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HALSMAN, PHILIPPE; GOLDBERG, RUBE; COOPER, FRED; DARROW, WHITNEY, JR.; KINGMAN, DONG; MUNCE, HOWARD; SOGLOW, OTTO; ET AL). (ROBINSON, FRANCIS; HOLLISTER, PAUL; CHAPMAN, JOHN; ET AL).

The Dutch Treat Club 1961 Year Book. Privately Printed for the Members of the Dutch Treat Club and Their Guests on the Occasion of Their Annual Dinner in the Sert Room of the Waldorf-Astoria, New York: May 3, 1961.

(Printed by Publishers Printing), 1961. - Octavo, color pictorial paper covered boards. The binding is lightly rubbed with a tiny chip to the bottom edge of the front cover. Unpaginated. Black-and-white photographic illustrations, and drawings & cartoons in black & white and color by Philippe Halsman, Rube Goldberg, Whitney Darrow, Dong Kingman and others. There is a small stain to the fore-edge with small stains to the front edges of several pages. Very good. Limited edition of 750 copies.Among the contents of this issue are "Halsman Gallery of Beauties", five full-page black-and-white portraits of women by photographer Phillipe Halsman; a vintage postcard album with captions by John Chapman; and an illustrated "Ode to Rube" by Fred Cooper.The Dutch Treat Club, founded in 1905, was an association of individuals active in literature, art, music and the theatre. Originally membership was limited to men and the club's yearbooks included "naughty" stories about women and cartoons and drawings of naked or partially nude females. After a controversial 1991 vote to admit women as members, the yearbook somewhat cleaned up its act.

-- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

Book number: 20700

USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 34.75 | £UK 28.75 | JP¥ 3449]

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature; Illustrators; Dong Kingman; Whitney Darrow, Jr. ; Otto Soglow; Rube Goldberg; Ray Prohaska; Fred Cooper; Howard Munce; Photographer; Philippe Halsman; Halsman Gallery of Beauties; John Chapman; Francis Robinson; Paul Hollister; Postcard Album;