Sunday, July 22, 2007

...if anyone wants to buy me a present....

... i would definitely put out for this....

...i mean, maybe just first base.... it is only a book after all... but i am a pretty good kisser.....

...if you really loved me you'd just get it for me....


Manhattan Oases: New York's 1932 Speak-Easies, with a Gentleman's Guide to Bars and Beverages by Gordon Kahn
by Al Hirschfeld; With An Introduction By Heywood Broun

By 1932, with a feeling that Prohibition was ending, Al Hirschfeld decided to use his artistic skill to document the various speakeasies around Manhattan. This is a first edition of Manhattan Oases, featuring thirty-six drawings of bartenders by Hirschfeld and a witty guide to "bars and beverages" by Gordan Kahn.

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