Still Life with Bottle: Whiskey According to Ralph Steadman por Ralph Steadman - 1994

Ebury Press, 1994. Hardcover. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Hardback. Good.

Square spine, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Dust jacket has no rips. Not a remainder.

London: Ebury Press Random House, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The jacket is lightly shelf stained, else a very nice copy. 160 pages. Included as a loose insert a small recipe booklet 'Galliano presents "The Italian Classics"."Asked to create a book on malt whisky and its ways, Ralph Steadman embraced the subject with characteristic passion and zeal. What resulted from this initial foray was a fascination for an industry rich in folklore, steeped in mysterious tales as dark as peat, and, even more so, for the magical liquid that it produces. And so he embarked on the whisky trail. Traveling the length and breadth of Scotland and its islands, Ralph Steadman looks at the art of blending and the craft of cooperage, at the skill required to choose just the right amount of peat to fire a kiln, and at the cunning needed to smuggle an illicit dram in a pair of wellington boots past a watchman. He also charts the wild days of smuggling and the indelible mark they left on the… Ler mais

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Ebury Press. Bound in perfect brown cloth with bright gilt titles to spien, this dated 1994 hardcover First Edition (First Printing) is VG in Vg dustjacket(unclipped). 160pp with Introduction, Prewhiskery, Whiskery, and Index. Numerous humorous colour drawings, condition all VG . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1994.

London: Ebury Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0091784093 . STiff clean book, about new but for small nameplate to blank page facing the half-title page; in crisp barely rubbed dust jacket. Signed and dated boldly by Steadman on the half-title page. Scarce signed in the true first edition (UK 1994). ; 58.5 x 11.25; 160 pages; Signed by Author .