Arno Olio #4: Father William

Arno covers the writer Donald Ogden Stewart’s 1929 “Comedy of Father & Son” Father William.  Although the inner front flap copy reads: “Peter Arno, well known to readers of The New Yorker, adds still further to the gayety of the book by his inimitable illustrations” none of the illustrations within are by Arno. The drawings are actually by Eldon Kelley,

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An Ink Spill Library Addition

                                                      Donald Ogden Stewart. Father William. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929.   Here’s a book that was on my want list for some time (due to the cover by Peter Arno).  It’s finally

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