"The Perennial Bachelor" 1926 PARRISH, Anne Buttons

"The Perennial Bachelor" 1926 PARRISH, Anne ButtonsPARRISH, Anne [334] pp. Grosset & Dunlap 1926 Twentieth Printing Mar., 1926 7 5 8" x 5 1 2" Jacket design by Skrenda 1925. Anne Parrish wrote and illustrated children's books but is best known as a novelist. The Perennial Bachelor won the Harper Prize Novel Contest. Set in Delaware, the story traces American family life from 1850 to 1925, telling of people who often sacrificed happiness for the appearance of good breeding and family pride.

Spatchcock of Pheasant

This was the world of Nancy Lancaster: aristocrat

and features such as "Adventures in Bookkeeping" by Louis Kronenberger and a piece on "Northern Italy"

the struggles of marriage

and One For All (1971)

the original of the bull-terrier in the story is known as Edgewood Cold Steel and to his intimates as 'Kid'

and the polo field

There is an entire section of suggested menus subdivided into cold weather meals and summer doldrum hints

Illustrated by Arthur Fuller

David and the Lady Pamela Hicks

Sz: 22"W x 15"L x 17"H

1925 2000) created over one hundred works and was also a playwright