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Lot 297

Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$500 - 800
Price Realized
$650
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[Literature] Playboy A Portfolio of Art and Satire


New York: Egmont Arens, 1919-23. Comprising eight (of nine) consecutive issues in seven volumes, bound in one: Vol. I, Nos. 1-7 (No. 4-5 double issue); Vol. 2, No. I. 4to. Lacking front wrapper of No. 3. Printed in black and in colors on variously colored paper. Illustrated with linocuts, woodcuts, and reproductions by Rockwell Kent, Edward Nagel, Bertram Hartman, William and Margarite Zorach, Stuart Davis, John Sloan, Adolph Dehn, Max Weber, Hugo Gellert, Henri Matisse, Paul Gaugin, and others, and with literary contributions by Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, John Dos Passos, e.e. cummings, and others. Publisher's stiff printed pictorial wrappers, together bound in quarter black cloth over patterned paper-covered boards, lettered in white on spine, boards rubbed and worn; scattered splitting in gutter with sheets starting or sprung; scattered edge-wear and chipping to sheets; scattered soiling. Sold with all faults, and not subject to return.

A near-complete run of this short-lived and groundbreaking American Modernist literary and art periodical, published in only nine issues, from January 1919-June 1924, at the Washington Square Book Shop in Greenwich Village, New York, by American publisher and industrial designer Egmont Arens (1887-1966).

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