The following Life magazines are offered for sale on a first come first served basis.
They are in good-very good condition, There will be address stickers on the front of each one that seem to be removable. Some have loose covers but are intact.
If you are purchasing as a collector, you may e-mail for exact description of the condition of the magazine of your choice.
All magazines are priced as final sale but are open to offers on units priced over $15.
Year/ M Life Magazines Cover description Price 
1978    
Oct Cover – Hot Air balloons. $15
Nov Cover – Mickey Mouse is laughing $20
Dec Cover - Prince Charles in His Welsh Guards Uniform $10
1979    
Jan Cover – Shar-Pei dog. Dogs you’ve never seen before. $15
Feb Cover – lingerie by Arthur Elgort. Exclusive pictures of Nixon coming out of exile. $15
Mar Cover - Lesley-Anne Down. Art Heists, they're stealing the pictures off the walls $15
Apr Cover - Solar eclipse. The Eclipse $15
May Cover - cooling towers at Three Mile Island. $15
1980    
Apr Cover - Children of a Hare Krishna commune in West Virginia. $20
1981    
Apr Cover - Meryl Streep, America's best actress, $15
1982    
Jan Cover - Princess Diana's wedding. Special issue 1981 - the Year in Pictures. $30
Feb Cover - Christie Brinkley in a swim suit, $15
Mar Cover - Liz Taylor at 50 - looking great and on the loose, SOLD $15
Jul Cover - Raquel Welch in a swimming suit, fit, firm and 41 $20
1983    
Mar Cover - Prince Rainier of Monaco with his family, Albert, Caroline and Stephanie. $15
Apr Cover - Human embryo hand. Treating the unborn, surgical miracles inside the womb $15
May Cover - Debra Winger in the bath, a zany photo with her in fancy evening dress. $15
Jun Cover - Scenes from Star Wars, including a heroic view of Luke rescuing Princess Leia. $20
Jul Cover - Lake scene from Glacier National Park. Montana's Glacier wilderness $20
Sep Cover - Classic cars. The 10 best and 10 worst American CARS ever! $20
Oct Cover - Nancy Reagan on a rocking horse, first ranch lady. $15
Nov Cover - JFK. The Kennedy assassination - Four days that stopped America. $15
Dec Cover - Barbra Streisand. Fighting and dying in Beirut and Grenada $15
1984    
Jan Cover - 1983 The year in pictures, Special Issue - neat fold-out cover of many of the faces of the year. $25
Feb Cover - The Beatles in a swimming pool. The Beatles : 20 years ago $20
Mar Cover - Daryl Hannah in a swim suit - feature inside. $15
Apr Cover - Penguins. Protecting the wild penguins of Patagonia SOLD $15
May Cover - History of Cocaine, 1884-1984, from Freud to Delorean. $30
Special Cover - Runner Mary Decker. Special Issue - the Olympics. A picture history and a preview of 1984, the highlights, the heroes, the hoopla. $30
Jun Cover - Harrison Ford (as Indiana Jones) and Kate Capshaw. D-Day's historic beaches 40 days later $15
Jul Cover - Dan Pisner and five quintuplets $15
Aug Cover - Grizzly bear. Can grizzlies and people coexist? $15
Sep Cover - Michael Jackson - big feature inside $15
Oct Cover - Doonesbury is back, cartoon figures Mike and J.J. are Married, $25
Nov Cover - John and Caroline Kennedy. All the Presidents' children, $15
Dec Cover - Princess Diana and new baby - big feature inside. $25
1985    
Jan Special Issue - The 1984 year in pictures. Orwell was all wet. $25
Feb Cover - Brooke Shields bares the new swimsuit $15
Mar Cover - the Mafia. How the Mafia began and the current battle to destroy it.SOLD $15
Apr Cover - top rock and roll stars. A fantasy fit for a President by Loudon Wainwright.SOLD $15
May Cover - Bill Schroeder (artificial heart recipient) and his surgeon William DeVries $15
Special Spring/Summer 1985 : World War II Special Issue - 40 years later. This is a nice review issue for the WWII buff, includes modern follow-ups on many people and things $50
Jun Cover - Bill Cosby. Cosby! - America's funniest father.  $15
Jul Cover - AIDS. Now no one is safe from AIDS, $15
Aug Cover - Janet Jones swinging hula hoop and wearing a poodle skirt. $20
Sep Cover Tina Turner and Mick Jagger. LIVE AID : Superstar spectacular, $20
Oct Cover - Joan Collins, Dynasty's bad girl as you've never seen her before, $15
Nov Cover - Princess Diana. Prince Charles and Diana in America. $20
Dec Cover - Astronaut and starscape. Seeing beyond the stars, $15
1986    
Jan Cover - The year in pictures - 1985, Special Issue. Ceremonies marking the ends of two wars, World War II and Vietnam. $25
Feb Cover - Paulina Porizkova in a swimming suit ( $20
Mar Cover - Molly Ringwald. Teenage America, special issue.SOLD $15
Apr Cover - Caroline, Princess of Monaco. $15
May Cover - 5 actresses, Jessica Lange, Sally Field, Barbra Streisand, Goldie Hawn, Jane Fonda. Special Issue : Celebrating the Movies. $15
Jun Cover - Lee Iacocca. At home and on the road with Iacocca.SOLD $25
Jul Cover - The Statue of Liberty, America the Wondrous. $15
Aug Cover - Victim of Chernobyl. A personal account from Chernobyl,SOLD $25
Special Fall 1986 - 50 years of Life - special anniversary issue. HUGE! Hundreds of the most famous LIFE photos. Printed in two versions, same cover, same editorial (text and photos) content. One version has ads, one doesn't:  $50
Subscription version = Fall 1986, with 416 pages, including advertisments.
Sep Cover - Caroline Kennedy. The Weddings, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, $25
Oct Cover - A person smoking cocaine. "I am a coke addict" $20
Nov Cover - Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, a private visit with the new hustler and the old pro $15
Dec Cover - Madonna, great feature inside. How to cope with a nuclear missile in your backyard, $30
1987    
Jan Special Issue : 1986 - The year in pictures - Including Industrialist Armand Hammer. 100th birthday for Statue of Liberty. $25
Feb Cover - Christie Brinkley and daughter Alexa Ray Joel - feature inside $15
Mar Cover - Part of Mel Fisher's hoard of Spanish gold and silver, the richest find so far. $15
Apr Cover - Movie Stars including Tom Cruise, Molly Ringwald, Faye Dunaway, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, Debra Winger, Timothy Hutton. Special Issue : the Movies. $15
May Cover - Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman team up for Ishtar $15
Jun Cover - Baby Shira, the world's first "Host Womb" baby, related story inside. $15
Jul Cover - Outdoor scene with trembling aspen from the Wet Mountain valley in Colorado, fold-out photo. $15
Aug Cover Oliver North and his wife Betsy. $15
Special  Fall 1987 : Cover - The Remarkable American Constitution - Special Issue. An enduring passion - a constitution that meets and masters challenges $15
Sep Cover - Prince Charles - good guy or wimp? SOLD $15
Oct Cover - Mikhail Gorbachev. Margaret Thatcher on dealing with Gorbechev. $10
Nov Cover - MIA, are any still alive? 25 compelling M.I.A. cases from Vietnam, Reserved $10
Dec Cover - Meryl Streep, on top and tough enough to stay there $15
1988    
Jan Special issue - The 1987 year in pictures. Reagan and Gorbachev. $25
Feb Cover - Speed skater Bonnie Blair, best bet for a U.S. gold. $10
Mar Cover - Gilda Radner. Gilda Radner's answer to cancer, healing the body with mind and heart. $10
Special Spring 1988 : Special issue - Civil Rights, the dream then and now. Horrible two page vintage photo of lynching (hanging) of two black men $25
Apr Cover - Why little Cecelia survived and 154 die on Flight 255 $10
May Cover - Gone with the wind sequel. This is Life magazine's 200th issue - ALL Life covers shown inside! SOLD $30
Jun Cover - R.F.K. The family remembers RFK, Robert Kennedy, his legacy, public and private. $20
Jul Cover - Robin Givens and Mike Tyson, the lady and the champ (boxer) - feature inside.SOLD $10
Aug Cover - Pee Wee Herman. Pee-Wee : how to throw the coolest party ever. $15
Sep Cover - Paul Newman's Dream, a caring camp for ailing kids, includes Becky Whipp, Olivia Goggins, Nicholas Gullett, Nathan Sims, Matt Nicoli, others.  
Oct Cover - Sigourney Weaver with a gorilla - feature inside, six full pages. $15
Nov Cover - Our Planet - breathtaking view from space by those who have been there. (With Mickey Mouse Section) $25
Dec Cover - Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley. Elvis' daughter talks about Dad $30
1989    
Jan Cover - 1988 The Year in pictures, Special Issue. Drought, flood, wind and fire scar the planet. $25
Feb Cover - Futuristic man. The future and you - a 30 page preview of the year 2000 SOLD $20
Mar Cover - Improvised explosive device, I.E.D. Bombs on planes, a chilling exposé of US airports. TV turns 50, anniversary celebration - a 50 page special. $20
Apr Cover - Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson (on a snowmobile) tell their love story, starting over. $15
Special Spring 1989 : Cover - Hollywood 1939-1989, Special Issue. Today's stars meet the screen's legends $20
May Cover - Barbara Bush, with dog Millie and her cute new puppies. $20
Jun Cover - Melissa McKnight in a bra. Hurrah for the bra, it's 100 years old this month - a history. $10
Jul Cover - Jackie Kennedy. Happy Birthday Jackie, her 60 years in photographs. $10
Aug Cover - Woodstock, 20th anniversary special. Where are they now? $30
Special Fall 1989 : Cover - The 1980's, Special Issue. Recapping a turbulent decade $25
Sep Cover - Flight 232, airplane crash. Finding God, gripping stories told by the passengers $10
Oct Cover - 101 Things worth saving. Five year-old witness to murder $20
Nov Cover - Chris Burke and Patti LuPone. A special kind of hero, a TV actor with Down Syndrome SOLD $10
Dec Cover - Jane Pauley. Our loss, her dream : how Jane Pauley got what she wanted, $10
1990    
Jan Cover - 1989 the year in pictures, Special issue. Mr. Bush's neighborhood. Weddings, including tennis star Bjorn Borg wearing red. $25
Feb Cover - Child lighting candle in Prague's Wenceslas Square. $10
Mar Cover - Nadia Comaneci, gymnast, her story from the 1976 Olympic games to the downfall in Ceausescu's Romania. $10
Special Spring 1990 : Cover - Red-haired girl, Elizabeth Hardy. Special Issue : The world of Children. $20
Apr Cover - Billy Crystal and the Academy award. The genius of Billy Crystal - $15
May Cover - Giant Sequoia trees. Earth day 1990. The miracle of trees - much of this issue is about trees : $10
Jun Cover - Elvis Presley. 13 years after Elvis' death, new evidence points to suicide. $10
Jul Cover - Kermit the frog, a muppet, mourning Jim Henson (feature inside). $10
Aug Cover - Human fetus, seven-week old embryo. Great two page color photo of a boneshaker bicycle race $10
Special Cover - 100 most important Americans of the 20th century, Special Issue. Photo and text for each person $10
Sep Cover - Immigrants on Ellis Island, vintage photo. $10
Oct Cover - Fergie and her baby, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. $10
Nov Cover - The Godfather. New movie, Godfather III. $15
Dec Cover - Starscape. Who is God? - testimony from 23 who have seen the Unseeable.SOLD $10
1991    
Jan Special Issue - the 1990 year in pictures. Operation Desert Shield in Saudi Arabia, $20
Feb Cover - Abraham Lincoln - big feature inside. Mel Gibson plays Hamlet. SOLD $10
Mar Cover - Soldier in Desert Storm camouflage, Captain David Ray Smith from Leesville, Louisiana. This issue is all about the gulf war $10
Apr Cover - Father, Mother and child, Sara and Jim Vogt. $10
May Cover - Mars from space. Our next home, Mars - bringing a dead world to life. $10
Special Summer Special 1991 : Mount Rainier. Special Edition : Our National Parks. America's crown jewels $10
Jun Cover - Michael Landon, he gives an exclusive interview about hope, fear, family, the power of love and his impending death. $10
Jul Cover - Statue of the Virgin Mary. Do you believe in miracles? $10
Aug Cover - Shark. Shark Alert - we are slaughtering 100 million every year, driving them to extinction. $10
Special Fall Special 1991 : Cover - The Bill of Rights : Special bicentennial issue. $10
Sep Cover - Rhett and Scarlett. The sequel to "Gone with the Wind." $10
Oct Cover - Baby being baptized in a Moscow church. The journey of our lives, $10
Nov Cover - Portion of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling - a clear view of heaven, $10
Dec Cover - JFK, why we still care, a new movie about the assassination reopens an old controversy $10
1992    
Jan Cover - Special issue : 1991 the year in pictures. The face of war - the gulf crisis is reflected in the eyes of its victims.SOLD $20
Feb Cover - Liz Taylor at 60. Liz and Larry talk about their remarkable marriage. $10
Mar Cover - Walking into the light, little girl in puffy white dress ascending stairs. $10
Apr Cover - The Earth from space. Behold the Earth, startling new pictures that show our planet as we've never seen it before. $10
Special April 5, 1993 : Special Issue : The Wild West - yesterday and today. Cover - Cowboy on horse. $15
May Cover - Johnny Carson. As the curtain closes on TV's greatest career, we remember the best of Carson. $15
Jun Cover - The White House. If Women ran America, an exclusive poll, how things would be different in Washington, in the Cities, at Work and at Home. $10
Jul Cover - Two sides of the abortion debate, America divided, Pro-Choice, pro-life. $10
Aug Cover - Princess Diana, what happened and why. $25
Sep Cover - Nebula photo taken with Hubble telescope. $10
Oct Cover - Sally Woodbridge of Berkeley in 1992 and 1944, she looks like Katharine Hepburn. $10
Special October 30, 1992 : Cover - The White House - Bicentennial Issue : 1792-1992. $15
Nov Cover - Vietnam Memorial. Facing the wall, after 10 years the Vietnam Memorial still moves us, SOLD $10
Dec Cover - The First Christmas - Mary and Joseph and the Journey to Bethlehem, $15
Special December 1, 1992 : Cover - Special Issue : 40 years of Rock & Roll. Exclusive : behind the scenes with Guns N' Roses on tour. $30
     
1993    
Jan Collector's Edition, Life remembers 1992, the year in pictures. Bill Clinton. Princess Diana. Haitian diaspora, rafts. $25
Feb Cover - Princess Diana and Prince Charles, a wedding photo. $10
Mar Cover - Camilla Overbye Roos. How Hollywood creates a star. $15
Apr Cover - Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King remembrance. $10
May Cover - The cast of CHEERS, the final episode nears. $20
Jun Cover - Michael Jackson at home with his animals. Inside the private world of Michael Jackson. $15
  Issues after this date measure 10 3/4" x 9" :  
Jul Cover - Baby. Babies are smarter than you think, $10
Aug Cover - Elderly woman at home. Can we keep Mom at home? Sold $10
Sep Cover - Lightning. The year of Killer Weather SOLD $10
Oct Cover - Fisher towers, Utah. America's last great places and how they might be saved forever. $10
Nov Cover - Arthur Ashe's daughter Camera. $10
Dec Cover - Woman nursing her baby. Miracles of birth $10
1994    
Jan Cover - Young Audrey Hepburn, 1929-1993. Collector's edition : Life remembers 1993, the year in Pictures. SOLD $25
Feb Cover - Headaches. Why you get headaches and what medical science is doing to make them go away. $10
Mar Cover - Girl praying, Fionah Dominis. $10
Apr Cover - Family in red convertible car. Getting away to America's newest, hottest vacation spots $10
May Cover - Breast cancer survivors. Fighting back against the Breast Cancer epidemic $10
Jun Cover - Dream House. We hired a great architect (Robert A. M. Stern) to design your dream house. $10
Jul Cover - The human brain. Neuroscientists explore the benefits of Brain Calisthenics. $10
Aug Cover - Musicians Joni Mitchell, Roger Daltrey, Crosby, Stills and Nash. An exclusive portfolio : Woodstock remembered. $20
Sep Cover - Florida panther. Saving the endangered 100. $10
Oct Cover - Frasier's Kelsey Grammer and his dog Eddie. $15
Nov Cover - The best parties of the year. Woodstock! Mardi Gras! Weddings! Proms! How Americans had fun in 1994. $15
Dec Cover - Jesus. Solving the mystery of Jesus, who was he? $10
1995    
Jan Cover - Jackie Kennedy, 1929-1994. Collector's Edition : Life remembers 1994, the year in pictures. $20
Feb Cover - Pinching an inch of fat. 28 questions about fat, plus all of the answers. $10
Mar Cover - Rose Kennedy, 1890-1995. Memories of an Era. $10
Apr Cover - Baby. Knowing your medical family tree can save your life. $10
May Cover - Lion cubs. Wild animal babies, how they learn, how they play, how they survive. $10
Jun Cover - Justin and Sydney Simpson at Nicole Brown Simpson's gravesite. $10
Jul Cover - Child. How can we keep our children safe? $10
Aug Cover - Jackie and JFK. Exclusive : Personal photographs never before published of Jack and Jackie in Love SOLD $10
Sep Cover - Woman sleeping. New science reveals what dreams can do for you. $10
Oct Cover - Frank Sinatra as a young man. Sinatra at eighty, intimate pictures of a life. $15
Nov Cover - Gulf War veteran Paul Hanson and son Jayce. The tiny victims of Desert Storm $10
Dec Cover - Angels. On the trail of angels, search for meaning and comfort in the spiritual world. $10
1996    
Jan Cover - The Year in pictures 1995 : Life remembers 1995 - special issue. Meet the Threetles. The Million man march. $20
Feb Cover - Astronaut Christa McAuliffe $25
Mar Cover - Free Willy. The happiest whale in the world. $10
Apr Cover - Conjoined twins, Abigail and Brittany Hensel, one body and two souls $10
May Cover - Dream House 1996, designed by architect Michael Graves $10
Jun Cover - Erupting volcano. Then the big one hits, volcano $10
Jul Cover - Sprinter Gwen Torrence. $10
Aug Cover - Climbers on Everest. Exclusive : what really happened on Everest, Reserved $10
Sep Cover - Alternative healing. The healing revolution, surgery or acupuncture? $10
Oct Cover - Marilyn Monroe, created by Rob Silvers using a photomosaic of previous LIFE magazine covers. 60th Anniversary Collector's edition. $85
Special Winter 1996 : Cover - Vintage car tail lights on a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. Special collector's edition - Hot for the road, 100 years of the automobile in America. SOLD $25
Nov Cover - Monkey Fetus. The dawn of life, revolutionary prenatal photographs of humans and animals. Gay marriage. $10
Dec Cover - Statue of Virgin Mary. The mystery of virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. $10
1997    
Jan Cover - Wedding of JFK, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Collector's Edition : The year in Pictures, 1996. $50
Feb Cover - Human skeleton. $15
Mar Cover - Pygmy Loris and Orangutan. Miracle babies - endangered species back from the brink $10
Apr Cover - Liz Taylor. Exclusive, from her hospital bed Elizabeth Taylor takes about hopes, fears and brain surgery. $10
May Cover - Sara Hogenson, Asthma sufferer. Breathe easy, new discoveries $10
Jun Cover - Titanic sinking. Titanic fever, why we can't look away from disasters $10
Jul Cover - Astrology signs. Astrology - why so many of us now believe the stars reflect the soul. $10
Special Fall 1997 : Cover - Famous people from the millennium. Special double issue : The Millennium, 100 events that changed the world. $15
Sep Cover - Oprah. The secret inner life of America's most powerful woman, $15
Oct Cover - Toddler in prison. Babies behind bars, photo essay of the children of women in prison  $10
Nov Cover - Princess Diana. Collector's edition : Diana - portrait of a lady, her favorite photographers $25
Dec Cover - Michael Jackson holding his baby son. What is the soul? $15
1998    
Jan Cover - Princess Diana. Collector's Edition - The Year in Pictures, 1997. Young women disposing of unwanted babies. $25
Feb Cover - Man trying to sleep. Why 70 million of us are sleepless in America $15
Mar Cover - Girl holding up photo. Kids' pictures to God - what children want God to see. $10
Apr Cover - Strand of DNA. Were you born that way? $10
May Cover - The septuplets. Exclusive, raising the septuplets $10
Jun Cover - Doctor David Loxterkamp delivering a baby in Belfast, Maine. $10
     
2000    
Jan Fold-out Cover - JFK, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Special issue : 1999 - the year in pictures. $25
Feb Cover - Celine Dion and Rene Angelil renew their vows. Celine Dion, why I left it all for love $15
Mar Cover - Jason Behr, Katherine Heigl and Brendan Fehr of TV's Roswell. UFO's - why do we believe? $15
Apr Cover - Pope John Paul. The Pope travels to the Holy Land and his past. $15
May Cover - Jason Michael Waldmann Jr., premature baby. $10