Ladies’ Home Journal 1950 – 1959 Issues

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Issue Date:

Cover/Issue Description:

Condition:

Price ea

January, 1950

Undiscovered American Beauty cover. The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good, edge tears, spine fray

$17.50

February, 1950

American Beauty Helen Ryan of Albany New York cover. Fashions, The Little Princesses, Fiction by Nathaniel Benchley, others, Florida Architecture – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

March, 1950

Model cover. American Beauties, The Little Princesses – Britain’s Royal Family, Life of a Baby. 272 pages – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

April, 1950

Model cover. Build Your Own Home, The Little Princesses, Curing Self-Inflicted Backache, Food, Fashions. 258 pages

G/VG

$25.00

May, 1950

Telephone Operator cover. Pearl S Buck on her Daughter, The Little Princesses – The War Years, Why Does England Have a King?, Graduation 1950, Food, Fashions. 242 pages – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

June, 1950

Bridal Model cover. Fiction by Isak Dinesen, Jan Valtin, others, Man Who Founded the Journal, Nylon Travel Wardrobe, Mills College. 210 pages

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Good, dampstain, soiled

$20.00

July, 1950

Model cover. How Syphilis Spreads, Princess Elizabeth – 3 copies

Good, tears, spine fray

$20.00

August, 1950

Model cover. Making Marriage Work, Veterans Administration Hospital at Downey Illinois, Food, Fashions

Good

$20.00

September, 1950

Mother & Daughter on Ferris Wheel by Al Parker. National Health, Young Marrieds, Fall Fashions, Food. 234 pages.

Not Available

NA

October, 1950

Model with kitten cover. United Nations, If Women Were in Control, Homesteaders 1950, Fashion, Fiction – 2 copies

Good, gouges, edge tears

$20.00

November, 1950

Model cover. Fiction by Rumer Godden, others, Paris Fashions, Cooking, Audubon Dining Room. 244 pages

Good

$20.00

December, 1950

Merry Christmas – Al Parker cover. Mother of the Groom, Pearl S Buck, Fashions, Food. 204 pages

Good, fraying

$25.00

 

Same

Good, light wear

$25.00

 

January, 1951

Young Girl cover. Profile of a Drop-Out, Page for Children

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

February, 1951

Mother & Daughters Ice Skating by Al Parker. Fashions, Valley Forge, Italian Meals. 182 pages

Good, fraying

$20.00

March, 1951

Model cover. Fiction, Profile of Youth, Modern and Traditional Architecture, Fashions, Food. 236 pages

Not Available

NA

April, 1951

Model photo cover. Profile of Youth – 18-year-old - Old Enough to Fight, Coming Collapse of Communism by Harold Stassen, Einstein Is My Father. 258 pages – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

May, 1951

Model cover. J.P. Marquand fiction, Food, Fashions, New Bern, Country Home, Nehru, “Mr. Morgan” by James A Michener

Good, fraying

$20.00

 

ANW

Good, insect holes in cover

$20.00

June, 1951

Bridal cover. Vacations on Budget, Fiction, Profile of Youth, Tell Me Doctor

G/VG

$20.00

June, 1951

NEWSSTAND Cover Poster on cardboard – 10.5” x 13.5” – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

July, 1951

Baby on Beach photo cover. Schweitzer vs. Stalin by Harold Stassen, A Harried Housewife, Tell Me Doctor – conclusion

Not Available

NA

August, 1951

American Beauty photo cover.  How Can She Look Like That on What She Earns & What He Earns

Good, edge chipping

$17.50

September, 1951

Model in Red with Poodle. I'm a Lucky Guy" by Frank Gilbreth (author of "Cheaper by the Dozen"), House worth $20,000 can be built for $9,175 today, Women Without Children. 228 pages

Not Available

NA

October, 1951

Model cover. Fiction by Isak Dinesen, J.P. Marquand, Education. 266 pages

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Good

$20.00

 

Same

Good, cutout label

$17.50

November, 1951

Model cover. “My Cousin Rachel” by Daphne du Maurier, Paris Fashions, Women & Politics, Thanksgiving 1951, Savannah

Not Available

NA

December, 1951

Christmas Issue. I Was a Princess by Princess Ileana, “My Cousin Rachel” by du Maurier part 2, Gifts, Christmas Food

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1952

Model cover. Fiction by Daphne du Maurier, others, Articles on Politics, Marriage, The Sub-Deb, Food, Fashions

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

February, 1952

Model cover. Saving RH Babies, No Place For A Woman

Good, edge tears

$20.00

March, 1952

Model cover. Letters from Moscow by Lydia Kirk (Ambassador’s Wife), Sleep, Princess Ileana Memoirs, Triplets. 206 pages. – 2 copies

Good

$20.00

April, 1952

Navy WAVE in Uniform photo cover, US Flag. Russia – Letters From Moscow, What Breaks Marriages – 3 copies

G/VG

$25.00

May, 1952

Returning Soldier & Family by Al Parker. What Makes a President, Letters from Moscow, Profile of Youth - Terry Joins the WAC. 220 pages

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Good, tear

$20.00

June, 1952

Bridal cover. Women in Politics, Edna Ferber’s “Giant”

Good, chipped corner

$20.00

July, 1952

Model on Sailboat. Fiction by Edna Ferber ("Giant" - part 2), others, Natural Superiority of Women, Consuelo Vanderbilt memoirs part 4, Food, Fashions

Good

$20.00

August, 1952

Model cover. Consuelo Vanderbilt Memoirs, Orange Icebox Cake, Black Dresses, Diets

Good

$20.00

September, 1952

Child in Stroller cover. Tell Me Doctor, Profile of Young India, Fashions

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, top right corner off

$20.00

October, 1952

Woman in Black with Green Gloves cover.   Forgotten Citizens in Topeka, Kansas State Hospital, Fiction by Edna Ferber

Not Available

NA

November, 1952

Women Voter cover. Polls Apart in Politics, Christmas Dinner, Fanny Brice, Headline Kitchen, Paris Fashions

G/VG

$20.00

December, 1952

Child making paper Christmas Tree Decorations photo cover. Christmas Features, Operation Kid-Lift, Dumbarton House, Lanai Look

Good, cover tear

$20.00

 

January, 1953

Model cover. “No Motive” by Daphne du Maurier, Diet, Fashions, Food, Providence, Garage Living Room

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

February, 1953

Model cover. Egyptian Queen Narriman’s Cinderella Romance, Fashions, Tulipo Hill House, Food

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good, fraying

$17.50

March, 1953

Baby cover. Can We Trust Our Doctors?, My True Self by Princess Narriman, Young Home Builders. 210 pages

Fair/Good, cover wear, library stamp

$15.00

April, 1953

Model cover. Queen Narriman part 2, Can This Marriage Be Saved, Fiction by MacKinlay Kantor, Margery Sharp – others, Food, Fashions – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, smudges

$15.00

May, 1953

Military Wedding cover. Babies & Figures, The YWCA, Political Pilgrims Carry On, Young Home-Builders, Food, Fashions – 2 copies

Good, library stamp on cover

$15.00

June, 1953

Model cover. How America Lives, Political Pilgrim's Progress, Can This Marriage Be Saved?

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good, spine fray

$17.50

July, 1953

“The Enchanted Cup” cover. The Sub-Deb, Facts About New Polio Immunizations, Wilton, Fashions

Not Available

NA

August, 1953

Model Swimming photo cover. Diets, New Diplomacy in India, Webb House, Food, Fashions

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

September, 1953

Woman & Children cover. Life of Damon Runyan, Fashions, Boy or Girl? 202 pages – 3 copies

Good

$17.50

October, 1953

Model & Dog. Man Who Wouldn’t Marry, Bread Recipes, Unemployment Insurance Racket, Fashions, Young Home-Builders

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good, library stamps on cover

$17.50

 

Same

Good, edge insect damage, paper loss, spine fray

$15.00

November, 1953

Model cover. What Parents Don’t Know About Comic Books by Dr. Wertham, Life of Princess Brinda of Kapurthala. 220 pages

Not Available

NA

December, 1953

Christmas Issue. Faith For This Day, Can This Marriage Be Saved?, We Adopted, VFW National Home, Alsatian Girl painting

Good, creases

$25.00

 

January, 1954

Baby cover. Marlene Dietrich on How to Be Loved, The Quaker Bride fiction

Not Available

NA

February, 1954

Elizabeth Taylor and Baby by Cecil Beaton. Elizabeth, My Daughter by Sara Sothern Taylor, Fiction, Fashion

Not Available

NA

March, 1954

Model cover. How to Be Marriageable, Spring Fashions, Carefree Contemporary Home, Food

Good

$25.00

April, 1954

Mother & Son in Raincoats cover. “The Return of Jeeves" by P.G. Wodehouse, Mamie Eisenhower, Our Readers Reply to Marlene Dietrich, Gore Place. 210 pages

Not Available

NA

May, 1954

Mother & Daughter. Eisenhower Honeymoon, Fashions, Old House – Young Kitchen, Morris House

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good, insect damage, spine fray

$17.50

June, 1954

Model cover. “Katherine” by Anya Seton, “The Royal Box” by Frances Parkinson Keyes, Red Carpet for Mamie part 3, Fashions, Food – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

July, 1954

Mother & Daughter cover. Gertrude Lawrence as “Mrs. A”, Dr. Spock, Fashions, Food

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

August, 1954

Model in Hat cover. Dr. Spock Talks with Mothers, Scrambled Housewife, Gertrude Lawrence, Porch Revival, Food, Fashions – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

September, 1954

Mother & Daughter. Why Don’t They Like Us Abroad?, 11 Pages of Fashions, Food, House with In-Law Wing

Not Available

NA

October, 1954

Teacher cover. School Problems – many articles, “Blackboard Jungle’ by Evan Hunter, Fashions, Gertrude Lawrence, Fashions, Staffordshire Blue, Food. 230 pages

G/VG

$20.00

November, 1954

Model cover. Fiction by Anya Seton, others, Gertrude Lawrence, Senator Kefauver – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

December, 1954

Child cover. Christmas issue, Fiction, Churchill Off Guard, Food, Fashions – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

 

January, 1955

Model cover. The Nehru Family, He Gambles, Dr. Spock – 2 copies

Good

$20.00

February, 1955

Model cover. Ethel Barrymore's Life Story, YWCA, Fashions, Food

Good, ink on cover

$17.50

March, 1955

Mother & Baby. Prince Beatrix, More House for the Money Portfolio, Children in Trouble Forum, 11 pages of Fashions

Not Available

NA

April, 1955

Model cover. Princess Beatrix, Dr. Spock, Cancer & Women, Diary of Domesticity by Gladys Taber, How Young America Lives, 212 pages

Good, small hole in cover

$20.00

May, 1955

Floral photo cover. "The Cloak" by Isak Dinesen, Princess Margaret & Her Beaux, Ethel Barrymore Memoirs - Conclusion, Fashions, Food. 216 pages – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

June, 1955

Bride cover. Off the City Streets, What Makes Russians Think Like Russians?, Traveling With Your Children by Dr. Spock

Not Available

NA

July, 1955

Model cover. How to Lose 100 Lbs., War Brides 10 Years Later, The Lee Mansion

G/VG

$20.00

August, 1955

Girl on Beach photo cover. Babies Should be Born at Home, Harold Stassen on Atoms for Peace, Fiction, Fashion – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

September, 1955

Model cover.  Island in the Sun by Alec Waugh, Katharine Cornell & Guthrie McClintic, Fashion, Food and Homemaking

Good, spine fray

$20.00

 

Same

Good, library stamp on cover  

$20.00

October, 1955

Mother & Son cover. Fiction, Youth in Hawaii – Where Races Meet, Was Hitler Really Crazy, Pajama Costume Party, Food, Fashions

Not Available

NA

November, 1955

Model cover. Condensation of "A Night to Remember" by Walter Lord (on the Titanic Disaster), "We Lost Our Throne" by Queen Alexandra. 224 pages

Good, cutout label

$20.00

December, 1955

Christmas cover. Christmas Issue. "Fairy Doll" by Rumer Godden, "We Lost Our Throne" by Queen Alexandra, Adlai Stevenson's Sister on Adlai, Food, Fashions

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1956

Baby photo cover. Fiction, Unadoptable Children, Oak Grove home, Fashions, Food, etc. – 124 pages – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, soiled, spine fray

$15.00

 

Same

Good, torn back cover

$15.00

February, 1956

Model cover. Fiction, Plight of the Young Mother, Soviet School Children, Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia. 176 pages

Good – edge stains

$15.00

March, 1956

Baby with Kitten cover. What Makes Grace Kelly Different, Fiction, "Legend of Lavinia" by Gladys Taber, Food, 220 pages

Not Available

NA

April, 1956

Model in Hat cover. The Vanderbilt Feud, In-Law Trouble, Food, Fashions

Not Available

NA

May, 1956

Model cover. Vanderbilt Feud, Women Work for Slum Clearance, Women in Congress, Fashions, Fiction. 226 pages

Good, heavy wear at side edge, stain

$15.00

June, 1956

Bridal cover. The Uninsulted Child, Fiction, Vanderbilt Feud, Food, Fashions, etc.  174 pages

Not Available

NA

July, 1956

Mother & Daughter Swimming. Vanderbilt Feud, Parties, Gladys Taber page, Decorating, Food, etc. 134 pages

Not Available

NA

August, 1956

Model cover. Diets, Most Eligible Girl, Princess Margaret, Fashions

Not Available

NA

September, 1956

Fashions - Givenchy, Dior, Chanel - others. Also: Fiction, The Vanderbilt Feud, Food, Gardening, Interiors, Poems (Anne Morrow Lindbergh, others). 226 pages

Not Available

NA

October, 1956

Model cover. Are We Commercializing Sex?, New Diet, More House for Less Money. 222 pages  – 3 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

November, 1956

Couple passing. Eddie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds, Jessamyn West, Daphne du Maurier fiction. 228 pages – 6 copies

Good

$17.50

December, 1956

Young Girl at Christmas Tree. Reducing Diet, Christmas Feast, Fiction by Pearl S. Buck, Daphne du Maurier, others. 180 pages

Not Available

NA

 

Book Publication

The Ladies’ Home Journal Treasury edited by John mason Brown and The Editors of The Ladies’ Home Journal, published by Simon and Schuster, 580 pages, HB, DJ

Good, dust jacket shows wear and tear along edges

$15.00

 

January, 1957

Skiers. Fiction, Grandma Moses, Working With Churchill by Lord Halifax, Fashions, Food, Homes, Mardi Gras Buffet. 122 pages – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Fair/Good

$7.50

February, 1957

Model cover. Fiction, How the Russians Live, Lord Halifax on Churchill, Russian Youth, Food, Fashions, Young Hollywood at Home (Ann Blyth). 184 pages – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

Same – 4 copies

Good

$17.50

March, 1957

Couple Under Umbrella cover. Fashions, Baby Care, Diets, Food, etc.  236 pages

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

April, 1957

Romantic Flowered Hats. Fashions, Flowered Hats, Fiction, US 10 Richest Men, Food. 232 pages – 3 copies

Good

$17.50

May, 1957

Couple in Field of Daisies cover. Fiction, Motor Camping Vacation, Summer Fashions, Food, Homemaking. 230 pages – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

June, 1957

Wedding Couple photo cover. Fiction, Fashions, Natural Childbirth, Cyd Charisse & Tony Martin at Home, Food. 204 pages

Good, tear

$17.50

 

Same

Good, wear, spine fray

$15.00

July, 1957

Couple on Beach cover. World's Most Fabulous Jewels, Fiction, 8 Beauty Secrets by Dawn Crowell Norman, Campus Romance, Food, Fashions – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, soiled

$15.00

August, 1957

Fiction, Must Schools Be Palaces?, The First Child, New Hope for Childless Women, Gladys Taber page, Fashions, Food, Architecture. 134 pages

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 5 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, insect edge damage

$15.00

September, 1957

Paris Fashions - Dior, Chanel, Givenchy, Svend, Catillo-Lanvin, Patou. Also: America's 10 Richest Women, Fiction, Folk Art in America

Good

$17.50

October, 1957

Couple at Breakfast table photo cover. Queen Margrethe, Fiction, Why I Like Being a Woman by Dawn Crowell, Fashions, Food. 222 pages

G/VG

$20.00

November, 1957

First Cake cover. TV Quiz Champ, Fiction by Isak Dinesen – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good – spine fraying

$15.00

December, 1957

Christmas features. Fiction by Rumer Godden, others. Christmas Decorations, Cooking, Fashions, etc. 160 pages

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1958

Couple & Budget photo cover. Fiction by Rumer Godden, others, Food, Fashions, etc., 122 pages

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, spine fray, wear

$15.00

February, 1958

Valentines cover. Fiction, Food, Fashions, etc. - 154 pages – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, ink

$15.00

March, 1958

Model photo cover. Fiction, Chanel Creates Suits Hats & Accessories for the Journal, 9 page LHJ Portfolio House, Russia's Art Museums, America's 10 Best Dressed, Food – 2 copies

Good, spine wear

$15.00

April, 1958

Couple & Knitting photo. Fashions, Food, Fiction, Edna Ferber fiction, I Was Churchill's Secretary, 200 pages – 2 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

May 1958

Model cover. Food, Fashions, Fiction, Vacation Cottages, High Schools, 162 large pages

Not Available

NA

June, 1958

Bridal cover. Fiction, Divorce, Prince Charles Close-up, Fashions

Not Available

NA

July, 1958

Bride Cover.  Sex and Religion, Most Fabulous Jewels

Not Available

NA

August, 1958

Couple & Baby. Billy Graham – My Son-in-Law, Teen-Age Illegitimate Pregnancy, Fashions

Good, stain, sun fade

$17.50

September, 1958

First Fall Fashions, Bing Crosby's Kitchen for his Bride, Lady Diana Cooper, Rodeo Wife, Food. 162 pages

G/VG

$20.00

October, 1958

Young Parents cover. Princess Margaret & Peter Townsend, Winter Coats, Building a Home

Not Available

NA

November, 1958

Model cover. Schoolgirl Marriages, Should Young Mothers Work?, Christmas Gifts

Not Available

NA

December, 1958

Snow Baby cover. Fiction, Articles, Food, Fashions, Holiday Party Clothes, Cruelty in Maternity Wards, Gardens. 146 pages

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1959

Suzy Parker cover?  Helen Traubel's Own Story, Fiction, Diets, Fiction, Fashions, Food

Not Available

NA

February, 1959

Man Washing Baby cover. Fashions, Fiction, Winslow Homer painting, Love and Science, The Making of a Marine, Food, etc. 186 pages – 6 copies

Good

$17.50

March, 1959

Floral cover. Fashions for Spring, Fiction, Food, Decoration, etc. 204 pages

Not Available

NA

April, 1959

Model cover. Daphne du Maurier, Dave Garroway, How It Feels To Earn $200,000 a Year, The 10 Most Influential Women in Russia, Fashions

Not Available

NA

May, 1959

Fashions, Making Marriage Work, Fiction by Daphne du Maurier, others

Good

$17.50

June, 1959

Bridal cover. Articles on Love, Fiction, Fashions, Food. 168 pages

Not Available

NA

July, 1959

Model cover. Fiction, Salem NC, Fashions, Food, Two-Story House. 138 pages – 2 copies

Good

$20.00

 

Same

Fair/Good, gouge bottom right

$17.50

August, 1959

Model cover. Pat Boone Answers Teenagers Questions, Walter Lippmann

G/VG

$20.00

Same

Good, wear

$15.00

September, 1959

Model cover. Fall Fashions, UK’s Cinderella’s Princess Who Became Queen, Katharine Cornell’s Dream Kitchen, Daphne du Maurier fiction

Not Available

NA

October, 1959

Model cover. Art Linkletter, Bob Hope, Bible and World of Dr. Kinsey, Fashions

Not Available

NA

November, 1959

Model cover. “Cat Among the Pigeons” by Agatha Christie, Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller, Sex and Religion – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good – loose cover

$15.00

December, 1959

Christmas Issue. "Our Christmas Story" by Billy Graham, Pat Boone, Holiday Sweets. 164 large pages – 3 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

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