[Post, Charles William, dedicatee].

The Road to Wellville: A Personally Conducted Journey to the Land of Good Health By the Route of Right Living.

Battle Creek, Michigan: The Postum Cereal Company, 1926.

Quarto, 103 pages, with a full-color frontispiece by Myron Perley and illustrated with diagrams and decorations. First edition of this book dedicated to C.W. Post, founder of the Postum Cereal Company, inventor of Grape Nuts and father of Marjorie Merriweather Post. Post had died thirteen years earlier, apparently by his own hand. The book includes an essay on nutrition and a healthy lifestyle, recipes, recommendations for a household library and a hilarious chart of the “tragic significance of age 31”, after which it is apparently all down hill. Post’s life, along with that of his mentor Kellogg, were the basis of the 1993 T. C. Boyle novel (and, later, the film directed by Alan Parker). A truly fine copy, with printed paste-down on paper covered boards. Original glassine jacket and slightly dented box included.