shaw charles decorated raymond bret koch (2 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Decorated by Raymond Bret-Koch (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Tight binding, solid illustrated boards with sharp corners, bright red lettering to front board and to spine strip, red top edge, decorated end papers, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Book shows almost no wear apart from small bumps to top corners of boards; illustrated front cover is bright and clear. Unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket is only fair, chipped at corners and along spine, with toning to spine. An absolutely delightful Prohibition-era guide to New York, laid out neighborhood by neighborhood with illustrations and plenty of commentary: 'I do not like the foyer of the Forrest Theatre, the pretentiousness of Reuben's, cocktails containing absinthe, and the bouncer at the Club Elite. I prefer the Colony Restaurant's entrees to the majority of its patrons. I regret that Columbus Avenue's Old Landmark isn't what it used to be. I have never witnessed anything worth a cent at the Cherry Lane Theatre. I admire the divan seats at the Capitol. I believe Manhattan night life to be gayer than that of London, less genuine than Berlin's, and more amusing than that of Paris. I believe that whether there be speakeasies or not New York will always have night clubs. I regret that some of the spots mentioned in this book have probably gone out of business.' Needless to say, in the past eighty years, nearly *every* spot mentioned in "Nightlife" has indeed gone out of business. Sigh. 182 pages. U.S. buyers, contact me for a possible discount.