Life Magazine 1883-1930's Charles Dana Gibson
Begun in 1883, the original Life magazine provided a glimpse
of Society, Literature, Politics and Drama, combined with humor
and exceptional illustrations. A reflection of its time the content
often appears, racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic and anti-Irish
by today's standards. The two page centerfolds are often prized
for their decorative value and framed.. Each issue includes advertisements.
The famous illustrator, Charles Dana Gibson was associated
with this magazine from very early in his career until the demise
of the magazine in the early 1930s. Life was the very first customer
for Gibson's drawings. The more recent Life Magazine published
by Time Inc. did not begin publication until 1936. Given the age
of these magazines some soil, nicks, tears and spine separation
is common. Many have original mailing folds.
September 15, 1892. Click to view cover
Cover: The Sunny Side. Centerfold: Amateur Theatricals by Charles
Dana Gibson. Soil, stains (Stock number Life091592) $30.00
October 20, 1892. Click to view cover
Cover: Les Fiances. Centerfold: Father Knickerbocker by W.A, Rogers
- Anti-Tammany Hall illustration. Soil, crease in front cover
(Stock number Life102092) $40.00
October 27, 1892. Click to view cover
Cover: The New Departure. Centerfold: From a Summer Sketch Book.
Some Types One Sees in English Railway Carriages by Charles Dana
Gibson. (Stock number Life102792) $35.00
January 12, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: Preparatory Discipline by Chris H Johnson Centerfold: The
Salons of New York at Mrs. Ophelia Barnstohm's by Charles Dana
Gibson Some staining on back cover. (Stock number Life011293)
$35.00
February 16, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: In Chicago Centerfold: The Love-Saints Holiday by Chris
H Johnson. Drawing of Paderewski. . (Stock number Life021693)
$35.00
March 2, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: Going by Precedent by Charles Dana Gibson Centerfold: Revised
March Fourth Comes In Like A Tiger and Goes Out Like An Elephant
by Charles Dana Gibson - Political commentary. (Stock number Life030293)
$40.00
March 9, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: The Benefits by Charles Dana Gibson Centerfold: It is A
Condition, Not a Theory, That Confronts Us by F.T. Richards.-
Political Commentary on Pensions. Cover stained. (Stock number
Life030993) $35.00
March 16, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: An Unnecessary Warning by Charles Dana Gibson Centerfold:
His Everlasting Experiments With Ill-Mated Pairs by Charles Dana
Gibson. If There Is To be A Competition for Designs of Stained
Glass Windows for St. Patrick's Cathedral Life Would Like to Submit
The Above Anti-Irish drawing Click to view.
(Stock number Life031693) $55.00
March 23, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: Forethought Centerfold: Not A Ghost by Charles Dana Gibson.
Cover stained. (Stock number Life032393) $35.00
April 6, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: The Lady and The Tiger by Charles Dana Gibson. Centerfold:
On The Wedding Journey by Charles Dana Gibson. Cover stained.
(Stock number Life040693) $45.00
April 13, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: A Sign of Intelligence. Centerfold: Social; Pastimes by
Charles Dana Gibson. Cover stained. (Stock number Life041393)
$40.00
April 27, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: Triumph of Love by Charles Dana Gibson. Centerfold: That
Little Dinner To The People You Don't Want Your Nice Friends to
Meet by Charles Dana Gibson. Cover soiled. (Stock number Life042793)
$45.00
May 11, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: Not Inclined That Way. Centerfold: To The City of Chicago
with Life's Congratulations on The Artistic Consummation of A
Great Work by Charles Dana Gibson. Columbian Exposition. Cover
stained. (Stock number Life051193) $40.00 SOLD
June 22, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: Simplicity by Charles Dana Gibson. Centerfold: An Interesting
Question - How Long Will It Be Before The Rats Own The Garden
and the Man Gets Out? by B M, Ash. - Anti-immigrant drawing. Click to view.
Cover has a tear.(Stock number Life062293) $75.00
June 29, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: In That Particular. Centerfold: A Danger - The Shore is
Lined with Wrecks by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life062993)
$35.00
July 6, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: Fourth of July Number by Chris H Johnson. Centerfold: What
We Celebrate by Chip. Satiric history. (Stock number Life070693)
$45.00
July 13, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: The Inconsiderate Brother by Charles Dana Gibson. Centerfold:
Sketches at the Fair - Some Actors In The Midway Plaisance by
Charles Dana Gibson. - Columbian Exposition. Cover soiled. (Stock
number Life071393) $55.00
August 31, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: A Conclusion Centerfold: This Is A Hard World by Frank
O. Smally. . (Stock number Life083193) $35.00
September 14, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: A High Stepper by Frank O. Smally. .Centerfold. Is This
A Case For The S.P.C.A. by Charles Dana Gibson. Anti-Semitic Illustration
- Mr. Diamondstein's Hounds At Long Branch. Click to view
(Stock number Life091493) $55.00
November 16, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: A Reasoning Mind. Centerfold: The Horse Show. How The Animals
Appear From The Boxes by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life111693)
$40.00
December 21, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: Wedding Note. Centerfold: The Climax of a Christmas Ghost
Story.. (Stock number Life122193) $35.00
December 28, 1893. Click to view cover
Cover: To Be Expected. Centerfold: The Hebraization of The American
Drama by F.T. Richards. AntiSemitic. Click to view.
(Stock number Life122893) $75.00
August 30, 1894. Click to view cover
Cover: The Newport Maiden Centerfold: A Prisoner! - How Are The
Mighty Fallen by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life083094)
$40.00
September 6, 1894. Click to view cover
Cover: An Obliging Stranger Centerfold: On The Road To Versailles
- A Prima Donna's Debut by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number
Life090694) $40.00
February 7, 1895. Click to view cover
Cover: The Man For The Place by RAB Centerfold: A Lovers' Quarrel
- Some Mothers Are Good Matchmakers, But- by Charles Dana Gibson.
Mark Twain illustrations. (Stock number Life020795) $45.00
February 28, 1895. Click to view cover
Cover: He Meant Well by RAB Centerfold: The Rival Operas by F.T.
Richards. Queen Victoria illustrations. (Stock number Life022895)
$35.00
March 14, 1895. Click to view cover
Cover: Her Turn by Hy Mayer Centerfold: Poor Jim by Charles Dana
Gibson. Marion Crawford illustrations. (Stock number Life031495)
$45.00
May 2, 1895. Click to view cover
Cover: The Gentleman is Right Centerfold: A Little Story by Charles
Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life050295) $40.00
September 22, 1898. Click to view cover
Cover: The Perennial Blunder Centerfold: The Education of Mr.
Pipp III by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life092298) $45.00
September 29, 1898. Click to view cover
Cover: In Forgiving Mood Centerfold: The Education of Mr. Pipp
IV by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life092998) $45.00
October 13, 1898. Click to view cover
Cover: The Mutual Admiration Company, Ltd. Centerfold: The Education
of Mr. Pipp VI by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life101398)
$45.00
October 20, 1898. Click to view cover
Cover: Not In His Line Centerfold: The Education of Mr. Pipp VII
by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life102098) $45.00
November 20, 1902. Click to view cover
Cover: Who Owns It, Anyway! Centerfold: Good Americans, When They
Die Go To Paris by A. Bayard Jones. (Stock number Life112002)
$25.00
January 18, 1906. Click to view cover
Cover: Wm. Balfour-Ker Centerfold: The Bookshop Window - From
The Inside. . (Stock number Life011806) $25.00
February 24, 1910. Click to view cover
Cover: Hers by B. Cory Kilvert Centerfold: Honi Soit by Orson
Lowell . (Stock number Life022410) $25.00
January 16, 1913. Click to view cover
Cover: The Spirit of Music by A.G. Hull Centerfold: I Beg Your
Pardon I Thought My Daughter was Here by ??? Jacobs . (Stock number
Life011613) $25.00 SOLD
September 10, 1914 Click to view cover
Deep Sea Number Cover: My First Sea Voyage Centerfold: The Angel
of The Deep (Wireless) by Broughton. (Stock number Life091014)
$35.00
September 30, 1920 Click to view cover
Cover: Mary Had A Little Lamb by Victor C. Anderson Centerfold:
Seventy Thousand Votes. Will They Be Counted by Charles Dana Gibson.
(Stock number Life093020) $35.00
October 7, 1920 Click to view cover
Cover: The Absent-Minded Stork by Paul Stahl Centerfold: $1000.00
in Prizes for the Best Title to this Picture by Charles Dana Gibson.
Some suggested titles written in ink on the page. (Stock number
Life100720) $30.00
October 28, 1920 Click to view cover
Cover: Congratulations by Charles Dana Gibson - Woman's Suffrage
Centerfold: The Deacon Has Been Swapping Again by Victor C. Anderson.
Cover soiled. (Stock number Life102820) $35.00 SOLD
November 4, 1920 Click to view cover
Thanksgiving Cover: The Pessimist Centerfold: The Conquerors of
the Wilderness by Calvert. (Stock number Life110420) $35.00
November 18, 1920 Click to view cover
Cover: A Mere Slip of A Girl by Coles Phillips Centerfold: A Small
Cloud and the Bolshevik Strike Promoter by Charles Dana Gibson.
Cover as a 1.5" tear at right. (Stock number Life111820)
$35.00
November 25, 1920 Click to view cover
Cover: The Profiteer by E. Stetson Crawford Centerfold: Homebrew
by A.B. Frost. Cover soiled. (Stock number Life112520) $35.00
December 9, 1920 Click to view cover
Cover: The Young Visitor by B Cory Kilvert - Irish Home Rule Centerfold:
Mr. Shrimp Is Called on to Give an Opinion for the First Time
in His Married Life by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life120920)
$35.00
December 16, 1920 Click to view cover
Cover: Is He Coming by Norman Rockwell - Christmas Eve Centerfold:
A Real Santa Claus by Victor C. Anderson. (Stock number Life121620)
$35.00 SOLD
December 23, 1920 Click to view cover
Cover: A Christmas Eve by Coles Phillips Centerfold: Christmas
in Many Lands by Rea Irvin. (Stock number Life122320) $35.00
December 30, 1920 Click to view cover
New Year's Number Cover: Another Back Number by Rea Irvin Centerfold:
New Year's, Another Encore by Charles Dana Gibson (Stock number
Life123020) $35.00
January 6, 1921 Click to view cover
Lawyers' Number Cover: By Advice of Counsel. I Refuse to answer
on the ground that it might incriminate or degrade me. Centerfold:
The Spirit of the Law by Angus MacDonall. (Stock number Life010621)
$35.00
January 13, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: On The Road to Mandalay Centerfold: The lion of the evening
takes his "forty winks" by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock
number Life011321) $35.00
January 20, 1921 Click to view cover
Blue Sunday Number Cover: O Perfect Day! by M.L. Blumenthal Centerfold:
Our Own Little Inquisition - The Reformer Reformed by Rea Irvin.
(Stock number Life012021) $35.00
January 27, 1921 Click to view cover
Animal Number Cover: Pals by Charles Livingston Bull Centerfold:
A Winter's Tail by Anguis MacDonnall. Back cover has paper loss
(Stock number Life012721) $35.00
February 3, 1921 Click to view cover
Valentine Number Cover: Love Will Find A Way by B Cory Kilvert
Centerfold: Henpecked! by Oliver Herford. Back cover has paper
loss (Stock number Life020321) $30.00
February 24, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: The Boy Who Obeyed that Impulse by M.L. Blumenthal Centerfold:People
We Can Get Along Without III The Handshaking Enthusiast. by Charles
Dana Gibson. Ink Comments in margin of centerfold (Stock number
Life022421) $35.00
March 10, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: Tmonkey See, Monkey Do Centerfold:People We Can Get Along
Without V The Talkative Party Who Like To Look On. by Charles
Dana Gibson. Bridge (Stock number Life031021) $35.00
March 31, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: Local Showers by J. R Shaver Centerfold:People We Can Get
Along Without VIII The Destroyer of Dreams by Charles Dana Gibson.
(Stock number Life033121) $35.00
April 7, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: In a Position to Know by Coles Phillips Centerfold People
We Can Get Along Without IX The Stout Party Who Rocks and Twists
on the Arm of Your Best Chair. by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock
number Life040721) $35.00
April 14, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: We're Only Young Once by Rea Irvin Centerfold People We
Can Get Along Without X The Couple Who Come and Spend the Evening
The Day You Move In.. by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life041421)
$35.00
April 21, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: The Crescent Moon by G. Tenggren Centerfold People We Can
Get Along
April 28, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: The Snob by B Cory Kilvert Centerfold People We Can Get
Along Without XII The Parents Who Believe That Their Child Should
Not Be Restrained. by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life042821)
$35.00 SOLD
May 5, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: Chasing Butterflies by J. R. Shaver Centerfold People We
Can Get Along Without XIII The Other Thirteen. by Charles Dana
Gibson. (Stock number Life050521) $35.00 SOLD
May 12, 1921 Click to view cover
Wives' Number Cover: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her
infinite variety by Rea Irvin Centerfold People We Can Get Along
Without XIV The Bachelor Uncle Who Advises Against Early Marriages.
by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life051221) $35.00
May 19, 1921 Click to view cover
Husbands' Number Cover: Shipwreck Survivor:-The deuce! Only My
Wife by Rea Irvin Centerfold People We Can Get Along Without XV
The Man Who Predicts Panics To Our Husbands At The Club. by Charles
Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life051921) $35.00
June 9, 1921 Click to view cover
Forbidden Number Cover: Even as You and I by B Cory Kilvern Centerfold
People We Can Get Along Without XVIII The After Dinner Speaker
Whom Doesn't Know How To Stop by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number
Life060921) $35.00
June 23, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: A Sunday In June by Victor C Anderson Centerfold People
We Can Get Along Without XIX The Party Who "Hopes He Doesn't
Intrude". by Charles Dana Gibson. (Stock number Life062321)
$35.00
July 14, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: Out of Luck by Victor C Anderson Centerfold Uncle Peter
is going from bad to worse by Angus MacDonall. (Stock number Life071421)
$35.00
July 28, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: The Life of the Party by Rob Sickey Centerfold Her Dog
by Charles Dana Gibson. Cover Soiled (Stock number Life072821)
$35.00 SOLD
August 4, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: For Divers Reasons by Coles Phillips Centerfold A False
Alarm by Victor C Anderson. (Stock number Life080421) $35.00
August 11, 1921 Click to view cover
Cover: The Day After The Circus by Victor S Anderson Centerfold
The Kind of People Humanity Can Get Along Without by Louis Raemaekers.
(Stock number Life081121) $45.00
February 26, 1925 Click to view cover
Cover: California Number by FGC Centerfold The Traitor by Gluyas
Williams. (Stock number Life022625) $45.00
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