Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Chandler's cocktail muddlers and Bartender's Guide with notes on the Gimlet
Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler's Trader Vic Bartender's Guide and glass cocktail muddlers. The book Bartender's Guide by Trader Vic, (originally published in 1947 by Doubleday & Company, Inc., this is the Garden City Reprint from 1948), with Raymond Chandler's ownership stamp dated 1954 to the front blank and his noting of seven recipes on the pastedown (including the page numbers for Manhattans, Martinis, Daquiris, etc.), a few notations within including those on the gimlet (p. 131). Original cloth with bartender design stamped on the cover. The endpapers toned and a small sheet of cocktail recipes is taped on the front blank; Together with five glass cocktail muddlers, possibly 1930s or later, each 4 1/2 inches (11.5 cm).
While lots of ink has been spilled over Raymond Chandler's relationship with alcohol, this lot relates more to how those drinks were shaken, stirred, and muddled. Offered here is Chandler's copy of Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide with his notes. Chandler was apparently introduced to the gin gimlet on board the RMS Mauretania and became fond of the drink, having it become Philip Marlowe's staple drink and working it in at least 21 times in The Long Goodbye, published in 1954, the year Chandler has stamped this volume. On the gimlet page, Chandler has penned instructions on how to make the drink to specific proportions of lime juice, dry gin, sugar, and ice. Chandler has also noted a section in the book with Bronx cocktails.
Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
[COCKTAILS]
Raymond Chandler's Trader Vic Bartender's Guide and glass cocktail muddlers. The book Bartender's Guide by Trader Vic, (originally published in 1947 by Doubleday & Company, Inc., this is the Garden City Reprint from 1948), with Raymond Chandler's ownership stamp dated 1954 to the front blank and his noting of seven recipes on the pastedown (including the page numbers for Manhattans, Martinis, Daquiris, etc.), a few notations within including those on the gimlet (p. 131). Original cloth with bartender design stamped on the cover. The endpapers toned and a small sheet of cocktail recipes is taped on the front blank; Together with five glass cocktail muddlers, possibly 1930s or later, each 4 1/2 inches (11.5 cm).
While lots of ink has been spilled over Raymond Chandler's relationship with alcohol, this lot relates more to how those drinks were shaken, stirred, and muddled. Offered here is Chandler's copy of Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide with his notes. Chandler was apparently introduced to the gin gimlet on board the RMS Mauretania and became fond of the drink, having it become Philip Marlowe's staple drink and working it in at least 21 times in The Long Goodbye, published in 1954, the year Chandler has stamped this volume. On the gimlet page, Chandler has penned instructions on how to make the drink to specific proportions of lime juice, dry gin, sugar, and ice. Chandler has also noted a section in the book with Bronx cocktails.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps onDecember 6, 2024 showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
Highlighting the sale was the first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus from 1670 that soared to $70,350. Spinoza’s Tractatus is his only work published during his lifetime and remains his most significant. It presents a clear theory of natural right, asserting that the love of God leads to love for others. The state exists to ensure liberty, not oppression, with justice, wisdom, and toleration as key. Influential to thinkers like Blake and Goethe, it shaped Romanticism.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offered the largest trove of unpublished Raymond Chandler stories, poetry, letters, books and personal artifacts to come to market. Best known for his Philip Marlowe detective novels including The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and as screenwriter of film noir classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946), Raymond Chandler is considered one of the top writers in the hardboiled fiction genre alongside Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. Held for decades, the archive belonged to Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis] who was first hired in January 1957 as Chandler's personal secretary but quickly became his close friend, confidant, fiancé and muse to whom he dedicated his last book.
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