Description

Large format quarto volume bound in printed pictorial paper covered boards, in publisher’s dust-jacket repeating the same image in a reduced size. 144 pages. Foreword by Kenneth R. Dutton. Illustrated with more than 120 black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. A pictorial review of the life of bodybuilder and physique icon Tony Sansone (1905-1987), seen through dozens of his classically framed photos and the variegated array of famous personalities with whom he interacted which included among others Gertrude Vanderbilt, Charles Atlas, Rudolph Valentino and Isadora Duncan. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket.