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"The Hour" 1951 DEVOTO, Bernard
$250
DEVOTO, Bernard
[84] pp.
Houghton Mifflin Company
1951
First Printing
8 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Jacket design by William Barss
DeVoto on the cultural importance of the cocktail hour, and especially of the indigenous American products - bourbon, rye, and the dry martini.
This important book may well set out people on a new track- at the end of which lies tranquility of soul, newness of spirit, imprisoned in the violet twilight of each day- the cocktail hour.