The names of the truly great magazines in American journalistic history number very few: Scribner's, McClure's, Cosmopolitan, Century, Hearst's, The American Mercury. But head and shoulders above all, both in longevity and continued excellence, is Harper's Weekly and its later ally, Harper's Monthly Magazine. The very precepts of American journalism, which would grow through the muckrakers cultivated by S. S. McClure, have their foundation well before the Civil War in the pages of Harper's. And the illustrators who are now revered, who were given their own postage stamps in 2001, began with the war artists working in woodcuts, and later half-tone illustrations, in the pages of Harpers.
I have found a few copies of vintage Harper's at estate sales, and I will now give you a description of the contents and condition of this one.
The current issue is Harper's Magazine, September 1920. As with most Harper's, it is huge, well over 200 pages, as thick as a hardback novel.
Among the contents are the things listed in blue above ;
writing by Margaret Deland, Philip Curtiss, Edwina S Babcock, John Balderstron, Frederick Palmer, James Harvey Robinson, W L George, William J Long, , Edward Hungerford, Roy chapman Andrews, Charles Hanson Towne, Berton Braley, Stepen Leacock, , , , tons more ;
illustrations by Walter Biggs, F Walter Taylor, George Wright, W Hatherell, , more, , ;
and of course, hundreds and hundreds of period ads,!
Nicecopy with just a slight air dust line on right side of cover.
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