Saloon Society, The Diary of a Year Beyond Aspirin
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Manville, Bill. Saloon Society, The Diary of a Year Beyond Aspirin. First Edition. 1960. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Photographs by David Attie. Design by Alexey Brodovitch.
If you wish to visit Greenwich Village, do not bother taking the IRT or hopping in a taxi. The best means of getting there is to spend a few hours with this near-perfect book of photographs and text. The Greenwich Village portrayed here no longer exists. Yet it remains a state of mind, which Manville captures exquisitely in a series of hard-drinking, late night vignettes. Aphorisms, opinions, dreams, and disappointment float across the pages. The effect is total absorption in a magical world, an out of body experience.
If you wish to visit Greenwich Village, do not bother taking the IRT or hopping in a taxi. The best means of getting there is to spend a few hours with this near-perfect book of photographs and text. The Greenwich Village portrayed here no longer exists. Yet it remains a state of mind, which Manville captures exquisitely in a series of hard-drinking, late night vignettes. Aphorisms, opinions, dreams, and disappointment float across the pages. The effect is total absorption in a magical world, an out of body experience.
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