The Ne'er Do Much by Eleanor Hallowell and similar items

The Ne'er Do Much by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1918 Dodd, Mead The Ne'er Do Much Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918 Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg 144 pages 4 1/2 by 7 inches in size The front hinge is starting to crack, the binding is in acceptable condition. The pages are tanning and have scattered brown age spots and areas of foxing. The title page is foxed and there is a name written in front and back. The cover is rubbed and edge worn. Acceptable. Hardcover. Chapter 1: The dinner itself was rather unique. A South American gentleman of fabulous fortune, but little further creative achievement, had come to New York City on his sixtieth birthday for no purpose whatsoever except to dine and wine, according to his own bright tropical imagination, those particular North American writers, artists, actors, musicians and other national idols who, during the past twenty years or so, had most excited his admiration through the trenchant medium of the North American Press. The idea, of course, was distinctly neat. It fitted one's fancy like a glove--to ignore all the people you know in the world--and invite only the people you wish you knew! Just the audacious ingenuousness of it entranced the favoured ones! (#00001671)