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Author: Parker, Dorothy; George S. Chappell; & Frank Crowninshield
Title: High Society: Advice as to social campaigning, and hints on the management of dowagers, dinners, debutantes, dances, and the thousand and one diversions of persons of quality
Place Published: New York
Publisher:G.P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: [1920]
Description:

[10], 65, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout with cartoon-style caricature drawings by Fish [Anne Harriet Fish]. (4to) 32x24 cm (12½x9½"), cloth-backed color pictorial boards. First Edition.

A vehicle for the flapper-era drawings of Fish, which just happens to be, most likely, Dorothy Parker's first book appearance; her solo debut did not come until 1922 (in a dos-a-dos edition). Anne Harriet Fish [Sefton] (1890-1964) was a British-born cartoonist who emigrate to the United States around 1914 and began contributing regularly to Vanity Fair Magazine, from which the contents of this book were taken. The drawings and text comment satirically on the concerns of the upper classes: the Season, the Opera, Weekends, Divorce, Bridge, and the ordeals of finding a place in Society and keeping it.

Some rubbing, soiling and light foxing to boards, wear to edges; a bit of foxing within, contents a little shaken, else very good.