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The Gun Club Drink Book Being a More or Less Discursive Account of Alcoholic Beverages, Their Formulae and Uses, Together With Some Observations on the Mixing of Drinks

The Gun Club Drink Book Being a More or Less Discursive Account of Alcoholic Beverages, Their Formulae and Uses, Together With Some Observations on the Mixing of Drinks

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The Gun Club Drink Book Being a More or Less Discursive Account of Alcoholic Beverages, Their Formulae and Uses, Together With Some Observations on the Mixing of Drinks

by Browne, Charles

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Orange pictorial boards. About fine in a unclipped pictorial Very Good dust jacket by Leonard Holton, with chips
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. First edition. Illustrated by Leonard Holton. xviii, 190pp. 8vo. Orange pictorial boards. About fine in a unclipped pictorial Very Good dust jacket by Leonard Holton, with chips. First edition. Illustrated by Leonard Holton. xviii, 190pp. 8vo. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the half-title "To Mariette Russell with affectionate regards from Charles Browne Princeton January 1940."

Browne (1875-1947) was a Princeton graduate, Penn Medical School, Mayor of Princeton (1914-23), Congressman, and President of the Nassau Gun Club. Photo/

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Title
The Gun Club Drink Book Being a More or Less Discursive Account of Alcoholic Beverages, Their Formulae and Uses, Together With Some Observations on the Mixing of Drinks
Author
Browne, Charles
Format/Binding
Illustrated by Leonard Holton. xviii, 190pp. 8vo
Book Condition
Used - Orange pictorial boards. About fine in a unclipped pictorial Very Good dust jacket by Leonard Holton, with chips
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Edition
First edition
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1939

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