Aug 22, 2024 - Sale 2677

Sale 2677 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(PERIODICALS.)


Collection of 4 different entertainment magazines from 1980s Provincetown.
31 items in one box, plus duplicates; generally minor wear, 1981-1987.

"Applause of Provincetown: Entertainment Magazine." Volume 1, issues 1-3, each 36 to 48 pages on glossy stock, 215x140 inches; 8½x5½ inches, plus a much more crudely produced Volume 3, Issue 2, issued without a date. Provincetown, MA, July to circa September 1981 and undated. An evocative slice of Provincetown in its early years as a flourishing gay resort town. Includes articles on disco, the release of "Polyester" by John Waters, and drag performers, along with club photos and copious advertisements. Only one listing in OCLC, a lone Issue 1 held by the University of Southern California.

The Provincetown Mirror, 20 weekly issues from the 1987 season, on newsprint: May 6, 13, 20; June 3, 10, 17, 24; July 1, 8, 15, 22; August 5, 12, 19; September 2, 9, 16, 23; October 6; and November 4 plus duplicates. None traced in OCLC.

Provincetown Magazine, 6 weekly issues on newsprint: Volume 4 [1985-1986], weekly issues 17, 27 and 29; and Volume 6 [1987], issues 3, 25 and 26, plus duplicates.

Provincetown Arts, Volume 1, number 1 (August 1985) on newsprint.