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LIBERTY (magazine) 1937 SIGNED COVER w/model ID

LIBERTY (magazine) 1937 SIGNED COVER w/model ID

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LIBERTY (magazine) 1937 SIGNED COVER w/model ID

by Mike (Michael) Dolas

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  • Paperback
  • Signed
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[1937 MIKE DOLAS ILLUSTRATION ART SIGNED MAGAZINE COVER RARE] MIKE DOLAS, ILLUSTRATION ARTIST, INSCRIBED/SIGNED MAGAZINE COVER TO WOMAN MODEL, color front cover of Liberty, Nov. 20, 1937, with original blue ink bold inscription, "To Margaret who helped again, Mike", with "Michael Dolas" signature in typescript at the lower right corner of the illustration, WITH an original Identification Card from the Palm Beach Police Department stamped May or Nov. [month unclear from surface loss] 14, 1943, for the model Margaret with the address Surfside Hotel, Palm Beach [in 1943 she was a 23-year-old wife of a military pilot working in the Caribbean area] and for "Employed" filling in "housewife", on the reverse side of the ID are a small snapshot, a right thumb print, and her signature in blue ink, ID card paper-clipped to photocopy of the magazine cover…Mike Dolas front cover illustration is a husband carrying blankets and a triangular flag with an "S" (presumably for their favored football team) and wife (model Margaret as identified from the ID) buying flowers from a boy carrying a basket of white flowers as they presumably are going to a Thanksgiving Day football game (re: Nov. 20 date of issue of Liberty); Dolas signature authenticated by buyer with lifetime guarantee; one-of-a-kind item, RARE Mike Dolas signature /// NOTES: MIKE (MICHAEL) DOLAS, 1912-2020, "Shortly after college, he began his career as a commercial artist working for national magazines including the Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan and Redbook. Mike was named one of the Top Ten Young Men in America by The New York Times in 1939, the only artist so honored." (obituary in News and Notes from the Lotus Club [New York City], January 2011); PROVENANCE: item was among a group of WWII/military memorabilia acquired by the seller at a Fairfield County estate sale, related items identify the pilot as a WWII pilot married to the woman of the ID who was the model for the Dolas 1937 magazine cover…a few years after the war, he died in a plane crash in the midwest testing a civilian aircraft; CONDITION: original full color front cover with horizontal midfold has some scattered edgewear and light creases, central color image of husband and wife bright, light normal age-wear to the model's ID.


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Seller
Henry Berry, books/ephemera US (US)
Seller's Inventory #
1122221
Title
LIBERTY (magazine) 1937 SIGNED COVER w/model ID
Author
Mike (Michael) Dolas
Illustrator
Mike Dolas
Format/Binding
Original magazine cover signed by artist
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Liberty Magazine
Date Published
1937
Weight
0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs
Art; Autographs; Ephemera;

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Henry Berry, books/ephemera

Seller rating:
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Biblio member since 2020
Southport, Connecticut

About Henry Berry, books/ephemera

independent antiquarian bookseller with more than 20 years experience, consultant and consigmor for auctions in Fairfield County, Connecticut

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