Rex funk (2 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Spiral bound illustrated wraps, plastic black comb binding, near fine, 114p, Closeout speech by Stuart Udall.

First Edition. Artists & Writers Golf Association 1935, Produced By Phil Kobbe, Executed by National Process Co., 1935, first edition, some wear to the fore edge corner tips and spine extremities, upper margins of covers a bit lightened, else a vg copy with fine contents. Illustrated with 137 portraits (mostly photographic save for a few drawn by club member James Montgomery Flagg) of current members, four to a page, save for the club President, Grantland Rice, who has his own page and each with a humorous caption by Rube Goldberg below the image captured by Al Pach. This group of 'artistic' golfers were found on occasion at municipal courses and private country clubs in and around the burroughs of New York. Sometimes they would go south depending on the time of year. Among the 1935 members pictured here are: the author Rube Goldberg, Rex Beach, James Montgomery Flagg, Clarence Budington Kelland, John La Gatta, Paul Gallico, Robert Ripley, George Abbot, Ben Ames Williams, Damon Runyon, Al Jolson, George Palmer Putman, Arthur Wilson Brown, Russell Patterson, Wilfred Funk, Conde Nast, Dick Simon, Otto Soglow, Paul Whiteman, and many, many others. This copy owned by member, John Lagotta, as witnessed by his bookplate on the f.e.p. A rare book with very few institutional holdings. Accompanied by 2 tear sheets from the March 29, 1929 issue of The Amateur Golfer depicting 12 portraits of club members by artist James Montgomery Flagg as well as a black and white photo (with two tape repairs to the verso) of members Joe Connolly, John LaGatta, John Sheridan and Charles Miller at Wykagyl dated October, 1930 in full golf gear laid in.…