HARPER'S New Monthly MAGAZINE; Volume LXXXII (82), Number CCCCLXXXIX, (489) February, 1891 by Henry Mills Alden, editor; contributors include, Henry Lansdell, Albert Edelfelt, Rev. John F. Hurst, Charles Egbert Craddock, (Mary Noailles Murfree), Charles Dudley Warner, Geraldine Bonner, Theodore Child, William Dean Howells, et al - 1891

New York, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good. Single issue. Small quarto, 10 1/4" tall, pages 329 to 488 + ads, printed beige wraps. A good clean sturdy issue over all with shelf wear and minor exterior soiling, some minor edge chipping to the back strip at the top and botton edges of the spine, BUT a 3" strip of the back cover missing and dampstaining to the fore-edge margin (not damaging text), binding solid, paper slightly yellowed. This is an original issue and includes all of the editorial material (articles, stories, poetry, etc.) as well as the advertisements and covers. Note: ''Harper's Magazine' began publication in 1850 and recreated the American magazine, serving as a promotional vehicle for Harper and Brothers books as well as the new 'literary' fiction and essay of the time, using sophisticated illustration and the best authors. Subject matters range from art, fiction, and poetry to history and science. As such it makes a terrific read as an anthology of its moment in time. Including ''Finland; a general view of the Country and People,' by Lansdell and Edelfelt, 'English Writer's in India,' by Hurst, 'Stranger People's Country' by Craddock, 'Heart of the Desert' by Warner, 'The Bond' by Bonner, and ' Smyth's Channel and the Strait of Magellan' by Child, etc.