Choice of 4 individual issues of the New Yorker
from the months October and November, 1976.
Select any single issue from the drop down menu.
Condition is generally VG+ or better with some varying degree of trace shelf evidence. Contents generally clean and neat. Newsstand copies; no mailing labels. See photos and descriptions for condition
Individual Issues as follows:
October 4, 1976 - Ronald Searle illustrated cover showing a scruffy bird “on the road,” bindle over its shoulder, while a sky crowded with airplanes (and tiny birds) streams overhead—an offbeat, jet-age migration/travel-season image. Issue includes John McPhee’s Reporter at Large “What They Were Hunting for—II” (Juneau/Alaska gold history and modern politics), Robert Shaplen’s “Letter from Macao” (colonial afterlife and geopolitics), Richard H. Rovere’s “Letter from Washington” (Ford–Carter debate and television politics), and fiction by W. S. Merwin, “The Element.”... Just trace shelf evidence to edges. VG++ ... $25.00
October 11, 1976 - Gretchen Dow Simpson illustrated cover featuring a grain silo and barn—a clean, spare slice of rural Americana. Issue includes John Updike fiction “Here Come the Maples,” Suzannah Lessard’s reflective essay “The Suburban Landscape: Oyster Bay, Long Island,” Pauline Kael’s Current Cinema review (including Marathon Man and Marcel Ophuls’s The Memory of Justice), and Geoffrey T. Hellman’s Talk piece “Two Joyous Collectors” on William Morris/Kelmscott collecting at the Morgan Library.... Just trace shelf evidence to edges. VG++ ... $15
November 1, 1976 - Charles Saxon illustrated cover showing workers in a broadcasting control room watching a presidential address. Issue includes Richard H. Rovere’s “Letter from Washington” (Ford vs. Carter and the campaign/TV dynamic), Thomas Whiteside’s “Din-Din” (a deep dive into the booming, hardball pet-food industry and its advertising), Henry Bromell fiction “The World in a Room,” and Pauline Kael’s Current Cinema column “The Hundred-Per-Cent Solution” (reviews including The Seven-Per-Cent Solution)... Only light shelf evidence to the spine. VG++ to NF ... $15.00
November 8, 1976 - Paul Degen illustrated cover of a quiet interior stairway, its walls lined with framed paintings—an elegant, slightly self-referential “art about art” image. Issue includes John Updike fiction (“The Fairy Godfathers”), Calvin Trillin’s U.S. Journal report on a tax revolt’s real-world fallout for public schools (“Schools Without Money”), Alastair Reid on literary translation and García Márquez (with close attention to Gregory Rabassa) (“Basilisks’ Eggs”), and Mollie Panter-Downes’s Letter from London on Britain’s economic crisis mood and political rancor.... Trace wear to the spine. VG++ to NF ... $15