Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Swiss family Perelman / by S.J. Perelman ; drawings by Hirschfeld.

Accession number
PML 198860
Creator
Perelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph), 1904-1979, author.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Simon and Schuster, 1950
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Acquisitions Fund, 2022.
Description
212 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Gus and Jean, / this shifty, implausible / alibi to account for our / disappearance in 1949 (we / were really in the Hotel / Robert Treat [?] in Newark, / N.J. the whole time). / Fondly, / Sid / [signature:] S.G. Perelman / January 14, 1951".
Provenance
Gustav S. Lobrano (1902-1956); Dorothy Jean Flick Lobrano (1900-1983); Dorothy Lobrano Guth (1928-2016); Dorothy Jean Guth.
Summary
Humorist writer Perelman chronicles his around-the-world adventures with his wife and their two children.
Binding
Publisher's yellow cloth with blue and yellow decoration (Hirschfeld drawings); pictorial dust jacket (Hirschfeld drawings).
Classification
Department