GENTRY MEN'S MAGAZINE
A legendary lifestyle journal, was a very exclusive Men's Magazine selling for $2.00 an issue in 1952.
FULL SET, 22 Issues 1951-1957. INCLUDING TY COBB CARD
Publisher William C. Segal New York
Only 22 issues were ever published, 4 times a year. Each magazine featured elaborate graphic design throughout on multiple paper stocks and various printing effects. Many fabric samples of suits, clothing, upholstery etc. were glued in throughout each issue. Special inserts include: TY COBB cigarette card (issue 20); tipped in plate of a bagged fishing fly (issue #3); seeds; plates of early American automobiles; locomotives etc., a pop up Christmas Card, hand colored steel engravings; so much more covering all aspects of affluential living for men in the 1950's
Each magazine shows its own bit of wear but each is in good condition. Heavy paper outside wrappers are mildly rubbed and lightly worn along spine corners, but it is a very good set.
To the best of my knowledge all inserts are included in each issue except for the following:
Issue # 1: missing seed packet on page 94, cellophane package discentigrated.
Issue #2: John L. Sullivan Currier and Ives print missing
Issue # 7: 3-D glasses missing
Set sold as is.
It is very rare to find all 22 issues together 66 years later.
I have been collecting these Gentry's for many years.
Please ask any questions you may have before auction end.
Full sets of this magazine in the past have sold in excess of $2,000 on EBAY and through Historical Booksellers. Some individual Issues have sold for as much as $499.
I have briefly described a bit about the first 13 issues, please ask any questions about these or the other issues before auction end.
This lot only sold as a complete set. I do have several individual issues, please inquire.
Each edition is published by: Reporter Publications, New York. William C. Segal (Publisher) Quarto.
FROM THE EDITOR "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."
Below is a very brief rendition of the first 13 issues. For info on the rest of the issues, drop me an email.
Gentry #1, Winter 1951, 112 Pages. Original Introductory Magazine edition appealing to the top 100,000 thinking men in this Country. A very lengthy list of very sexist elitist comments about the male market they are trying to reach. 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 Story by Hermann Hesse (the first publication in America), a Portfolio of Gentry Fashions: Overcoats, Sports jackets, Town Suits and Fabrics and much more.
Gentry #2, Spring 1952. 110 pages. Includes an individual John L. Sullivan Currier and Ives Print, (same as the cover), Modern Photography by Joseph Breitenbach, Portfolio of Gentry Fashions, The Minotaur, or Interlude in Oran by Albert Camus, a Portfolio of Locomotives with 4 tipped in plates, and much more.
Gentry #3, Summer 1952. 104 Pages. Exciting issue with very detailed article on fly fishing including an actual fly in plastic, engraved glued in inserts and actual fly plate from Bergmans fly tying book, 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
Gentry #4, Fall 1952, 110 Pages. 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.
Gentry #5, Holiday Issue, 1952, 144 pages. 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 Football Game by Mike Weiss, the Gentry Fashion Portfolio, The Fine Art of Drinking: Wines, Cognacs, Liquors, Whiskies; Gentry Chart of Mixed Drinks, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Kabuki the Dream Theatre of Japan,
Gentry #6, Spring 1953, 118 pages. 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 Zinnia 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 MacDougal, 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 English Bull Fight by Ernest Borneman, Folk Songs Past and Present by Burl Ives, High Fidelity for Better Music
Gentry #7, Summer, 1953, 110 Pages. Features a lithographic cover by Georges Braque, a shoe ad with laid in 3-d glasses, 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.
Gentry #8, Fall, 1953, 94 Pages. Includes Orozco by Joseph Pijoan, The Expanding Universe by Harlow Shapley, Gun Dogs, Spaniels, 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 Gourmet, 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)!
Gentry #9, Winter 1953-54, 118 Pages. 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.
Gentry #10, Spring 1954, 94 Pages. 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.
Gentry #11, Summer 1954, 86 Pages. 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.
Gentry #12, Fall 1954, 82 Pages. Includes Adam U.S.A. by Simonetta Jones, Bazaar Paintings of Calcutta, Athletes of the past Have Their Modern Counterparts, Portrait of 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.
Gentry #13, Winter 1954, 82 Pages. 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 Avenue E, 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.
GENTRY #20 Includes an authentic TY COBB Cigarette Card. See photos
Please ask any questions on the rest of the issues as you can see by the above descriptions the magazines are all diverse and cover a multitude of topics. I have descriptions of all the rest if you have a further interest.
Gentry #14, Spring 1955, Gentry #15. Summer 1955, Gentry #16, Fall 1955,
Gentry #17, Winter 1955, Gentry #18 Spring 1956, Gentry #19, Summer 1956,
Gentry #20, Fall 1956, Gentry #21-Winter-1956-1957, Gentry #22, Spring 1957
Thank you for your interest in this very rare and very interesting publication from the 1950's. Days of exciting reading about our past.
Check out my other items!
Be sure to add me to your favorites list!
Payment and Shipping:
Item will be shipped USPS Media Mail within the USA of $23.57.