A Stiff Drink and a Close Shave: The Lost Arts of Manliness — Bob Sloan and Steven Guarnaccia

Author: Bob Sloan and Steven Guarnaccia

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Format: Hardcover

Edition: First printing, 1995

ISBN: 0811807576 / 9780811807579

Condition: Second-hand. Hardcover with light shelf wear, minor rubbing to corners and edges, light handling marks, and an old price sticker on the spine/rear. Pages appear clean overall. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

A Stiff Drink and a Close Shave is a small-format illustrated celebration of vintage masculine style and paraphernalia from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. It features over 150 full-colour illustrations of shaving brushes, cufflinks, barware, cocktail shakers, pocket lighters, poker chips and other objects from a bygone era of grooming, drinking, smoking and dress.

Part design book, part pop-culture curiosity, it will suit readers interested in vintage advertising, mid-century men’s accessories, grooming culture, cocktail-era design and retro style.