Absinthe: History in a Bottle

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988. First edition, first printing (full number line). Paperback. Very fine ; as new. Tall quarto in dark green color illus wraps; xi, 160 pages: illustrations (some color); 30 cm; bibliographical references (pages 155-156) and index. Lovely copy of this paperback original. / Contents: An absinthe murder -- Baudelaire, Manet, and the absinthe era -- Absinthe and the poets: Verlaine, Rimbaud, Wilde, and Dowson -- Degas takes absinthe to London -- From Montmartre to the Marquesas: Lautrec, Van Gogh, Monticelli, and Gauguin -- Jarry and Picasso: the absinthe blur of art -- The origins of ancient and modern absinthe -- The medical case against absinthe -- Absinthe and politics -- Absinthe and war -- After the ban -- Absinthe today: vive la fée verte -- A modern analysis of absinthe. // Absinthe. Drinking customs -- History -- 19th century. Drinking customs -- France -- History -- 19th century. Absinthe -- history Alcohol Drinking -- history Absinthe Absinthe (Liqueur) Boissons -- Fonctions sociales -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. Boissons -- Fonctions sociales -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. Absinthe. Drinking customs. Absinth Geschichte Trinkverhalten 1800-1899 France. Frankreich.