Showing posts with label John Held Jr.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Held Jr.. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

John Held, Jr.: Map of New York Night Clubs

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In the Prohibition Era, researching  John Held, Jr.'s, Map of New York Night Clubs must have been a labor of love. The map, we are tol...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Old-Fashioned Christmas Greetings from John Held, Jr.

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Many readers back in the 1920s or early '30s were familiar with the Jazz Age illustrations of John Held, Jr.  Often they depicted flappe...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Judge: March 19, 1927

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An issue of Judge cost 15 cents in 1927, $2.79 in today's dollars. I paid $12.50 for a copy on eBay in August, a five-fold premium for ...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Cocktail Napkins by John Held, Jr.

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Two vintage cocktail napkins dating, very likely, from the 1920s and designed by John Held, Jr., in his woodcut style, are currently listed...
Monday, September 1, 2025

John Held, Jr.: Gone Fishing

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New York's James Cummins, bookseller, offers an original book illustration from Outlines of Sport (1930) by John Held, Jr.  Twelve image...
Friday, November 8, 2024

Mr. Selwyn's Copy of The Vegetable by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald may have called The Vegetable "undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written" but, to be honest, I hadn...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Ben Simms's Copy of The Pious Friends and Drunken Companions by Frank Shay and John Held, Jr.

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A savvy book publisher, perhaps struggling during the Great Depression, who wanted to capitalize on two popular volumes, My Pious Friends an...