A favorite example of one of Peter Arno‘s extracurricular activities (book jacket illustration). A few more to come in the following weeks.
Although the cover says it all, here’s a bit of text from the dust jacket flap:
Here is a guide to the restaurants and cafes of New York. The most luxurious Cafe-society places are described as well as the little known but excellent inexpensive eating places.
Below: the entry for one of Arno’s hangouts, The Stork Club
If you’d like to pre-order Peter Arno: The Mad Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist, please visit the publisher’s website here.