Dutch Treat

I just cataloged the hell out of this book because it's beautiful and absolutely worth it.

Dutch Treat Club: Year Book 1941 "Total Offense", 1941. First edition.

Privately printed yearbook for the "The Dutch Treat Club", a society of illustrators, writers and performers established in the early 1900s and still going today.

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Wartime issue. 8" X 5.25". Paper-over-board, pictorial wraparound cover. Laminated/glossy. Photo EPs of nude women cavorting on a cannon. Unpaginated but approx 100 pages. Edition page jokingly states: "This edition is strictly limited to 12,500,00 copies (Berlin), 12.5 (London), of which every copy is number 1" (numeral "1" hand lettered).

Elaborately printed and illustrated. Filled with pin-up / girly art and cartoons from member illustrators including:

• Rube Goldberg
• Dean Cornwell
• Carl Mueller
• Arthur William Brown
• Otto Soglow
• Harry Beckhoff
• John J. Floherty, Jr.
• Frank Godwin (creator of the strip "Connie")

Because this was a privately printed publication, the art is racier than other work from these artists and more explicit than comparable pin-ups of the time (i.e. pubic hair). Also includes a pop-up illustration by Tony Sarg.


Famous members of the Dutch Treat Club include:

• Robert Benchley
• Robert M. McBride
• Isaac Asimov
• William Morris
• Ogden Nash

and more. Some of the club officers/members listed in this volume:

• Clarence Budington Kelland (president)
• Edward MacNamara (actor)
• Harold Ross (founder of the New Yorker)
• Whitney Darrow (cartoonist)
• J. P. McEvoy (Dixie Dugan creator)
• Westbrook Pegler (journalist)
• Lowell Thomas (broadcaster)
• Frank Crowninshield (editor Vanity Fair)
• William Beebe (Naturalist/Author)
• William De Beck (cartoonist "Barney Google")
• Cliff Sterrett
• Rex Stout
• Efrem Zimbalist

and more. Other features include: A list of club speakers and events, news/current event parodies, and a full list (with addresses and phone #s) of current members. Pencil inscription from previous owner "W. R. Steinway" dated "April 4, 1941". Covers lightly rubbed/scuffed showing light tanning to spine. Bump with slight exposed board to lower front cover. Binding slightly shaken but solid. Very Good. Hardcover.

Apparently these yearbooks were well-known for their girly art but this is the first I've seen (though hopefully not the last). Priced a bit ambitiously but I'll still be sad if it sells.

UPDATE: This volume has sold but I have other Dutch Treat Club yearbooks in stock.