Drinks – Long and Short

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    First Edition.

    19cm x 12cm. xii, 67 pages, colour frontispiece. Decorative cloth, rebacked, no jacket.

    First edition, first printing of this Jazz-Age cocktail book designed for the 1920s dinner party savant, all of the recipes serving a party of 6. The first print reference for the Dunhill’s Special and the Champs-Elysees. Frontispiece illustration by J. E. Laboureur and with a preface by X. Marcel Boulestin.

    The notoriously fragile spine has been cleanly rebacked in cloth. Rubbing to board edges. Endpapers tanned. Minor foxing. Some index notations to favourite cocktails in pencil to front free endpaper. Very Good Condition.

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