Rae, Simon

The Faber Book of DRINK, DRINKERS AND DRINKING

London: Faber and Faber, 1991. Hardcover. 554 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Alcohol is mankind's favorite mind-altering drug, and always has been. This anthology offers a generous selection, ranging from the Epic of Gilgamest, which predates Homer by some 1500 years, through Homer himself, the Bible, Beowulf, Rabelais, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens and Zola, to such contemporaries as Kingsley, Amis Martin Amis, Thomas Pynchon, Gavin Ewart, Wendy Cope and Seamus Heaney. Interior and boards clean, pages lightly toned. Dust wrapper lightly rubbed at edges. Covered in protective mylar. Maroon cloth covered boards. Very good, in very good dust wrapper. Item #4076

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