The Illustrated London News - January to June 1939

Volume of The Illustrated London News - January to June 1939.

1136 pages - Ex Library with all the usual labels and stamps

Condition Hardcover has signs of wear and tear, Internally clean, some tiny tears and wear on edge of pages. Some pages have old tape repairs on them.  We cannot guarantee all pages are in the volume. Pages 671 to 674 missing.

Very Heavy book.

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SAMPLE OF CONTENTS:

Full page picture - Raeburn, A self-portrait in the Scottish Art Exhibition at Burlington House.
Our Notebook by Arthur Bryant
Double page of photos and text - Festival Folk-Dancing in other lands:Country Dances.
2 x pages of photos and text - Djibouti
Books of the Day
Full page of photos and text - The "Jose Luis Diez" aground off Gibraltar.
News from around the world in Pictures
Article - The World of Science
Double page illustration with text - The M.S. "Dominion Monarch" 
Article and photos - At the Court of a Native King by F Clement C Egerton
Full page of photos and text - The Jerusalem-Lydda line cleared.
Article - The World of Cinema by Michael Orme
Full page advert for Worthington & Co Ltd
Article - A page for Collectors by Frank Davis
Many pages of adverts throughout the volume
Full page advert for Shaw Savill Lines
Article - From Clippers to Motor Passenger Liners:  The Shaw Savill Line's Eighty Years of Shipping History.
Full page advert for Awan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Full page of photos and text - M. Daladier's Triumphal Tour of Tunisia
Full page of photos and text - The Sakkara Find
Full page of photos and text - A Burmese State Funeral - The Funeral of Sawbwa of Hsipaw
Double page photo and article - German Dive-Bombers on a practice "Stalk"
Double page illustration and text - The U.S.S.R. Navy of fighting Ships
Article - The Charm of Music by Francis Toye
Full page of photos and text - The First Gilbert and Sullivan Film: The Mikado
Full page of photos and text - Animal Art in the Central Sahara (Hoggar Mountains)
Full page colour advert for Johnnie Walker
Article - The World of Science
2 x pages of photos and text - Norfolk Island
Article - The World of Theatre by Ivor Brown
Full page advert for Dunlop Tyres
Theatre Reveiws
Full page of photos and text - The IRA? Bomb Outrages in Southwark and Manchester
Double page of photos and text - Mr Chamberlain and Lord Halifax in Rome
Double page of photos and text - The Aden Centenary
Article - Lessons of Barcelona by Cyril Helsby
Full page photo and text - The 3.7in A.A. Gun at a Nottingham Factory
Full page of photos and text - Franco and his Commanders near Tarragona
Full page of photos and text - In Catalonia
Full page of photos and text - Important Relics - Amenemhet III in the Fayum
Article - The Chronicles of the Car
Full page photo and text - The Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm
Photos of The French Battleship "Richelieu" and The German Battleship "Scharnhorst"
Article - The Poetry of the Foot (Ballet) with illustrations
Small drawings of famous Ballerinas - Adeline Plunkett;  Pauline Duvernay;  Adele Dumilatre;  Louise Fleury;  Fanny Elssler;  Carlotta Grisi;  Marie Paul Taglioni;  Flora Fabbri;  Marie Guy Stephan.
Double page of photos and text - The Rapid Nationalist advance on Barcelona.
Full page of photos and text - The St. Ives Lifeboat Disaster
Full page article - An Isle of Skulls and Weeping Dolls (Samosir)
Full page of photos and text - Funerary Sculptures of Ancient Sumatra
Full page of photos and text - "Si Galegale" a Sumatran "Mechanical Man"
Full page colour advert - Wills's Gold Flake
Article - The Charm of Music - Some thoughts on Gilbert and Sullivan by Francis Toye.
Full page photo - "The Spitfire"
Many pages of photos and text about the production of "The Spitfire"
Full page of photos and text - "The Sleeping Princess" at Sadler's Wells
Photo of Herr Hitler addressing the first meeting of the greater German Reichstag.
Double page of photos and text - Barcelona falls to General Franco
Article - The Minoan Stock and Art with illustrations
Article with photos - The Hadhramaut - A Land of strongly contrasting people.
Full page photo - Their Majesties at Aldershot.
Full page of photos and text - The Chilean Earthquake
2 x pages of photos and text - The Eruption of Nyamlagira Volcano, in the Belgian Congo
Article - A reader of the Riddles of the Maya.
Full page of photos and text - Types of U-Boats and their Parent-Ships (German)
Article - Sea Butterflies
Article with photos - Remarkable Australian Lizards
Full page of photos and text - The Strange Finery of the Bobos of French Sudan
1/2 page article and photos - The Jubilee of the Queen of Tonga
1/2 page article and photos - The Coronation of the Sultan of Selangor
Full page drawing and text - Gerona, a Historic City taken by Franco
Full page of photos and text - The opening of "Georgian House", Bristol's new Musuem.
Article with photos - Ancient Art in Siberia
Full page advert for Humber cars
Ladies Fashion page
Full page advert for The M.G. Car Company Ltd
Full page advert for The Lanchester Motor Co. Ltd
Full page drawing - The late Pius XI (Pope)
Full page of photos and text - H.M.S. "Devonshire" at Minorca.
Double page of photos and text - Chinese Troops using Camouflage as Air Raid Precautions
Full page of photos and text - An ancient "Spa" run on modern lines: The Asklepieion, with Theatre and Radio-Active Baths
Full page of photos and text - The Funeral of Pope Pius XI
Double page of photos and text - Spain - The end of a great Republican Army.
Full page colour advert "Schweppes"
Article - The World of Cinema
Double page of photos and text - The "America" under construction.  The largest Liner built in America at the time.
Article - Holiday Resorts around the World.
Double page of photos and text - The Belgain Frontier Fortifications: A "Maginot Line" with miles of Anti-Tank Barriers and Moat Tank-Traps.
Full page illustration and text - Pagham Harbour as it would appear as a Flying-Boat Base
Double page of photos and text - The Excavations on the Site of Whitehall Palace, Wolsey's Great Hall and other interesting discoveries.
4 x page of photos and article - Secret Totemic Ceremonies of Arnhem Land: An Aboriginal Ngarra.
Full page photo and text of the launch of The Battleship "King George V"
Double page illustration of the Battleship "King George V"
Full page colour advert "Johnnie Walker"
Full page advert for The Daimler Company Ltd
Full page photo - General Franco
Double page of photos and text - Franco Celebrates his Victories in Barcelona
Double page of photos and text - Aspects of Barcelona after it had been occupied by the Nationalist Forces.
Large fold out 2 pages of photos and text - Sinanthropus, perhaps the lowest Man known to Science - excavating Choukouthen Cave where "Peking Man" dwelt.
Article - India's North West Frontier
Many pages of photos and text of News from around the World
Full page photos and text - Pope Pius XII.
Full page of illustrations and text - Bomb-Proof Shelters without Excavation: The Mound Type
Full page of photos and text - Franco's Fleet
Full page of photos and text - Canada's New Gold-Mines
Full page of photos and text - Tribesman who once broke a British Square: The Haughty Hadendowah "Fuzzie-Wuzzies" of the Sudan
Double page of photos and text - Madrid under Siege
3 page fold out illustration and text - The "Coelacanth Fish"
Full page of photos and text - A "Whitley" Bomber
Full page advert for Hudson Motor Ltd
Full page advert for the Austin '28' Motor Car
Full page advert for Canadian Pacific
Full page photo and text - The Pope's Coronation
Full page of photos and text - The Spanish Republican Fleet Cruisers which abandoned Cartagena, interned at Bizerta.
Article and photos - Lachish: Traces of Nebuchadnezzar's Invasion: and Art Relics
Full page of photos and text - The First White Giraffe seen in Kenya
Article and photos - Amonthe the "Red Men" of Ecuador.
Full page of photos and text - The Dramatic photographs of the last of the S.S. "Lilian" sinking .
Full page colour photo and text of a "Red Indian" - A Colorado Indian of Ecuador with Skin and Hair Dyed Scarlet from the seeds of the "Blood Tree".
Double page colour illustration and article - Venta Silurum, Roman Town in Wales
Full page colour advert - Guinness
Full page of photos and text - The Crisis in Slovakia.
Full page photo and text - The Tomb of King George V.
Full page photo and text - President Lebrun and his Wife on a State Visit to UK
Full page of photos and text - Hitler's Broken Pladges: An Amazing Record.
Full page photo and text - Herr Hitler addressing the mass meeting at the Sportpalast, Berlin in 1938.
2 x pages of photos and text - Features of the Wirelesss-controlled Ex-Battleship "Hessen"
Article - The Chillingham Castle
Full page colour picture - The Royal Bird of the Ancient Aztecs - The Quetzals
11 x  pages of photos and text - Herr Hitler in Prague - The end of the Czech's Independence
Full page advert for "Player's Navy Cut"
Full page advert for "Thos. Firth & John Brown Ltd, Sheffield
Full page photo and text - The Flight Deck of the "Ark Royal"
Photos and text about "The Nelson" Battleship and "The Rodney" Battleship
1/2 page photos and text about each of the following:  H.M.S. "Hood";  H..M.S. "Warspite";  "The Ramilies";  "The Repulse"
Double page of small photos and text about the following - Britain's Power at Sea - H.M.S. "The York"; H.M.S. "The Dorsetshire";  H.M.S. "The Devonshire";  H.M.S. "Cumberland";  H.M.S. "The Newcastle";  H.M.S. "The Aurora";  H.M.S. "The Ajax";  H.M.S. "The Enterprise";  H.M.S. "The Effingham";  H.M.S. "The Delhi";  H.M.S. "The Curacoa";  H.M.S. "The Coventry";  The "Inglefield";  The "Faulknor";  the "Campbell";  The "Broke";  The "Cossack";  The "Icarus";  The "Hero";  the "Fame";  The "Triton";  The "Narwhal";  The "Undine";  The "Sunfish";  The "Severn";  The "Swordfish";  The "Egret"
Small picture and text of Famous Ships in our Naval History - "Henri Grace A Dieu";  "Prince Roya;";  "Sovereign of the Seas";  "The Royal Katherine";  "The Royal Prince";  "The Britannia";  "Royal Sovereign";  "The Somerset";  "The Prince George";  "The Royal George";  "The Sandwich";  "The Formidable";  "The Ramilies";  "The Captain";  "The Victory"
Full page of small picture and photos and text of the following Ships - The Corvette "Comus";  The Cruiser "Magicienne";  The "Highflyer";  The "Indomitable";  The "Valiant";  The "Renown";  The "Norfolk";  The "Liverpool"
Double page of photos and text - Producing a Warship's Components.
Double page fold out illustrations - Living conditions in a British Submarine when patrolling at sea.
4 page fold out illustration - plan of the "Ark Royal"
Full page of photos and text - The Annexation of Memel by the Third Reich
1/2 page of photos and text - The Grand National
1/2 page of photos and text - The Boat Race
Full page photo and text - President and Mme Lebrun at a Covent Garden Gala Performance
Full page photo and text - President Lebrun welcomed by Parliament in Westminster Hall.
Full page drawing and text - An "Osprey" above the "Ark Royal"
Full page advert - The Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd, Govan, Glasgow.
Full page advert - The British Power Boat Co. Ltd
Double page of photos and text - The Suez Canal
Full page of photos and text - The Ex-Battleship "Iron Duke" as a sea-going Gunnery Training Ship.
Double page of photos and text - Training German Infantry for fighting at close quarters.
Double page of photos and text - News and events around the World
Double page of photos and text - Madrid falls to General Franco
Article - The Legacy of an unknown Nigerian "Donatello"
Full page of photos The "Yankee Clipper" at Southampton
Full page drawing - The end of the "Lyceum" Theatre
Double page of photos and text - Bekonscot Model Village
Double page of photos and text - Madrid the "Ypres" of Spain: The ravages of War in a City for Thirty Months in the Front Line.
Full page of photos and text - Count Ciano's 2 visits to Albania and meeting General Guzzoni
3 pages of photos and text - Albania Invaded by Italian Troops
Full page of photos and text - Tutankhamen's 3000 year old Trumpets
Article - The Supreme God of Peru's ancient "Mecca"
Full page advert - Ford Motor Company Ltd
Full page photo and text - President Roosevelt
Full page illustration - The Navies of the Powers: The U.S.A. and Japan compared
Double page illustration - The Navies of the Powers:  The Three Greatest European Fleets - Britain, France and Italy compared.
4 pages of photos and text - The Modern Territorial Army
Article - A great new Archaeological Field in Central Asia
Article - Travel in the United States
Article with photos - The Valley of the Yosemite and the Niagara Falls
Many pages of articles and photos - The World's Fair in the United States
Double page article and photos - A Cruise which has caused much speculation: Battleships and Cruisers of the German Naval Squadron, now in the Atlantic, passing through the Straits of Dover.
Full page article and photos - The latest Bomber to go onto large production - The Handley Page
Double page of photos and text - The Fuhrer's speech in the Kroll Opera House addressing the Reichstag
Full page of photos and text - Spratley Island 
6 pages of articles and photos - The Royal Visit to Canada
Full page of photos and text - The Marriage of Princess Fawzieh of Egypt to the Crown Prince of Iran.
Double page of photos and text - Leonardo Da Vinci as Mechanical Genius: Machines reconstructed from sketches for a Milan Exhibition.
Full page photo and text - Rehearsing for "Empire Day":  Westland "Lysander" Army Aircraft in formation over Odiham, Hampshire.
Full page photo and text - The National War Memorial at Ottawa.
Article - The art of Goggle Fishing
Full page of photos and text - The new "Mauretania's" First Voyage on the Mersey.
Double page of illustrations and text - The 80th Anniversary of the Volunteers.
2 x full page of photos and text - The Syrian Show and other items found at Brak.
Article - A City of masterley Goldsmiths and Carvers in the Syria of 3000 B.C.
Full page drawing - Lieutenant-General Lord Baden-Powell, O.M., G.C.M.G.
Full page of photos and text - Herr Hitler's tour of the Siegfried Line.
Full page of photos and text - The only Horsed Artillery in this Country: "K" Battery, R.H.A.
Full page photo and text - General Franco taking the Salute of an Italian Pack Battery
Double page of photos and text - Empire Air Day.
Article and photos - The Terrible Air Raids of May 3 and 4 on China's War-Time Capital
Full page of photos and text - The Twenty Months' Cruise of the "Discovery II"
Full page colour photo and text - Tewkesbury Abbey's Fourteenth-Century effigy of Lord Edward Le Despenser.
Many pages of photos and text - The Royal Visit to Canada
Full page advert for "Esso"
Full page drawing and text - The Disaster to the U.S. Submarine "Squalus" off Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Full page of photos and text - How the men were saved from the "Squalus"
Full page of photos from the Aldershot Tattoo
Article - "Nestor's Palace" at Pylos Yields the first Mycenaean inscribed Tablets ever found on the Greek Mainland
2 page of photos from "Nestor's Palace" at Pylos
Full page of photos and text - A number of French Warships visit British Ports
Full page of photos and text - The "Quins" meet their Majesties in Toronto.
Article and Full page colour picture - Queen Henrietta Maria painted by Vandyck.
Many pages of photos and text - The Royal visit to Canada
Double page of photos and text - The inside of the new "Mauretania"
Full page advert - Cunard White Star - The new "Mauretania"
Full page advert - Austin Reed
Full page photo - Bristol "Bombers" in a practice raid.
Double page of drawings and text - History so far of the R.A.F. 
Full page of photos and text - Royal Flying Corps Machines used between 1914 and 1918.
Full page photo and text - Details of the Dashboard and Controls of a Handley Page Twin-Engined "Hampden" Bomber.
Many pages of photos and text - Cranwell - The Training College for R.A.F. Officers
Full page of illustrations and text - Aircraft Armament: Massed Machine-Guns: "Heavy Artillery"
Double page illustration and text - Four of our latest Fighters - "Blenheim" Long-Range Fighter Bomber;  "Hurricane";  "Defiant";  "Spitfire"
Double page of photos and text - Training the A.A.F. - The Air Force equivalent to the Territorials.
Full page of photos and text - The R.A.F. Overseas:  Vickers "Valentia" Troop-Carrying Bombers
Double page of photos and text - Training of an Air Observer
Double page of photos and text - R.A.F. Aircraft under construction.
Double page of photos and text - Bombers in large-scale production:  "Battles" and "Whitleys".
Full page colour picture - The Supermarine "Spitfire"
Double page fold out photo and text - A Squadron of Fairey "Battle" Bombers in formation flight.
Full page photo and text - The Prototype Miles "Master"
Full page photo and text - "Long-Nosed" Bristol "Blenheims".
Full page photos and text - Gatwick Aerodrome.
Double page photo and text - The sinking of the "Thetis".
Many pages of photos, drawings and text - The Tragedy of the "Thetis"
Small photos of some of the Victims and Survivors of the "Thetis" Disaster:  Commander R G B Hayter;  Lieut-Cmdr R N Garnett;  Lieut-Cmdr T C C Lloyd;  Lieut F G Woods;  Lieut-Cmdr G H Bolus;  Leading Stoker Arnold;  Lieut H Chapman;  Stoker W T Hole;  Lieut P E J Ryan;  Captain Oram
Full page advert - The Bristol Aeroplane Company.
Full page of photos and text - Aluminium in the Front Line of the Royal Air Force.|
Full page of photos and text - The Memorial Services for the "Thetis" Victims
Double page of photos and illustrations and text - The Suites in the "Empress of Britain"
Full page of colour photos of Pageantry at the Aldershot Tattoo.
Full page colour photo - The Tomb of Edward, The Black Prince, in Canterbury Cathedral
Many pages of photos and text - The King and Queen visit the U.S.A.
Full page of photos and text - Scenes from the International Horse Show.
2 pages of photos and text - The Japanese Blockade.
Double page of photos and text - Training British Children to be Farmers in Canada and Australia - Fairbridge Farm Schools
Full page article with photos - Malayan Archaeology