SHAW, Charles G.
Nightlife: Vanity Fair's Intimate Guide to New York After Dark.
New York: The John Day Company, 1931.
$1,800.00
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Item Number: RRB-152463
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First Edition of Charles G. Shaw's Nightlife: Vanity Fair's Intimate Guide to New York After Dark
First edition of this witty illustrated guide to the after-dark world of Prohibition-era New York. Octavo, publisher’s elaborately decorated cloth, illustrated by Raymond Bret Koch, title page printed in blue and black, pictorial endpapers decorated with the names of New York clubs. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition. A very sharp example.
Nightlife: Vanity Fair’s Intimate Guide to New York After Dark, published in 1931, is a witty and richly illustrated tour of the nocturnal city at the height of Prohibition, guiding the reader through the speakeasies, nightclubs, dance halls, ballrooms, burlesques, night courts, and all-night haunts of Harlem, Broadway, and Yorkville. Its author, Charles G. Shaw (1892-1974), was a well-known man about town and a contributor to Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, as well as a serious abstract painter who became a leading member of the American Abstract Artists group. Illustrated by Raymond Bret Koch and issued with endpapers decorated with the names of New York clubs, the book is a vivid and now scarce record of the glittering after-hours world of Jazz Age Manhattan.
Nightlife: Vanity Fair's Intimate Guide to New York After Dark.
$1,800.00
In Stock