Gregory Dick Hugh Hefner (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair / Good, This is a Reading. 5th Edition By This Publisher. 125 pages. Loaded with B&W photo pages. "A 1960s reprint of the comedian's reflections on segregation." >>This is a reading copy. Creasing to covers; store stamp to front end page; minor staining to last few pages, story is not effected. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. PHOTO Cover (illustrator). Book. …

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Paperback. First book by this acclaimed African-American comedian & satirist of the 1960s, recalling his experiences as a black man in a white world. Orig. published in hardcover in 1962, this is the First Mass Market Paperback edition, First printing, from Avon (#S129) from 1963 (not noted in book). In 125 pages, lavishly illustrated with real-life black & white photographs by Jerry Yulsman throughout. Introduction by Playboy's Hugh Hefner, edited by Bob Orben. Condition is VG+: extremely clean, bright, & tightly bound--feels never opened! Pages moderately tanned (heavier around edges), commensurate with age, but completely unmarked. Very mild rubbing to extremities, a shallow crease to lower-outer corner of back cover, & a hint of a dampstain to top-outer corner of some pages in front matter. Nicely protected in new clear mylar collector bagr Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Yulsman, Jerry (Phographer) (illustrator).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Avon Books 1962 Good/ S-129. Lightly creased, lightly rubbed, age toned cover, Pos penned inside cover, tight tanned photo illustrated pages.

Second Printing. Octavo (22cm); illustrated wrappers, titled in white and yellow on cover, black on the spine; 125pp.; minor rubbing, Near Fine copy. "Dick Gregory is a comedian, social satirist, negro pioneer. In a little more than a year he climbed from $10 a day car washer to $5,000 a week headliner, doing what some said he shouldn't do, most said he couldn't do, but what Gregory knows he must do- tell the truth about segregation so that it brings smiles instead of hurt and insight even to the insensetive. His method: Once I get them laughing, I can say anything" (from the introduction).…

Condition: Very Good -. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1962. First Edition, stated. Signed by Dick Gregory with brief inscription at preliminaries. Octavo. 125pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated wraps. Wraps worn with splits along spine; curling to corners. Binding holding; spotting to endpapers; else unmarked; Good to Very Good. Gregory's scarce first book chock full of his satirical observations. …