Leon Gutterman Editor (28 results)

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Pictorial boards with photo portraits of Carl Sandburg on front and rear, 64 pp., photo illustrations. Stated: "Limited Edition" on front cover. In addition to the cover article on the poet-historian, Carl Sandburg, articles cover The Story of the Encyclopedia Americana, art, education, medicine, history, music, psychology, sociology and theatre. Facsimile signatures of well-known historical figures in an article on handwriting analysis, may prove useful to collectors. Spine strip is very worn, especially at the ends. The front and rear boards are in nice condition. Text is unmarked and clean with a tight binding.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Ed. Wisdom magazine #23. Very good condition, moderate over all wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Ed. Wisdom magazine vol. 2, No. 2. Very good condition, moderate over all wear. Book.

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. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket. 4TO, TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM BENTON OF BRITTANICA; WITH LETTER FROM PUBLISHER OF WISDOM; BOARDS SLIGHTLY RUBBED AND EDGEWORN.

hardcover. Condition: VeryGood. Hardcover.

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. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

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

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

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. b&w photos and Ads. (illustrator). 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.

Condition: Very Good. 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. Historic b&w photos (illustrator). 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.

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).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Historic b&w photos (illustrator). 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;

"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. 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Ed. Set of 13 issues of Wisdom magazine, includes July, September, October 1956, February, March, April 1957, March, May, June 1958, December 1959, #20 (undated), #21 (undated) and The Wisdom of the Bible. All issues are in good or better condition, except April 1957, which is fair due to cover abrasions. Several issues have spine damage. December 1959 issue is a limited edition hardcover featuring Walt Disney. Book.