Garden Clubs and Spades

by text, captions, illustrations, Hugh Wheeler aka Patrick Quentin

$475 · Offered by Johnnycake Books

Signed

NY: Dutton, 1941. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo, publishers green cloth in slightly soiled pictorial dustjacket. A collection of garden cartoons from The New Yorker's Hokinson. Presentation copy from her to multiple Tony-award winner Hugh Wheeler Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music who, with the nom de plume Patrick Quentin, wrote nearly a hundred murder mysteries. Inscribed to Hugh and his long-time companion Rick

• Binding: Hardcover

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