Saturday Evening Post May 24 & 31 and June 7 & 14, 1941 - The Good Picker, The Body in the Library, The Captain from Connecticut, The Tall Men, That's a Woman for You!, Showdown in the Pacific, Silver Spoon, and others

The May 24 & 31 & June 7 & 14, 1941 issues of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably parts 3 - 6 of 7 of The Body in the Library, a Miss Marple mystery by Agatha Christie, The Tall Men, a short story by William Faulkner (5/31), and That's a Woman for You!, a short story by Erle Stanley Gardner (5/31). Other fiction includes The Good Picker, a short story by Steven Vincent Benet (5/24), parts 4 - 6 of 6 (conclusion) of The Captain from Connecticut, a novel by C S Forester set at the tail end of the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 (5/24, 5/31 & 6/7), part 1 of 8 of Silver Spoon (6/14), a novel by Clarence Budington Kelland, and others. Articles include Me and Shakespeare, an article by boxing champion Gene Tunney on how the classics helped him win (5/24), two sports articles in the 6/7 issue - one on golf by Gene Sarazen, and another on Billy Conn's preparation for his heavyweight title fight with Joe Louis, and Showdown in the Pacific, an article by Edgar Snow before Pearl Harbor talking about the inevitability of war with Japan (5/31). Cover art by John Hyde Phillips (5/24 - Sweep it Under the Rug - ethnic), Sgt. Edward A. Lane (5/31 - Air Force Photographers), Rauschert J. Karll (6/7 - Not a Keeper) & T Patston (6/14 - June Bride, 1941). Condition issues include: 5/24 - missing back cover, stains at the bottom left of pages 117 - 120 & small spots on a few other pages; 5/31 - wear to the covers including chips, closed tears, top right corner chip to the front cover, and wear at the spine; 6/7 - wear at the edges of the front cover with some closed tears at the spine; and 6/14 - light wear. A nice set with serial installments and short stories by a prominent & collectible authors plus numerous ads and articles that display the atmosphere around the beginnings of WW II. .…