Published by The Atlantic Monthly Company, Concord, NH, 1948
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Stapled. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Paul Trebilcock (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. The December, 1948 issue of The Atlantic Monthly magazine. High Policy and the Atomic Bomb, an article about the need for policies surrounding the atomic bomb by Bradley Dewey, The Bells that Nobody Heard, a short story by Sean O'Faolain, Now I Become Myself, a poem by May Sarton, Fashion is My Business, an article about the shaping of fashion by Stanley Marcus, founder of the Neiman-Marcus luxury store in Dallas, TX, A Change of Heart, excerpts from the final volume of philosopher George Santayana's memoirs, No Place to Hide:What we Learned at Bikini, the final installment of the eyewitness account of the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll and their aftereffects by David Bradley, MD, The Man who Might Have Been President: Dwight D Eisenhower, a prescient account of the stature of Eisenhower based on his accomplishments in WW II, My Precious Life in the Public Domain, an article by singer, composer, ballad & folksong collector & chronicler John Jacob Niles, and others. Condition issues include: light soil & blue stamp (Peabody Institute Library Peabody, Mass) on the front cover, and light soil on the back cover and a date stamp (Dec 29). The binding is tight and the interior pages are clean with minimal wear. An ex-library copy but without the wear and markings you typically find on them. Articles and stories that reflect the ambiance & culture of the post WW II and early Cold War era. A good to very good copy.