Luce, Henry, ed. — Fortune, Volume VII, No. 6, June, 1933

New York, Fortune Magazine, 1933. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Published in First Edition state in New York in 1933, being the June issue for that year, a fine-looking exemplar of an issue of the premiere art and culture magazine at the height of the Depression (and Prohibition). 128 pp. Beautiful Art Deco (period) advertising throughout, in both color and black-and-white, from blimps to tobacco products, rat traps to ocean-going lines, car parts to Ethyl gasoline, gauzily drawn women preferring the "toasted" nature of Lucky Strikes to boat-like Buicks in which one could hide for a week. Uncommonly rare, being still in its original publisher's cardboard packing box. Slightest of crimping along top edge, upper tips, else, virtually pristine of interior. Interior only lightly toned, being still bright and unmarked. Plentiful black-and-white drawings and photographs, and some full-page, full-color illustrations, too, plus some tipped-in illustrations. Cover art by Paolo Garretto. Articles about gold-mining in Canada, political life under the Kuomintang, pre-Revolution, about the Takahashi of Japan, and most engagingly, about "The Speakeasies of New York," a fine piece of photo-journalism by the incomparable Margaret Bourke-White, with plentiful black-and-white photographs and an original illustration by Pierre Brissaud. Also, "The $41,000,000 Funnel" at the Cincinnati Terminal, and articles also about the Swedish King, the value of brides to local businesses, cotton-picking, the properties of aluminum and others.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine