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Life Magazine – February 22, 1917 (# 1791) – Garden of Eden Number
$18.00 – $42.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Very Good (Has paper clip marks on edge of center spread)
Fair (All Good, nice, but has short tear into cover art, no paper missing. Cover lightly rubbed.).
Description
Cover : Woman offering man a watermelon as a snake glides away, “The Ethiopian version,” art by Paul Stahr.
– GARDEN OF EDEN NUMBER (much on Adam and Eve).
– Full page color Williams’ Shaving soaps ad with nice art.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Leo Cheney (Johnnie Walker whisky ad), Crawford Young (Signs of spring : if we behaved as we felt), illegible signature (If Adam and Eve had “done it” for the movies … the apple scene), Charles Dana Gibson (Lady Liberty = Germania dressing Lady Peace in full armor, “As she must dress today), Rodney Thomson (The first eviction … from the Eden Apartments).
– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, “Shoot, Sam; Quick!’
– Small photos of Leonie Borthivas (baby 248), Raymonde and Paul Ingrain (babies 145 and 315), Leone Defacques (baby 492) and her sisters.
– Some current events include : China says she’ll send the Kaiser’s ambassador home if the ruthless U-boat plan goes through, Carranza tells the neutrals to stop shipping munitions, Much uproar of various types about the imminent joining of the war, We are not torpid any more, Captain Kokeritz and Captain Tucker are brave men.
– Much more.
– Full page color Williams’ Shaving soaps ad with nice art.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Leo Cheney (Johnnie Walker whisky ad), Crawford Young (Signs of spring : if we behaved as we felt), illegible signature (If Adam and Eve had “done it” for the movies … the apple scene), Charles Dana Gibson (Lady Liberty = Germania dressing Lady Peace in full armor, “As she must dress today), Rodney Thomson (The first eviction … from the Eden Apartments).
– Two page centerspread art by William H. Walker, “Shoot, Sam; Quick!’
– Small photos of Leonie Borthivas (baby 248), Raymonde and Paul Ingrain (babies 145 and 315), Leone Defacques (baby 492) and her sisters.
– Some current events include : China says she’ll send the Kaiser’s ambassador home if the ruthless U-boat plan goes through, Carranza tells the neutrals to stop shipping munitions, Much uproar of various types about the imminent joining of the war, We are not torpid any more, Captain Kokeritz and Captain Tucker are brave men.
– Much more.
