It's Christmas in July! "Merry Christmas to All from Judge... Notice to Ye Readers: In spite of Herculean efforts, Judge has never been able to come out first with a Christmas Number, so this year we have determined to lead the field, and we herewith present Ye Big Christmas Number. Judge also takes great pleasure in announcing the extremely original and daring fact that there is not one joke in this issue regarding Christmas!" Reads the first page inside this darling antique original, rare and hard to find copy of the July 25, 1925 issue of Judge magazine's Big Christmas Number. The front cover features an illustration by famous artist John Holmgren depicting a flapper girl fanning herself in her bathing suit as she drinks pink lemonade while sitting on a huge ice cube and reading Judge magazine as she says, "So This is Christmas"...Christmas in July!

All 32 pages inside and the interiors of the covers joyously present charming cartoonist comics, full page illustrations, jokes, poems, funny articles, stories, Otho Cushing drawings among many other artists (artwork on every page!), quotes, vaudeville acts, collectible advertisements, unused crossword puzzles, and uncut paper dolls; most of which pay homage to Christmas as delightfully celebrated on July 25th in 1925!

Making a cherished gift for a lover of Christmas and 1920s fashion, humor, and style, this antique 1925 Judge Big Christmas Number magazine would look charming displayed in a roaring twenties inspired breakfast nook, sunroom, parlor, or used as a unique Christmas decoration!

In good condition for its antique age, this July 25, 1925 Judge magazine has a few, light scattered areas of edge and surface wear and natural patina, most of which is hardly noticeable, but the most significant is a 1 3/4" x 1/2" curved missing piece from the edge of the magazine that goes from cover to cover affecting all of the interior pages, but fortunately it does not affect any of the interior artwork or typography as it only impacts the blank white space bordering edge of the pages. There is also a small area of faint, erased pencil writing in the blank white space of the cover that once read "fire!" in cursive that can barely be seen, only when closely examined as it has been erased with a pencil eraser.

Measurements:

8 1/4" x 11"