Jun 14, 2016 - Sale 2419

Sale 2419 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
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, edges and spine faded as usual, with ends worn; endpapers toned; with scarce dust jacket, spine ends and tips chipped. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., (1932)

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first edition in scarce dust jacket. A fun and uncommon guide to drinking establishments of New York in the 1920s and early 1930s with Hirschfeld's caricatures of their bartenders.