Hotel Splendide

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Overview:

Title: Hotel Splendide
Author: Ludwig Bemelmans
Year: 1941
Publisher: The Viking Press
Price: $2.50
Pages: 192
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Collection
Title Reference: Hotel Splendide
Notes:
• Price from AbeBooks • "Of the first edition there have been bound in the draperies of a famous New York hotel and signed by the author two hundred and forty-five numbered copies for sale and sixty copies for private distribution"--Preliminary leaf. • Fantastic incidences and an inside view of the lives of bus boys, waiters, dish washers, and the maitres d'hotel of that imaginary institution designed as the Hotel Splendide. - an abstract • OCLC is the source for above and contents and it also notes interior illustrations but not the artist; sourced from multiple AbeBooks listings • Contents' page numbers from Archive.org copy. "Published December 1, 1941" on copyright page.