The Players MCMXXV-MCMXXVIII 1925 - 1928 (The Players Club)

New York: Privately Printed by The Players Club, 1928. Hardcover. VG+. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Gray paper boards with gilt on front and spine, edges and spine mildly sunned. No publication date (1928). Privately printed for members of the private social club called " The Players", located at 16 Gramercy Park in New York. The club was founded an 1888 by Edwin Booth " for the promotion of social intercourse between the representative members of the dramatic profession and the kindered professions of literature, painting, sculpture and music, and the patrons of the arts. The property is now a national historic landmark. This book, issued to members in the late 1920s, lists the board of officers and directors, certificates of incorporation, constitution and bylaws, house rules, and a list of active, honorary, and deceased numbers. Pages are toned along the edges due to age and some minor foxing present. No added bookmarks or signatures. Front pastedown has an emblem printed on it for the social club. Only binding issue found was a 1 inch tear on last page. Some past and present notable members include: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Brander Matthews, George M. Cohan, William Astor Chanler, Stanford White, Nikola Tesla, John Barrymore, Eugene O'Neill, James Cagney, Gregory Peck, Alfred Lunt, Robert M. McBride, Walter Cronkite, Alexander Woollcott, Kevin Spacey, Judy Collins, Rue McClanahan, George S. Kaufman, Angela Lansbury, Sidney Poitier, Tony Bennett, Tony Roberts, Carol Burnett, Liza Minnelli, Dick Cavett, Billy Connolly, Vartan Gregorian, Hal Holbrook, George Innes, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Christopher Plummer, Budd Schulberg, Ethan Hawke, Jimmy Fallon, Marian Seldes, Peter O'Toole, Rosemary Harris, Roger Moore, Russell Miller, Bill Pullman and Sidney Zion.