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Life Magazine – February 12, 1920 (# 1945) – St. Valentine’s Day
$12.00 – $38.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Very Good
Good
Fair (All Good, but cover is neatly loose from staples and has a spot)
Description
Cover : Woman prepares Cupid to carry her heart away, “Before the flight,” art by Raymond Moreau Crosby.
– Much on valentines, St. Valentine’s, love and romance.
– Full page ad for Addressograph, which prints from type, seems like a type of personal printing press of sorts.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Strothmann (Two pages : Whence it came, whither it goes), Nate Collier (Life’s Movies : Out of the Storm), Hull (probably)(Irish Linen Society).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Paging Mr. Hoover.”
– Half page art by Calvert that is anti-fur.
– Great half page art by Calvert of little boy pulling load of reclaimed boards across a road while policeman stops the car traffic, “Business before pleasure.”
– Some current events include : Oysters threatened with extinction in Long Island Sound due to pollution, Frank Munsey of the Herald, James Hamilton Lewis, Earl Grey, Peace Treaty, Syria, General Smuts, J. P. Cotton.
– Excellent full page Franklin Automobile ad with skiing theme, great art, signed with Glyph.
– Great full page color Pierce-Arrow car ad with lovely dappled spring birch forest theme, not signed.
– Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1920 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!
– Full page ad for Addressograph, which prints from type, seems like a type of personal printing press of sorts.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Strothmann (Two pages : Whence it came, whither it goes), Nate Collier (Life’s Movies : Out of the Storm), Hull (probably)(Irish Linen Society).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “Paging Mr. Hoover.”
– Half page art by Calvert that is anti-fur.
– Great half page art by Calvert of little boy pulling load of reclaimed boards across a road while policeman stops the car traffic, “Business before pleasure.”
– Some current events include : Oysters threatened with extinction in Long Island Sound due to pollution, Frank Munsey of the Herald, James Hamilton Lewis, Earl Grey, Peace Treaty, Syria, General Smuts, J. P. Cotton.
– Excellent full page Franklin Automobile ad with skiing theme, great art, signed with Glyph.
– Great full page color Pierce-Arrow car ad with lovely dappled spring birch forest theme, not signed.
– Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1920 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!
