HANNA, Phil Townsend (editor)

Touring Topics May 1933 Vol. 25 No. 6 [Alvin Lustig First Published Work]

Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California, 1933. Alvin Lustig. First Edition. Stiff Illustrated Wraps. 4to. Pp. 42. Illustrated with black & white photos, drawings and paintings. Cover printed in red and black (front Lustig illustration) with the addition of blue on the rear cover, wrapped over side-staples: edges rubbed and crimped, spine chipped, mellowed crease down the center, leaves very moderately age toned, Table of Contents on p. 3 has Number 6 lined out and 5 hand written after Volume 25. Very Good. Item #5933

The cover illustration was Alvin Lustig's first published work, submitted at age 18. Not only was his unsolicited illustration accepted by the artist-nurturing editor, Phil Townsend Hanna, but Lustig was hired as art editor beginning with the following issue. (Hanna enthusiastically announces the coming re-design in this number.) Referenced (and reproduced) on pp. 22 and 23 in Born Modern The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig by Heller and Cohen-Lustig (Chronicle, 2010). (The high school graduate "had never been an art director or any other kind of director."). Rare on the open market. Now housed in a clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing.

Price: $350.00