Dinner at Antoine's
Price: $50.00
Hard Cover. New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1948. Very Good / Dust Jacket Included.
First edition, first printing. Publisher's brick-red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, and pictorial endpapers; in its original pictorial dust jacket, with dining scene to front panel, lettered in black and white. Very good book, with tiny spots to rear board, light rubbing to spine ends and corners, and light toning to fore edge of text block; unclipped dust jacket in parts, lacking spine, with some chipping to edges of panels, and tape repair to flap folds. Overall, a true first edition wit. Dinner at Antoine's was novelist Frances Parkinson Keyes' best-selling book, a murder mystery set at the famous New Orleans restaurant. Keyes was a prolific novelist, who painstakingly researched the cultural and geographic backgrounds of her stories, even moving to many of the locations where her novels were set. She was married to U. S. Senator Henry Wilder Keyes. Item #FPK001
