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New York: Egmont Arens at the Washington Square Bookshop, 1919. Volume one, double number 4/5 (of nine numbers published). Folio. Pictorial wrapper. Plates. Spine neatly split, with some dust-soiling to wrapper; the conjugate first and last three leaves are printed on the usual very poor colored papers and are thus somewhat fragile and detached (but whole); a slightly above average copy of an issue that is difficult to find in anything approaching fine condition. Edited and published by Egmont Arens. An attractive and highly important Village magazine, featuring prose, poetry or artwork by both residents and those abroad. Published at irregular intervals, through nine numbers (with the present 4/5 being a double number), and the final number dated July 1924. Although well-represented in institutional holdings, issues of Arens's PLAYBOY are now uncommon in the trade. This issue includes contributions by Stuart Davis, D.H. Lawrence, A. Walkowitz, "Emanuel Morgan," Evelyn Scott, Oliver Sayler, Matise,… Read More

New York: Egmont Arens, 1919. 1st . Paper Back. Good +/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Tinka & Sloan, J. Blanding (covers). 34pp.+adverts - No pg. 13/14&23/24; SC white w/red&blk.-pic.covers; rubbed&soiled w/foxing; chips&tear&wear on edges; slight rub on pages w/some detaching -- missing pg.13/14 (drawing of Isadora Duncan by Max Weber) & 23/24 (Woman,a drawing by Louis Bouché & Birth,a drawing by Zoltan Hecht). illus. "Playboy is to be a passing record of those who are Alive Now.

New York: Egmont Arens at the Washington Square Bookshop, 1921.. Volume one, number seven (of nine numbers published). Folio. Pictorial wrapper. Plates. White portions of wrapper faintly soiled, inevitable offset darkening from the center four conjugate leaves on orange paper printing the Biddle linoleum cuts, (neatly loose from staples), otherwise very good or somewhat better. Edited and published by Egmont Arens. An attractive and highly important Village magazine, featuring prose, poetry or artwork by both residents and those abroad. Published at irregular intervals, through nine numbers (4/5 being a double number), and the final number dated July 1924. Although well- represented in institutional holdings, issues of Arens's PLAYBOY are now uncommon in the trade. This issue includes contributions by Lachaise, Rockwell Kent, a Coburn portrait of Ezra Pound, Barnes, Zorach, Nagle, Aldington, Mina Loy, et al. HOFFMAN, et al, p. 257.

New York: Egmont Arens, 1919.. Periodical. 9-3/4 x 12-1/2 inches. Published at 40 pp. This copy missing the cover and first two sheets. Pages begin at page [5] and end at page 36. Masthead is missing, but issue dated by position of art (for ex., Marguerite Zorach's painting is listed as appearing on page 5 of Vol. 1, No. 2). Playboy was an important little magazine that published many artists and writers of American Modernism. In this issue: photo of painting by Marguerite Zorach, well known for her linoleum cuts and paintings; photo of a woodcut by William Zorach, now best known as a sculptor; photo of an etching by John Sloan, well known as a painter of the "Ashcan School"; portrait of Ezra Pound by Australian artist Horace Brodsky, associate of the Vorticists in England; drawings by Walt Kuhn and William Gropper; photographs of artworks by Arnold Genthe, known for his work in San Francisco's Chinatown before the 1906 earthquake, and for his photos of the city immediately after the quake. All of… Read More

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New York: Egmont Arens at the Washington Square Bookshop, 1919 -20. Periodical. Small folio, pictorial wrappers.
Avante-garde art periodical devoted to the exposition of contempary literary and artistic expression. Playboywas an important magazine for many of the early artists and writers of American Modernism. It featured prose, poetry and artwork by both NY residents and artists abroad, including many original hand-pulled woodcuts and linocuts. Published at irregular intervals from January 1919 to June 1924, through nine numbers (with the 4/5 being a double number.)
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"Playboy was the aristocrat of the Greenwich Village press of the post-war era." wrote Albert Parry in his 1933 history of Bohemianism in America, Garrets and Pretenders.
Artists and writers included Ezra Pound, John Sloan, William Gropper, Arnold Genthe, Ben Hecht, Max Weber, Rockwell Kent, Vachel Lindsay Djuna Barnes, D. H. Lawrence, Paul Gauguin, Alfred Steiglitz, Sherwood Anderson, James Joyce, E. E.… Read More