Stefan Lorant [ed.] — Picture Post Vol. 7 No. 8

London, Hulton Press , 1940. First edition. Paperback. A number of 'Picture Post,' a popular British photojournalistic magazine in the mid-twentieth-century. The 1940 May issue of Picture Post, a popular British photojournalistic magazine that ran from 1938 to 1957, a pioneer in its form. An immediate success, it sold over a million copies a week after only two months.Founded by Edward Hulton, it held a liberal, anti-Fascist, and populist view, and it actively campaigned against the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. Edited by Stefan Lorant, Vol. 7 No. 8. Published during war time, this issue includes pictorial features of the invasion, the cabinet's crises, with insight on 'The World as Hitler Would Like to Make It,' and 'the war up-close&apos. Including a special feature 'Ready French: Lesson Two,' and a cartoon by David Low titled 'All Behind You Winston. Articles discuss the contemporary events during the war. Fully illustrated throughout in black and white. Numerous advertisements. Including a cross-word. In the original publisher's binding in illustrated wraps. Externally rather worn with some shelf wear and chipping to the wraps, puncture marks to the spine. With a minor bookworm nibble to the lower extremities of the leaves, not affecting any of the text. Internally, the binding is tender with the occasional leaf loose but all present. The pages are generally clean with only some age toning, as usual with this type of paper. Numerous advertisements and illustrations in black and white throughout. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .