11″ x 8″ (rare ‘advance/ in house’ prototype size)
later to enlarge to standard 14″ x 10″ size for general newsstand circulation
Custom-leatherette bound Inaugural #1 issue
Stamped LR: Jerry Jontry Esquire’s Advertising Director from 1964-1970 and then president of the publishing group, then made up of Esquire and GQ until 1975.
GINGRICH, Arnold [edited by]
The Esquire Publishing Co.
Cover design by Edward A. Wilson
w/ Ernest Hemingway article ‘Marlin Off The Morro: A Cuban Letter’
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