Beebe Lucius Introduction By (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** 4.75 X 7.75" 272 pages A very nice hard cover copy in dust jacket. Price-clipped Dust Jacket has much wear: front panel is detached at the spine edge, top and left side of front panel is missing, back panel shows a photo of Trader Vic and is very clean. Previous owner's name & date, March 30/55, front end page. Pages 127 to 134 (including 2 page mat finish art work by G. Huze) are loose and at one time had been taped onto p.135, a glue stain remains. Otherwise pages are very clean and well bound without flaw. Two mat finish double page watercolor illustrations by Guy Huze. 'Gay recipes for good eating, good drinking, good parties' Vic knew more about rum and what can be done with it than most. There is also a chapter on The Butterflies, Whips and Jingles, or what is commonly known as the Hangover (this is the section that has come loose) Vic also gives menus and recipes for succulent South Sea dishes and decorating ideas. More than a cookbook "Trader Vic gives you a gay blueprint for good living, salted with wit and inimitable comment". And he has a great sense of humor. Watercolor illustrations by Guy Huze and line-drawings by William F.M. Kay (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 260 Pp. Gray Cloth Spine, Yellow Boards. First Printing Stated. Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket, Price Clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** 4.75 X 7.75" 272 pages A very nice hard cover copy in dust jacket. Unclipped Dust Jacket (Price $3.50), has very light wear and small chipping at top edge of spine strip, light rubbing at bottom front edge and flap edge. Text has light foxing at edges, lightly tanned. Pages are clean and well bound and appear unread, without flaw. Two mat finish double page watercolor illustrations by Guy Huze. 'Gay recipes for good eating, good drinking, good parties' Vic knew more about rum and what can be done with it than most. There is also a chapter on The Butterflies, Whips and Jingles, or what is commonly known as the Hangover. He also gives menus and recipes for succulent South Sea dishes and decorating ideas. More than a cookbook "Trader Vic gives you a gay blueprint for good living, salted with wit and inimitable comment". Watercolor illustrations by Guy Huze and line-drawings by William F.M. Kay (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. RARE slipcase, . NICE as pictured A First Edition. A very good condition hardcover in a very good condition dust jacket price present gently read clean pages. Slipcase cracked on one side, a coffee drip.

Small 8vo.; illustrated cloth covered boards, hardcover; 272 pages; black and white and color illustrations; very lightly edge-rubbed boards else very good clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition (same date on copyright and title pages). NVG/-. Yellow paper over boards (frequently described as yellow cloth, but, in fact, it is paper covering the boards), black lettering. Light soiling on edges, light rubs with paper loss at corners, top front corner bumped (visible in picture). Contents clean throughout, binding and hinges are sound. This copy is SIGNED by Zerbe on the front free endpaper. Very nice copy, lacking jacket. Signed by Author(s).…

Boards w/DJ. Condition: G/G. New York, NY: David Kemp. G/G. 1934. . Boards w/DJ. Sm 4to., 110 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, toned and soiled, cover edges rubbed, soiled, corners bumped, page toning . Black & White Photographs (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. with photographs by Jerome Zerbe and an introduction by Lucius Beebe Federal Printing Service, N.Y.C. [62] pp. 1937 15" x 11" The scarce privately printed photo album of legendary nightclub "El Morocco" documents its many famous members, including Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Franklin Roosevelt, and other notables This privately printed book has become as elusive as a table at El Morocco was in the 1930s. Folio-size, it is filled with half-tone portraits of the eclectic mix of Park Avenue society, Hollywood celebrity, and European nobility who frequented the club, all in evening wear and posed with the zebra-patterned banquettes as a backdrop. Divine! Those first years of El Morocco were stupendous. There wasn t a celebrity or a socialite who didn t clamor to get in. Evening dress was mandatory, and so large were the crowds that there was often a waiting line a block long to get in. --Jerome Zerbe.…