Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
AL'S TAKE ON NY COCKTAIL CULTURE HIRSCHFELD, AL. Manhattan Oases: New York's 1932 Speak-Easies with A Gentleman's Guide to Bars and Beverages by Gordon Kahn. Introduction by Heywood Broun. 36 illustrations by Hirschfeld. 4to, original blue cloth with paper labels (spine label worn at edges), edges and spine faded with ends worn; Harper's Magazine French wine vintage chart mounted to front pastedown, endpapers toned, rear hinge cracked, bookplate to rear pastedown. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., (1932)

Additional Details

scarce first edition on drinking establishments of New York in the 1920s and early 1930s with Hirschfeld's caricatures of their bartenders.