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Restaurants, Dancings, Cafes, Bars
Paris was transformed by the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes of 1925. This portfolio of black and white photographs documents interiors and facades of popular Parisian dining and entertaining establishments. The new Paris, as created by the most prominent architects and decorators of the time, such as Charles Siclis, Pierre Patout, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Louis Sognot, and Maurice Dufrêne, among other notables, is represented in this volume.
On Booze
A fitting collaboration for two fixtures of San Francisco’s Beat scene, On Booze is a collection of poems on individual spirits and cocktails accompanied by line drawings of faces.
To James Bond With Love
The lives of James and Mary Bond, a Philadelphia ornithologist and author, respectively, were altered the day that author Ian Fleming, a bird lover who was familiar with Bond’s book “The Birds of the West Indies,” appropriated James Bond’s name for his fictional spy character. In this biography of her husband, Mary Wickham Bond describes in delightful stories her life with him, both ornithological and literary. It includes such anecdotes as the time the ‘real’ James Bond met Ian Fleming (there’s a photo of this event in the book, which took place in Goldeneye, Jamaica) and managing episod
