Life Magazine 1948

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Issue Date:

Cover/Issue Description:

Condition:

Price

January 5, 1948

Jinnah of Pakistan, Record NY City snowstorm, Portrait of a US Communist, The Book of Hours photo essay

Not Available

NA

January 12, 1948

Midwinter Accessories. Last 4 Days of Mussolini, Charles University, "The Bishop's Wife”

G/VG

$20.00

January 19, 1948

Starlet-Violinist. "Failure of Marxism" by Dos Passos, Lauren Bacall, Art of Egypt photo essay, New England Snowstorm – 4 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 5 copies

Good

$17.50

January 26, 1948

Resort Fashions. Kay Thompson – New Comedienne, Missouri Mule Trader photo essay, Viruses, Tojo & War Crimes Trial 

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Good

$20.00

February 2, 1948

Maine Schoolboy. "The Devil" by Whittaker Chambers, Gold Country photo essay, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", 1948 Trailers, NY Commuters Strike Back – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, name in pencil

$15.00

February 9, 1948

Robert A Taft: Republican Presidential Candidate. Death of Gandhi, Day in Lincoln’s Life by Stefan Lorant, Snow Fashions, Hawaii photo essay, Ann Blyth – 2 copies

G/VG

$30.00

 

Same

Good, small spine tears

$25.00

 

Same

Good, small tear

$25.00

 

Same

Good, name in red crayon

$25.00

February 16, 1948

Broadway Actress Joan Tetzel. Gandhi Funeral, Tennessee Williams profile, Rocket Town photo essay, Lamasery photo essay, “An Ideal Husband” – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good, spine splitting

$17.50

 

Same

Good, tape repair rear cover

$17.50

February 23, 1948

Skiing cover (15 pages inside), Nancy Walker, Trouble in Hollywood. ”T-Men”, Sicilian Bandit, Trouble in Hollywood – 4 copies

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$20.00

 

Same

Good, name in pencil

$20.00

 

Same

Good, fading

$17.50

March 1, 1948

Harold E Stassen. Christian Dior, The Navajos photo essay, "Mister Roberts", C&O's New Locomotive, Art in Hollywood, Wallace & the Democrats – 3 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, staining, name

$15.00

March 8, 1948

Gaby's Weekend. Sir Stafford Cripps, Last Year’s Movies, Minnesota Writing Boom, Atlantic City Weekend, Communists Take Over Czechoslovakia, “The Red Shoes” – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

March 15, 1948

Sir Laurence Olivier as Hamlet.  US Showdown With Communists, Winston Churchill close-up, Saint-Gaudens art, Ronald Reagan Chesterfield Ad – 2 copies

G/VG

$35.00

 

Same – 5 copies

Good

$30.00

March 22, 1948

Thomas E Dewey. The Brandos, "Naked City", NY Genius School, Age of Exploration photo essay – 3 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good, pencil notations

$17.50

March 29, 1948

Basket Handbags. British Troops Leave India, Goebbels Diaries, Off-Broadway, Peggy Lee, New Czech Regime, Captured German art photo essay

G/VG

$20.00

April 5, 1948

Dodger Rookies. Artur Rubinstein profile, Ozark Spring photo essay, Sao Paulo, Petrillo & TV, “The Search” – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Good, stain

$20.00

April 12, 1948

Barbara Bel Geddes cover, Bowling photo essay, Mr Blandings Goes To Hollywood by Eric Hodgins, The Atomic Bomb & Posterity, Sculpture, Spring Fashions, "I Remember Mama" – 3 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

April 19, 1948

Winston Churchill Begins His War Memoirs. Motorcyclists, "The Big Clock", Deaf Children photo essay

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

G/VG, ink

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

April 26, 1948

Collegians In Bermuda. Churchill Memoirs part 2, Birth of Solar System photo essay, The Zaccinis profile (human cannonballs), “Anna Karenina” – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, stain top right

$15.00

 

Same

Good – cvr tears

$12.50

May 3, 1948

Career Girl Cover (with photo essay inside), Labor violence, Churchill War Memoirs part 3, TV in movie theatre, Italy's Victory, Baseball Opener – 7 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, light stain, scuff

$15.00

May 10, 1948

Republican Presidential Candidate Earl Warren. Churchill's War Memoirs part 4, "State of the Union", Allentown (PA) Schools photo essay, Jewish Victory in Palestine, Henry Koerner art – 9 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good, spine splitting

$15.00

May 17, 1948

Hollywood Wives and Daughters: Mrs. David Niven. Churchill Memoirs part 5, Trial by Jury photo essay, “Inside USA”, Andrew Wyeth (in color)  – 5 copies

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$20.00

May 24, 1948

Arthur H. Vandenberg. Churchill Memoirs part 6, Hollywood's New Generation, How Smart Are Animals? Photo essay – 3 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

G/VG, ink

$17.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

May 31, 1948

Television Ingenue. Israel Is Born in Travail and Hope, Last Soldier of the (American) Revolution by Archibald MacLeish, Blood Sludge photo essay, The Atlantic Fleet – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same – 3 copies

Good

$20.00

June 7, 1948

Hooded T-Shirt. Finns Resist Red Offensive, Arthur Godfrey Close-up, Atlanta Homes photo essay, Class of ’48, Ballet Ballads, Calumet Sports – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, light stain

$15.00

June 14, 1948

Phyllis Calvert. Protestant Revolution photo essay, New Ford, Avery Brundage Close-up, “The Time of Your Life”, New Ford – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Good

$20.00

June 21, 1948

Cape Cod Weekend. GOP Convention starts, Hong Kong photo essay, The New Joe Louis, Summer Movie Musicals, New York Cop - "A Night on the Beat"

Not Available

NA

June 28, 1948

Kent School Crew. Western Europe, Gene Autry Inc., Dewey Steals the Show, Mars in Color, Clothing Workers Union photo essay 

Good

$20.00

 

Same

Good - cover insect dmg.

$12.50

July 5, 1948

F-84 Thunderjets. Dewey & Warren, Man-Made Landscapes photo essay, 4th of July art, "If We Should Have to Fight Again" by Spaatz, “Life With Mother”, Joe Louis Retires – 3 copies

G/VG

$30.00

July 12, 1948

Small-Town Girl. Japan Earthquake, Diving School, Cyclotron, Trotting Racer Grandmother, Summer Lingerie – 3 copies    

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

July 19, 1948

Fun on the Beach. US Olympic Team, Berlin Under Siege, “Paisan”, Bonnard art, Blues Singer Toni Harper, Golden Horses – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

July 26, 1948

Children's School Ballet. General Pershing obit, Ed Wynn Close-up, American Family in Trouble photo essay, Satchel Paige, "The Rope", Candidate Truman, Hummingbirds

G/VG

$20.00

August 2, 1948

Olympic Sprinter Mel Patton. D.W.Griffith obit, The Andes photo essay, Childrens World photo essay, Lizzie Borden Dance, Report on Kinsey – 3 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

August 9, 1948

Grandmother (Marlene) Dietrich. Berlin Airlift, Connie Mack Close-up, "A Foreign Affair", Russia's Strength photo essay – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same – 3 copies

Good, light stain

$17.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good, insect damage

$17.50

August 16, 1948

Fisherman (child). General Spaatz on Atomic Warfare, Stratocruiser, Greyhound Racing, Montgomery Clift, Foreign Cars, Americans Abroad, Imperial Valley photo essay, Queen Wilhelmina - 4 copies

G/VG

$20.00

August 23, 1948

Pet Deer. The Olympics, Farm Revolution by John Dos Passos, "Sorry, Wrong Number", Swedish Summer photo essay, College Fashions, Levitt & His Houses  – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

G/VG, ink

$17.50

 

Same

Good

$17.50

August 30, 1948

Movie Actress Colleen Townsend. Great Salt Lake photo essay, Chemical Weeding, Automatic Garage

Good

$17.50

September 6, 1948

Good Life in Madison (Wisconsin), Wisconsin. Charles Evans Hughes obit, TV Booms Vaudeville, "Day of Wrath", Baseball Heads for a Photo Finish – 4 copies

G/VG

$20.00

September 13, 1948

First Pictures of Marshal Tito. 18th Century England photo essay, Movie Celebrities & French Riviera, Fuller Brush Girls, Airborne Hospital, The South & Wallace, Carnival Man  – 7 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

September 20, 1948

Broadway Rehearsal. Country Doctor (Classic photo-essay), “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, Leland Hayward profile

Not Available

NA

September 27, 1948

Doak Walker of Southern Methodist (Football). Atomic Energy Report, Scottish Festival, Hyderbad photo essay, France & De Gaulle – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

October 4, 1948

American Production (28 page photo essay). John Foster Dulles, "Louisiana Story", Tennis, Dewey & Truman Campaign on the Road 

Good, tears

$17.50

October 11, 1948

Television Discovery. Farmer Bromfield Close-up, Jets Over Germany photo essay, First TV Discoveries, Gilbert and Sullivan, "Macbeth"

Good

$17.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good, wear, stain

$15.00

October 18, 1948

Fur Jacket. Karl Marx, Sir Laurence Olivier profile, Vienna photo essay, Lena Horne, Political Campaign, “Edward My Son”

Not Available

NA

October 25, 1948

University of California – A Photo Essay. Ward Boss photo essay, Grandma Moses Birthday, Yeats Funeral, Broadway Tries Hard, "Johnny Belinda" – 6 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, small stain

$15.00

 

Same

Good, back cover torn

$15.0

November 1, 1948

General Norstad: US Air Force’s Top Planner. President Dewey “Error” (“The Next President...” photo caption), Harlem Gang Leader photo essay, Top US Presidents

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same – 3 copies

Good

$20.00

November 8, 1948

Helena Carter. "My Story" by Joe Louis, Ray Bolger, 1948 Fire Engines (in color), Berlin Airlift, Fall of Mukden, Joe Gatto profile – 7 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

November 15, 1948

Ingrid Bergman as "Joan of Arc". "My Story" by Joe Louis, The K-190, Truman Wins Election, 19 Die in Penna. Smog, New Furniture, George Bernard Shaw – 3 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good, spine splitting

$17.50

 

Same

Good, creases

$15.00

November 22, 1948

President Truman. King Brothers Close-up, 1848 photo essay, Horse Show, First Girl Scout, Mexican Mural

G/VG

$25.00

November 29, 1948

Dinner Hats cover. Red Shadow Falls Over China, Chicago Rackets, Christmas Toys (4 pgs in color), "The Snake Pit", Birth of Prince Charles

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

G/VG, ink

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$20.00

December 6, 1948

New Male Movie Stars: Montgomery Clift. European Zoos, Big-Time Television (10 pages), Campus Fads, Hot Glass, Labor Celebrates Election, Siamese Boxers

Not Available

NA

December 13, 1948

Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Crusade in Europe". Christmas at Macys photo essay, Camera Show photo essay, Jennifer Jones, Portable TVs, Roller Derby, Met Opens – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Good, crease

$20.00

 

Same

Good, gouge

$17.50

December 20, 1948

Teen-Age Fun (Passing the Ring). Jose Ferrer, Smallest Aircraft, Victoria Falls, German Soldier Returns to Berlin, NY Fashion Beauties

Good

$20.00

December 27, 1948

The Story of Christmas. "My Great Grandfather" by Monica Dickens, Show Stoppers photo essay (Broadway Hits), Europe’s Children, Jockey

G/VG, ink

$17.50

 

Same

Good, top edge stain

$15.00

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