21: Every Day Was New Year's Eve

Kriendler, H. Peter; Jeffers, H. Paul. 21: Every Day Was New Year's Eve. Memoirs of a Saloon Keeper. Taylor Publishing Company. Dallas. 1999. First Edition with full 10-digit number line. Signed and inscribed by the author on half-title page: "Mary L - with all my best regards - a wonderful gal. Peter Kriendler 12/99". 9.5 X 6.5 (24 X 16). [3] title; publisher's page; contents; pp. 1-282; [1].

"The story of New York's "21" Club is the story of American Glamour in the twentieth century. In this star-studded memoir, Peter Kriendler - younger brother of Jack Kriendler, cofounder of "21" - paints a spellbinding portrait of the club through its birth as a Greenwich Village speakeasy, its move to Midtown during Prohibition, the tough days of the Great Depression, the dazzling Camelot nights and the shining go-go years, as it became America's most legendary restaurant. […] Illustrated with photos from the Kriendler family's personal archives, cartoons and news clippings spanning the club's history, and reproductions of actual "21" menus, "21" provides a unique memoir of the club that sits at 21 West Fifty-Second in New York City. "21" is a chronicle of America, it's premier city and some of the fascinating people who have dropping into "21" over the past eight decades, including Steinbeck, Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Frank Sinatra, Groucho Marx, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Cary Grant, Jackie Kennedy Onassis and more."

Nearly new condition. Minor shelf crease to tail of jacket spine. Red cloth boards with silver title, author and publisher detail on spine. Marbled endpapers. Interior pages are clean and bright.