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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1933. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Fine. First Printing of this scarce cocktail manual, with chapters describing manners and behavior around drinking, as well as chapter descriptions of cocktails, whisky, gin, brandy, Champagne, beer, etc. 8vo (206 x 136mm): [8],140pp. Publisher's art-deco style salmon-pink and glossy blue pictorial boards, fore-edge rough-cut, top edge stained pink, matching pink end papers. Laid in is a charming bookmark ("Nice girls don't swear") cut in the silhouette of a primly dressed debutante. Virtually pristine example (apparently unread), tightly bound, clean and bright throughout, with no visible flaws. Gabler G41270. Whitaker was the Liz Smith of her day (though she may have demurred), a Los Angeles Times gossip columnist with entrée into Holywood society. This witty guide (Whitaker scorns the home bar,"one of the most deplorable customs that won favor during the Prohibition") was was written to reintroduce post-Prohibition Americans to…
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1933. Second Printing. Good. First edition, second printing. Bound in publisher's bind cloth stamped in dark blue. Good, with cloth a bit mottled and stained. Previous owner name to front free endpaper, pages toned. Scarce. Lacking the dust jacket.
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Bacchus Behave! The Lost Art of Polite Drinking
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