PAUL, Elliot; QUINTANILLA, Luis. Intoxication Made Easy. New York: Modern Age Books. 1941. 8vo. First edition, being one a limited edition of 100 copies each numbered and signed by the author, though this number 106, signed by both, the number struck-through. Half black cloth over salmon boards with paper label to spine, in the excellent pictorial slipcase as called for. The label to spine a touch stained and rubbed, else a clean copy with small closed tear to preliminary page at fore-edge. Slight offsetting to endpapers, but without stamps or inscriptions. The slipcase rubbed to all edges, slightly stained, but structurally sound.
An unusual one, for sure—a sort of gastronomic comedy quaintly but hyper-energetically written, with musings on everything from erotica to the Spanish Civil War, accompanied by Quintanilla’s equally whacky illustrations. Paul is perhaps best remembered for his Life and Death of a Spanish Town, written in the midst of the Civil War as he was recuperating from a nervous breakdown. He was, of course, in the thick of Lost Generation artistic circles and that movement’s jazzy energy is seen here. There was a trade edition issued in a dust jacket; this limited edition naturally scarce.
PAUL, Elliot; QUINTANILLA, Luis. Intoxication Made Easy. New York: Modern Age Books. 1941. 8vo. First edition, being one a limited edition of 100 copies each numbered and signed by the author, though this number 106, signed by both, the number struck-through. Half black cloth over salmon boards with paper label to spine, in the excellent pictorial slipcase as called for. The label to spine a touch stained and rubbed, else a clean copy with small closed tear to preliminary page at fore-edge. Slight offsetting to endpapers, but without stamps or inscriptions. The slipcase rubbed to all edges, slightly stained, but structurally sound.
An unusual one, for sure—a sort of gastronomic comedy quaintly but hyper-energetically written, with musings on everything from erotica to the Spanish Civil War, accompanied by Quintanilla’s equally whacky illustrations. Paul is perhaps best remembered for his Life and Death of a Spanish Town, written in the midst of the Civil War as he was recuperating from a nervous breakdown. He was, of course, in the thick of Lost Generation artistic circles and that movement’s jazzy energy is seen here. There was a trade edition issued in a dust jacket; this limited edition naturally scarce.
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