
August 8, 1970 -- Charles E. Martin four panel cover art of a bush growing to cover a 'Keep America Beautiful' sign. Issue includes 1st appearance Jorge Luis Borges short story "The Meeting," Donald Barthelme's "The Show," Penelope Gilliatt cinema review of Jean Renoir's "The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir," Francine du Plessix Gray piece and more. ... Superficial foxing to cover edges. VG to VG+ $15
August 15, 1970 -- Ilonka Karasz cover art of crows in a cornfield under a blazing sun. Issue includes Woody Allen short story "A Look at Organized Crime," Emily Hahn short story "Pilgrim's Progress," Penelope Gilliatt cinema review, and more. .. Mild foxing to front cover. VG $10
August 22, 1970 -- James Stevenson cover art of a group of horseback riders foregrounded before a mountain. Issue includes poetry by W. S. Merwin, Penelope Gilliatt cinema review of "Out of It," Sylvia Townsend Warner short story "The Green Torso," and more. ... Trace rubbing at spine and superficial foxing edges. VG+ $15
August 29, 1970 -- Albert Hubbell cover art people waiting for a ferry in a small seaside town. Issue includes Jonathan Schell ecological piece, Calvin Trillin piece on the Klan's effects on desegregation in Alabama, Richard Shelton poem "Valediction," fiction by Berry Morgon, Talk of the Town by Wallace White, William Maxwell on books and more. ...Superficial storage evidence to covers. VG++ $15