Esquire: The Magazine for Men (December 1959) by Gingrich, Arnold (Publisher) - 1959

Esquire Magazine. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Volume 56. No. 2. Spine tips worn. Slight musty smell. In polypropylene bag.

Chicago, IL: Esquire, Inc.. A massive publication, complete, containing 172 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: You and I are very different from Howard Hughes - We don't own Las Vegas by Ovid Demaris; Kentucky on $5 a Day by David Lowe; fiction Controversy: The Arthur Bader Show by Thomas Berger; Up From Silence by Susan Brownmiller ("Pantie raids, bridge and football - such were the joys of Cornell in '56; an old grad returns to the Hill to find her class up against the wall"); What's good for Chrysler is good for Lynn Townsend by Nick Thimmesch; How to Be Well-Served for $100,000 a Year by Robert H. Williams ("Excessive? Not at all - who's going to sail your yacht, guard your body, drive your car, tend your children and fly your jet for you?"); A Right to the Jaw - THAT'S Black Power by Joe Flaherty (on Sonny Liston); The Drug Establishment by James L. Goddard ("The makers of prescription drugs are concerned with a very important… Read More

Chicago, IL: Esquire, Inc.. Contents include: article "The Orchestration of Crisis" by Colonel William R. Kinter; humor "Hansel and Gretel in Search of an Art Form" by J. Daniel Greenburg; photospread "Sure-fire Formula for Box-Office Bonanza" by Gjon Mili; article "Something Fishy in the Enclaves" by John Sack; article "Pomp and Pageantry in Pakistan" by H. E. Mohammed Ali; article "The Brutal Art of Bench Jockeying" by Jack Orr; article "The Civic Need for Skid Row" by Elmer Bendiner; article "Spain's Coming Ordeal" by Emmet John Hughes; article "5 Side Trips in the USA" by Louis Renault and Richard Joseph (on New York's Finger Lakes; Northern Michigan; Louisiana's Bayou Country; Phoenix and Tucson to the Border; The California Coast); short story "The Baby Grand" by Paul Byron Bishop; article "The Men Who Made the New Germany" photographed by Burt Glinn; short story "Mark… Read More

Chicago, IL: Esquire, Inc.. A massive publication, complete, containing 140 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: photospread Europe for [Social] Climbers with photos by Robert Freson; Now Voyager, A Little Attention to Ways and Means by Richard Joseph ("This one is for the man who has been there - several times. Now you're ready for the better things. You seek the places where the action is, you'd like to meet the People Who Are - the set that swings"); illustrated How to build & fly your own 1909 Bleriot by Richard Green; Scotland for Outsiders by Howard Fast; A Public Look at Private Eye by Malcolm Muggeridge ("Presenting Britain's brilliant new satirical magazine and history of same"); The Paris Problem by Stephanie Gervis ("For the American tourist, dusk is quickening over the City of Light"); The Millionaire: A Self-Portrait by Wallace Johnson, Recorded by Charles Sopkin; Las Vegas!!! by Thomas K. Wolfe; fiction An American Dream… Read More

Chicago, IL: Esquire, Inc.. A large, massive magazine with glossy pages containing 204 pages including front and rear covers. Condition: in worn front cover with a few edge chips; front cover detached but present; 3" by 4-1/2" water stain to lower right corner area of front cover and inside pages, not affecting pagination; chipping along outer narrow spine; text highly readable - a reading copy only. Contents include: In the Red Light - A History of the Republican Convention in 1964 by Norman Mailer; The Unmaking of a President by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak; Laugh at this Negro, but Darkly by Mel Gussow (on Godfrey Cambridge); photo-essay New York at 6:30 P.M. by Dorothy Parker ("John Koch and his gracious people"); fiction The Peacock by Giovanni Arpino; The Ugliest American in Vietnam by David Halberstam ("Stand up for John Paul Vann"); Miss [Elizabeth] Taylor and Family: An Outside View by Stanley Elkin; fiction The Corset by Evan S. Connell, Jr.; The Lost Art of… Read More

Chicago, IL: Esquire, Inc.. A large, massive magazine with glossy pages containing 212 pages including front and rear covers. Condition: in lightly worn covers showing small chip to each of upper and lower outer narrow spine edges. Contents include: The L.A. [Los Angeles] Free Press is Rich by William Murray ("In a revolutionary society, a few crumbs can become a lot of bread"); Reshaping Teddy's Image [Edward M. Kennedy]; Walden III by Fred Powledge (on camping); Two Months on the Lam by William Bradford Huie ("After he murdered Dr. [Martin Luther] King, where did James Earl Ray go? And to what purpose?"); All About Yves [Saint Laurent] by Helen Lawrenson ("Would anybody but a nice guy get $800 for a sleeveless jersey dress?"); fiction Taking Some with Mister Vic by Don Mitchell; Mourning Becomes Senator [J. William] Fulbright by Charles McCarry ("The good the Senator does will live after him; the evil is oft interred somewhere back home in Arkansas");… Read More

Chicago: Esquire, Inc, 1965. Magazine. 182 p. 10x13 inches in glossy wraps. Shelf and edge wear, some pages toned near the edges of the wraps & foxed, heavy wear along spine, some bumping of cover front and rear. Premier men's magazine of the 1960 and 1970s, Esquire was considered "high class" by it's upper middle class and professional class readers with advertisements for high end costly commodities like clothing and cologne. It was also a well regarded literary magazine as well as "popular culture" journal. In this issues articles cover professional football, On Theater by Saul Bellow, Sukarno of Indonesia, and more.

Chicago: Esquire, Inc, 1965. Magazine. 126p. 10x13 inches in glossy wraps. Shelf and edge wear, some pages toned near the edges of the wraps, heavy wear along spine, some bumping of cover wrap. Premier men's magazine of the 1960 and 1970s, Esquire was considered "high class" by it's upper middle class and professional class readers with advertisements for high end costly commodities like clothing and cologne. It was also a well regarded literary magazine with articles and interviews with the literatari of the period. In this issues articles cover teen life, fashion reviews, and more.

Chicago: Esquire, Inc, 1965. Magazine. 138 p. 10x13 inches in glossy wraps. Shelf and edge wear, some pages toned & foxed, heavy wear along spine, some bumping of cover wrap. Premier men's magazine of the 1960 and 1970s, Esquire was considered "high class" by it's upper middle class and professional class readers with advertisements for high end costly commodities like clothing and cologne. It was also a well regarded literary magazine. In this issues articles cover WWII Pacific Island battles, reviews of Tennessee Williams, and more.

NY: Esquire Magazine, 1961. items by/about James Thurber (1st appearance of "Afternoon of a Playright") ; Thanks for Nothing (Malamud); Mavis at the Beach (Rudd); Banjo on my Knee (McGinley); Manners and Morals on the Sunset Strip (Wolfe); etc. Neil Morgan, Hughes Rudd, Bernard Malamud, Dorothy Parker, Gore Vidal, etc.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Color & b&w. folio. Magazine.