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The Bon Vivant's Companion, or, How to Mix Drinks
by Thomas, Jerry; Asbury, Herbert (editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, signed by Asbury to limitations page, #3/160. Quarter orange cloth, green textured paper boards with gilt goblet vignette to front board. Green ribbon marker. Unopened, roughly cut edges. li, 170 pp. Spine faded, rubbing to extremities, scuffing to boards, wear to corners. Significant paper repairs with tape to head of dedication page. Jerry THomas was formerly the Principal Bartender at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, and at the Planters' House, St. Louis. Herbert Asbury was an author and journalist, best known for his books about American crime, including The Gangs of New York, which was loosely adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese in 2002.
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- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011810
- Title
- The Bon Vivant's Companion, or, How to Mix Drinks
- Author
- Thomas, Jerry; Asbury, Herbert (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Cocktails, Bon vivant, bartending, drinks, punch, bartenders, mixing drinks, Jerry Thomas, Metropolitan Hotel, alcohol, alcoholic drinks, Herbert Asbury
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bartending and Cocktails;
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Minotavros Books
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All prices listed in Canadian dollars. We guarantee that all items are properly packaged and handled with care. Please allow one to two business days for your order to be shipped. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. All sales will be shipped with a tracking number for your convenience.
About the Seller
Minotavros Books
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Whitby, Ontario
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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