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ARENS, EGMONT; editor and publisher. Playboy: A Portfolio of Art & Satire. Volume 1, numbers 1, 2, 4/5, 6, 7, and Volume 2, number 1. Together, 7 issues in 6 volumes. Printed in black and colors on variously colored paper. Linocuts, woodcuts, and reproductions by Rockwell Kent, Bertram Hartman, William and Margarite Zorach, Stuart Davis, John Sloan, Adolph Dehn, Max Weber, Hugo Gellert and numerous others. Literary contributions by Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings. Folio, original stapled pictorial wrappers by Tinka, Gellert, Brodzky, Reiss, Lachaise and Karasz, scattered very minor edgewear and faint soiling, otherwise unusually bright; partially unopened. New York: Washington Square Book Shop, 1919-23
A beautiful, nearly complete run of issues of the graphically vivid Greenwich Village, New York art and literary journal. Though short-lived (it only ran from January, 1919 through July 1924) and with a scattered editorial policy, it contained important contributions to modern letters and artwork including Joyce's 'The Day of the Rabblement. The advanced announcement, reprinted in Volume 1 stated that "Playboy is to be a passing record of those who are ALIVE NOW. A portfolio of youth. A vessel of adventure . . ." The Little Magazine, page 257.
