Toye, Nina & Adair, A H

Petits et Grands Verres

Paris: Au Sans Pareil, [1927].
Second-hand softcover

Toye, Nina & Adair, A H. Petits et Grands Verres: choix des meilleures recettes de cocktails. Au Sans Pareil: Paris [1927]. 8vo (195x145mm) sewn pictorial coloured stiff wraps [4],131,[1],[4 advts]pp. (In French) NF/- edges & prelims toned, light edgwear

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TOYE, Nina [Anna (1879 - ? )] & ADAIR, A H [Arthur Henry "Robin" (1901-1956)]

Petits et Grands Verres: choix des meilleures recettes de cocktails.




Octavo (195x145mm) softcover, sewn pictorial coloured stiff wraps, [4],131,[1],[4 advertisements]pp.  A colour printed Art Deco cover design and 14 line engraving vignettes depicting cocktail equipment and drinks by Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943); translated into French by PH [Philibert] Le Huby (a pseudonym for the artist Jean-Emile Laboureur).   Edges to wraps and prelims very lightly age-toned; else clean, crisp and bright.

The French trade issue of A H Adair and Nina Toye's Drinks Long and Short (William Heinemann 1925) translated by the artist. 

The authors and the artist are connected via the writer and restaurateur X Marcel Boulestin.  Adair was Boulestin's life companion, literary partner and translator. Toye (a published crime fiction author) was the wife of Boulestin's friend, the music critic Francis Toye (with whom Boulestin had co-authored a book some years earlier; Toye was also the Managing Director of Restaurant Boulestin) and Laboureur , a significant French artist, illustrator and engraver (who as Boulestin's friend - had collaborated on Boulestin's earlier books and painted the murals at Restaurant Boulestin in Covent Garden.  Boulestin also wrote the 'companion volume 'Petits et Grands Plats' with Laboureur's wife Suzanne the following year. 



A  near fine scarce Jazz-Age cocktail book

§  No holdings recorded in OCLC this edition.
§  Noling p.409; This edition not in EUVS (cf the English edition, Drinks Long & Short)

Item #9512

Price: $675.00 AUD