ANDREWS, C. E. The Innocents of Paris. New York: D, Appleton. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Illustrated by David Snodgrass who also provides the excellent dust jacket design. Publisher’s blue boards with paper labels lettered in green to the spine and front, board, in the dust jacket. The book very good, the cloth with some light bumps to the corners and spine tips, with a couple of minor stains. The binding tight and square, the contents with light offsetting and very mild marks, but without stamps or inscriptions. All plates present. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50) with all four corners neatly cut. The extremities nicked, chipped and rubbed, most notably around the spine head, with tape repairs to verso slightly showing externally. Still, a striking copy in the dust jacket.
The first edition in novel form of Andrews’ short play, Flea Market, which was adapted to the screen and simultaneously expanded into this novel in preparation for its release. The novel uncovers ‘the truest citizens of Paris—the workmen, roustabouts, apaches and their girls who drop into the cafes and little bars to chattering make love and quarrel’, whom Andrews describes as the true gargoyles. It is a Paris the contemporary tourist never saw or even heard about. The author was a keen traveller, with a self-proclaimed ‘insatiable curiosity to know what is just beyond the next corner of the street’. Uncommon.
ANDREWS, C. E. The Innocents of Paris. New York: D, Appleton. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Illustrated by David Snodgrass who also provides the excellent dust jacket design. Publisher’s blue boards with paper labels lettered in green to the spine and front, board, in the dust jacket. The book very good, the cloth with some light bumps to the corners and spine tips, with a couple of minor stains. The binding tight and square, the contents with light offsetting and very mild marks, but without stamps or inscriptions. All plates present. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50) with all four corners neatly cut. The extremities nicked, chipped and rubbed, most notably around the spine head, with tape repairs to verso slightly showing externally. Still, a striking copy in the dust jacket.
The first edition in novel form of Andrews’ short play, Flea Market, which was adapted to the screen and simultaneously expanded into this novel in preparation for its release. The novel uncovers ‘the truest citizens of Paris—the workmen, roustabouts, apaches and their girls who drop into the cafes and little bars to chattering make love and quarrel’, whom Andrews describes as the true gargoyles. It is a Paris the contemporary tourist never saw or even heard about. The author was a keen traveller, with a self-proclaimed ‘insatiable curiosity to know what is just beyond the next corner of the street’. Uncommon.
