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Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Wraps. Zustand: Good. 136 pages, plus covers. Cover has some wear and soiling. Among the "Articles of Lasting Interest" are Those Nazi Americans, After the Merrimac by Herbert Gambrell, What does the CIO want, Half a Mile of History by Richard Halliburton, The World War's Deep-Sea spy, Optometry On Trial by Roger William Riis, and The Star by H. G. Wells. Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published 10 times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in midtown Manhattan. The magazine was founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace. For many years, Reader's Digest was the best-selling consumer magazine in the United States. According to Mediamark Research (2006), Reader's Digest reaches more readers with household incomes of $100,000+ than Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Inc. combined. In 1922, DeWitt Wallace started the magazine while he was recovering from shrapnel wounds received in World War I. Wallace had the idea to gather a sampling of favorite articles on many subjects from various monthly magazines, sometimes condensing and rewriting them, and to combine them into one magazine. The Wallaces initially hoped the journal could provide $5,000 of net income. Wallace's assessment of what the potential mass-market audience wanted to read led to rapid growth. By 1929, the magazine had 290,000 subscribers and had a gross income of $900,000 a year. The first international edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. By the 40th anniversary of Reader's Digest, it had 40 international editions, in 13 languages and Braille, and at one point, it was the largest-circulating journal in China, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, Peru, and other countries, with a total international circulation of 23 million. The magazine's format for several decades consisted of 30 articles per issue (one per day), along with an "Increase your Word Power" vocabulary quiz, a page of "Amusing Anecdotes" and "Personal Glimpses", two features of funny stories entitled "Humor in Uniform" and "Life in these United States", and a lengthier article at the end, usually condensed from a published book. Other regular features were "My Most Unforgettable Character" and the "Drama in Real Life" survival stories. These were all listed in the table of contents on the front cover. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Seven early issues of the Reader's Digest, being numbers 74, 75, 77, 84, 96, 98 and 114; June, July and September 1928, April 1929, April and June 1930 and October 1931. 197x140 mm, 64 pages in coloured (4 different colours between the 7 issues) paper covers, stapled. There are faint stained patches on the front covers of the earliest two and all covers have faded areas and slight scuffing to spines and cover edges; staples only finely rusted. Otherwise in very good condition for ephemeral items nearly a century old. …

12 pp.; 28 x 21.6 cm; loose leaves; black-and-white; edition size unknwon; unsigned and unnumbered; photocopy / xeroxed Exhibition brochure / checklist published in conjunction with show held May 1 - July 23, 1993. Curated by Jean-Noël Herlin, with research by Karen Bubb and Sarah Wagner. Selected artists include Jean-Noël Herlin, Karen Bubb, Sarah Wagner, Wolfgang Paalen, Tom E. Lewis, Joseph Cornell, Laurence Vail, A. Raymond Katz, Irving Kriesberg, Yves Tanguy, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, Claude Bentley, David Smith, Matta, Jean Follett, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Brownjohn, Ivan Chermayeff, Thomas Geismar, George Brecht, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Davis, Elaine de Kooning, William T. Wiley, Frank Stella, Man Ray, Red Grooms, Michael Todd, Ay-o, George Ortman, Nam June Paik, Harry Soviak, Arni Hendin, Thomas Downing, Gerald Oster, Reginald Neal, Dakota Daley, Nicholas Quennell, Bela Julesz, Michael Noll, Dan Flavin, Louise Nevelson, Peter Saul, Lila Katzen, Elaine Sturtevant, Kim MacConnel, Liliana Porter, Mel Bochner, Lawrence Weiner, Eleanor Antin, Jean Dubuffet, Yoko Ono, Larry Bell, Marilyn Levine, Larry Rivers, Susan Weil, Arman, Dorothea Rockburne, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Kushner, Lynda Benglis, Marcia Hafif, Joan Miró, Karole Armitage, Beverly Naidus, Meret Oppenheim, Ronnie Cutrone, Keith Haring, Michael Graves, Judith Shea, Gordon Matta Clark, James Lee Byars, Louise Lawler, and Izhar Patkin, and many others. Materials presented drawn largely from the Jean-Noël Herli Archive. "Exhibition invitations? I've seen a few. Any working art critic inevitably acquires an extensive knowledge of this genre of printed ephemera. Heralding gallery and museum shows, invitations flood the mailbox, crowd the desk and all too often accumulate so intractably on the kitchen counter as to seem part of the decor. You can't live with them, and until the show is over, you can't throw them out. Still, life without such art-world byproducts would be a lot more difficult. Not only do they convey the important facts -- the who, when and where -- of shows that need to be seen. They're also advertisements bent on seducing us into attendance by being clever, eye-catching or provocative -- although sometimes they nip interest in the bud. (There's probably no art lover with mailing-list credentials who hasn't held up some gallery announcement and said, "Forget it!") Invitations are style statements in a minor key, ancillary artworks of a collective sort. Designed by artists, by graphic designers, by art dealers and museum curators -- usually a combination of the above -- they are the advance guard for the real thing. Their merit is judged in the very act of reading one's mail." -- Roberta Smith, "Art Invitations As Small Scraps Of History," New York Times, May 16, 1993. Very Good. Light edge wear. Contents clean and unmarked.…