LIFE magazine REHEARSAL Dummy issue 2 scarce 9 24
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LIFE magazine REHEARSAL Dummy issue 2 scarce 9/24/1936

LIFE magazine REHEARSAL Dummy issue 2 scarce 9/24/1936
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Current Price USD 100.00
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Start Time Thursday, October 30, 2008
End Time Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Location Columbus, Ohio

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(LIFE magazine) REHEARSAL Magazine - a "Dummy" - 2nd scarce advertising "dummy" published to promote the new (and as yet unnamed) Life magazine. Only 15,000 printed. September 24, 1936. 80 pp. Topics covered include Cotton Picking, including the Rust Brothers' mechanical cotton picker, filming of "Romeo and Juliet", Stalin bio, Lloyd George and Hitler, Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat in the Bavarian Alps, the fall of Irun (Spanish rebels' first key victory), Helen Hayes on Broadway as Queen Victoria, Crown Princess Juliana of the House of Orange, tennis star Alice Marble, Nurnberg 1936 Nazi rally of 1 million soldiers plus modern war equipment (with photo showing Goebbels,  Goring, and Streicher), "Overweather" Douglas Aircraft air transport planes with 2pp illustrated spread highlighing aviation milestones, filming of "The Good Earth" in China, Black Widow Spiders. Color portrait section with photos by Paul Outerbridge, including a nude. Remarkable ads throughout - in color and b/w - many full page - a precursor of the ads Life was to run in the following decades: General Motors, Cunard White Star Line, Grace Line, Ford, United Air Lines, Chesapeake and Ohio RR, Westinghouse, Plymouth, etc. Lucky Strike green pack ad on back. CONDITION: Good. Minor wear to spine. Overall age yellowing and minor soiling SHIPPING: For Domestic US, please see the statement. For International, please contact us for a shipping quote. Please visit our eBay store. We have many unique antiquarian books and paper items and are listing more daily. We use accepted bookseller grading standards for books and paper items: As New (Mint), Fine, Near Fine, Very Good Plus, Very Good, Good Plus, Good, Fair, Poor (Reading Copy). We grade items conservatively. We give more explicit details when helpful. SKU12079MW Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.

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