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various authors, The Dutch Treat Club 1943, New York, Dutch Treat Club, 1943, First edition, small 4to (10" x 6.5"), HB, brown/beige checked boards w/ orange cloth spine, VG / none. Edges & a few pages foxed, spotting to spine, corners worn.
162 pp. 38th anniversary issue of this witty and salacious publication. Humorous articles by various members of the club (including Paul Gallico, Clifton Fadiman, Rube Goldberg, Herbert Hoover, Ring Lardner, George M. Cohan, Ogden Nash, and others). Signed by John Kieran (newpaperman), Carveth Wells (explorer & author, who also added a drawing of an elephant), Percy Waxman (editor, writer), Arthur Train (author), William Beebe (scientist & oceanographer), Walter Trumbull (writer), & Joe Chase (portrait artist). 13 color plates, 9 portraits, 2 pp. of caricatures by James Montgomery Flagg. Includes an (rather racily illustrated) alphabetical list of members, their occupations, addresses and phone numbers! A who's who of professionals in literary arts, illustration, publishing, theater, etc. -- whose "business [is] to know what is going on, and all about it, the men and women* who are doing things or getting them done; what they look like, how they talk and what they, actually, amount to."
* Who ironically would not be allowed into this club until the 70's! [Book ID # 265]
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