The Spill has been very fortunate over its decade plus span to receive numerous contributions to its archives. The latest is a treasure trove of Armed Services Editions from Prof. Brian Anderson of Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC.. Prof. Anderson, seeing an ASE-related post on this site, recently supplied a list of the New Yorker related editions as well as a box of editions (many of which you see above). Also in the box: a pony edition of The New Yorker, dated January 27, 1945, cover by Perry Barlow. Prof. Anderson, along with Molly Guptill Manning are curating an exhibit of Armed Services Editions at the Grolier Club in the spring of 2020.
Here’s a short list of titles by some favorites (the bolded ones are in the Spill‘s archives):
The New Yorker’s Baedeker 819
New Yorker Profiles 955
The New Yorker Reporter at Large 1066
By Thurber
My World and Welcome to It A-11 (reprinted as S-5)
My Life and Hard Times L-2 (856)
Let Your Mind Alone N-7 (rpt 755)
The Middle Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze I-253 (rpt 705)
The Thurber Carnival 970
With E. B. White
Is Sex Necessary M-2 (rpt 1016)
By E. B. White
One Man’s Meat P-26
Quo Vadimas 696
With Katharine White A Subtreasury of American Humor F-176
Margaret Case Harriman Take Them up Tenderly Q-26
Walter Bernstein Keep Your Head Down 903
Charles Boyer Dark Ship 1156
John McNulty Third Avenue, New York 1180
Joseph Mitchell McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon D-108
Dorothy Parker Selected Short Stories R-4
John O’Hara Pipe Night 741
John O’Hara The Doctor’s Son and Other Stories 979
Robert Benchley After 1903 What? R-5
Samuel Hopkins Adams A. Woollcott 931
The Bedside Tales / Introduction by Peter Arno 933