GENTRY 1 – 22
A Complete Set: Winter 1951– Spring 1957
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 1. New York: Reporter Publications, Winter 1951. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound thick wrappers. 112 [xx] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper and fabric samples tipped in. All inserts present. Leather Gentry bookmark laid in. Cover design by Alvin Lustig. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes How to Build your Own Finnish Bath with bound in architectural rendering on vellum and Alvin Lustig interior design, a Portfolio of Early American Automobiles with 6 tipped in plates, Three Zen Stories, Boxing in the 17th and 18th Centuries, Siddhartha, a Storey by Hermann Hesse [the first publication in America of excerpts from], a Portfolio of Gentry Fashions: Overcoats, Sports jackets, Town Suits and Fabrics and much more.
The Gentry Board of Editors for 1951: Christopher Freemantle, Cora Carlyle, Sam Cook Singer, Estelle K. Silvay, Alvin Lustig, Capt. J. A. Murdocke, Leonard A. Rothgerber, José Martin, Thomas Forman, José Pijoan, Herman Weschler, Howard Ketcham, and Ronimund Bissing.
“Segal’s challenge was to imbue Gentry with an allure for the affluent. He hired Alvin Lustig, who had designed Segal’s spacious residence in Manhattan and cramped offices in the Empire State Building, to create Gentry’s first cover (now difficult to find), which he illustrated with a dramatically cropped photograph of a Greek head to symbolize the high level of its content.
“But what really caught the public’s attention was a pre-launch subscription advertisement in The New Yorker that defined Segal’s pros pective readers as “first rate,” implying that they would be less than elite if they passed up this magazine. The headline read: IN OCTOBER A NEW TYPE OF MAGAZINE WILL BE PUBLISHED. IT WILL EITHER ELATE THE TOP 100,000 THINKING MEN IN THIS COUNTRY, OR BE A MISERABLE FLOP. FRANKLY, WE DON’T KNOW WHICH. The text that followed was a hard-pitch sell to his status-conscious would-be constituents: You are one of the 100,000 men (we honestly don’t believe there are more than that number) who are a blend of certain characteristics…. These are men who have matured in their thinking: who have reached an economic niche above the mass stratum; but, more important, who are ever in quest of a better way to live with themselves as well as with others…. It is always why, why, why, with these 100,000 men who look no different from all the others; who may have more or less wealth than many of the others; who may do any kind of work, or no work at all, for their daily bread. They want always to know more, so that they may contribute more to people near them and to the world in which they live; they want to give more so that they can gain more from each breath, each hour, each day, each year of their lives.”— Steven Heller
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 2. New York: Reporter Publications, Spring 1952. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound embossed thick wrappers. 110 [xx] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper and fabric samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes a John L. Sullivan Currier and Ives Print, Modern Photography by Joseph Breitenbach, Portfolio of Gentry Fashions, The Minotaure, or Interlude in Oran by Albert Camus, a Portfolio of Locomotives with 4 tipped in plates, and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 3. New York: Reporter Publications, Summer 1952. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound embossed thick wrappers. 104 [xxiv] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper and fabric samples tipped in. All inserts present. Charter subscriber certificate in decorative folder laid in. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes the Gentry Portfolio on Fishing with a bagged fishing fly tipped in, The last Mission of the Corvette Claymore by Victor Hugo, The Nude in American Painting by Paul Magriel, Interview with a Fighting Bird by Christopher Whyte, Golf Without Fears with a flip book showing a proper driving stroke[!], The Dictionary of M. Gustave Flaubert, Electronics and Tomorrow by Roy Moore, Portfolio of Gentry Fashions, and much more.
“ It is hard to give a picture of Gentry for the reason that there is nothing in the world like it. For example, when Gentry prints a story on fishing, our technique calls for the swatching of an actual trout fly in the book. Or, perhaps we talk about smoking; in this case it is quite natural for Gentry to enclose a tobacco leaf…. We do not believe that the best magazine reproduction in the world, full color or black-and-white, can do justice to a fine tweed fabric. So, when Gentry illustrates a new coat, an actual swatch of the fabric will be tipped alongside the photo to make it come to life…. “— Steven Heller
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 4. New York: Reporter Publications, Fall 1952. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound embossed thick wrappers. 110 [xxvi] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper and fabric samples tipped in. All inserts present. Sheet of Ex Libris plates laid in. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes a tipped in pop-up Christmas Card by Karl Koehler, a Portfolio of Custom Built CArs, a Dog Lovers Portfolio, Baseball by I. M. Minton, Goethe on Nature, On the Subject of Art by Jopesh Pijoan, a Gentry Portfolio of Old College Campuses with an envelope of “6 framable facsimiles printed from hand colored steel engravings,” and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 5. New York: Reporter Publications, Holiday Issue 1952. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound embossed thick wrappers. 144 [xxxii] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper and fabric samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes Hieronymous Bosch by Joseph Pijoan, An Introduction to Sports Cars by Stanley Kramer, Fox Hunting by Thomas Forman, How the Brigadier Slew the Fox by Sir ARthur Conan Doyle, Beagles and Beagling, How to Look at a Fottball Game by Mike Weiss, the Gentry Fashion Portfolio, The Fine Art fo Drinking: Wines, Cognacs, Liquers, Whiskies; Gentry Chart of Mixed Drinks, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Kabuki the Dream Theatre of Japan, and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 6. New York: Reporter Publications, Spring 1953. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound embossed thick wrappers. 118 [xxx] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper and fabric samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes Durer by Joseph Pijoan, Hands by Suzuki, The Flying Death , an analysis of curare, by Dr. E. A. Rovenstine, Spring Gardening with a packet of Burpee Hybrid Zennia seeds tipped in, The Lure of the Boatyard by H. A. Calahan, The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller by Robert Marks, On the Preparation of Spaghetti by Duncan MacDougald, Jr., The Photography of Martin Munkacsi, Three Stories by Frank O’Connor, the Gentry Fashion Portfolio, a Chart of Famous Elixers, Decline and Fall of the Old Englsih Bull Fight by Ernest Borneman, Folk Songs Past and Present by Burl Ives, High Fidelity for Better Music, and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 7. New York: Reporter Publications, Summer 1953. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound embossed thick wrappers. 110 [xxx] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper and fabric samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Features a lithographic cover by Georges Braque, a 3-D shoe ad with laid in 3-d glasses [ala Brodovitch’s Portfolio 3 from two years earlier], The Rover Turbine Car, Alphabet of the Universe $17,000 Sportscar, Photography of Alfred Steiglitz, the Gentry Fashion Portfolio, a bound-in Round the World Wardrobe Guide, Hell Hath No Fury, a story by John Collier, How To Checkmate In Seven Moves, and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 8. New York: Reporter Publications, Fall 1953. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound embossed thick wrappers. 94 [xxxiv] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper and fabric samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes Orozco by Joseph Pijoan, The Expanding Universe by Harlow Shapley, Gun Dogs—Spaniels in Particular, Pursuit of the Big-Horned Moose, the Gentry Fashion Portfolio, Paris Shops, Psychiatry Looks at Modigliani by Félix Martí Ibañez [with three panel fold-out], Coffee for the Gournet, The Gentle Art of Book Collecting by G. K. Morris, De Mortuis a story by John Collier, the Extraordinary Austin-Healey [zero to sixty in . . . . ten seconds!], and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 9. New York: Reporter Publications, Winter 1953 – 1954. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound embossed thick wrappers. 118 [xxxvi] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper and fabric samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes a tipped-in lithograph by Georges Braque, The Golden Rule Across the Ages, Classic Car Collectors, Sportscar Fashions, Gentry Fashions, Painter of the Fantastic [Hieronymous Bosch], the Photography of Clarence H. White, Crisis in Never-Never land, The President and his Team by Oscar Berger, Hawking for Fun, Arabian Horses, and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 10. New York: Reporter Publications, Spring 1954. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound embossed thick wrappers. 94 [xxx] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes At the Sign of Taurus by Lawrence Chrow, Bullfighting in Historical Perspective, The World of Saul Steinberg, Styling the All-American by Virgil Exner, Paul Aizpiri paintings, Gentry Fashions, The Girl in Pink Tights, The Man Who Shoots Presidents, This is High Fidelity, and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 11. New York: Reporter Publications, Summer 1954. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound embossed thick wrappers. 86 [xxx] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes Mare Nostrum . . . the Mediterranean Sea, American Artists in Spain, Round Hill in Jamaica, Gauguin and Tahiti, Three stories by Par Lagerkvist, On the Need for Integrated Education, The American Female . . . A European Psychiatrist’s Views by Félix Martí Ibañez [with Kandinsky 2-panel fold-out], Gentry Fashions, Modes and Manners of Men, The Piano Comes back home, Portfolio of Hokusai, Chinese Love Lyrics, Color and Motifs of the Great Artists of Japan, and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 12. New York: Reporter Publications, Fall 1954. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound thick wrappers. 82 [xxx] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes Adam U.S.A. by Simonetta Jones, Bazaar Paintings of Calcutta, Athletes of the past Have Their Modern Counterparts, Portrait fo a Youth—Boticelli, Berthe Morisot— An Essay by Stepháne Mallarmé, An International Horse Racing Classic is Born, The Weimaraner, My last Love Affair by Italo Svevo, Two Drawings by Hokusai, Gentry Fashions, Tape . . . . Medium for the Music Minded, The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin, Ballet, Mark Twain Draws a Cow, and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 13. New York: Reporter Publications, Winter 1954 – 1955. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound thick wrappers. 120 [xliv] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes Solar Boats Of Ancient Egypt, Six Designers and the Automobile: William Pahlmann, Howard Ketcham, James Amster, Dorothy Liebes, Doris Tillett and Bonnie Cashin; Nassau Holiday, Wrestling In Japan, Christmas Cards, Gentry Fashion Portfolio, Farewell To The Third Aveneue El, The Electron Microscope, Gentry’s Yuletide Bowl of Festive Cheer, Unadorned Truth about the Martini, The Windows by William Sanson, The Art Of Matisse, Merelies by Claja, Cognac by James A. Beard, Paganini . . . Devil’s Fiddler, Poems by Witter Bynner, Wisdom Of The Body and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 14. New York: Reporter Publications, Spring 1955. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound thick wrappers. 92 [xxviii] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Special issue devoted to the automobile, includes Gentry’s Portfolio of 1955 Automobiles, with illustrtaed essays by Howark N. Hawkes, Harley Earl, Eugene Bordinat, Virgil Exner, and William H. Graves; Personalities in Jamaica, Fashion and Palm Beach and Palm Springs, Pomp and Ceremony in the Bahamas, Gentry Fashion Portfolio, Recipes for Lovers fo Good Food, Harvey’s in Washington D. C., Mike Todd’s Dream Comes True, Writings of Paul Reps, Wrestling In Japan, Fly-Casting by Larry Koller, Pine Knots by Sigurd F. Olson, and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 15. New York: Reporter Publications, Summer 1955. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound thick wrappers. 86 [xxxiv] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper samples tipped in. All inserts present. Mild dampstain to lower corner of last 46 pages of textblock. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a nearly very good copy.
Cover from a design by Alexander Girard. Includes Changing Taste in Art Collecting by Sam Hunter, Delauney, Pioneer In Abstract Art, Art and Handicrafts of India, At Home in the Tropics, Vacation in Nassau, Travels in America, Rocks by Sigurd F. Olson, Origins of the Comic Strip, Gentry Fashion Portfolio, Hunting in Old Russia by Count Leo Tolstoi, Sharks in a Deer Contry by Philipp H. Moore, French Spas, Haiku—Poems In Miniature, The Photography of Peter Fink, Schism in Paradise by Jean Lyon, Last Invasion Of Majorca by Brainerd Batesa and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 16. New York: Reporter Publications, Fall 1955. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound thick wrappers. 100 [xlii] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes Elegance in a Town Aprtment: Alvin Lustig designs a residence for William Segal, four pages and six photographs by Ezra Stoller; Modigliani Drawings, Breeding and Training Thoroughbreds, How to Bag More Pheasants, Champagne . . . the Wine of Elegance by James A. Beard, Recipes for Gracious Living, Raising Orchids, Luxurious Air Travel, Gentry Selects The Ten Best Dressed Men, Gentry Fashion Portfolio, The Well Dressed Collegiate, Distinguished Country Clothes, The Silver Bullet, Good Living at Home and Away, America’s Most Personal Bank, Saul Steinberg And The Contemporary Scene, A Man by the Sea, short story by James Courage, Japan—Wondrous Land To Visit and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 17. New York: Reporter Publications, Winter 1955 – 1956. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound thick wrappers. 104 [xxxviii] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes It is Only for 36 Hours by Edward Everett Hale, Magic of Fire by Sigurd F. Olson, Island Hopping in the Caribbean, Luxury Cars for 1956, Off-Beat Places in Central America, The Sculptures of Brancusi, Gentry’s Christmas Scrapbook with a tipped in pop-up Christmas Card by Karl Koehler, Gentry Fashion Portfolio, Great Vintage Wines and much more.
William C. Segal [Publisher]: GENTRY Number 18. New York: Reporter Publications, Spring 1956. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound thick wrappers. 110 [xxx] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes Travel in Another Era, For the Record Collector, Recipes From Around the World, Summer Resorts . . . American Planned, 1956 American Cars, Another New York Visit, Camping in Cactus Country, Traveling Light in Europe, The Silver Collector Abroad, Paris Kaleidoscope, The Geisha Girl by P. D. Perkins, Gyotaku [three panel fold-out of a fish print], Gentry Fashion Portfolio, Psychology Calls the Shots by George Abbe, The Temple Gwathmey Steeplechase by Donald Scott Sharpe, Reflections Of A Paris Connoisseur, The Forest Pool by Sigurd F. Olson and much more.
Sidney Carroll [Editor]: GENTRY Number 19. New York: Reporter Publications, Summer 1956. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound thick wrappers. 98 [xxx] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes special insert: Gentry’s Selection of Flies and Lures for the Fishing Season [a two page fold-out], Montana: Treasure Lode of Trout, Cartoons by Ralph Stein, Breughel: Full-Color Magnifications of the Fight Between Carnival and Lent, The Bentley: an Appreciation of One of the Worlds’ Great Cars, The Vice Presidency: A Transcript from the Celebrated “See It Now” Telecast, Sailing, Sailing by Elbert Robberson, Beau Brummell, A New Look at an Old Fallacy, Gentry Dresses the Man for Summer, Judith a novelette by A. E. Coppard, A Man’s Primer on how to Grill and Broil: a Special Folio by James Beard and much more.
Sidney Carroll [Editor]: GENTRY Number 20. New York: Reporter Publications, Fall 1956. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound thick wrappers. 114 [xxiv] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes special insert: Feliks Topolski Bound-In Poster: Variations on a Theme George Bernard Shaw, Loren Eiseley: Big Eyes and Small Eyes, Ring Lardner Writes a Letter, Ty Cobb, a tipped in Cigarette Card, William Fain: Fish Story, An Alphabet Of Uncommon Sense, Mr. Lincoln Writes a Short, Short Story, Harry Callahan: Ten Photographs, The Wonderful World of Robert Benchley, Paul Horgan: A Wild Strain, Africa, a Map, Thomas Eakins Photographs and Paitings, Roy Alciatore: Don’ts for the Polite Dinner, Gentry Fashions, Lewis Carroll Writes to Some Young Friends, John Hammond: Journey into Jazz, Gentlemen, the Queen: a Gallery of Royal Ladies, Larry Koller: The American Gun, Rudyard Kipling: The Finest Story in the World, Samuel Aaron: The Cellar, Thomas D. Parrish: The Greatest and much more.
Sidney Carroll [Editor]: GENTRY Number 21. New York: Reporter Publications, Winter 1956 – 1957. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound thick wrappers. 122 [xxx] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes Sam Aaron: The Cellar, Hugh Corbett: The Oxford Tailor, Vachel Lindsay: Star of my Heart, Prudencio de Perada: The Good Pair [a short novel], S. S. Sullivant [Cartoons], William S. Walsh: The Obstinate Number 9, Henri Matisse [a color portfolio], Mort Lund: A Golden Land of Skiing, Robert Wallsten: The Archaic Grin, Shirley Burden: The Weehawken Story [a photo essay], Christmas Dinner at the Jefferson’s, George Washington: Rules for Civility, E. O. Plauen: Guest for Christmas [a comic strip], Loren Eiseley: The Brown Wasps, High Fidelity: The 100 Finest Recordings, David Fredenthal: Toscanini Conducting [a sketchbook], W. Somerset Maugham: Henry James, Gentry Fashions, Sloan Wilson: The Woman on the Ledge, Four Japanese Paintings / Four Japanese Poems and more.
Sidney Carroll [Editor]: GENTRY Number 22. New York: Reporter Publications, Spring 1957. Quarto. Face-stitched with perfect-bound wraparound thick wrappers. 102 [xx] pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Multiple paper samples tipped in. All inserts present. Wrappers mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine junctures, but a very good copy.
Includes Spring: A Portfolio, Gene Gregston: The Four Finest Rounds of Golf, Lawrence Kelly: Music in America 1, Callas, Feliks Topolski: Music in America 2, Elvis, Robert Paul Smith; In Praise of Booze, Gordon Washburn: Looking At Pictures, Thurman Thomas Scott: Mad Fox [a short story], Paul Revere: The Midnight Ride [ a first-person account], Who? [a guessing Ggame], Edward Weston: Photographs, Ralph Stein: Touring Cars, Ludwig Lewisohn: The Wonder of Wonders, Edward Bradley: Build your own Golf Course, John Searne: The World’s Biggest Gambling Game, W. Eugene Smith: The Walk to Paradise Gardens, Edgar Lee Masters: Lucinda Matlock, Chandler Brossard: Toward a Portrait of Sugar Ray Robinson, James Beard: Cheese, and more.
All 22 Volumes, all in very good to excellent condition with only minor rubbing/wear to spines. Interiors are all clean, unmarked and complete, including all original inserts (yes, that includes the TY COBB baseball card in the Fall 1956 Volume).