London/New York: Macmillan & Co Ltd./St. Martin's Press, 1963. Octavo, 125 pages. 1st edition, US issue, with the St. Martin's sticker, added to the foot of the dust jacket. The author has "collated all Pepy's allusions to alcohol, to Possets and Syllabubs, Cellerage and Cooperage". Very good in publisher's red cloth, in a near very good, lightly spine faded dust jacket with a few older tape repairs to the corners.....

Budapest: Kapheto Aczél Miksa, 1899. Octavo, 96, iv, [ads], pages. Illustrated. First edition of this rare Hungarian cocktail manual, written and published by the famous eponymous cafe/bar. The recipes and other text is in Hungarian, but the cocktail names are in English, and one can get a good sense of not only the cocktails which had appeared in Budapest, but the available ingredients. The author urges those who would embrace.....

Detroit; East Lansing: Mohawk Liqueur Corporation; Michigan Lithographing Co., 1935. Small, stapled booklet (11 x 7.5 cm.), 72 pages. Index. Illustrated throughout in chromolithography. FIRST EDITION. A cocktail recipe manual, with recipes tied to the products of Mohawk Liqueurs, each of which is illustrated. Some light soiling, and a number of tiny pinholes or abrasions. In color decorated yellow wrappers. Near fine. [OCLC locates four copies].

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [n.d. circa 1886]. Octavo, 193, [12] pages. Advertisements. Later printing. Publication date from advertisements, including an announcement for Dick's Comic Dialogues, which were not published until 1886. A thorough manual for the many stillroom items mentioned in the title, including bitters and cordials. The author studied under chemist and botanist V.J. Moner, and operated as a wine merchant on New York's Bowery. His failure as.....

Neuchatels: Idees et Calendes, 1964. Quarto, 124 pages. Illustrated throughout with lithographs by the author. Text in French. First edition. A pleasant and entertaining history of beer from the ancient world to the mid-20th cenury. Tiny bit of wear to the head and foot of the spine, otherwise a fine copy in publisher's paper covered boards, in original glassine.

Paris: Librarie Hachette et Cie. 1914. Small octavo, 170 pages. Illustrated throughout with steel engravings. Third edition. A thorough and detailed manual for the production of fruit brandies, or "waters of life". Includes sections on producing eaux de vie from wine, cider, pear, noyaux (apricot pits), marc (the solid pommace left over from wine production). and more. Some light soiling, and printed paper spine label age darkened, otherwise very good.....

Palaemon Press Limited, 1981. Octavo, unpaginated. No. 26 of 150 numbered copies, signed by the author. First published in Esquire in 1975, this essay by a drinker, not a connoisseur, flies uncomfortably close to the truth. "Anyone who messes around with gin and egg whites deserves what he gets. I should have stuck with bourbon and have from that day to this." In decorated paper boards over tan cloth, with.....

Philadelphia: Printed by Lippincott & Co., 1887. Duodecimo (17 x 11.5 cm.), 95 pages. Includes two pages of "Opinions of the Press". Stated Thirtenth Edition, though more likely a later printing of the first edition. Originally published by Lippincott in 1878, this Temperance tract in verse was republished almost yearly until its final issue, in 1889. The Daily Leader of Binghamton, N.Y. described the work as "an intensely interesting Temperance.....

East Berlin, GDR: Ministerium f. Lebensmittelindustrie, 1957. Oblong octavo, 36 pages. Illustrated throughout. Parallel text in English, Russian, German, Spanish, and French. First edition. A promotional publication for the wines, beers and spirits of the German Democratic Republic, produced in East Berlin. Illustrations and descriptions accompany the long list of beers, brandies, fruit spirits, vodkas, bitters, cordials, and champagnes. In the rear of the booklet, are the names and addresses.....

New York: Oldetyme Distillers, Inc., 1936. Stapled booklet, 26 pages. First edition. A promotional cocktail recipe book, from the makers of Green River Whiskey, Three Feathers Whiskey, and Gold and Silver Feathers Gin. Each recipe is accompanied by a vignette with a humorous illustration by Ronan. Proskauer was President of the Society of American Magicians, a friend of Harry Houdini, and an exposer of frauds and hoaxes. This was Proskauer's.....

London: Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane; Printed by Manning and Mason, 1839. Duodecimo (18 x cm.), xv, 200 pages. FIRST EDITION. A guide to the buying, storing and drinking of wine by the journalist and author, Cyrus Redding, 1785-1870. 'The chief thing in the art of drinking wine is to keep within those salutary limits which mark the beneficial from the pernicious ... This is best done by studying.....

Havana, Cuba: F. Diaz, 1939. Small stapled booklet (12.5 x 8.5cm), 62, [2] pages. Original printing. A later issue in this series of promotional cocktail manuals from Sloppy Joe's, the popular destination of thirsty Americans during Prohibition and after. The cover features a portrait of Jose Abeal y Otero, the namesake of the bar. After nearly fifty years inactive, the bar reopened in its original location in 2013. The rear.....

London: John Van Vorst, Paternaster Row, 1869. Octavo, 62 pages + ads. Color frontispiece. Second edition. "A collection of recipes for the brewing of compound drinks, technically termed 'Cups'" (Preface). Some darkening to edges of boards, otherwise fine. Quite scarce in the marketplace. [Noling Beverage Literature, page 348].