Collier's The National Weekly August 28, September 4, 11,18, & 25, October 2, 9, 16 & 23, 1937 Appointment With Death, Heartbroken Melody, Boom Town, Clown Prince, All Horse Players Die Broke, Carefree Conqueror, The Jade Serpent, Rule by Power, Sundown Jim, La Belle Lamour, The Bars Between, Everything is Fine, The Red Doctor, World Series Hero, Blade of Beverly Hills, England's "No" Man, and others

The August 28, September 4, 11, 18, & 25, October 2, 9, 16 & 23, 1937 issues of Collier's The National Weekly. Fiction and articles include parts 1 - 9 of 9 (conclusion), the complete serial publication of Appointment With Death, a Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie (precedes book publication), parts 3 - 6 of 6 (8/28, 9/4, 9/11, & 9/18 - conclusion) of Heartbroken Melody, a novel by Kathleen Norris, Boom Town (8/28), an article about the economic impact to the area by the construction of Grand Coulée Dam by Jim Marshal, Clown Prince (9/4), an article about baseball comedian Al Schacht by Bill Cunningham, All Horse Players Die Broke (9/11), a short story by Damon Runyan, Carefree Conqueror (9/11), an article about tennis star Don Budge by Bob Considine, The Jade Serpent (9/18) and The Red Doctor (10/9), short stories by Sax Rohmer, Rule by Power (9/18), a short story by Ernest Haycox, parts 1 -5 of 10 (9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 10/16 & 10/23) of Sundown Jim, a novel by Ernest Haycox, La Belle Lamour (9/25), a profile of actress Dorothy Lamour by Henry F Pringle, The Bars Between (10/2), a short story by Frederick Nebel, Everything is Fine (10/9), a short story by J P Marquand, World Series Hero (10/9), a short story by Quentin Reynolds, Blade of Beverly Hills (10/9), an article about emerging movie star James Stewart by Kyle Crichton, England's "No" Man (10/16), an article about Great Britain's Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, by his former colleague Winston Churchill, and others. Cover art by Alan Foster (8/28), Howard Butler (9/4), Ronald McLeod (9/11), Jorj Harris (9/18), Jaro Fabry (9/25), Lawson Wood (10/2), Arthur Crouch (10/9), Gordon Sloan (10/16) & Eric Godal (10/23). Condition issues include: 8/28 - light damp stain to the bottom corner of the pages at the spine; 9/4 - light stains to the front cover; 9/11 - light soiling to the front cover with a small chip at the bottom right, a 1"closed tear at the bottom of pages 55/56 near the spine; 9/18 - 2" closed tear at the bottom of the spine; 9/25 - light edge wear to the front cover, a light damp stain to the pages at the bottom of the spine, & 2 shallow chips (.5" x 1.25" & .5" x 1.75") to the fore edge of the back cover; 10/2 - closed tears to the spine (1.75" at the bottom & 1.25" a little higher up), the front cover is loose from the bottom staple, and edge wear to the front & back covers; 10/9 - light edge wear to the front cover, the spine and fore edge of the pages have been trimmed slightly affecting the 1st text character of the Packard ad on page 24, binding glue has slightly crowded the last character of text on page 74, no cut outs or missing pages; it appears to have been removed from a bound volume that was taken apart; 10/16 - light edge wear, light "Periodical Reading Room stamp at the top of the front cover, the spine and fore edge of the pages have been trimmed slightly affecting the 1st or last text character of a number of ads (Firestone page 24, Mobil page 39, Seagram's page 45, Wheeling Steel page 49 & Texaco page 53), binding glue has slightly crowded the last character of text on page 86, no cut outs or missing pages; it appears to have been removed from a bound volume that was taken apart; and 10/23 - a 3.5" x 2.75" chip to the bottom right of the front cover, a light folds to the lower corner of the pages. Overall a good to very good set with fiction by prominent and collectible authors and interesting articles from the time. A heavy & oversize set that will require additional postage.…