BARNABY CONRAD, III
Absinthe : history in a Bottle
San Francisco, Chronicle Books. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 087701566X) Paperbound, Tall 4to.. Book, pict covers, xi, 160 pages : illustrations (some color), CONTENTS: An absinthe murder -- Baudelaire, Manet, and the absinthe era -- Absinthe and the poets : Verlaine, Rimbaud, Wilde, and Dowson -- Degas takes absinthe to London -- From Montmartre to the Marquesas : Lautrec, Van Gogh, Monticelli, and Gauguin -- Jarry and Picasso : the absinthe blur of art -- The origins of ancient and modern absinthe -- The medical case against absinthe -- Absinthe and politics -- Absinthe and war -- After the ban -- Absinthe today : vive la feŽe verte -- A modern analysis of absinthe.A very good copy of a beautiful book. Very Good.
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