COBB'S BILL OF FARE. Illustrated by Peter Newell and James Preston by Cobb, Irvin S - 1913

New York: George H. Doran Company, (1913). Octavo, brown boards (hardcover), paper pastedown to upper cover, illustrated, 148 pp.Very Good, with light edgewear. From first chapter: Upon a certain gladsome occasion a certain man went into a certain restaurant in a certain large city, being imbued with the idea that he desired a certain kind of food. Expense was with him no object. The coming of the holidays had turned his thoughts backward to the carefree days of boyhood and he longed for the holidaying provender of his youth with a longing that was as wide as a river and as deep as a well. “Me, I have tried it all,” he said to himself. “I have been down the line on this eating proposition from alphabet soup to animal crackers. I know the whole thing, from the nine-dollar, nine-course banquet, with every course bathed freely in the same kind of sauce and tasting exactly like all the other courses, to the quick lunch, where the only difference between clear soup and beef broth is that if… Read More

George H. Doran Company, New York: (1913)., 1913 148 p. Illustrated with full page drawings. Stamped ownership of Henry S. Ninde on first fly leaf. 190mm. Original full paper binding. Front board lettered in white with a black decorative border. Front board has a oval pictorial paste down. White lettering on spine faded. First published by the Curtis Publishing Co. 1911-1912. Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876-1944) was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York. He wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. HUMOR BOX 2 0.0.