The Innocents of Paris

New York: D. Appleton, 1928.

First Edition. Publisher's blue boards with paper title labels lettered in green to the spine and upper board. With the unclipped dust-jacket, edges of which are chipped and rubbed, most notably around the heads of the spine with old tape repair stain showing externally. Uncommon, especially in the striking dust-jacket designed by David Snodgrass who also provides the frontispiece and six further illustrations in the text. The first edition in novel form of Andrews's short play 'Flea Market' which was adapted to the screen and simultaneously expanded into this novel in preparation for its release. The novel uncovers the truest citizens of Paris - the workmen, roustabouts, apaches and their girls who hangout in the back street cafes and little bars to gossip, make love and fight, whom Andrews describes as 'the true gargoyles,' a Paris the contemporary tourist never saw or even heard about. The author was a keen traveller with a self proclaimed insatiable curiosity to known what is just beyond the next corner of the street. An uncommon novel, certainly seldom found in the striking dust-jacket.