#1940s books

[cdchyld]

Just added to Etsy!

~ "Chronicles of Avonlea" by L. M. Montgomery (1940)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustration from A. Merritt's The Ship of Ishtar by Virgil Finlay (1949)

[scavengedluxury]

Interior, 1940. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[shyjusticewarrior]

Before Jason Todd came along, Thomas Wayne would make the death jokes

[sovietpostcards]

"A Drawing Joke. Animals" published by the Moscow Zoo (1942)

[iloveabortions]

This rare first edition of Margaret Mitchell's “Gone with the Wind" was used to conceal a .32-caliber pistol (1941)

[misforgotten2]

Bedtime Stories illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren - 1942

[roseworth]

based on a convo with my brother

[comic-covers]

(1943)

[american-tyger]

ᴍᴀx sᴄʜᴇʟᴇʀ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀʟᴀᴢᴢᴏ ᴅᴇɪ ᴄᴏɴsᴇʀᴠᴀᴛᴏʀɪ ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛʏᴀʀᴅ ɪɴ ʀᴏᴍᴇ, ɪᴛᴀʟʏ. 𝟷𝟿𝟺𝟿. Photography by Herbert List.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Books are Weapons poster, ca. 1941-1943.

"Read about … "The Negro in national defense," "Africa and the war," [and] "Negro history and culture" at the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library."

Photo: WPA War Services via the LoC

[adventurelandia]

"Spoil the Rod" (1948) by Carl Barks

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustration from The Ship of Ishtar by Virgil Finlay (1949)

[scavengedluxury]

Pálos library, Central Priest Education Institute, Budapest, 1940. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[nemfrog]

"Two amoedbae are making their way amidst a group of algae across the bottom of the pool where they life."

Modern Biology. 1947.

Internet Archive

[sovietpostcards]

"The Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault, pop up book published in Baku (Azerbaijan, 1940)