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Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1939 Scribner new and revised edition in price clipped jacket, missing the lower 3/4" inches of the front panel. Paper of the front hinge has been reglued due to split. Otherwise tight and unmarked. A72 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Pp. xviii, 190. Frontis. Holton illustration. Illustrated with black line drawings. Bound in orange and black printed cloth, titles and illustrations on the covers and spine, illustrated endpapers, orange topstain. With appendix and index. First edition "A" under the copyright. Spine minimally sunned and rubbed, mellowed crease to front free endpaper. Leaves unmarked. A classic of mixology, companion volume to the author's 1930 Gun Club Cook Book. An introduction to proper drinking for youth brought up on the "illegal and obnoxious beverages of the Prohibition era." Covers the History of Drinking, Malt Liquors, Distilled Liquors, Wine, Punches, Cocktails, Service and Legislation. With numerous delightful Art Deco illustrations.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Browne, Charles. The Gun Club Drink Book. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON, 1939.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Title and decoration gilted. General wear and rubbed cover. Bookplate in the book. Tight binding. DATE PUBLISHED: 1939 EDITION: 190
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$482.39 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's red cloth illustrated and with titles in white to the upper board and spine. Illustrated in black and white throughout by Leonard T. Holton. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, with some darkening to the spine and extremities. The contents are entirely complete, clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Short closed tear to the last page of index. Inscribed by the illustrator in black ink on the half title "To Ruth and Paul / With fondest / memories of happy / days and nights / on Race and on / Pavelton. and / Happy New Year 1940 / Margie and Len". Scarce thus. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Illustrated by Leonard Holton. xviii, 190pp. 8vo. Charles Browne (1875-1947) was Princeton graduate, Penn Medical School, Mayor of Princeton (1914-23), Congressman, and President of the Nassau Gun Club. Orange pictorial boards. About fine in a unclipped pictorial almost Very Good dust jacket by Leonard Holton Illustrated by Leonard Holton. xviii, 190pp. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Leonard Holton dustjacket art and art deco illustrations throughout. Extremely scarce first edition in dustjacket. Classic title in the field of mixology, by a physician, mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, Congressman, sportsman, founder and president of the Nassau Gun Club, and a well-known gourmet. Author also wrote the Gun Club Cook Book. Near Fine but for previous owner signature and date at half-title, in Very Good dustjacket, few closed tears and modest signs of use.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Leonard Holton dustjacket art and art deco illustrations throughout. Extremely scarce first edition in dustjacket. Classic title in the field of mixology, by a physician, mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, Congressman, sportsman, founder and president of the Nassau Gun Club, and a well-known gourmet. Author also wrote the Gun Club Cook Book. Near Fine in a nearly Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, some shallow edge chips, small tear and abrasion at mid spine, small stain at lower spine end, small piece of scotch tape at top front panel.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Charles Browne. The Gun Club Drink Book. Charles Scribner's, 1939.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition Fine Copy.A in Copyright Scribner's Seal.Excellent Copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
BROWNE, Charles. The Gun Club Drink Book. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BROWNE, Charles (SIGNED) on half-title page [190] pp. Charles Scribner's Sons 1939 8 1/8" x 5 3/4" Illustrated by Leonard Holton "A more or less discursive account of alcoholic beverages, their formulae and uses, together with some observations on the mixing of drinks." Capturing the culture and attitudes of a certain class and time, it's something of a didactic recipe book on the making of alcoholic beverages and the various sorts of alcoholic drinks most frequently enjoyed at parties and festive occasions. Wonderful B&W illustrations throughout text, plus frontispiece. Includes a chapter on the history of drinking, wine, wine in cooking, cocktails, punches and other mixed drinks and more. An appendix featuring the St Regis Hotel Wine List, as well as a reference for primary wine and liquor glass shapes. Leonard T. Holton (1906-1973) was a New York illustrator and cartoonist. Charles Brown is also known for penning The Gun Club Cook Book, or a Culinary Code for Appreciative Epicures.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's orange cloth binding with drawings of men and women drinking, titles in white on black background. The lightest of wear at the corners, but a very nice copy externally. Dust wrapper with some small chips at top and bottom of spine, not affecting lettering. Another chip on back cover at the bottom near the fold is about three quarter of an inch by one quarter and affects a few letters of the promotional text. Quarter sized stain on upper margin of frontispiece and title page (looking like a bourbon splash). Brown staining, this time perhaps a single malt, to fore edge and sometimes margins of pages 119-142, not affecting text. Otherwise a clean and nice copy of a much-desirable book, with no owner's signatures, no bookplates, no underlining, with joints strong, etc. 190 pages, including index.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
BROWNE, Charles. The Gun Club Drink Book. Charles Scribner's Sons Ltd., 1939.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (with "A" and Scribner seal). 8vo. Two page preface. B/W illustrated and line drawings by Leonard Holton. Dust jacket (unclipped; a few short tears; two small stains). Pictorial endpapers. Very good. 190 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Information on cocktails, beer, wine, wine in cookery, brandy, gin, whisky, rum. Pages 161-181 with the St. Regis Hotel Wine List.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, xviii, [3]-190pp. Orange illustrated covers, title printed in black and white. First printing with Scribner's A and logo on copyright page. Illustrated frontispiece with numerous drawings by Leonard Holton. Top edge dyed red. In publisher's first state dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, shallow closed tears to top edge near spine, faint toning to spine, bright art deco illustrations on covers. Free of any markings or notable wear, an excellent copy. Illustrated by Leonard Holton.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Illustrated by Leonard Holton. xviii, 190pp. 8vo. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the half-title "To Mariette Russell with affectionate regards from Charles Browne Princeton January 1940." Browne (1875-1947) was a Princeton graduate, Penn Medical School, Mayor of Princeton (1914-23), Congressman, and President of the Nassau Gun Club. Photo/ Orange pictorial boards. About fine in a unclipped pictorial Very Good dust jacket by Leonard Holton, with chips Illustrated by Leonard Holton. xviii, 190pp. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
BROWNE, Charles. The Gun Club Drink Book. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BROWNE, Charles [190] pp. Charles Scribner's Sons 1939 8 1/8" x 5 3/4" Illustrated by Leonard Holton *front flyleaf detached from dust jacket* "A more or less discursive account of alcoholic beverages, their formulae and uses, together with some observations on the mixing of drinks." Capturing the culture and attitudes of a certain class and time, it's something of a didactic recipe book on the making of alcoholic beverages and the various sorts of alcoholic drinks most frequently enjoyed at parties and festive occasions. Wonderful B&W illustrations throughout text, plus frontispiece. Includes a chapter on the history of drinking, wine, wine in cooking, cocktails, punches and other mixed drinks and more. An appendix featuring the St Regis Hotel Wine List, as well as a reference for primary wine and liquor glass shapes. Leonard T. Holton (1906-1973) was a New York illustrator and cartoonist. Charles Brown is also known for penning The Gun Club Cook Book, or a Culinary Code for Appreciative Epicures.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A wonderful pair of complementary food and drink books, both written by --AND SIGNED BY-- Charles Browne, the former Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and founder and President of the Nassau Gun Club (of Princeton). The Gun Club Cook Book, warmly inscribed by Charles Browne in Princeton in 1933, is the 1931 "new and revised edition". A sharp copy to boot: Tight and VG (light staining along the rear panel) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with very light chipping along the top-edges and mild soiling to the rear panel. The Gun Club Drink Book, also signed by Charles Browne on the half-title, is a very presentable copy of the 1939 1st edition. Solid and VG in a crisp, price-clipped, VG example of the uncommon, Leonard Holton-illustrated dustjacket. Both books uniform octavos, both charmingly illustrated throughout by Leonard Holton.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.