Toys Of a Lifetime

Gingrich was the legendary founding editor of Esquire magazine. The book, according to the fly leaf, is about "the aesthetics of the inanimate – pipes, town houses, food, automobiles…" Other people's toys. About fine in similar dw with none of the typical fading to the orange spine evident here. INSCRIBED and dated by Gingrich atop the front end.

NY: KNOPF.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. INSCRIBED by legendary founding editor of Esquire magazine Arnold Gingrich and dated in year of publication to fellow editor in chief at Esquire Harold Hayes on the front end paper. Very good+ copy in Vg. + dust jacket. (Top edge… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1966. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author, Arnold Gingrich, the founding editor at Esquire magazine, to his successor as editor in chief, Harold Hayes. Dated in the year of publication. Top edge mottled, faint hint of soiling at bottom edge of cloth, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a… Read more about this item

1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Stated First Edition. 370 pages. Text unmarked. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. SIGNED by authour with additional (separate) gift inscription to previous owner. "The founding editor of Esquire offers a fancier's and connoisseur's account of those objects that have meant the most to him." Dusting and some… Read more about this item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Leslie Saalburg. Hardcover in an unclipped, lightly soiled dust jacket. Yellow cloth stamped in purple and black; 370 pages, illustrated with drawings by Leslie Saalburg. Here Gingrich, the publisher of Esquire, shares his feelings on food, automobiles, smoking pipes, violins, haberdashery and a litany of other esoteric subjects.… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1966. First Edition. Signed presentation copy from Arnold Gingrich, the founding editor of Esquire magazine to his literary agent Dorothy Olding of Harold Ober Associates, inscribed by the author: “For Dorothy Olding, with great affection. Arnold Gingrich. N.Y. 7 X ‘66.” Illustrated with drawings by Leslie Saalburg. Fine bright copy in a fine bright dust jacket.… Read more about this item

NY: Knopf. VG+/VG. 1966. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 370pp . Very slight cant to spine. 1" interior tape repaired tear to top front of bright dj. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc, 1966. [10], 372 pp. Book; Inscribed and dated in the year of publication. Dustjacket: Spine faded. Inscribed By Author. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.