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Baker, Charles
Gentleman's Companion [2 Volumes] An Exotic Cookery Book [with] An Exotic Drinking Book
New York: Crown Publishers, 1946. Two volumes. First trade edition. Some sunning to spines of red cloth, otherwise fine. Slipcase worn but whole. (Item #2508)
Price: $180.00
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Boothby, William T
Cocktail Bill" Boothby's World Drinks and How to Mix Them.
San Francisco: Boothby's World Drinks Co. 1934. Octavo, 270 pages. Second revised and enlarged edition. An omnibus cocktail book, arranged into sections, "Cocktails," "Highballs," "Fizzes," "Juleps," "Rickeys" etc., with the recipes within each section in alphabetical order. Spine creased, otherwise in very good condition. (Item #2038)
Price: $350.00
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Boothby, William T ("Cocktail Bill")
World Drinks and How to Prepare Them.
San Francisco: Boothby's World Drinks, 1934. Octavo, 270 pages. The expanded repeal edition of this important cocktail recipe book. The legendary Boothby, bartender at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, first compiled his drink recipes in 1891. He died in the year of this publication. The recipes are organized by category of drink (cocktails, rickies, highballs, sangrias, etc.) rather than by base alcohol. Internally very good, in near very good... (Item #2536)
Price: $350.00
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Browne, Charles
The Gun Club Drink Book. Being a More or Less Discursive Account of Alcoholic Beverages, Their Formulae and Uses, Together with Some Observations on the Mixing of Drinks.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947. Octavo, 190 pages. Second printing, following the first edition of 1939. With humorous illustrations by Leonard Holton. A very good copy in near very good dust jacket with a few small chips to the edges. Fairly scarce in any edition. (Item #1650)
Price: $750.00
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Craddock, Harry, compiler
The Savoy Cocktail Book: Being in the main a complete compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other Drinks, known and greatly appreciated in the year of grace 1930, with sundry note
New York: Richard Smith, 1930. Octavo, 287 pages. Illustrated throughout with color decorations by Gilbert Rumbold. First American edition (simultaneous with the British edition), second printing, without the errata slip, and with the Bacardi Cocktail recipe printed in the text. The iconic art-deco, prohibition-era cocktail book, compiled by ex-patriot bartender Harry Craddock of London's Savoy Hotel. The finest copy of the book we've encountered, with the printed foil wrappers bright... (Item #2715)
Price: $2,500.00
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De Baralt, Blanche Z.
Cuban Cookery. Gastronomic Secrets of the Tropics, with an Appendix on Cuban Drinks.
Havana, Cuba: Molina & Cia, 1931. Octavo, 158 pages. Illustrated with line drawings by Conrado Massaguer. A later but early edition of the first Cuban cookbook printed in English. De Baralt was the American wife of a Cuban doctor who moved to Havana around the turn of the century. She clearly felt at home there, as she refers to Cuban food as "our" cuisine throughout. She also exhibits a notable... (Item #2595)
Price: $1,500.00
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Embury, David A
The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. New Revised Edition. Ilustrated by Nathan Gluck.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc. 1958. Octavo, 362 pages. The third, revised edition of perhaps the last of the classic cocktail books, a bookend of sorts to all of the pioneers that came before. Embury was nothing if not opinionated and blunt about expressing himself, so it comes as no surprise that David Wondrich puts him squarely in the "You may not know it, my friend, but... (Item #2516)
Price: $450.00
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Embury, David A
The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. New Revised Edition. Ilustrated by Nathan Gluck.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc. 1958. Octavo, 362 pages. The third, revised edition of perhaps the last of the classic cocktail books, a bookend of sorts to all of the pioneers that came before. Embury was nothing if not opinionated and blunt about expressing himself, so it comes as no surprise that David Wondrich puts him squarely in the "You may not know it, my friend, but... (Item #2517)
Price: $450.00
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Erlanger, Baba & Daren Pierce
The Compleat Martini Cookbook.
New York: Random Thoughts, Inc. 1957. Oblong, comb-bound quarto, 32 pages. First edition. Not a cocktail recipe book, but rather collection of suggested dishes to eat after having one martini, two martinis... you get the idea. Some light foxing, otherwise very good in illustrated boards. (Item #2554)
Price: $120.00
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Jones, Stan
Jones' Complete Bar Guide.
Los Angeles: Barguide Enterprises, 1977. Quarto, 512 pages. First edition. Often called the "last great bar book of the 20th century", this massive compilation of the life work of San Francisco bartender Stan Jones looks as much like an auto manual as a bar guide, but perhaps it just reflects the 1970s. Contains more than 4000 cocktail recipes. Very good, in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author... (Item #2513)
Price: $250.00
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Jones, Stan
Jones' Complete Bar Guide.
Los Angeles: Barguide Enterprises, 1977. Quarto, 512 pages. First edition. Often called the "last great bar book of the 20th century", this massive compilation of the life work of San Francisco bartender Stan Jones looks as much like an auto manual as a bar guide, but perhaps it just reflects the 1970s. Contains more than 4000 cocktail recipes. Very good, in a spine sunned, but otherwise near very good dust jacket. (Item #2514)
Price: $90.00
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North, Sterling & Carl Kroch (editors)
So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon. Illustrated by Roy C. Nelson.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1935). Octavo, unpaginated. First edition. A fanciful and funny cocktail recipe book, asking 1930's literati to contribute drink recipes, then to be named after their works. Thus we end up with the 'Tarzan,' the 'Canary Murder Case,' the 'Pumpkin Coach' and others. Internally fine, but with a bit of water staining to the edge of the front board. In a near fine dust jacket, but... (Item #2346)
Price: $300.00
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Otero, Eduardo E
El Libro del Buen Cocktail.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sopena, 1951. Small octavo, 159 pages. Second edition. Dust wrappers worn at spine, otherwise very good. (Item #2532)
Price: $120.00
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Schraemli, Harry
Das Grosse Lehrbuch der Bar. Neuzeitliches Mixen. Bar-Betriebslehre Winekunde.
Luzern: Fachbucherverlag de Union Helvetia, 1943. Octavo, 556 pages. Third edition, originally published in 1931 under the title 'Neuzeitliches Mixen'. A very thorough bar guide, with information well beyond the recipes. When they do appear, the recipes are conveniently thumb indexed. Schraemli was a noted gourmand, hotelier, book collector and author. A fine copy in printed orange cloth, in a fine original brown dust jacket. Scarce in any of the... (Item #1977)
Price: $750.00
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[Soda Fountain]
Descriptive Catalogue of James W. Tufts Arctic Soda Water Apparatus
Boston: George Ellis, Printer, c. 1890. Small quarto, 128 pages. First edition. A beautifully produced trade catalogue of bottlers' machinery and soda water apparatus. Fine in brown buckram, printed in black and gold. (Item #1966)
Price: $900.00
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Thomas, Jerry (Edited and with an Introduction by Herbert Asbury)
The Bon Vivant's Companion, or, How to Mix Drinks.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Large octavo, 169 pages. Sixth printing of this important, prohibition-era edition, edited and introduced by Herbert Asbury, author of Gangs of New York. Originally published in 1862, bartender Jerry Thomas' book was the first drink book published in the United States. Some light soiling and a stain to the publisher's decorated, yellow cloth binding, otherwise very good. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. [Noling Beverage Literature, page 403]. (Item #2723)
Price: $300.00
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Zabriskie, George A
The Bon Vivant's Companion or How to Mix Drinks.
Ormond Beach, FL: The Author "The Doldrums, 1948. Octavo, 82 pages. Second edition, privately printed. Limited to 1200 unnumbered copies. Presented by the author to "Mr. & Mrs. Jones" and signed by the author at the end of the preface. not all copies were signed, as we've handled a number of copies of both the first and second edition of this work, and this is the first signed copy we've... (Item #2722)
Price: $350.00
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