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Hefner, Hugh, Editor.
PLAYBOY FEBRUARY 1959 The1959 Jazz All Stars
Chicago: HMH Publishing Company,,
1959. First edition ed, Wraps,
Condition: Very Good, Jacket: Red wraps, scuff line to upper edge near spine, small closed tear to top edge of spine. Playboy's in the 50's had a upper or lower purple stain to edge. This issue has some bleeding of the lower stain to few gutters, and page edges, also faint damp stain to various page edges. Clean text, illustrations and photos. Slight musty smell from being stored.11 4x 8 1/2, 80 pages. In plastic sleeve. The February 1959 issue Eleanor Bradley as the centerfold, and great lay-out of "The 1959 Playboy All-Stars" The third annual Playboy Jazz Poll; with photos of Gerry Mulligan, Stan Kenton, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Chet Baker, Bob Brookmeyer, Earl Gardner, Lionel Hampton, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, Earl Bostic and others.le about Lenny Bruce.
(Playboy February 1959, Jazz All Stars 1959, Playboy's Third Annual Jazz Poll Vintage Playboy, Fifties Playboy Magazine, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie Gerry Mulligan, Stan Kenton, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Lenny Bruce Articles).
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30.00
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Tobin, Greg.
COUNCIL, A NOVEL.
New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book,,
2002. First edition ed, Cloth,
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket, Jacket: Tan cloth boards and spine, orange lettering to spine. DW white orange lettering, illustration. Faint bump to lower edge, else fine. No tears, inscriptions or writing. Not price clipped. First Edition, stated. sm 4 to, 333 pp. "Not Content with merely spinning a good yarn. Tobin weaves historical church figures into an engrossing story line crammed with contemporary Christian issues." In this powerful sequel to "Conclave" A continuing intrigue of the papacy and the dark corners of the Vatican. In this absorbing story of the "First American born Pope," the protagonist shocks the Catholic Church when he calls for a new ecumenical council, or gathering of the world's bishops. A first since 1960's revolutionary changes in the Vatican. The Council is an close look at the difficult responsibilities and daily life of the papacy; conflicts, conspiracies and the controversial figure of Celestine VI, a surprise chois of the cardinal ins the aftermath of a terrorist assassination of the beloved pope.
(Council First Edition, Novels of Thechurch, Greg Tobin First Edition Historical Church Fiction, Novels of Christian Church, Papal Power, Christian Changes, Novels of Christian Church).
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20.00
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Adams, Frederick B; Jr. Adler, Elmer; Stanford, Elmer; Winterich, John T.
THE COLOPHON, A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN, VOLUME II, NUMBER 3.
New York: The Colophon,,
1937. First edition ed, Cloth,
Condition: Very Good, Jacket: Tan cloth boards, maroon lettering and decoration, spine maroon. Stain line to upper board and board edge, to section of page edge. Text, illustrations all clean. Solidly bound. First Edition, Issued in July 1937 to copywright page. sm 4 to, 479 pp, A wonderful issue for all book people with contributions by: Wolfe's Copy Gray's Elegy by Edwin Wolf, 2nd; Suggestions for Dating and Indentification by Heraldry and Armour, by Edouard Sandoz; Plagiarism and Thomas Hardy, by Carl J. Weber; Victorian Bookmarkers, by Paul MCPharlin; Portrait of the Artist: Wood engraving, by Edwin Earle; Pennsylvania German Bookplates, Henry S. Borneman; Photographs of personal libraries, commentary by Christopher Morley. Additional contributing editors: Rockwell Kent; A. Edward Newton; Carolyn Wells; Lessing J. Rosenwald; Frank Altschul; W.A. Dwiggins; Fredric W. Goudy. Various illustrations and photographs, four color illustrations of German Bookmarks.
(The Colophon a Quarterly for Bookmen, Quarterly Bookmen 1937 Victorian Bookmarkers, German Bookplates Henry S. Borenman Plagiarism and Thomas Hardy).
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20.00
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Spiegel.
SPIEGEL HOME SHOPPING BOOK, FALL & WINTER 1956.
Chicago: Spiegel,,
1956. Stiff Wraps,
Condition: Very Good, Mid 1950's Spiegel's Home catalog, a department store by mail order. Everything from clothes, to home goods, to guns, guns, furniture and tires, etc. Ladies, children and mens fashion, underware, jewelry, cameras, books, pets, sewing, globes, and more. In color and black and white. Front cover in color, of woman in fashionable velvet fitted coat with dulman sleeves, green hat and scarf. In stiff wraps, with mild rubbing to extremities, light crease marks to lower edge and corner, solidly bound, pages clean. 579 pp, 13 1/2 by 9 1/2.
(Spiegel Fall & Winter 1956, Vintage Spiegel Home Catalogues Fifties Home Shopping Catalogues, Spiegel 1956, Vintage Clothes Catalog Fifties Fashion Catalog).
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22.50
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