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8 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s G a s t r o n o m y 2 0 2 1 “Champagne In The Morning Is A Variously Advantageous Drink” 8. BEEBE, Lucius. The Stork Club Bar Book. New York, 1946. Quarto, original silk- screened red cloth, dust jacket. $1250. Click for more info First edition of one of the best-known historic cocktail books, in colorful dust jacket. Bon vivant Beebe was once dubbed “the orchidaceous oracle of café society.” His cocktail primer remains a comprehensive and witty classic, proposing appropriate drinks for morning, noon, and night, including cocktails favored by actresses Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Billie Burke, Rosalind Russell, and Ann Sheridan. Includes an index of ingredients. Book fine, minor edge-wear to near-fine price-clipped dust jacket. A lovely copy.