"FOR TWO YOUNG THINGS VERY MUCH IN LOVE, GUIDE TO GLUTTONY, WHERE THE FAMOUS FOREGATHER": FIRST EDITION OF TIPS ON TABLES, 1934
ROSS, George. Tips on Tables. Being a Guide to Dining and Wining in New York at 365 Restaurants Suitable to Every Mood and Every Purse. New York: Covici Friede, (1934). Octavo, original red cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket.
First edition of this guide to 1930s New York dining, divided into sections for virtually every type of diner, from spendthrifts to young lovers to world-travelers, in scarce Art Deco dust jacket..
This classic guide to New York dining looks at 365 days of dining through the lens of diner types and dining needs. Chapters include "For Two Young Things Very Much in Love"; "Saturday Night after the Bath is Over"; "That Sunday Night Sedative"; "A Guide to Gluttony"; "For Auld Lang Syne"; "Fit for the Family"; "Stags at Eve"; "For Those Chronic Sigh Heavers about that Cafe Unter Den Linden, in Paris, Singapore, Soho and Seville"; "Elysian Fields for the Epicure"; "Where the Famous Foregather"; "How to Drown that Hour Between Curtain Fall and Night Club Time"; "For the Misses Lonelyheart"; "For that Three A.M. Tidbit"; "Out for Lunch"; and "To Soothe the Savage Breast." Covici-Friede book order form laid in.
Book fine, scarce dust jacket extremely good with light wear to extremities and a bit of toning. A desirable copy of a scarce work.