Tux 'n Tails Author's Presentation Copy

Language: English

Published by The Vanguard Press, 1945

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First Edition hardcover in salmon cloth covered boards with line illustration of a bald patron, sitting at a cloth covered table smoking his cigar and looking at his watch irately while waiting for his dinner companion. Author wrote the following on fep: "For Mr. Oscar Straube, in appreciation of his guided tour of K.C.'s town and country chateau. Sincerely, Raymond Andrieux", (after which is drawn the red/white/blue flag of France). Under that author continues "The River Club K.C. July 24, 1957. Please bear in mind that all happenings, locales, dates and characters ("especially the character running around under the name of "Raymond") are truly and utterly fictitious. RA." Spine ends bumped, tips still sharp. Hinge papers are fine, text is clean, tight, bright and peppered with line illustrations by Garth Williams throughout. Unclipped dust jacket has kept this book in near fine form but is completely sunned on backstrip and over gutter area of frt panel, also shows chips at all tips and is and tatty along foot of both panels. Who hasn't worked at a restaurant and thought "They should write a book about this place"? This is the engaging story of the "other" side of the canopied entrance of a de luxe restaurant. Here are the starched fronts and warm hearts of the staff, the eccentricities and foibles of the clientele, the epicurean loves and lives of la belle France in New York. The strange hierarchy of black ties and white ties, tuxedos and tails is handled with true Gallic wit. Chefs and gourmets, dead beats and bus boys, maitres d'hotel and waiters are tossed together expertly at la Raymond Andrieux and spiced with the drawings of Garth Williams - a dish that will be relished by everyone.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
Tux 'n Tails Author's Presentation Copy
Author
Andrieux, Raymond
Publisher
The Vanguard Press
Publication year
1945
Condition
Good
Dust jacket
Fair
Signed
Inscribed by Author(s)
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
1st Edition.
Item weight
16 ounces
Dimensions
8vo - over 7.75" - 9.75" tall
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