Hotel Bemelmans - Vintage Book

First Edition

Signed by author 

Published 1946

Probably Bemelmans' best work and certainly his most famous essays, Hotel Bemelmans brilliantly evokes the kitchens, back passages, dining rooms, and banquet halls of Bemelmans' years at the Hotel Splendide a thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz. It's a strange, fabulous, and sometimes terrible universe populated by rogues, con-men, geniuses, craftsmen, lunatics, gypsies, tramps, and thieves and it's all here in bitingly funny detail. Accompanied by 73 of Bemelmans' original, charming drawings.

Dust jacket is covered with mylar jacket protector