Cocktails and Camels by Jacqueline Carol First Edition

Jacqueline Cooper's first book “Cocktails and Camels,” (Penname Jacqueline Carol) a witty autobiography of her youth in Alexandria was published in New York in 1960 to excellent reviews. Out of print originals have been sold as collectibles and fetch over 120 dollars over the internet.

When Jacqueline, a Lebanese girl, was growing up in Egypt she did not know that she was living in a world that was soon to be of the past. Nor did she love it totally at the time. She was too busy fuming against the restrictions placed on "nice" young Lebanese girls. It was a life that was an odd mixture of the old and new, of countless cocktail parties, incredible luxury, French originals, and definitely Near East attitudes about woman's place.