Ruark, Robert C.

One for the Road

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1949. Illustrations by R. Taylor. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8-18" x 5-1/2". Beige cloth covered boards stamped in brown. 253 pp. Previous owner's name on free front endpaper. Otherwise book is in fine condition. / Dust jacket has shallow tears and fraying along top and bottom edges. One inch closed tear at top edge of back panel. But still a sturdy attractive jacket.

Writing in the same colorful, biting prose avid readers of Ruark's syndicated column know so well, he provides a hilarious commentary on the droll attempts to beautify the American male, an enlightening chapter on Mae West and Dr. Kinsey, and still another section dealing richly with summer madness and the absurdities of banks and vacations. In other chapters Ruark tells how to achieve fame on the stage or break into the movies - obviously by shooting people or by smoking marijuana.

A fugitive professor from Yale who fell among snakes gets a brisk going over and such people as Tallulah Bankhead, Leo Durocher, Charles Luckman, Frank Costello, and a man who lives off other folks' ulcer pass under the amused scrutiny of the gentleman from North Carolina.

Item #2202

Price: $200.00