Clearance, Sale Items, Bargains !
This page will feature publications that are in mint or near-mint condition, perhaps still in print, more likely out of print, now on sale at steeply discounted prices. The prices are final. The quantities are limited, sometimes singular.
If you want to pick up the item in the store, please give me prior notice - I have them stored in another building on the campus of Whistlestop Bookshop.
Holy Smoke
Holy Smoke
First edition, still in publisher’s shrinkwrap. Originally published 1985, now out of print.
At once hilarious, informative and outrageous, this is a marvelously readable homage to the cigar. Sprinkled with a treasure trove of fascinating anecdotes taken from film, history, literature, science, art and folklore, Cabrera Infante lovingly unleashes a veritable arsenal of delicious details about cigars and those who smoke them. Groucho Marx, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Colette, Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe, and Humphrey Bogart are among the supporting players making guest appearances in this star vehicle for the cigar. This classic cigar chronicle also explores how cigars are made, the importance of the brand (and the band), why a cigarette is not a cigar, the history of tobacco itself, and the manners and mores of cigar smoking - including how to cut and how to smoke.