Description: ESQUIRE MAGAZINE November 1940 Issue VARGA GIRL Pin-Up + F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. One of my favorite "Esky" covers! 192 pages (including covers). NOTE: The Petty Girl did not appear in the pages of Esquire from May thru December 1940. George Petty went on strike - holding out for fifteen hundred dollars for each Petty Girl painting and the reprint rights to all his work. This left the door open for Alberto Vargas to join Esquire in October 1940. Hurrell photograph gatefold: Carol Hughes (page 37). Varga Girl pin-up gatefold: Just the second Varga Girl pin-up to grace the pages of Esquire. Verse by Phil Stack. Also includes the eleventh installment of Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Pat Hobby Stories are a collection of 17 short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published by Arnold Gingrich of Esquire magazine between January 1940 and May 1941, and later collected in one volume in 1962. The last five installments in Esquire of The Pat Hobby Stories were published posthumously; Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940. Pat Hobby is a down-and-out screenwriter in Hollywood, once successful as "a good man for structure" during the silent age of cinema, but now reduced to an alcoholic hack hanging around the studio lot. Most stories find him broke and engaged in some ploy for money or a much-desired screen credit, but his antics usually backfire and end in further humiliation. Drawing on his own experiences as a writer in Hollywood, Fitzgerald portrays Pat Hobby with self-deprecating humor and nostalgia. Arnold Gingrich, in an introduction to The Pat Hobby Stories, notes how, "while it would be unfair to judge this book as a novel, it would be less than fair to consider it as anything but a full-length portrait. It was as such that Fitzgerald worked on it, and would have wanted it presented in book form, after its original magazine publication. He thought of it as a comedy." Please see my other listings for additional issues of Esquire. Shipping will be combined for multiple purchases.
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Publication Month: November
Publication Year: 1940
Language: English
Publication Name: Esquire
Contributors: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Features: Varga Girl Pin-Up
Genre: Men
Topic: General Interest
