"Spider Boy" 1928 VAN VECHTEN, Carl Needlepoint Pillows Outseam: 20 1/2"LInseam: 10"L

Outseam: 20 1/2"LInseam: 10"L

George Leland

c1930s cocktail lounge coloured cutout on wooden plaque featuring a white dinner jacket clad patron & buxom waitress conversing

Eisenhower’s chief of staff in WWII

Danny Maher

"Spider Boy" 1928 VAN VECHTEN, Carl Needlepoint Pillows Outseam: 20 1/2"LInseam: 10"LVAN VECHTEN, Carl [297] pp. Alfred A. Knopf 1928 7 3 4" x 5 1 2" Jacket design by Ronald McRae "Spider Boy: A Scenario for a Moving Picture" is a 1928 satirical novel by American author Carl Van Vechten. It is one of the earliest comic novels about Hollywood, following the absurd and extraordinary adventures of a diffident, successful playwright named Ambrose Deacon as he navigates the silent film industry.