Street, Julian.Where Paris Dines. With Information about Restaurants of All Kinds, Costly and Cheap, Dignified and Gay, Known and Little Known: and how to Enjoy Them. Together with a Discussion of French Wines and a Table of Vintages by a Distinguished Amateur.New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929.Thick octavo, 321 pages. Illustrated throughout. First edition of this classic guide to Paris dining and entertainment. Street was a Chicago-born author and playwright, often credited with calling Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, "an explosion in a shingle factory, " following its exhibition at the 1913 Armory Show. He also toured with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, and has a library named after him at Princeton. Some spotting throughout, otherwise very good.
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