Hardcover first edition of The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller Worlds to Conquer, 1908?1958 by Cary Reich. This copy is signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, reading in part: To Michel Roux, with thanks for all you do for the National Book Foundation, followed by the author?s signature. The book includes its original dust jacket. Jacket shows light edge wear and minor handling; boards and binding are sound. Pages are clean with no apparent markings beyond the author’s inscription.?Please reference all photos for full details.
Measurements: 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" x 2 1/4". Weight: 3.2 lbs
This item is originally from the collection of liquor icon Michel Roux. One of Mr. Roux?s signature spirits at Crillon was absinthe, the anise-flavored spirit known for its popularity among 19th-century artists like van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. It was banned by the United States in 1912 amid concerns that wormwood, one of its ingredients, which contained thujone, caused hallucinations. In 2000, Mr. Roux introduced a legal absinthe, Absente, which used a sister botanical, Southern wormwood, with only trace amounts of thujone.
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