Language: English
Published by Harold P. Bittner, Inc., 1951
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('To Charlie Wagner, with all good wishes, 'Angie', March 17. 1951'). Wagner was a journalist for the Rochester Times-Union. Boards a bit rubbed with fore edge corners slightly exposed, tiny tape remnants on front and rear endpapers, probably from flaps of now-absent jacket being taped down. 70 pp. A history of basketball in Rochester, New York by a longtime resident who covered many of the Old Centrals games for the Democrat & Chronicle and Journal-American. Includes black-and-white photographs, foreword by Jack Neiman. Signed by author.
Published by San German, Puerto Rico: Inter American University, 1960
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 164pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Nice copy of the second issue of this important little magazine featuring a stellar roster of contributors, including Mina Loy and Man Ray as well as later notables including Creeley, Norse, et al. Unmarked copy with light reading wear/spine lean. Not Signed.
Published by Chicago Playboy Enterprises, Inc. 1989, 1989
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Playboy Magazine Founder Hugh HefnerÕs copy with his bookplate affixed to the front pastedown and a letter of provenance from the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation laid in. Hardcover, bound in black cloth with the Playboy Bunny logo silver stamped the the front board. Fine copy in original black box. This issue includes a lengthy and candid interview with Robert De Niro, fiction by Arthur C. Clarke, John Updike, Ray Bradbury, Walter S. Tevis, Robert Coover, Vladimir Nabokov, and Joyce Carol Oates; essays, humor, art, and commentary by Jack Kerouac, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Shel Silverstein, Woody Allen, Alberto Vargas, J. Paul Getty, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, David Mamet, Truman Capote, Bruce Feirstein, Cameron Crowe, Buck Henry, conversations with John Wayne, Barbra Streisand, and Jimmy Carter, and more of what Playboy is known for.