"CHAMPAGNE IN THE MORNING IS A VARIOUSLY ADVANTAGEOUS DRINK": LUCIUS BEEBE'S STORK CLUB BAR BOOK
BEEBE, Lucius. The Stork Club Bar Book. New York: Rinehart, 1946. Quarto, original silk-screened red cloth, original dust jacket.
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.
A fine copy in bright price-clipped dust jacket.