{"product_id":"crosby-gaige-cocktail-guide-new-york-1946-122845","title":"Cocktail Guide","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eA beautifully illustrated and humorous copy of Gaige's Cocktail Guide from 1946, marking New York's cultural renaissance after the war. This edition contains a foreword by the American writer and gourmand, Lucius Beebe. Despite some external wear to the dust-jacket, the internal work is in very good condition and provides a comical glimpse into the world of women and cocktails in post-war USA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition, fifth printing; 8vo (21 x 14.5 cm); printed illustrations to chapter pages, very light spotting on page edges with slight encroachment to extreme edges of a few leaves, not affecting text, otherwise very good internal condition; publisher's red cloth boards, black illustration and text to upper panel, black lettering to spine, colourfully illustrated dust-jacket, rubbed at extremities, losses to top, bottom and spine, affecting some lettering on upper panel, loss to upper right hand corner of front flap, slight loss to text, otherwise, a handsome, period jacket; [x], 223pp, [1]pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"GAIGE, Crosby.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57051966177655,"sku":"122845","price":514.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/122845_c619dfcd-b8ae-4905-9771-4e2423168089.jpg?v=1780537988","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/en-us\/products\/crosby-gaige-cocktail-guide-new-york-1946-122845","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}