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Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine comic books 1919

  • Issue #170
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 170


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    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine stress. Corner Damage.
    • Spine split 5%. Cover Detached. Staple rust: Extensive.

    Volume 6, Issue 22 (Serial Number 170) - January 01, 1919. Department of Science. In this issue: "Calendars and Almanacs" by C.F. Talman. Includes Mentor Gravures of: Aztec Calendar Stone - Lone Dog's Dakota Calendar - Runic Calendar - The Signs Of The Zodiac - French Calendar Of The Time Of Louis XIV - Feast Of St. Nicholas. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #171
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 171


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    • Spine split 90%. Cover Detached. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 6, Issue 23 (Serial Number 171) - January 15, 1919. Department of Science. In this issue: "Italy Under War Conditions. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #172
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 172


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    • Spine split 10%.
    • Spine split 60%. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Spine split 70%.

    Volume 6, Issue 24 (Serial Number 172) - February 1, 1919. "Women Sculptors of America." Department of Fine Arts. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock covers, with 6 loose gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #173
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 173


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    Volume 7, Issue 01 (Serial Number 173) - February 15, 1919. Department of Travel. In this issue: "England Under War Conditions" by E.M Newman. Includes Mentor Gravures of: English Women At Work In A Munition Factory - A Community Potato Oven - English Women In Hay Pitching Contest - Women Learning To Repair Household Utensils - English School Children Making Contributions To War Loan - Boating On The Thames. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #174
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 174


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    • Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Corner Damage. Foxing.

    Volume 7, Issue 2 (Serial Number 174) - March 1, 1919. Department of Music. In this issue: "Masters of French Music" by W.J. Henderson. Includes Mentor Gravures of: Giacomo Meyerbeer - Cesar Franck - Leo Delies - Camille Saint-Saens - Georges Bizet - Claude Debussy. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #175
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 175


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    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine stress. Corner Damage. Edge damage.
    • Spine split 5%. Cover Detached. Staple rust: Moderate.

    Volume 7, Issue 3 (Serial Number 175) - March 15, 1919. Department of Science. In this issue: "The Story of Iron and Steel" by C.F Talman. Includes Mentor Gravures of: Loading Iron Ore Into Steamer - Unloading Scrap Steel With Lifting Magnet - Modern Blast Furnaces And Ore Stock Yard - Bessemer Converter Blowing - Open-Hearth Furnaces - Rolling A Steel Rail. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #176
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 176


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    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine stress. Spine split from base. Corner Damage. Foxing.
    • Spine split 15%.
    • Spine split 40%.

    Volume 7, Issue 4 (Serial Number 176) - April 1, 1918. Department of Literature. In this issue: "Makers of Modern American Poetry (Men)" by Howard W. Cook. Includes authors such as; Henry Van Dyke, Edgar Lee Masters, Witter Bynner, Joyce Kilmer, Percy Mackaye, and Robert Service. Also includes 6 index cards, each one features a black and white photo of an American poet on the front, and a short biography on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #177
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 177


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    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

    Volume 7, Issue 5 (Serial Number 177) - April 15, 1919. "Glass and Glass-Making." Department of Art and Science. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock covers, with 6 loose gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #178
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 178


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    • Spine split 5%.

    Volume 7, Issue 6, Serial Number 178. - May 1, 1919. "The Lewis and Clark Expedition." Publication of the Department of History at Harvard University. Issue features 6 gravures. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock covers. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #179
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 179


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    • Staple rust: Slight.
    • Spine split 10%.

    Volume 7, Issue 7, Serial Number 179. - May 15, 1919. "Aerial Navigation." Issue features 6 gravures. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock covers. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #180
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 180


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    • Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Corner Damage. Edge damage. Foxing.
    • Spine split 50%.

    Volume 7, Issue 8 (Serial Number 180) - June 1, 1919. Department of History. In this issue: "The Story of Versailles" by F.L. Payne. Includes Mentor Gravures of: Versailles In 1668 - Fountain Of Apollo - Statue Of Louis XIV - Staircase Of The Ambassadors - The Marble Court - The Hall Of Mirrors. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #181
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 181


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    • Staple rust. Spine split from top. Spine split from base. Corner Damage. Foxing.
    • Spine split 25%.
    • 6" Cumulative spine split. Staple rust.
    • Cover Detached. Staple rust: Extensive.

    Volume 7, Issue 9 - June 15, 1919. In this issue: "American Naturalists" by Earnest Ingersoll. Includes Mentor Gravures of: John J. Audubon - J. Louis Rodolphe Agassiz - Henry David Thoreau - John Muir - John Burroughs - Ernest Thompson Seton. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #182
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 182


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    • Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Corner Damage. Edge damage. Foxing. Soiling. Spine split from bottom.
    • Spine split 40%. Staple rust: Moderate.

    Volume 7, Issue 10 (Serial Number 182) - July 1, 1919. Department of Fine Arts. In this issue: "Spanish Painting" by William Starkweather. Includes Mentor Gravures of: The Spinners (Velasquez) - The Grape Eaters (Murillo) - Donna Isabel Cobos de Porcel (Goya) - The Booklovers (Fortuny) - Beaching The Boat (Sorolla) - My Uncle Daniel And His Family (Zuloaga). Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #183
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 183


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    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine split from base. Corner Damage. Edge damage. Soiling.
    • Spine split 40%. Staple rust: Moderate.

    Volume 7, Issue 11 (Serial Number 183) - July 15, 1919. Department of Government. In this issue: "Uncle Sam and What He Does for His Relatives" by Albert Bushnell Hart. Includes Gravures that feature: Vacant Lot Gardening, A Boy's Corn Club, Exhibit of work of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Immigration Station of the Department of Labor, Honolulu, Equipment of a Postal Motor-Truck Route, and Disabled Soldiers Learning to Weave Rugs at an Army Hospital. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #184
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 184


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    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine stress. Corner Damage. Edge damage. Foxing.

    Volume 7, Issue 12 (Serial Number 184) - August 01, 1919. Department of Natural History. In this issue: "The Honeybee" by Frank C. Pellett. Includes Gravures that feature: Manipulaton Of The Hive - Queen Bee Surrounded By A Group Of Her Subjects - An Apiary In The Spring - Swarm Of Bees Taken From A Tree - L.L. Langstroth - Gathering Honey. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #185
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 185


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    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine split from base of comic. Corner Damage. Edge damage. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.

    Volume 7, Issue 13 (Serial Number 185) - August 15, 1918. Department of Literature. In this issue: "Makers of Modern American Fiction (Women)" by Arthur B. Maurice. Includes Gravures that feature; Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gertrude Atherton, Margaret Deland, Edith Wharton, Kate Douglas Wiggin, and Mary Roberts Rhinehart. Also includes 6 index cards, each one features a black and white photo of an author on the front, and a short biography on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #186
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 186


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    Volume 7, Issue 14 (Serial Number 186) - September 1, 1919. Department of Science. In this issue: "The Story of the Lens" by Floyd L. Darrow. Includes Mentor Gravures of: Table Equipped For Optical Glass Grinding - Packing 100-Inch Telescope Mirror For Mt. Wilson Observatory, California - Telephotograph - Ultra-Microscope - Great Nebula In Andromeda - The Periscope. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #187
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 187


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    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Corner Damage. Edge damage. Foxing. Soiling.

    Volume 7, Issue 15 (Serial Number 187) - September 15, 1919. Department of History and Travel. In this issue: "The St. Lawrence River" by Ruth Kedzie Wood. Includes Mentor Gravures of: Perce Village And Rock - Quebec On The River St. Lawrence - Running The Long Sault Rapids - Among The Thousand Islands - Capes Trinity and Eternity - View On The Lower St. Lawrence. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #188
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 188


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    Volume 7, Issue 16 (Serial Number 188) - October 1, 1919. Department of History and Travel. In this issue: "The St. Lawrence River" by Ruth Kedzie Wood. Includes Mentor Gravures of: Perce Village And Rock - Quebec On The River St. Lawrence - Running The Long Sault Rapids - Among The Thousand Islands - Capes Trinity and Eternity - View On The Lower St. Lawrence. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #189
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 189
    • Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 7, Issue 17 - October 15, 1919. In this issue: The Story of Oil. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #190
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 190


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    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Corner Damage. Edge damage. Foxing. Soiling.
    • Staple rust: Moderate.
    • 6" Cumulative spine split. Staple rust.

    Volume 7, Issue 18 (Serial Number 190) - November 1, 1919. Department of Fine Arts. In this issue: "Japanese Painting" by Gardner Teall. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #191
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 191


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    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine stress. Corner Damage. Edge damage.

    Volume 7, Issue 19 (Serial Number 191) - November 15, 1919. Department of Travel. In this issue: "Cuba" by W.D Moffat. Includes Mentor Gravures of: Wild Cuba - Anniversary Celebration Of Establishment Of The Cuban Republic - Havana, Street In Santiago - Morro Castle, Havana - Cuban Sugar Plantation. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #192
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 192
    • Spine split 5%. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Extra staples (manufacturing). Staple rust. Rust migration. Spine stress. Corner Damage. Creasing. Edge damage.

    Volume 7, Issue 20 - December 1, 1919. In this issue: "Stained Glass" by Ida J. Burgess. Includes Mentor Gravures of: Rose Window, Cathedral Of Fheims, France - East Window, Glouchester Cathedral, England - Choir Window, Church Of Santa Maria Del Popolo, Rome - Moses And The Law, Flemish Glass - St. Roch, With Donor And Angel, Glass Of The Rhineland - Floral Window B John La Farge. Each gravure also has educational text on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.

  • Issue #193
    Mentor (1913-1930 Crowell Publishing) Magazine 193


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    • Staple rust. Corner Damage. Edge damage. Foxing. Soiling.
    • 5" Cumulative spine split. Staple rust.

    Volume 7, Issue 21 (Serial Number 193) - December 15, 1918. Deparatment of Literature. In this issue: "Balzac" by Vance Thompson. Includes Gravures that feature; "Portrait of Balzac", "Honore De Balzac", "House of Eugenie Grandet", "Statue of Balzac", "Hotel of the Moor", and "The Old Inn, Issoudun". Also includes 6 index cards, each one features a black and white photo on the front, and a short biography on the back. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 12 pages on white paper plus card-stock gravures. Cover price $0.20.