Five items of interest here on the life and works of pioneering war correspondent, novelist, travel writer and journalist
Martha Gellhorn include:
Now rare, complete issue of Collier's: The National Weekly for July 17, 1937. It features (see cover photo #1) the FIRST APPEARANCE by the 28-year-old Martha Gellhorn as their new foreign war correspondent with a four-page photo essay headed "Only the Shells Whine: Siege in Madrid" as the Spanish Civil War rages. A very good bright copy. See photo #3 for the complete contents of the issue, photo #2 for the back cover, and photo #4 featuring the opening two pages of her report. The front cover illustration for this issue of the weekly is by the notable English painter and illustrator Lawson Wood.
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The Atlantic Monthly for November 1958, 101st Anniversary Number. A complete, very good copy with just a little edge wear to the paper wrappers. Thick, heavy, 194 page issue. Gellhorn contributes a new story, "The Tacopatli Passion Play." See photos #10-11.
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The Times Literary Supplement (London) for June 23, 2006. Kate McLoughlin pens a full (oversize) page and 1/2 essay in review of the Caroline Moorhead-edited The Letters of Martha Gellhorn with a great photo of Gellhorn posing alongside American airmen from 1943. See photos #5-6.
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The Times Literary Supplement (London) for January 18, 2013. Nice copy! Heather McRobie contributes a two full-page "Commentary" essay to the weekly headed "After the Point of No Return: Martha Gellhorn Reappraised." See photos #12-13.
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The New York Times Book Review for May 28, 2017. A very good complete issue. Benjamin Anastas contributes an article headed "Martha Gellhorn's Chosen Words," opposite an essay by Elaine Showalter in review of Mary V. Dearborn's new biography of Ernest Hemingway. See photos #7-9.