The Best Dressed Man In The Room (A Book)

[An Uptown Dandy]

Its been some time since I posted here - but I used to frequent this thread for the great images of golden age screen icons, and so just wanted to share the news about a book that I've released that may be of some interest to others who also enjoy this thread. The Best Dressed Man In The Room is a collection of essays and (in some cases, quite rare) images of the sartorially inclined goniffs, gamblers, and gangsters of the interwar years.



If interested, you can find out more here:
http://uptowndandy.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-best-dressed-man-in-room-coming-soon.html

or here:
http://therakeonline.com/arbiter-mens-style-reviews/the-golden-age-of-style-and-vice/

Thanks,
Dan

 

[herringbonekid]

would you be able to post a few teaser images from the book ?

 

[An Uptown Dandy]

Hi Herringbone,
Here's a link to the preview that should allow you to see one or two. The dustjacket cover has Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll - Coll grew a moustache and dyed his hair black to elude the police manhunt that ensued after he wounded several Italian children (killing one) who were playing on an East Harlem street during what became known as the Harlem Baby Massacre (his intended target was purported to be a Dutch Schultz loyalist named Tough Joey Rao. The image on the back of the dust jacket is Otto "Abbadaba" Berman, the horseplayer that Damon Runyon based the character Regret after (who appeared in the Runyon short stories Little Miss Marker and Bloodhounds of Broadway). Berman was the mathematical wizard that Arnold Rothstein subbed Avisack, and who later was said to have earned 10,000 per week fixing the Harlem numbers dacket for Dutch Schultz. The image opposite the title page is Mad Dog Coll, in the chesterfield with what is probably his pearl grey fedora/homburg sitting on the table next to him, appearing at a bail hearing on New Year's Eve 1931.

And, obviously, that is Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel with the knit tie on the cover.

I don't have access to images at the moment but will post one or two more when I can.

http://www.blurb.com/books/4608993-the-best-dressed-man-in-the-room