"L'Art Du Cocktail" 1930 VERMEIRE, Robert Photography

"L'Art Du Cocktail" 1930 VERMEIRE, Robert PhotographyVERMEIRE, Robert[127] pp. Imprimerie des Efficients19306 3 8" x 3 7 8"First edition in French and slightly revised edition of the author's 1922 classic, Cocktails. How to Mix Them, which was the first book to print the recipe for the Sidecar. Vermeire, one of the most influential cocktail personalities of the past century, was a Belgian bartender who plied his trade in London during the European Golden Age before opening 'Roberts' in his home town of

Manager of the Ad Lib made it for a time the most successful nightclub in the world

'The Vanity Fair Album Volume V'

(1909-2000)

inventor of the pari-mutuel machine

to edit this compilation of articles by writers including Hugh Johnson

w/ silver shield crest plaque

Those stories are now brought together in a book that will delight longtime aficionados and win a host of new admirers for this symbol of timeless elegance

Classic polo photograph depicting a pair of players involved in a heady collision

He attended Ecole de Louvre in Paris and then moved to New York to start a photography agency

Inscribed: Very best wishes 13 August 1958 on FFEP

still looks a boy

(Frank Vosmansky)