macfadden bernarr editor in chief (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL CULTURE, VOLUME IV: SEX AND PARENTHOOD, edited by Bernarr Macfadden, hardcover, stated 9th edition, illustrated, 1931. BOOK CONDITION: very good. The text block and illustrations (B&W and color) are in near fine condition with no tears, marks, or dog ears. There is no bookplate or signature of a previous owner. There are pencil markings, not words, on the first free endpaper. Not a remainder or library book. The heavy brown embossed boards are in good condition (bumped corners and spine, edge wear). 10 x 6 ¾, 459 pages, 48 ounces XX The book is described on the title page as "a comprehensive guide to the proper care and complete development of the human body with detailed directions for the prevention and treatment of disease, including scientific methods for building dynamic, powerful health and attaining a symmetrical, beautiful body. Arranged for ready reading. Classified for immediate reference.?" The sections are: Health and Parenthood (Foreword by the Editor), Sex - The Chain of Life, Marriage and Health, Intelligent Parenthood, The Expectant Mother, The Child and Sex Life, Problems of the Unmarried, Sexual Physiology and Hygiene, Pros and Cons of Birth Control. XX [Wikipedia] Bernarr Macfadden (born Bernard Adolphus McFadden, August 16, 1868 - October 12, 1955) was an American proponent of physical culture, a combination of bodybuilding with nutritional and health theories. He founded the long-running magazine publishing company Macfadden Publications.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Rosalie Rush (illustratore). First Edition. Good, approaching Very Good. New York: MacFadden Publications, 1940. First Edition. Classic cover by Rosalie Rush. The May 1, 1937 issue of Bernarr MacFadden's Liberty Magazine, an inexpensively produced but popular weekly magazine with news features and loaded with pulp-ish fiction in the categories of romance, detective / mystery, and general scandal. Classic era-type cover painting by Arthur Smith of Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII. Tall quarto (11 3/8" x 8 1/2"), illustrated staple-bound wraps, 62 pp. Just Good, though for such an inexpensively produced and fragile publication, it's close to very good. Cover soil, mostly at the white-background front cover; moderate age-toning throughout contents, slit and chip at spine bottom, damage at staple holes, corner tweaks at front cover top. damage around staple holes in spine. See scans. Within: Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson ("What Chance Have Edward & Wallie for Happiness?"); Katharine Cornell; Joe DiMaggio; Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald; and a passel of illustrated short pulp fiction awash in passion. romance and misbehavior in wide variety, as well as standard features and number of funky illustrated period ads. See scans. Very scarce. Ships in sturdy box, of course; not a bag. LPR47.

PB. B&W and color illustrations (illustratore). 66pp This is THE ISSUE with the two page spread of Richard Gimbel's "discovery" of Edgar Allan Poe's "lost" short story - THE SPECTACLES. very good, wraps (softcover) faint fold front cover.