Paperback edition of the super-cool ’50s entertaining guide
Eclectic, funny and kitsch advice for every wannabe sophisticated man-about-town, the Esquire Handbook for Hosts, first published in 1955, deserves to be a modern humour classic. This edition with 40 of the original illustrations contains witty and informative sections on:
• all sorts of classic James Bond type cocktails
• recipes and hangover cures
• manners for the modern man – notes on etiquette
• how to carve
• how to remove a drunk from the house
• the art of conversation, small talk and debate
• rules for card and party games, including poker, three-handed bridge and gin rummy
• chatting up the opposite sex
…and much, much more.
A design/humour classic – the book is designed ’50s style with muted colour tints dropped in.
Peter Howarth is the editor of Esquire. He will give interviews.