‘If there had never been a Stork Club, mankind in his vast and urgent necessity would have invented one’
The Stork Club Bar Book.
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1946.
Price: $2,000.00
About the item
First edition, presentation copy. Loose fold-out booklet with full-page, full-color illustrations. i-xiii, [14]-136 pp. Deluxe issue title on stub, as issued (with notice of binding by Brown & Bigelow on verso), typography by Paul Rand. 1 vols. 8vo. Original full red morocco lettered in gilt with Stork Club device to upper cover, by Brown & Bigelow (signed on back cover). Light offsetting to endpapers but otherwise very clean. Fine copy, minimal shelf wear, tiny surface scuff to front pastedown. With scarce four-panel color-illustrated booklet, "The Stork and the Fox" loosely inserted. Provenance: William J. Morris (name lettered in gilt to front cover).
Item #374855
A handsome presentation copy of the first edition of this classic of mixology, owned by former Brooklyn and New York Municipal Court judge, William J. Morris.