The Hour
DeVoto
From Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since August 9, 2010
Quantity: 1From Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since August 9, 2010
Quantity: 1About this Item
84 p. Red and gray cloth over boards. Front: gold raised cocktail glass before clock. Pen&Ink illustrations. "The Hour" begins by offering American History on the light side as regards alcohol, the beverage; offers up blame on publishers and their cookbooks finding new ways to use liquor and wine; and then gets to an American studies observation of the importance of the cocktail hour, which for this author is 6pm. He credits Prohibition with bringing equality of drinking for women, together with men surreptitiously. Toward the end, he laments that history has not recorded who the inventor was of distillation. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Slight spine sun fade. Light top page block foxing. 1 0.0. Seller Inventory # Alibris.90120004231
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Hour
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company., Boston.
Publication Date: 1951
Binding: Hard cover
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