Jim Tully (June 3, 1886 – June 22, 1947) was a vagabond, pugilist, and American writer. He enjoyed critical and commercial success as a writer in the 1920s and 1930s.
Peter Arno's cover art for Jim Tully's Beggars Abroad (1930) captures the writer's trademark bushy hair. The caricature also introduces a cocky asymmetry to the author's portrait that doesn't seem to be present in period photographs. The crenellated castle walls with which Arno represents Europe continue along the dust jacket from the front cover onto the spine of the book. Babylon Revisited Rare Books was good enough to scan the full wraparound Arno image.
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| Beggars Abroad AbeBooks listing accessed March 13, 2022 |
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