Cocktails
Madrid: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1928. First edition. 405, [7] pp. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered in black and ruled in blind on the front board. Illustrated with two photographic frontispieces and line drawings in the text. Some faint, expected page toning, corners slightly rubbed, else a bright and near fine example.
First edition of Chicote’s second book, warmly inscribed by Chicote at the half-title page in the year following publication. Chicote’s bar was popular with journalists and writers, including Hemingway, who used it as the setting for two of his short stories, “The Denunciation” and “The Butterfly and the Tank,” as well as in the play The Fifth Column. “Most of Chicote’s old customers are on Franco’s side; but some of them are on the Government side. Because it was a very cheerful place, and because really cheerful people are usually the bravest, and the bravest get killed quickest, a big part of Chicote’s old customers are now dead.” - Ernest Hemingway, “The Denunciation.”
Rare. OCLC locates a single holding, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana. Item #2614
Price: $1,850.00