Saturday Evening Post May 4, 11, 18 & 25, and June 1, 8, 15, & 22, 1940 Quick Service, Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing, Mr Tutt and the Lone Tree Mine, Courage is a Business, Never Another Jones, Dog Weakness, and others

The May 4, 11, 18 & 25 and June 1, 8, 15, & 22, 1940 issues of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably the complete run, parts 1 - 8 (conclusion) of 8, of Quick Service, a novel by P G Wodehouse. Precedes book publication. Other fiction includes Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing, a short story by Stephen Vincent Benet (5/18), Mr Tutt and the Lone Tree Mine, a short story by Arthur Train (6/1), Courage is a Business, an article by champion prize fighter Gene Tunney (6/1), Never Another Jones, an article by Grantland Rice on HoF golfer Bobby Jones (6/8), Dog Weakness, a short story by George Sessions Perry (6/22), and others. Cover art by John Hyde Phillips (5/4 -Freshmen Chemistry), J.C. Leyendecker (5/11 - Rug Beater), Norman Rockwell (5/18 - Full Treatment), Frances Tipton Hunter (5/25 - Helping with Homework), Paul Bransom (6/1 - Doe and Fawn in Forest), Wynn Richards (6/8 - June Bride), Mariam Troop (6/15 - Rain on Laundry Day, ethnic) & Albert W. Hampson (6/22 - Bumper Cars). Condition issues include: 5/4 - no significant issues; 5/11 - soiling to the TL & along the spine of the front cover and some edge wear; 5/18 - light soiling to a small strip at the bottom left of the front cover; 5/25 - mathematical equations (square roots) written lightly on the FC w/a soil spot @ the bottom, light edge wear to the back cover; 6/1 - edge wear to the front cover with soiling to the bottom edge & a folded corner at the top, roughness to the bottom edge gradually fading through page 28, folded top corner to pages 55 - 66, and edge wear to the back cover and a folded bottom corner; 6/8 - light edge wear tot eh front cover with soil at the bottom. a damp stain to strip of the back cover that shows to the fore edge of the pages through the last half of the mag; 6/15 - light edge wear & soiling at the top of the back cover, small closed tears to the fore edge of pages 89 - 104, and the tops of pages 101 - 104; and 6/22 - light soiling to the front cover & a small chip at the top, light edge wear to the rear cover; and a top corner chip on page 29/30 - no text or illustrations affected. There are no cutouts or missing pages. Overall a very good set with serial installments and short stories and articles by prominent and collectible authors plus, vintage WW II related stories, articles and ads. A heavy oversize set that will require additional shipping.…