Editor Leon Gutterman (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Covers have light wear to the extremities and slight rubbing. ; Robert Frost cover.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Spine is slightly foxed. ; Volume 1, Number 2. Complete issue. Albert Schweitzer on the cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Covers have wear to the bottom spine end and the outer corners. ; The Wisdom of India issue, Prime Minister Nehru on the cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. Very good condition. Spine tips and spine edges are rubbed. Several creases on front cover near fore edge. Bottom corner of page 1-2 is creased. Top corners are mildly bumped. David Sarnoff on covers. Entire issue is about David Sarnoff. 80 pages. …

Condition: Good. . Volume 34. Limited edition. (history, india, nehru, anthropology).

Condition: Good. . Volume 35. Limited edition. Slightly dampstained. (science, inventors, edison, history).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Wisdom Society 1960 Very Good/ Light wear to oversize pictorial boards, Size: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 x 3/8 inches. Bright photo illustrated pages. OVERSIZE ITEM. No Exp.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited. No Jacket. Limited. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 10 & 1/2 X 13 & 1/4" [26.6cm X 33.5cm] Vol. 1 No. 7 Soft Cover magazine with portraits of Laurence Olivier on the front and back. Full page ad for The Encyclopedia AMERICANA inside the front cover. Bust of Shakespeare inside back cover. 80 pages illustrated throughout. This is Vol. 1 No. 7 in the series The Magazine of Knowledge for All America. 19 articles by Laurence Olivier, William Shakespeare, Edward Boykin, Milton Cross, Norman Vincent Peale, Marcus Aurelius, etc. Condition is fine except for a bump at the bottom of the spine. Order several books for combined shipment. …

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited. No Jacket. Limited. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. (10 & 1/2 X 13 & 1/4") Soft Cover magazine with portrait of Bernard Baruch by Karsh on the cover. 80 pages fully illustrated. This is no. 3 of the series The Magazine of Knowledge for All America. 29 articles by Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, W. O. Douglas, H. W. Van Loon, Deems Taylor, Vincent Van Gogh, Herbert Hoover, etc. Inside cover has an advertisement for the movie Carousel. Inside the back cover is an ad for Encyclopaedia Britannica. Condition is fine throughout. Order several books for combined shipment.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Wisdom Magazine 1960 Very Good/ Light wear to oversize pictorial boards, Size: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 x 3/8 inches. Bright photo illustrated pages. OVERSIZE ITEM. No Exp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Coated pictorial boards, light shelf wear. Unmarked. ; 13.50 X 10.20 X 0.25 inches; 65 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First. CLEAN very good 1959 hard cover. Walt Disney cover by Karsh.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited. No Jacket. Limited. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. (10 & 1/2 X 13 & 1/4") [26.7cm X 33.7cm] Soft Cover magazine with portraits of Somerset Maugham on the front and back. This is No. 16 in the series The Magazine of Knowledge for All America. 80 pages illustrated throughout. 17 articles by Frederick Mayer, Klaus Jonas, Richard Aldington, Somerset Maugham, Lionel Trilling, Peter Emmet, Lewis Atherton, etc. Condition is near fine. Order several books for combined shipping. b&w photos and Ads. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VOLUME 32, WALT DISNEY COVER.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good plus; Cover is rubbed, has scratches, and is torn around spine and edges.

Illustrated by b/w throughout. First edition. Pictorial stapled wraps. Folio. pp. 65. Ads. Very Good. Light cover wear, straightened dogears. Additional: Treasures ( and wisdom) of Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia; Help for the slow learner; Galileo; Reference books; art of conversation; how do you spell it?; Medicine, doctors and specialists; emotions; figures of speech.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Folio 10 3/8" X 13 1/4" [26.5cm X 33.6cm] WISDOM The Magazine of Knowledge for all America Vol.1 No.6, June 1956. Soft cover-- in fine condition. 80 Pages illustrated throughout with historic b&w photos with a photo of Jascha Heifetz on the front and on the back. In this issue: Story of the Violin; Beethoven, the Colossus; Poetry Comes to America; Comedy, Farce, and Mime; Bible's Martyr; Switzerland, World's Garden of Eden; among others. 26 authors including: Frederick Mayer; H.W. Schwartz; Jascha Heifetz; Arthur L. Murphy; Robert Louis Stevenson; Robert G. Ingersoll; Louis Untermeyer; Thomas Craven; Plato; Benjamin Franklin; and Stephen Vincent Benet. Historic b&w photos (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Folio 10 3/8" X 13 1/4" [26.5cm X 33.6cm] WISDOM The Magazine of Knowledge for all America Vol.3 No.26, June 1958. Soft cover-- in fine condition. 64 Pages illustrated throughout with historic b&w photos with a photo of Ernest Hemingway on the front and on the back. In this issue: Hemingway and the American Novel and other timeless articles magnificently illustrated. Articles include: Ernest Hemingway and; Webster--Man Who Wrote The Dictionary; Birth of Jazz Music; The Sabbath--It's Meaning for Modern Man; The Happy Life. Historic b&w photos (illustrator).…

1957. (Folio paper covers) Very good. 80pp. Illustrations, photographs. There is some chipping to the spine and wear along the edges. Cover art by Yousuf Karsh. Cover features The Thinker--Sculpture. (Magazines).

1956. (Folio paper covers) Very good. 80pp. Illustrations, photographs. The spine is chipped. Cover art by Yousuf Karsh. Cover features Jonas Salk. (Magazines, Medicine).

1960. (Folio hardcover) Good to very good. 66pp. Photographs. The bottom of the spine is broken. Cover art by Yousuf Karsh. Cover features Jawaharlal Nehru. Locale: India. (History--India).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. "Wisdom: The Magazine of Knowledge for Lifetime Learning and Education, Limited Edition. Volume 32, December 1959, edited and published by Leon Gutterman. Hardcover, 80 numbered pages, issued without dust jacket. Near Fine condition. Features Walt Disney on the front and a smiling portrait of Disney on the back cover. One of the most collectible issues of the Wisdom series, published in a unique hardcover format for subscribers only. A rare mid-century publication celebrating Walt Disney at the height of his career, highly desirable for Disneyana collectors.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 480pp, numerous in-text black and white photographs. White vinyl-covered boards; gilt titles on front and spine; illustrated endpapers. 8vo. Slightly soiled, lightly rubbed spine ends. Text block edges just starting to tan. Bookplate on front pastedown. Otherwise internally neat, clean, bright and tight.…

Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. 480 pages. 8vo. Publisher's white boards with gilt titles. Light overall wear. Laid in is a three page typewritten letter from the editor to Dr. Edwin H. Land on Wisdom Magazine letterhead dated August 21, 1967. Boards. The Wisdom Society for the Advancement of Knowledge, Learning and Research in Education from 1956 to the mid-1960s pubulished a glossy monthly magazine "for the advancement of knowledge, learning, and research in education." Each issue containing photographs by Karsh and focused on a significant eminent person. Cliff Aliperti of collectingoldmagazines did a nice article on the magazine in Aug of 2009 tracing some of the material and history, and concluded that the magazine ceased in 1964, and subsequent business by Gutterman ran into USPS trouble in 1974 after Gutterman sent some 30,000 people solicitations for $100 to receive an entry in the Wisdom Award of Honor. Gutterman's letter to Land of "a First Edition of Volume 1 of the new Wisdom Books" is purported to be "the first of a projected 100-volume series to be devoted to the wisdom of eminent persons of intellectual accomplishments and notable achievements" The letter laid out how the book was produced, the extensive research and editorial choices made, and ends with an earnest request to Land to read it and "write me your views and opinon of this first Wisdom Book." Gutterman ends with suggesting Land check page 458 which has an alphabetical list of projected volumes including (drumroll please) "the Wisdom of Land and the Land of the Camera" This letter (and the no doubt dozens of others sent out in such a personal manner) were no doubt attempts to find the next person willing to be part of the series. It amounts to reverse vanity marketing - help me put your name in lights! It is clear Gutterman had a long-term plan here, as the Wisdom letterhead has a long left hand column of "Eminent Recipients of the Wisdom Award of Honor" which contains many recognizable names (given away for free for credibility??). The approach reminds this writer of solicitations received after college from Who's Who of [insert this or that group here] noting how important I was, and asking me to send in my information for a free entry. Of course, after sending it in came the solicitation for purchasing the volume full of other important people (the real goal). Smart marketing playing by the numbers - after all, who didn't want a copy to show their friends? As for the book itself, Land thought enough of it to keep it - it is filled with a great deal of photography, anecdotes and wisdoms (all presumably of or related to Sarnoff) as well as some longer pieces and from that perspective is interesting. A brief review of OCLC/Worldcat shows (as expected) no other volumes in this anticipated series, nor anything published by the Society after this date. PROVENANCE: The Polaroid/Rowland technical library.in Cambridge, MA.…