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"Bacchus Behave! The Lost Art Of Polite Drinking" 1933 WHITAKER, Alma (INSCRIBED)
$950
WHITAKER, Alma
Warmly inscribed on FFEP
[140] pp.
Frederick A. Stokes Company
1933
8 3/8" x 5 7/8"
With 18 chapters featuring cocktails, whisky, gin, brandy, liqueurs, wines, rum, champagne, beer hints to hostesses, strange nectars, canapés and hors-d'oeuvres, the buffet supper, punches and cups. With a drawing of three elegant cocktail imbibers on the front panel.
On the rear panel of the jacket: "What Celebrities Say" with quotes from Rupert Hughes, Clark Gable, Marie Dressler, Tom Mix, and Cecil B. DeMille.