Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine, December 1936 (Vol. CI, No. 6, [Whole] No. 606)

182 pp. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2. Bradshaw Crandell illustration on front wrapper. Color and black-and-white advertisements, photographs, and illustrations throughout. Cosmopolitan Magazine was founded in 1886, and purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1905, who merged it with another smaller publication he owned in 1925. It was called 'Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan Magazine' until 1952, the year after Hearst's death. During this period it published the first appearances of many novels and short stories by notable authors, some complete within one magazine, others as serials. Includes: The Door Between by Ellery Queen; Auction Room by Faith Baldwin; Six Sinful Sirens by Herbert Asbury; Experiment in Youth by Mary Roberts Rinehart; The $100 Necktie by Stephen Vincent Benet; Big Shoulders by Damon Runyon; Norman's Conquest by Jack Goodman and Albert Rice; The Belled Palm by Allan Vaughan Elston; Spanish Blood by Sophie Kerr; Wife of a Hero by A.J. Cronin; I've Been to London by Temple Bailey; Four Men and a Prayer by David Garth; Cosmopolite of the Month: W. Somerset Maugham by Rebecca West; Work by Ida M. Tarbell; I Cover the Spanish Front by Karl H. von Wiegan; Men, Women, and Opera Singers by Madame Frances Alda; The Thrill Before the Kill by Henry Clay Foster; Pay Streak by John Baragwanath; They Call Me Odd! by O.O. McIntyre; The Countryman's Year by David Grayson; I Choose Augusta by Elmer Ransom; Night Life of the Egg by Ruth Moore Morriss.