The Happy Time by Robert Fontaine. Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin CATALOG INFO: Publisher: Simon and Schuster, A Venture Press Books, 1945 ATTRIBUTES: Hardcover with no dust jacket FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING. 269 pages plus About Author. Charming black & white illustrations by Roger Duvoisin, some full page. Wartime Statement present on copyright page. CONDITION: EXCELLENT with light age toning to page edges. Scuffs to paste-on title along spine. Corner with head & tail bumps to cloth covers. . . . $19.90 + 🚢🔆Claim by commenting "ME" or "MINE". Visit #claimitMINE for more of our shop items and our purchase & shop policy info. Robert Louis Fontaine was in his early 30s when he wrote, this his first full length book. One readers says of Happy Time: " I found that I tried to read this book slowly so as to enjoy it as much as I could. You would do the same." "Spring inspires lessons in love and life for a French family in 1920s Ottawa, especially for teenage Robert, who's blind to the attentions of an American neighbor girl, because he's infatuated with the beautiful new maid, fleeing life as a magician's assistant. Robert's mother bemoans some of the Bonnard family male role models available to Robert: his party animal grandfather, roguish traveling salesman uncle Desmond, and an uncle who carries a water cooler filled with wine everywhere while his wife does all the work. As Desmond's temporarily off the road, he also targets the maid. Fontaine's Happy Time was wildly popular - first turned it into a hit play by Samuel A. Taylor and then made into a movie in 1952 and directed by the award-winning director Richard Fleischer. The film starred Charles Boyer and Louis Jourdan as his father and uncle respectively. The play was also adapted into a musical in 1968 by composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb, and librettist N. Richard Nash, and starred Robert Goulet." --W & A #TheHappyTime #RobertFontaine #RogerDuvoisin Classic Literature Illustrated Humor #1920s Comedy Funny Made into Play Movie 1940 1950 Family Art History #firsteditionbooks #booksales #bookworm #booklover | Collecting Collection Collectable | ref: bk_MRY_happy1 https://www.instagram.com/p/B2nmb8xAsYg/?igshid=1ium5xud3cq67