Vogue Magazine (U.S. Edition) 1956 Issues

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January, 1956

Cover by Frances McLaughlin. 1956 Changes, New Looks and Outlooks – In Fashion, Fabrics, Beauty, Food, Décor, Travel, The Short Jacket: New 1956 Crop. “Timpano, Flummery, and St. Lucy’s Cats,” by Sophie Kerr, Gossipy Memo on Australia; the Olympics, Portraits by Rene Bouche, “On Keeping the Sense of Wonder,” by Christopher Fry, Shelley Winters, People Are Talking About, Where To Go: West Indies Resorts, In Vogue For Men

Good, spine fraying at top, slight cover wear

$40.00

February 1, 1956

Cover by Karen Radkai. 1956 Americana Number. Irving Lazar, Martin Gabel, Jayne Mansfield, People Are Talking About, New World of the Heart, Mrs. Lytle Hull, Rainbow’s Start – America 1956, Family Album: Vogue’s Beauties, Medical Advant-Garde: Lasker Awards, Treasures in the House of Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller, Gossipy Memo on Travel, “Uncle Val,” by Patrick Marsh, “A Tie,” Hans Rosenhaupt

VG

In Original Mailing Sleeve

$60.00

 

Same

G/VG

$50.00

February 15, 1956

Cover by Karen Radkai. More Taste Than Money … The 1956 Fashion It Buys, News: City Shoe Colours. Gossipy Memo on Travel, Edward Everett Tanner III author of “Auntie Mame”, People Are Talking About, Armando Reveron: Venezuelan Painter, Thornton Wilder, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hackett, “Cuttings From Custom-Order,” by Booton Herndon

Not Available

NA

March 1, 1956

Cover by Rutledge. Paris News, American Fashion With A Whole New Allure. “A Small Hotel,” by David Graham, “Brillat-Savarin’s Lenten Omlette,” by Sophie Kerr, Gossipy Memo on Travel, People Are Talking About, “Biography of a Musical: “Damn Yankees,” by Allene Talmey, Collector’s Apartment, Smithtown Hunt, “Corsica: The Scented Island,” by Siriol Hugh Jones, “Night in Monte Carlo,” : the Imperial Ball

Good, spine fraying, light cover wear

$40.00

March 15, 1956

Cover by Karen Radkai. New American Fashions To Use Wherever You Go, The Travel Lures in Europe This Year, International Fashions Issue. Gossipy Memo on Travel, People Are Talking About, Mrs. John Drexel III; Princess Pallavicini; Mrs. Hugo Gouthier, The Duchess of Windsor; Mrs. Reinaldo de Herrera; Mrs. Basil Goulandris, “The World of Jazz,” by Leonard Bernstein, Palladian Architecture, Countess Consuelo Crespi; Countess Mita Corti, Countess Giovanella Ceriana Mayneri ; Princess Laudomia Hercolani, In Vogue For Men

Good, spine fraying, light staining

$35.00

 

Same

Good, spine fraying, light cover wear, 56  written in black

$30.00

April 1, 1956

Cover by Penn. Flowers Make the Fashion News. “Take a House – Anywhere,” by Thyrza B. Fowler, “Procession of the Mysteries,” by Herbert Kubly, The 100th Anniversary of the First Charity Ball, Miss Gladys Cooper of “The Chalk Garden”, “Two-Thirds Innocent,” by Patrick Campbell, People Are Talking About, Igor Markevitch, The Flowered Circus by Marcel Vertes, “My Fair Lady”: Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison, “Brothers, I Presume?” by Senator John F. Kennedy, Gossipy Memo on Travel, In Vogue For Men

VG

In Original Mailing Sleeve

$60.00

 

Same

Good, tape at top  and bottom of spine

$35.00

April 15, 1956

Cover by Karen Radkai. The Red Jersey Coat in 15 Travel Situations. David Niven of “Around the World in Eighty Days”, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brook, “To Moscow to Put on ‘Hamlet’  by Peter Brook, Greece: The Camera Eye of William Klein, “Uncommercial Traveller in Ireland,” by Mary Frost Mabon, Vienna Address Book, Gossipy Memo on Travel in the U. S. A., People Are Talking About, Grace Kelly, “Feininger,” by Alexander Liberman, Mrs. William Gaynor, Marvellous Parties: Spring Benefits

Not Available

NA

May 1, 1956

Cover by Karen Radkai. What It Takes To Be In Fashion This Summer. Gossipy Memo on Travel, “Germany, Castles and Paying Guests,” by Mary Cable, Names to Remember: Young Men in the Arts, Jack Hawkins, People Are Talking About, Countess Beatty; Vicomtesse de Ribes, “Growing Up,” by Joyce Cary

Not Available

NA

May 15, 1956

Cover by Penn. What Can Make You Beautiful. Gossipy Memo: Canadian Address Book, Mrs. Patrick Guinness; Mrs. E. Haring Chandor, “Bit of a Skunk,” by David Daiches, Masters Stimulated by Masters: 18 Masterpieces, Pinito del Oro, Queen of the Circus Trapeze, People Are Talking About, Rene Bouche Sketches: Sammy Davis, Jr.; “Offenbach” Ballet, “The Man Who Tushed Away Earls,” by Geoffrey Willans, In Vogue For Men

Good, light staining

$40.00

June, 1956

Cover by Penn. Inexpensive Luxuries in Fashion. Gossipy Memo on Travel, Star Moments from “My Fair Lady.” Beaton Photographs of Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews; the Ascot Race Scene, George Bernard Shaw on Women, What Your Voice Reveals, People Are Talking About, Mrs. Winston Guest, The Great Australian Liveliness: Ten-page Memo to Olympic Guests, “The Fleers of Backford English,” by Sylvia Wright, In Vogue For Men

VG

In Original Mailing Sleeve

$60.00

July, 1956

Cover by Penn. Four-Season Fashion News, Two-Day Liquid Diet, Special Section: Wedding Handbook Including Décor, Clothes, Menus, Music. Vogue’s Party Notebook, “How To Know You’re Transparent,” by Erle Stanley Gardner, “How To Be a Collector’s Item,” by Jean Kerr, “How To Be Yourself – But Not Eccentric,” by Elizabeth Bowen, Lade Anne Coke, Wedding Scrapbook of Lieutenant and Mrs. Joseph Bartlett II, “The Sleeping Prince”: Sir Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Terence Rattigan, People Are Talking About, Toto: Movie Star, Minou Drouet: Eight-Year-Old Poet, Twelve Famous Museum Directors, Gossipy Memo: Wedding Trips, In Vogue For Men

Not Available

NA

August 1, 1956

Cover by Rutledge. The Young Way To Wear The New Fashion. Nora Kaye, Prima Ballerina, “The Art of Ballet,” by Agnes de Mille, People Are Talking About…Anita Ekberg in “War and Peace”, The Private Treasures of Chester Dale, Mrs. Charles Engelhard, Junior; Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, “Do You Talk To Yourself, Too?” by Victoria Lincoln, Summer Wedding Of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brookfield, Summer Debut of Miss Lucille Vanderbilt, Gossipy Memo on Travel

VG

In Original Mailing Sleeve

$60.00

August 15, 1956

Cover by Frances McLaughlin. Exciting Ways To Change Your Look – Fashions Coming In, Fabric News, Charted In Colour, Shoes in Fashion – via Colour, via Line. “Slow Train to Massa,” by John Godley, Lord Kilbracken, People Are Talking About…The Political Conventions, “Political Convention,” a Drawing by Oscar de Mejo, Advance Notice, “The Eternal Severities,” by Rumer Godden, Gossipy Memo on Travel, In Vogue For Men

VG

In Original Mailing Sleeve

$60.00

September 1, 1956

Cover by Penn. Front-Row seat At The Paris Collections: Future Influences, American Fashion News: Ready Now, Special Section: Decorating News-Bulletin. “Is This Trip Necessary?” by Jean Brandon Burton, “No Gentleman Callers in Paris,” by Julie O’Faolain, “Chef d’oeuvre,” by Elisabeth Ayrton, Eddie Constantine: New Star in French Films, People are Talking About, In the Cambodian Jungle, Unearthly Figures, Gossipy Memo on Travel, “Portrait of Vita Sackville-West,” by Aileen Pippett, 18 New Ways to Keep a Ho use Ahead of the Times

Good, spine fraying, small tear at bottom left corner, light cover wear

$50.00

 

Same

 

 

September 15, 1956

Cover by Karen Radkai. How To Be The Beauty The New Fashions Ask For. “Lend Me Your Ears,” by David Daiches, Diet With a High Thought-Content, Ethel Merman, Glynis Johns, and Rosalind Russell, People Are Talking About, Head of a Woman, a Drawing by Albrecht Durer, “Revisitation,” A Poem by Anne Morrow Lingbergh, Melissa Weston and Her Vespa, Gossipy Memo on Travel, “The Plates,” by Victor Barnouw, “The Appendix,” by Nancy Grace

Good, moderate cover wear, spine fraying

$40.00

October 1, 1956

Cover by Karen Radkai. New Coat Handbook: Day and Evening Coverage. “Knees, Knees, and Sembridges,” by Patrick Campbell, “Many Mexicos,” by Lesley Blanch, “At the Conventions: Attractive Women, D. and R., William Douglas Home: Author of “The Reluctant Debutante”, People are Talking About, Miss Lucille Vanderbilt; Miss Gail Whitney, Southampton Weekend, “Bonnard,” by Alexander Liberman, The Lawrence Grant White Family, What Your Handwriting Reveals, Gossipy Memo on Travel, “Contract Bridge for Teen-agers,” by Ottilie Reilly, In Vogue For Men

VG

In Original Mailing Sleeve

$60.00

 

Same

Good, spine fraying, cover wear, gouge at bottom left corner

$40.00

October 15, 1956

Cover by Karen Radkai. News In Non-City Dressing, Busy-Buys Bulletin For Town, Fashions in Living: Special Decorating Features. People Are Talking About, “Still Voice,” by Eloise O’Mara, International Japan: Six Distinguished Women, “Honest Faces,” by George Bradshaw, Gossipy Memo on Travel

Good, spine fraying, small tear at spine

$35.00

November 1, 1956

Cover by Rutledge. Different As Night and Day: This Year’s Look After 6 O’Clock, Special Decorating Section: “Fashion In Living”. “Great Gran’papa,” by Hallam Tennyson, The Opposing Candidates: Drawings by Feliks Topolski, Mrs. Daniel Reid Topping; Duchess d’ Acquarone, “Picasso,” by Alexander Liberman, “What Makes Us Remember A Place?” by Anthony West, People Are Talking About…Arthur Kennedy; Walter Pidgeon and Cordelia Drexel Biddle; Cesare Siepi; Michael Redgrave; Cyril Ritchard ; Rosalind Russell, Gossipy Memo on Travel, “Adventures in Lower California,” by J. Bigelow Clark, “What’s In A Name,” by Louise Tanner

VG

In Original Mailing Sleeve

$60.00

 

Same

G/VG, very light cover wear

$45.00

November 15, 1956

Cover by Coffin. What Makes A Woman Memorable by John Mason Brown, 3-Weeks Christmas Shopping Plan, Fashions in Living: Presents for the House. Dina Merrill, New Television Face, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, People Are Talking About, Siobhan McKenna and Her Family, Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Days Journey Into Night”, Gossipy Memo on Travel in the West Indies, “It’s An Easy Language,” by Leander McCormick, “The May Count,” by Milton White, In Vogue For Men, Cookbook – Delicious List

VG

In Original Mailing Sleeve

$60.00

 

Same

Good, spine fraying

$50.00

December, 1956

Cover by Rawlings. For The Whole Month of Christmas. The Woman on the Corner of the Next Block to Us, by Brendan Behan, Gossipy Memo on Travel, Vogue’s Spotlight, Judy Holliday in “Bells Are Ringing”, Ethel Merman in “Happy Hunting”, Maria Callas With Her Husband Battista Meneghini, People are Talking About, Mrs. William Hale Harkness; Mrs. William S. Paley, Evaristo, by Eva-Lis Wuorio

Good, stain at staple, small crease

$40.00

 

Same

Good, staining and cover wear, pencil marks

$35.00

 

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