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Language: English
Published by Thorsons, London, 1999
- Hardcover
- Used
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- Title
- The Esquire Handbook - The Original 50's Guide for the Sophisticated Man
- Author
- Peter Howarth
- Publisher
- Thorsons, London
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0722539029
- ISBN 13
- 9780722539026
- Item weight
- 0.97 pounds
Original ’50s guide for the debonair 007 in every man!Eclectic, funny and kitsch advice for every wannabe sophisticated man-about-town, the Esquire Handbook for Hosts, first published in 1949, deserves to be a modern humour classic. This edition with 40 of the original illustrations contains witty and informative sections all sorts of classic James Bond type cocktails recipes and hangover cures manners for the modern man – notes on etiquett How to carve how to remove a drunk from the house the art of conversation, small talk and debate rules for card and party games, including poker, three handed bridge and gin rummy chatting up the opposite sex …and much, much more.A design/humour classic – the book uses the ’50s style with muted colour tints dropped in.
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