Harper's Magazine Centennial Issue: 1850-1950.

[New York]: Harper & Brothers, October 1950. Paperback. (Vol. 201, No. 1205). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 288pp, (8pp). Numerous illustrations (some color), advertisements. Very good. Quite mild edgewear -- overall tight, clean, bright. A full-page facsimile letter from President Truman opens this special issue, which features contributions from William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, Bernard DeVoto, W.H. Auden, Eleanor Roosevelt, Peter Viereck, Katherine Anne Porter and other luminaries. An exceptional copy, from the library of noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar Arnold Gates (1914-93). Item #25924

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