The Stork Club Bar Book
Beebe, Lucius. The Stork Club Bar Book. First Edition. 1946. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. This book, with its pictorial red cover is one of the few examples when a book is equally coveted without dust jacket. In this case, the jacket has ensured that the red covers remain in pristine condition.
Gossip columnists and nightclubs enjoy a symbiotic relationship. Could one survive without the other? As such, it is no surprise that Stork Club owner Sherman Billingsley hired Lucius Beebe, who chronicled fashionable society for the New York Herald Tribune, to supply the commentary in this book on the famed nightspot. The book includes drink recipes unique to the Stork Club, as well as concoctions supplied by its glamorous patrons (Gloria Swanson, for example). In between recipes, Beebe philosophizes about food, drink, and café society, as well as relating stories about the Stork Club and how it came to be.
“More than any other city on earth, New York lives in public. It drinks, dines and dances in multiple postures in public places and it takes inordinate pleasure in reading about itself so occupied.”
--Lucius Beebe