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January, 1950

Carnival Holiday Issue. “Old Wolf” Putnam, Henry Kane Mystery part 2, Art of Adventure, In Defense of Speeding, Remington Paintings, The Esquire Girl by Al Moore

VG

$15.00

Same

G/VG, corner crease

$12.50

February, 1950

“Unholy Woman” by James Warner Bellah, Keeping Fit Supplement, Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Names in Hollywood, Robert Rogers – Ranger, Contemporary Designer McStay Jackson – 2 copies

VG

$15.00

Same

Good, edge stain

$7.50

Same

Fair/Good, hole in cover and first several pages, wear

$7.50

March, 1950

How to Relax Supplement, Have You a Mistress?, King of Wines, Jean LaFitte, Bathing Suits, Skiing in Austria, Esquire Girl Foldout by Al Moore – 2 copies

VG

$15.00

Same

Good, slight spine fray

$10.00

April, 1950

Foldout by Al Moore, “Nort and Sout of the Border” by Jimmy Durante, Homosexuality, Esquire’s Perfect House, Fiction

VG

$15.00

Same

Good, wear

$7.50

May, 1950

Al Moore fold-out, Fiction, articles on Divorce, Wild Bill Hickok, Fashions, Travel, Barbecues – 2 copies

VG

$15.00

June, 1950

14 Pages on Cars, Bermuda Weekend, Fiction, Personal Behaviour of Dr. Kinsey, Fishing & Hunting, Indy 500 Racer Lou Moore, Golfer Ben Hogan, Ben Stahl painting, Al Moore foldout, 1950 Cris-Craft Ad on back cover (with photos of 5 models) 162 pages

VG

$15.00

 

Same – 2 copies

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same

Good

$10.00

July, 1950

Father’s Day Gifts, Golfing, Daniel Boone, Beauty and the Box Office, Vodka, “The Illustrated Man” by Ray Bradbury, Los Ranchos Grandes

VG

$50.00

Same

Good

$20.00

August, 1950

Most Beautiful Body, Esquire Drink Digest, Famous Night Club Battles, Mr. Rodenbach, Big-Game Fishing, Davy Crockett, Girls at the Racing Club, Real Ingrid Bergman Story, Battle of the Bismarck, Black Death in Kansas

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

September, 1950

Bob Hope, Beauty and Publicity, General Custer’s Last Stand, End of Blackbeard the Pirate, Tiger Rag, Game Shooting, 12-page supplement for college men – 3 copies

VG

$17.50

 

Same – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

October, 1950

Robert C. Ruark, Football Special – Inside with the Sooners, Care and Feeding of Millionaires, Rasputin, Shooting Preserve, Squalus Disaster

VG

$15.00

Same – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

November, 1950

Television Supplement, Robert Ruark on Women, Carol Channing, Texas City Disaster – with foldout art of same, Jockey Ted Sloan, Frank Leahy, Football Special, -- Inside with the Sooners – 3 copies

G/VG

$12.50

December, 1950

Famous Christmas Annual, “Mars is Heaven” by Ray Bradbury, Christmas Belles of the Old West, Barbary Coast, Xmas at The Copa Foldout by Al Moore

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1951

Esquire Girl Calendar for 1951 by Al Moore, Ballyhoo Was A Lady, How Not To Play Golf, Florida, Lady of the Evening – Who Killed Beautiful Dot King and Why – 2 copies

G/VG

$17.50

February, 1951

What Has Become of the Old Fashioned Man by Helen Lawrenson, Cancer in Men, The Secret of Love, Food Supplement, 1945 B-25 Bomber Crash Into Empire State Building (foldout painting by Gustav Rehberger), Al Moore foldout, Ray Bradbury Fiction, Terror in Southern Illinois, Puerto Rico Vacation

G/VG

$15.00

Same

Good

$12.50

March, 1951

Esquire’s Travel Bluebook. Morro Castle Disaster with Foldout painting by Ben Stahl, Fiction by Alec Waugh, Traffic Tangles, TV Changes Medical Teaching, Sex & Advertising, Jimmy Durante, South Pacific article by James Michener – 2 copies

G/VG, very light crease

$20.00

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

April, 1951

Special Camera Feature – Eight Top Photographers and Their Techniques, “Proud Queen,” by James Michener, Leo Durocher, Thoroughbred Dark Secret, How to Combat 40-phobia – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

Same – 3 copies

Good

$12.50

May, 1951

Man and His Garden, “Brush Up On Your Brush Off”, Major Fleischmann, Klondike Kate, The Hindenburg Disaster, Race Treat, Stymie and Assault, Fiction, Fashion – 2 copies

VG

$15.00

Same

G/VG

$12.50

June, 1951

8-Page Feature – 1951 Automobile Show, Denise Darcel, Berlin’s Red Marauders, Texas, Grandma Burright – Queen of the Sulkies, Peter of Yugoslavia, Fashion, Fiction – 2 copies

G/VG

$12.50

July, 1951

The Inside of Golf, A G. I.’s Adventures with a Guerilla Band, Mitscher’s  Magnificent Mistake, Ibn Saud of Arabia, Fashion, Fiction

Good, creases

$10.00

August, 1951

8-Page Annual Drink Mixer, “Café Dancer in Seville” by Ben Stahl, Danny Kaye Cuts Up, Diamond Lil, Dudley Field Malone, Tomorrow’s High Speed Car, Fiction – 2 copies

VG

$15.00

Same

G/VG

$12.50

Same

Good, crease

$10.00

September, 1951

How To Survive an Atom Bomb, Italy, Gout, Fragrance Frailties, Edward R. Dye, Fashion, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe foldout

G/VG

$12.50

October, 1951

Fiction by Aldous Huxley, others, TV Section - 7 articles, What's Wrong With Our Dogs?, Signs of Suicide, Fold-out of Susan Hayward, Ben Stahl print on the reverse – 3 copies

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same

Good

$10.00

November, 1951

12-page Feature – Firepower, U.S.A., Jose Ferrer, “The Immortality of Horror,” by Ray Bradbury, Landbound Navy, Luchow’s Restaurant, Diabetes, Fashion, Fiction – 2 copies

G/VG

$12.50

Same

Good

$10.00

December, 1951

Famous Christmas Annual. “The Woman From Twenty-One,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jazz On A High Note by Louis Armstrong, Long Live The Beat by Fred Astaire, “The Precious Drop” by James Michener, Yul Brenner, Christmas Giving, 1951, 292 pages – 3 copies

G/VG

$17.50

 

January, 1952

With Famous Girl Calendar Portfolio within, Eddie Arcaro, The Modern Home and How to Avoid It

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same

Good, wrinkled bottom right corner

$15.00

February, 1952

A Man’s World in New York City. The Madison Ave. Story, Sidney Kingsley, The Marines, Jersey Joe Walcott vs. Ezzard Charles – foldout print, Cruises

VG

$15.00

 

Same

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same – 3 copies

Good

$10.00

 

Same

Good, foldout missing

$7.50

March, 1952

“Sex Is Here to Sell” – The World’s Most Beautiful Models, Wild Wonders of Africa, The Lady’s Unstrung – foldout by E. Chiriaka, Fiction – 2 copies

G/VG

$12.50

Same

Good

$10.00

April, 1952

Liz Taylor cover. Santa Fe Passage, Paradise Vacations, Pecos Bill, Leland Hayward, Housing, Cybernetics, Fiction by Michener

VG

$25.00

Same

G/VG

$20.00

May, 1952

Killer Submarine of the Future, Mr. & Mrs. Esquire, Jack Hurley, Betty Hutton, Cat Girl photo foldout (Lily Christine), Mr & Mrs. David Niven

Good

$10.00

June, 1952

Inside Story on Leo the Lip, “A Piece of Wood” by Ray Bradbury, Radio Free Europe, Brave Casey Jones, Denise Darcel

G/VG

$12.50

Same

Good

$10.00

July, 1952

Irving Mansfield, Combat – The Greatest Teacher by Gen. Mark Clark, Janet Leigh – Photos by Halsman, Fathers Day Gifts, Eddie Cantor, Charles Laughton, Housing – 3 copies

G/VG

$12.50

Same

Good

$10.00

August, 1952

Summer Coolers – 6-Page Drink Mixing Guide, Fiction by Herman Wouk, Novelette by Jack London – “The Fighter”, Farouk, Alfred Hitchcock, Groucho, Foldout by Ren Wicks

VG

$15.00

Same

Good

$10.00

September, 1952

Profile of Lena Horne by Robert Ruark, Wall Street Supplement, Jim Thorpe vs. Ike, Foldout print of Esther Williams – 3 copies

Good

$10.00

 

Same

Good, spine wear, edge stain

$7.50

October, 1952

Autumn Leaves cover. Bernard Baruch, US vs. Foreign Car Design – 5 page color supplement, The Nude in Photography and Art, The Gipper, Pete Hawley foldout – 2 copies

G/VG

$12.50

Same – 3 copies

Good

$10.00

November, 1952

Big-Game Fishing – 7 Page Supplement, Foldout by Eddie Chan, Bernard Baruch, Federal Judge Thomas P. Murphy, Julie Harris, Red Skelton – 2 copies

G/VG

$12.50

Same – 2 copies

Good

$10.00

December, 1952

Traditional Christmas Carousel, Toulouse-Lautrec – 7-Page Color Portfolio, “The Gift” by Ray Bradbury, The Old Party Goes To London by Somerset Maugham, Moulin Rouge – Making a Movie About Toulouse-Lautrec by John Huston, “Boots At the Holly-Tree Inn” by Charles Dickens, Maurice Chevalier – 2 copies

G/VG

$17.50

 

February, 1953

“Shiloh” by Shelby Foote (photographs by Mathew Brady), Californians Are Crazy, Sex, Sighs, and Miseries, Foldout by Alan Fontaine

Not Available

NA

March, 1953

Bromfield Blasts US Colleges, Coast to Coast by Rocket, George Jessel, Director William Wellman, Dorothy Hall foldout – 3 copies

VG

$15.00

Same – 3 copies

Good, light wear

$10.00

April, 1953

Lucky Luciano Talks, Let’s Secede From Texas, “The Language of Men” by Norman Mailer, Magnificent Mile, Cooking with Beer, Grand Tour of Europe

Not Available

NA

May, 1953

Fiction by Erskine Caldwell, others. Articles on Call Girls, Unreported GI's in Siberia, Inside Ringling Bros. Circus, LA's Wilshire Boulevard, Light Research in Lingerie by Damon Runyon (his last published piece), Pier Angeli. 142 pages

G/VG

$15.00

Same – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

June, 1953

Best Fishing Spots in U. S. and Canada, Africa’s Champagne Safaris, Belmont: Queen of the Tracks, Dave Garroway

VG

$15.00

Same

Good

$10.00

July, 1953

War in Our Time - 3 part supplement, with illustrations by John Groth, Story of the Okinawa Battle by William Sherwood, Day Peace Came by T F Woods, The Veteran by Virgil Scott, Early day cars pictorial, Jazzbo Collins, Fold-out Esquire girl photo

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good, soiled

$10.00

August, 1953

How to Play Better Golf - photo instruction from Lawson Little, Jackie Burke, 8 others. Also: Fiction, The Nash-Healey, Summer Camp Cartoons, Esquires Bar Exam (Liquor), Sports Cars - American Style, Cavanagh's Restaurant

Not Available

NA

September, 1953

Bring Back the Bookies, Harvard, Dance Bands: From Goodman to Goodman, Fiction from John Dos Passos, Foldout Olga Nicholas – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

Same

Good, wear

$7.50

October, 1953

20th Anniversary Issue. Georgia Landeau foldout, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Marriage Brokers, Kremlin Car Lot, “The Playground” by Ray Bradbury, 10 pages of Birthday Cartoons, Chrysler Imperial Phaeton, Midge Ware & Dorian Leigh, Jay Doblin House

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Good, stains, top right corner off

$12.50

November, 1953

Michigan State’s Clarence Munn, The International White Slave Traffic, Fifth Avenue, Sebring, Lilli Palmer, Esquire’s Lady Fair, Fiction – 2 copies

Good

$10.00

December, 1953

“The Meadow” by Ray Bradbury, St. Francis Xavier’s Bones, Christmas in Africa, Christopher Fry, Gifts, Fiction by O’Flaherty, Schulberg, Kersh, Caldwell, others

Good, corner creases

$12.50

 

Same

Good, wear

$12.50

 

January, 1954

Calendar Girls Insert, Eastern Front, Colette Marchand, Two Hours of Recorded Pleasure, Cadillac Eldorado

Good, ink scribbles

$15.00

February, 1954

Leslie Caron foldout, How to Tell Dirty Stories, Oscar Fever, Lincoln Road Miami Beach, Belles of Burlesque

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$10.00

Same

Good, wear

$7.50

Same

Fair/Good, spine damage

$7.50

March, 1954

Europe 1954, Fiction by Ray Bradbury, Dream Yacht, New Orleans, Life Insurance, Gwen Verdon, Elaine Stewart Foldout, John J. Walsh – Boxing Coach – 3 copies

Good

$10.00

April, 1954

7 pages on Fishing, Working Women, Deborah Kerr foldout, Dallas, Audrey Hepburn, Ericksons, Las Vegas

Not Available

NA

June, 1954

World Auto Supplement - Details on 252 different cars, Auto Racing in Watkins Glen, Fiction, Dorothy Dandridge color foldout

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same

Good

$15.00

Same – no foldout

Good

$12.50

July, 1954

Sylvana Mangano foldout, This Man’s World by Paul Gallico, Minneapolis, John Inglis, Mercer Beasley, Eddie Dowling, Gift Guide for Father’s Day

G/VG

$12.50

Same

Good, large stain

$7.50

August, 1954

Model cover. Promenade on the High Seas, Wallace Reid, Art Buchwald, Vanessa Brown foldout, 52nd Street, Food Fair Section – 3 copies

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same

Good, crease, spine fraying, cover wear

$7.50

September, 1954

Back to School. Profile of Artie Shaw, Manhattan Jungle, Darkroom Africa by Robert Ruark, Fiction Dawn Addams fold-out photo, Henry Fonda, Travel

Good, pencil marks on cover, light cover wear

$10.00

October, 1954

Hillbilly cover. Football Factories, Jeanmaire - with color foldout, Canal Street New Orleans, Alec Guinness, Fashions, Travel – 4 copies

Good

$10.00

November, 1954

Jane Russell foldout, A Scientific Study of the Siesta, Philadelphia, Kenneth Norvo, Fiction

G/VG

$15.00

Same

Good

$12.50

December, 1954

Christmas. Color foldout of Janis Paige, Fiction by Jesse Stuart, Ben Hecht, others, Bad Men's Guns, Fashions, Gifts. 272 pages

G/VG, tiny ink notation

$17.50

 

Same

Good

$15.00

 

Same, no foldout

Good

$12.50

 

January, 1955

Supplement -- Twelve Delights for the Eye (1955 Calendar Girls) by George Petty, Louis Nizer, Fiction

G/VG

$50.00

Same

Good, wear, edge tears

$25.00

 

Same – missing calendar girls

Fair

$12.50

February, 1955

Havana Cuba, Psychic Phenomena, Worth Avenue, Jai Alai, Skiing, Victor Borge, Alfred Vanderbilt, Eartha Kitt color foldout, Automobiles – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 3 copies

Good, light cover wear

$12.50

 

Same

Good, cover corner torn

$10.00

Same

Good, wear, spine fray, tear

$10.00

March, 1955

Foldout -- Betty von Furstenberg painting by Mike Ludlow, The Hoboken Blues, Louis Armstrong

G/VG, pg 97/98 missing

$12.50

Same – 3 copies

Good

$10.00

April, 1955

Fiction - including "Deer in the Works" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Color George Petty foldout, How to Beat the Russians, Lazar Wechsler profile, John Crosby, Bond Street London

Good

$12.50

May, 1955

Foldout – Lollobrigida painting by Mike Ludlow, Humphrey Bogart Profile, Russia’s Underground War For Germany, Fiction

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same

Good

$10.00

Same, no foldout

Good, ring stain

$7.50

June, 1955

Special Automobile Issue. Fiction, With Cunningham at Le Mans, Shirley Yamaguchi foldout, Detroit, Italiante Auto Look

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 4 copies

Good

$12.50

 

Same

Fair/Good

$7.50

July, 1955

Anita Ekberg foldout painting, Fashions, Poker, Houston, The Cigar, Catfish – 2 copies

Good

$10.00

August, 1955

Color foldout Petty Girl by George Petty, Aldous Huxley, George Wein and Newport Jazz Festival, Ceylon, Fiction

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$10.00

September, 1955

Back to College Issue. Paul Gallico, Myths of Psychoanalysis, This is Vienna, Yale's Secret Societies, Jimmy Durante, Kim Novak fold-out photo, Joan Collins – 3 copies

Good

$10.00

October, 1955

Fiction by Jesse Stuart, others. Articles by Aldous Huxley, Paul Gallico, Pictorial on Jackie Gleason, Virginia Mayo fold-out portrait painting, Twenty Greatest Baseball Players of All Time – 3 copies

G/VG

$12.50

Same – 2 copies

Good

$10.00

November, 1955

Pumpkin & Model cover. George Petty Foldout (see photo), Fiction, Great Dane, Mexicans Love Women, Young Turks of Television, Atlanta's Peachtree Street, Oswald Jacoby, Elsa Martinelli – 2 copies

Good

$20.00

December, 1955

Christmas Issue (302 pages). Rhonda Fleming Foldout, Actor’s Studio, The Grand Canal, Bethlehem PA, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Dylan Thomas, Gothic Murals Scandal – 3 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good, wear, edge tears

$12.50

 

January, 1956

Timepieces cover. Ingrid Bergman, 6 pages of George Petty Girls, Henri Matisse, Primer for Playgirls by Igor Cassini, Marked-Cards Industry, Duck Hunting – 4 copies

G/VG

$17.50

February, 1956

The Countryside of Europe (24 page section), The Lancet, Cognac, St Louis, Frank Lloyd Wright and His Monona Terrace, Passaic NJ, Hi-Fi, Audrey Hepburn, Gilbert Bundy’s New York

Good, bottom right corner off

$10.00

March, 1956

25 Ways to Brew Coffee, Las Vegas, El Morocco, Al Prindle, Baltimore’s Mermaids, Lew Tendler & His Restaurant, Mary Martin, Gwen Verdon foldout – 2 copies

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same

Good, light crease

$10.00

 

Same

Good, scuff along spine edge

$10.00

April, 1956

Cary Middlecoff on the Masters, with fold-out painting of Golf at the "Tournament of the Royal & Ancient St. Andrews", Fiction, Press Secretary Hagerty, 4 pages of Marilyn Monroe photos, Budapest by Joseph Wechsberg, Katharine Hepburn

G/VG

$45.00

May, 1956

An Irish Memory, Nancy Berg foldout, What Is Sex? By Hugo Gernsback, Cupid on Capitol Hill, Iceland Fishing, Altoona PA & the Pennsy, Phil Silvers & Sgt. Bilko, Jane Russell photos

Not Available

NA

June, 1956

Road Signs cover – Automobile Issue. Antique Cars Album, Wonder Cars of 1914, 7 Deadly Sins of Motorists, Akron – Tire Town, Horsepower – 3 copies

G/VG

$15.00

July, 1956

First Family of Flydom, Jayne Mansfield, Rochester NY, Arlene Dahl foldout, Bermuda Yacht Race, German Shepherd – US Grand Victor Champion

G/VG

$12.50

Same

Good

$10.00

August, 1956

Fiction by Garson Kanin, others. Articles by Paul Gallico, Aldous Huxley, George Jean Nathan. Hi Fi,  Rita Gam, Shelley Winters, Hildegarde Neff foldout portrait painting,  Food, Fashions – 4 copies

G/VG

$12.50

September, 1956

Girl on Scooter photo cover. Giorgia Santelli, Anita Ekberg foldout, Esquire’s College Sketchbook, Hawaii, Tape Recorders, West Coast Jazz, People vs. Rubin Walker

Good, foldout missing (pgs 59-62)

$7.50

October, 1956

Stamps cover. Susan Strasberg, Washington DC, The Salmon, Phineas Newborn Jr., Colleen Miller foldout, How to Drink on a Diet, Polly Bergen – 4 copies

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same

Good

$10.00

November, 1956

Voting Buttons cover. Betsy Palmer Foldout, Steve Allen, Pinin Farina, Wilkes-Barre PA, French Mistresses, Horse Show Fashions – 2 copies

G/VG

$12.50

December, 1956

Christmas Issue. Maria Felix foldout, President Kefauver, Fabian of Scotland Yard, Julie Andrews, Game Refuge, The Apotheosis of Jimmy Dean, British Orders of Chivalry, Snuff, Conrad Hilton, Cecil Beaton, Music at Christmas. 310 pages

G/VG

$15.00

 

January, 1957

16 pages on Jazz, Fiction, Esquire Girl Portfolio by Mike Ludlow, Jean Helion, Union City NJ - Burlesque Town USA, Gifts  -- 2 copies

Good

$12.50

February, 1957

Chessmen cover. Job of Getting a Job, Gambling, Vice by the Mile, Bandleader Tony Scott, New Orleans, Nigeria – 3 copies

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same

Good

$10.00

March, 1957

Model cover. Man Who Snubbed Lincoln, Du Pont’s Wilmington Delaware, Janet Lake, Mink, How Faithful are American Wives & Husbands, Paris Cafes, Bernard F. Gimbel

Good, creases

$10.00

April, 1957

Woman in Maze photo cover. The Age of Roosevelt by James Schlesinger, Passports For Single Women, The Mercedes, Elmer Rice, Providence RI, Sophia Loren, Al Capp, Julie Newmar, Currier & Ives, Ibiza, Gene Tunney

Not Available

NA

May, 1957

Tina Louise cover for “The Corset History”. Army’s Case Against Itself, Jaguar Story, Heart Attacks, Paul Krichell of the Yankees, Newport Kentucky, Edith Adams

G/VG

$17.50

June, 1957

Cover by Henry Wolf. Jazz Is Too Good for Americans by Dizzy Gillespie, The Trial of Arthur Miller, Niagara Falls, Automobile Supplement, “The Man Who Fed Pigeons” by Peter Maas

G/VG

$17.50

July, 1957

Upper and Lower Bohemia, Nearing Sixty by Alec Waugh, Genius of Ettore Bugatti, Lindsay and Crouse, July 4th in Liechtenstein, Aristotle Onassis profile

Not Available

NA

August, 1957

Fall Fashion Forecast. “The Quare Fellow” by Brandan Behan, Mike Wallace, King Saud’s Harem, Madison Ave. in Politics, Audrey Hepburn, India’s Minister of Defense, St Louis Blues

G/VG

$12.50

September, 1957

Four Great Photographers Look at a New Star (Joanne Woodward). The CIA, Ezra Pound, Francoise Sagan, In and Out Primer, Brigitte Bardot, Paris by Helicopter, String Jazz Quartet

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Good, interior stain at edge on a few pages

$27.50

November, 1957

Las Vegas: Entertainment Jackpot. “Life Because of Father” by James Roosevelt, “How We Would Lick Patterson” by Rocky Marciano, Last Talk with Damon Runyon, Geoffrey Holder, “Big, Black, Good Man” by Richard Wright, Wall Street Supplement, Jason Robards Jr., Las Vegas Girls, “Wall Street Journal”

G/VG

$12.50

December, 1957

Christmas Issue. “Vanessa” by Gian-Carlo Menotti, Who Will Win in 1960 by Eric Sevareid, Sick Jokes, Legend of Dylan Thomas, Legend of Charlie Parker, Imaginary Conversation with George Bernard Shaw  by Siobhan McKenna, Ma West, Westbrook Pegler, Best Books of 1957, Toys of a Bygone Era. 282 pages

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same

Good, a couple small stains

$12.50

 

January, 1958

Fiction by James Jones, Saul Bellow - others. Bimini, Television's Avant Garde, Lieut. General Lewis Burwell Pullar, Ogden Rogers Reid, Fashions, Gifts – 3 copies

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same

Good

$10.00

February, 1958

Old Masters of the Highway. Philosophy of the Beat Generation, Travel Europe 1958, Latter Days of Frank Lloyd Wright, “In My Father’s Shadow” by John Lloyd Wright, Marcel Marceau, Collecting Jazz 1958, Malenkov Told Me

G/VG

$45.00

March, 1958

"The Goddess" by Paddy Chayefsky, Georgetown photo essay, Fashions, “Philosophy of the Beat Generation” by Jack Kerouac – 2 copies

G/VG

$17.50

Same

G/VG, page cutout 135-136, missing pgs 137-138

$15.00

April, 1958

Special British Issue. Best of Britain, Love Letters of G.B. Shaw, Inside Clubland, High-Fidelity Gramophone, Alfred Hitchcock profile, Fiction by Roald Dahl, Joan Collins in Four Dream Roles

Not Available

NA

May, 1958

San Francisco: The Magnet City. Segregation in the Churches, Missing Link of Jazz, Errol Flynn, The Dodgers, Major Marvels in the Minor Leagues, $3,000 Weekend House, “Bonnie on the Mound” by Jack Kerouac – 2 copies

G/VG

$45.00

June, 1958

10 pages of Dream Cars & Classics, Summer Jobs of Famous Men, 80 Hours Around Mike Todd, Fiction, Jean Seberg, How to Become an American Spy

Not Available

NA

July, 1958

The Americanization of Paris. Ford Frick: Reluctant Czar, Four Lives of William Benton, The Compleat Secretary, Henley Regatta – 2 copies

G/VG

$12.50

August, 1958

The Last Days of Sen. Joe McCarthy, New York's Hidden Bohemia in Carnegie Hall, Decline of the Western, The Dark at the Top of William Inge, Fiction by Philip Roth – others – 2 copies

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same

Good

$10.00

September, 1958

Bright Young Men of 1958, Driving a Sports Car, The Loire, Star Boat, Stereo Records, TV Comics - Steve Allen, George Axelrod, Wally Cox, Mort Sahl, Peter Ustinov, color photos of Margaret O'Brien. 162 pages

G/VG

$12.50

Same

Good

$10.00

October, 1958

25th Anniversary Issue. 318 page issue. Contributions from General De Gaulle, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Graves, Sinclair Lewis, Arthur Miller, Dorothy Parker, Irwin Shaw, Tennessee Williams, Frank Lloyd Wright. IN BOX – 4 copies

G/VG, Box Good

$20.00

 

Same – 3 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same.  Sticker on cover “First Run Press Copy #148”, In Box.

G/VG – bottom square cut off cover

$10.00

Same – No Box – 2 copies

G/VG

$12.50

Same – No Box

Good

$10.00

November, 1958

Truman Capote's Novelette "Breakfast At Tiffany's". American Masculinity by Arthur Schlesinger, Planet Hoppers by Ben Hecht, Birth of a Broadway Musical by Josh Logan, Scotty Reston of the NY Times, Beauties of Cognac by Gjon Mili

Not Available

NA

December, 1958

Christmas Gift Issue. Faulkner in Japan, Interview with & Impressions by William Faulkner, Where Is the Beat Generation Going?, Fiction by Dorothy Parker, Oscar Levant, Charles Ives, Integration From the Top Down by Senator Jacob Javits. 278 pages

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

G/VG, small spine fray

$20.00

 

January, 1959

The Golden Age of Jazz. Jazz Supplement, “Great Day in Harlem” double-page photo by Art Kane, Stirling Moss, “The Mall” by William Inge, Mort Sahl, Van Cliburn, John Henry Hammond profile

Not Available

NA

February, 1959

Portfolio of New Boats, Europe 1959 Supplement, 7 Poems by Boris Pasternak, The Moon and You, How to Get Ahead in Russia – 4 copies

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same

Good

$10.00

March, 1959

Hard Look at the New Hollywood, Orson Welles, Ben Hecht, Correspondent’s Sketchbook by John Groth, Miles Davis profile, The Ambiguities of Suzy Parker, Stanley Steamer, Edward R. Murrow, Inside Bennington, Fiction by Kingsley Amis, others

G/VG

$12.50

Same

Good, fraying

$7.50

April, 1959

Kennedy's Last Chance to be President, St. Tropez, Fashions, Stereo Supplement, Complete "Sweet Bird of Youth" by Tennessee Williams, "James Cagney in Ireland" - 4 color cartoon pages by Harvey Kurtzman. 194 pages

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same

Good, fraying

$12.50

May, 1959

Baseball cover. "The Tempest", Travel in the US (5 articles), The New Germany - Supplement, Pakistan, Baseball – The Brutal Art of Bench Jockeying, Spain's Coming Ordeal, Jonathan Winters by Peter Maas – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

June, 1959

Billiards cover. Future of 20 American Cities, William Styron Fiction, June Havoc Memoirs on Marathon Dancing, Fishing, Dangerous Precedent of James Hagerty, Fashions

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same – 3 copies

Good

$10.00

July, 1959

The Republican Party - by Sen. Jacob Javits, New Direction in Auto Design (from Italy), The Last Great Air Battle (in the Marianas in WWII), Herbert von Karajan, London by Helicopter, "Summer Girl" photos by Bert Stern

Not Available

NA

August, 1959

Questions on Precedence by Francois Mauriac, "Brimmer" by John Cheever, Travel, The Real Babe Ruth by Roger Kahn, Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome by Simone de Beauvoir, Joseph Welch, Liquor Industry, Fashions

Not Available

NA

September, 1959

A Sophisticated Approach to the Stock Market, The Heart of Peru, The Subourbonites, Observations on Ezra Pound by Richard Avedon & Truman Capote, The Seine, , Back to College

G/VG

$12.50

October, 1959

"The Secret of Freedom" - play by Archibald MacLeish, Sammy Davis Jr., Bluegrass Music, Budapest in 1945, Ideal 1960 Candidate by Eric Sevareid, Country Music paintings. 210 pages

Not Available

NA

November, 1959

Inside the Times Literary Supplement, “The Mind of an Outlaw” by Norman Mailer, The Ferrari Jinx, Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, New London Fashions, Adam Clayton Powell profile, Pro Football: The Cult of Violence

G/VG

$12.50

December, 1959

Christmas Special Issue - Contributors include Fiction by William Faulkner ("Mink Snopes"), Arthur Miller, Thomas Mann, Poetry by Emperor Hirohito, Articles by Alfred A Knopf, Carson McCullers, Dorothy Parker, Irwin Shaw, Joseph Wechsberg, Satire by Comden & Green, Plays by Sean O'Casey, Bernard Shaw, more! 382 pages

G/VG

$17.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Good, Light cover wear, spine fraying

$12.50

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