Author: GORDON, KEVIN & H. PAUL JEFFERS
Title: The Good Cigar
Description: New York: The Lyons Press, 1996. Hardcover. ISBN: 1558215166. Illustrated by Kevin Gordon. B & W and Color; 8 X 7.20 X 0.90 inches; xv, 207 pages; Hard cover is grey boards with black spine with gold lettering, very slight bumping. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. DJ has 1" closed tear at top of spine, light rubbing, scuffing and bumping. Illustrated with 26 color pictures and many b/w ones. Grey end papers. "As the war on smoking gathers steam, the cigar is staging a comeback. An obstreperous symbol of manly taste, urbanity and swanky sangfroid, cigar smoking is a practice that can nevertheless prove intimidating to a novice who doesn't know how to recognize or make proper use of a good cigar. In this useful handbook, Jeffers, a freelance writer, and Gordon, a painter, explain how to judge a cigar, whether it's a hand-rolled $30 Havana or a cigarillo; how the tobacco is cultivated and how the best cigars are constructed and stored; the cigar in history and literature; and famous cigar mavens, like Zino Davidoff, who allegedly invented the first humidor, and Mark Twain, who famously claimed to have given up smoking cigars a thousand times". [Publisher's Weekly]. Bibliography; Language of Cigars; Index.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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