After they'd had their fill of the thematic cocktails (The Penguin, a variation on a White Russian, and The Matilda, a liquored-up mimosa named for the housecat that lives in the lobby and serves as the hotel's mascot, perhaps even more so than Dorothy Parker), partygoers traded in a postcard-size photo of the resident kitty for a gift bag. Below the jump, a catalog of the goodies contained therein.

Clockwise from the top:

A black Classic Penguin tote bag (because the 10 we have isn't enough)

A brochure for the New York Pops 2012-2013 season (the musical trio playing the party were members of the New York Pops)

A ball-point pen with the New York Pops logo on the side

A Thousand Mornings, poems by Mary Oliver

The Portable Dorothy Parker, edited by Marion Meade (which, ironically, is a rather hefty thing)

Penguin Classics: A Complete Annotated Listing

Four notecards featuring photographs of old New York buildings (photographs that also hang in the rooms of the Algonquin) by Irving Underhill

A matted piece of former Algonquin wallpaper adorned with various New Yorker cartoons (at the center of our segment was a James Thurber cartoon)

The Penguin Previews Series at the Round Table begins this week with three events during BookExpo America and will then continue on a quarterly basis.