New Yorker magazine April 23 1955 fishing Vladimir Nabokov Pnin Alastair Reid
The New Yorker Magazine, April 23, 1955, complete issue in extraordinary shape, as-new. Abe Birnbaum did the cover. This issue includes writing by S. J.Perelman, Alastair Reid (the poem "A Game of Glass: Spain), Vladimir Nabokov ("Pnin's Day"), Phyllis McGinley, Robert Lewis Taylor, Wolcott Gibbs, Mollie Panter-Downes, Frederick Ebright, Tom Ostrowski, G. F. T. Ryall, Mary P. Cable, John Brooks, Henry Pratt Fairchild, Rolfe Humphries, Winthrop Sargeant, Janet Flanner, John McCarten, and more. The pages are crisp and clean, bright white without a