WOON, Basil. The Paris that's not in the Guide Books
WOON, Basil. The Paris that's not in the Guide Books. New York: Brentano’s. 1926. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s bright blue cloth lettered in orange to the spine and upper board, in the terrific wraparound dust jacket depicting all of Paris at its most exuberant. A very good copy overall, the cloth bright, clean, and sharp, the spine tips gently bumped, the binding tight and square. The contents clean, fine but for contemporary inscription to the front endpaper and a few faint and patchy stains to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.00 net) and complete, some light rubbing and tiny chips and nicks to the corners, spine tips and along joints, but still a vibrant, alive copy.
An excellent example of this ‘picture of gay life of Paris as led by Americans in society and out [which] takes one day and night of a visitor in the French capital, telling what he really does—not what the guide books tell him to do nor what he tells his mother he has done’. Quite brilliantly described, Basil Woon enjoys cocktails at the Ritz, a stroll up the Champs-Elysées, money won and lost at the casino, the bohemian Latin Quarter, and, inevitably, a slide into the sordid houses after-midnight, with some fascinating insight into both the city’s customs, its visitors, its pleasures and its evils. This first edition very scarce; reprinted by McBride in 1931.
WOON, Basil. The Paris that's not in the Guide Books. New York: Brentano’s. 1926. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s bright blue cloth lettered in orange to the spine and upper board, in the terrific wraparound dust jacket depicting all of Paris at its most exuberant. A very good copy overall, the cloth bright, clean, and sharp, the spine tips gently bumped, the binding tight and square. The contents clean, fine but for contemporary inscription to the front endpaper and a few faint and patchy stains to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.00 net) and complete, some light rubbing and tiny chips and nicks to the corners, spine tips and along joints, but still a vibrant, alive copy.
An excellent example of this ‘picture of gay life of Paris as led by Americans in society and out [which] takes one day and night of a visitor in the French capital, telling what he really does—not what the guide books tell him to do nor what he tells his mother he has done’. Quite brilliantly described, Basil Woon enjoys cocktails at the Ritz, a stroll up the Champs-Elysées, money won and lost at the casino, the bohemian Latin Quarter, and, inevitably, a slide into the sordid houses after-midnight, with some fascinating insight into both the city’s customs, its visitors, its pleasures and its evils. This first edition very scarce; reprinted by McBride in 1931.
WOON, Basil. The Paris that's not in the Guide Books. New York: Brentano’s. 1926. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s bright blue cloth lettered in orange to the spine and upper board, in the terrific wraparound dust jacket depicting all of Paris at its most exuberant. A very good copy overall, the cloth bright, clean, and sharp, the spine tips gently bumped, the binding tight and square. The contents clean, fine but for contemporary inscription to the front endpaper and a few faint and patchy stains to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.00 net) and complete, some light rubbing and tiny chips and nicks to the corners, spine tips and along joints, but still a vibrant, alive copy.
An excellent example of this ‘picture of gay life of Paris as led by Americans in society and out [which] takes one day and night of a visitor in the French capital, telling what he really does—not what the guide books tell him to do nor what he tells his mother he has done’. Quite brilliantly described, Basil Woon enjoys cocktails at the Ritz, a stroll up the Champs-Elysées, money won and lost at the casino, the bohemian Latin Quarter, and, inevitably, a slide into the sordid houses after-midnight, with some fascinating insight into both the city’s customs, its visitors, its pleasures and its evils. This first edition very scarce; reprinted by McBride in 1931.