hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. DEVOTO, Bernard [84] pp. Houghton Mifflin Company 1951 First Printing 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" Jacket design by William Barss DeVoto on the cultural importance of the cocktail hour, and especially of the indigenous American products - bourbon, rye, and the dry martini. This important book may well set out people on a new track- at the end of which lies tranquility of soul, newness of spirit, imprisoned in the violet twilight of each day- the cocktail hour.