Cooking and Restaurant Magazines
This entry began with a call from my old friend and bookseller par excellence, Rusty Mott of Sheffield Massachusetts, offering me a broken run of a rare cooking magazine The Table.
Two More Candidates for Rarest Norman Rockwell Cover
I just purchased this cover on eBay for a relative bargain of $110. I’ve never owned a copy but is in the Moffatt catalog as C181. The U.S.N.R.F. was used on a Post and Life cover as well.
Remembering Steve Jobs 1955-2011. A Magazine Tribute.
The recent passing of the twenty-first century Thomas Edison has spurred a reprise of my January 2009 post about computer magazines. Job's marketing genius is easily seen in both the magazines and the internet link provided.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2011 LIFE Magazine at 75
Today is the seventy-fifth anniversary of an important day in magazine history- the first publication of the news-magazine incarnation of LIFE (see my post "The Origin of Life" for history of the prior title).
Magazines and the American Experience
The first successful magazine proudly proclaimed itself as The American Magazine in 1744. Magazines in the colonial era became the clarions of revolutionary thought, and the first printed statement of American independence appeared in Thomas Paine’s Pennsylvania...