MacDonald, Aeneas [Thompson, George Malcolm].

Whisky.

New York: Duffield & Green, 1934.

Octavo, 135 pages. First US edition. Perhaps the greatest whisky book ever written. Charles Maclean, my favorite current authority on the matter of whisky, wrote, "If I could take one whisky book to a desert island, it would be Aeneas MacDonald's Whisky. It is a shining gem of a book - polemic, passionate, provocative, poetic; romantic (nothing wrong with that); beautifully written; so amusing in places that I laugh out loud, yet so well-informed that I long suspected its author to have been a distiller or exciseman." Aeneas MacDonald is a nom de plume, and the identity of the author of Whisky, has long been debated, but Ian Buxton, in his introduction to a modern reprint of the books, reveals it to be George Malcolm Thompson, founder of the Porpoise Press. With the bookseller ticket of the James W. Robinson Co., of Los Angeles on the rear paste-down, and a receipt from the original purchase at that shop laid-in. Some offsetting from the receipt to a final blank page, other wise, truly fine, in a fine dust jacket.