Dr. Seuss Advertising Secrets of the Deep

Any specialist dealer in business long enough will end up collecting ephemera items.  Most of the ephemera I have is promotional material related to certain authors or illustrators, usually focused on a specific publication.  Occasionally  I end up with something really coolio like this Dr. Seuss advertisement from 1935:

SECRETS OF THE DEEP or The Perfect Yachtsman by Old Captain Taylor.  Essomarine, 1935. Soft cover. Good+ condition. Essomarine (Standard Oil), 1935. 8vo, pictorial wraps, 34 pp. 

 

This is currently the king of my ephemera , even with the foxing and the tiny edge chips...

 

Story Parade Magazine

 

 It's always a fun to check the old children's magazines like Jack and Jill or Story Parade for collectible authors and illustrators. Both the covers above are by Caldecott winning artist Feodor Rojankovsky who also illustrated interior stories and the December 1952 magazine has stories illustrated by Flavia Gag, Mordvinoff (another Caldecott winner) and William Wiesner amoung others.

Images of Childhood-1950's

Story Parade Magazine. January 1954. "The Race" by Feodor Rojankovsky.

















Jack and Jill Magazine. March 1958 Cover by Janet Smalley.


















Jack and Jill Magazine. March 1954 Cover by Jeanne Bendick.


















Jack and Jill Magazine. February 1956. Cover by Ann Eshner.

Our World 1940's African American Magazine

I was sorting through a box of mixed ephemera and came across these rather fragile, but very interesting, magazines from the 1940's. The only information about them that I found with a quick on-line search is this short paragraph on Wikipedia:

John Preston Davis was founding publisher of Our World Magazine, a full-size, nationally-distributed magazine edited for African American readers. Its first issue, with singer-actress Lena Horne on the cover, arrived on the nation’s newsstands in April 1946. Our World was a premier publication for African American men and women covering contemporary topics from black history to sports & entertainment with regular articles on health, fashion, politics & social awareness, was headquartered out of New York City.

Our World portrayed black America as no other national publication had ever done. Its covers featured entertainers’ Lena Horne, Marian Anderson, Harry Belafonte, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Nat King Cole.