"The Pleasures Of The Jazz Age" 1948 HODAPP, William
$150
HODAPP, William [edited by]
[417] pp.
Farrar, Straus and Company
1948
8 3/8" x 5 7/8"
Jacket design by John Held Jr.
*flaps separated from jacket*
The Utah artist, John Held Jr., was one of the best known magazine illustrators of the 1920s, and his designs for F. Scott Fitzgerald jackets became icons of the Jazz Age. From the dust jacket- "A collection of almost fifty pieces by both American and foreign authors, The Pleasures of the Jazz Age is a comprehensive, representative, and entertaining picture of what was perhaps one of the most fabulous periods of modern times." Visually, nothing evokes that era as intensely as a John Held Jr. illustration, of which this dust jacket is an excellent example.