BLUE BOOK (Pulp MAGAZINE) April 1948 >>> KANSAS - Free Soil or SLAVERY? (1787 Congress passed the Northwest Territory Ordinance forbidding Slavery in all New States north of Ohio River) = Wraparound Painted cover; by Theodore Goodridge Roberts; Adrian Kuepper; Ludwig Lewisohn; John Beames; Wilbur S. Peacock; Donovan Fitzpatrick; H. Bedford-Jones; Norman A. Fox; Louis Kaye; Ross De Lue; Joel Reeve; Clary Thompson; Bill Adams; Robert L. Johnson Jr. Will Talsey; Foreman - 1948

USA.: McCall Corporation, 1948. Book. Illus. by Herbert Morton Stoops Wraparound Painted Cover Art.. Fine. Soft cover. TRUE FIRST Edition MAGAZINE Format Thus.. BLUE BOOK - April 1948 MAGAZINE Vol. 86, No. 6 TWO SHORT NOVELS - (1)"A Quest Must End" by Theodore Goodridge Roberts (The wizard Merlin aids King Torrice and the Mazed Kinght on their ride to the rescue of Dame Clara.); (2) "Crooked face" by Adrian Kuepper (A fascinating detective- mystery story with a racetrack background.); TEN SHORT STORIES - (1)"The Course of Justice" by Ludwig Lewisohn; (2)"Tails Up!" by John Beames; (3) "Mardi Gras Bondmaid" by Wilbur S. Peacock; (4)" The Wild Blue Yonder" by Donovan Fitzpatrick; (5)"Animal Man" by Robert Barbour Johnson; (6)"Bar Gold" by H. Bedford-Jones; (7)" Old Man Owlhoot" by Norman A. Fox; (8)" Back-Counrty Boy" by Louis Kaye; (9) "Thunderbolt at Large" by Ross De Lue; (10) "The Needed Spark" by Joel Reeve; STORIES OF FACT & EXPERIENCE - (1)"He Saw America First" by Glenn R. Vernam; (A hundred years before Lewis & Clark, an Indian journeyed from Louisiana to the Northwest coast.); (2) "Action off Salerno" by Clary Thompson (A stirring story, from a Navy view-point, of a hazardous landing.); (3) "Whale Below!" by Bill Adams (A weird experience of our favorite sailor-writer.); (4)"The Battle for Leyte Gulf" by Robert L. Johnson Jr. (A letter home describes the all-but-suicidal attack of a DE upon a Japanese cruiser.); (5) "Forgotten Sweethearts of the Sea" by Will Talsey (The Last of them led one of Dewey's ships into action at Manila.); (6) "The Wrath of Vesuvius" by Captain Michael A. Musmanno (His car buried by cinders, he barely escadered the fate of the Pompeians.); (7) "And in This Courner - Polydeuces of Greece!" by Robert Foreman (In classic times boxing was frequently a battle to the death.); (8) "Tony Stands by a Friend" by Robert H. Bridges (A brief picture of a devoted machine-gunner in battle.) >>> Beautiful painted Cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops = Part of the "These United States" series of covers, this issue features; KANSAS - Free Soil or SLAVERY? (1787 Congress passed the Northwest Territory Ordinance forbidding Slavery in all New States north of Ohio River) = Wraparound Painted cover; Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.