Manhattan Oases: New York's 1932 Speak-Easies with a Gentleman's Guide to Bars and Beverages
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1932.
First edition, first printing. 83 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with yellow paper labels. A little staining to cloth and offsetting to endpapers, else Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with wear along edges and a few small tape mends to verso, very bright and clean. A beautiful copy. Quite uncommon in such an attractive jacket. The famous caricaturist's first book, a guide to Great Depression-era New York watering holes and their habitues with 36 great illustrations. Includes one vintage cocktail recipe per joint.
Price: $2,500