WILSON, Robert Forrest. How to Wine and Dine in Paris
WILSON, Robert Forrest. How to Wine and Dine in Paris. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s vibrant orange cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the pictorial dust jacket, uncredited. A handsome copy, the cloth bright and clean, board edge a touch rubbed and bumped, but the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine but for a small handful of pencil annotations, albeit rather intriguing. The dust jacket priced $1.75 net to front flap, with some small chips and closed tears, some light rubbing, creases to rear with several tape repairs.
An ‘intensely practical’ guide written fool-proof for the ham-and-egg-chasing American tourist in Paris. The volume covers Parisian etiquette in cafes, in bars and in restaurants, with a detailed guide to local wines. Towards the rear of the volume, the author rates over 100 restaurants across the city, many of which continue to thrive today. The author, better known as Forrest Wilson, was an American author and biographer who spent time studying art in Paris, writing various essays and other works about or set in the city. His later biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe earned him the Pulitzer Prize. Uncommon.
WILSON, Robert Forrest. How to Wine and Dine in Paris. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s vibrant orange cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the pictorial dust jacket, uncredited. A handsome copy, the cloth bright and clean, board edge a touch rubbed and bumped, but the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine but for a small handful of pencil annotations, albeit rather intriguing. The dust jacket priced $1.75 net to front flap, with some small chips and closed tears, some light rubbing, creases to rear with several tape repairs.
An ‘intensely practical’ guide written fool-proof for the ham-and-egg-chasing American tourist in Paris. The volume covers Parisian etiquette in cafes, in bars and in restaurants, with a detailed guide to local wines. Towards the rear of the volume, the author rates over 100 restaurants across the city, many of which continue to thrive today. The author, better known as Forrest Wilson, was an American author and biographer who spent time studying art in Paris, writing various essays and other works about or set in the city. His later biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe earned him the Pulitzer Prize. Uncommon.
WILSON, Robert Forrest. How to Wine and Dine in Paris. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s vibrant orange cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the pictorial dust jacket, uncredited. A handsome copy, the cloth bright and clean, board edge a touch rubbed and bumped, but the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine but for a small handful of pencil annotations, albeit rather intriguing. The dust jacket priced $1.75 net to front flap, with some small chips and closed tears, some light rubbing, creases to rear with several tape repairs.
An ‘intensely practical’ guide written fool-proof for the ham-and-egg-chasing American tourist in Paris. The volume covers Parisian etiquette in cafes, in bars and in restaurants, with a detailed guide to local wines. Towards the rear of the volume, the author rates over 100 restaurants across the city, many of which continue to thrive today. The author, better known as Forrest Wilson, was an American author and biographer who spent time studying art in Paris, writing various essays and other works about or set in the city. His later biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe earned him the Pulitzer Prize. Uncommon.