MANSTYLE: The GQ Guide to Fashion, Fitness, and Grooming

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1977. First printing. Very good in a very good jacket.. From the twentieth century's best decade and the gentleman's most quarterly publication comes this first edition - the scarce simultaneous hardcover issue - of the Manguide to Manfashion. Any good guide to style ought to be a handbook of hell and a descent into madness all in one, and where GQ's rather staid copy sometimes fails, the photography and the polyester blends of MANSTYLE never, ever do. Once, a man kept his waistline where he kept his waist, or several latitudes higher; once, he boasted a mustache above his tennis whites and a sea-captain's beard above his double-breasted dinner jacket and evening flares; once, he wore seventeen different vests in seventeen different beiges in a single night; once, he unbuttoned his shirt down to his navel, to be alluring, and masked his eyebrows beneath a thicket of feathered hair, to be mysterious. Once, it was 1977. 11'' x 8.5''. Original full brown cloth. In original unclipped ($14.95) color photographic jacket. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. 150 pages. Some wear to top edge of the jacket, scuff to rear panel, and some foxing to underside top edge. Book has some foxing to prelims and last few pages. Mild toning overall. Else clean and sound throughout.