London: Printed by W. Sears, 11, Budge Row, Walbrook, 1830. Booklet, sewn in wrappers. Octavo (22.5 x 14.5 cm.), 16 pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A response to the impending Beer Act of 1830, from a "Country Brewer". The commercial policy called the Beer Act would open brewing and cider making up to all householders who paid a modest fee, and the existing brewers, all licensed by local magistrates, were.....

[N.p. New England (?): circa 1890]. Original photograph on board (16.3 x 22 cm.). Photographic print of tavern interior, with five men gathered around a bar and a wood or coal stove. The men include the bar or tavern keeper in jacket behind the bar, a waiter in white apron with a tray at the ready, and three customers: one warming his hands at the fire, another sporting a shot.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm.), 307, vii, [1] pages. Illustrated. Index. Top edge yellow. FIRST & SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION. A biography of the radical temperance activist Carrie Nation, by the legendary journalist Herbert Asbury, author of Gangs of New York, The Great Illusion, and Barbary Coast. Carry Nation was published the year following Asbury's edition of Jerry Thomas' Bon Vivant's Companion. In publisher's.....

[Tokyo: Kadokawa Bunko, 1985]. Duodecimo-sized book (15 x 10.5 cm.), 221, [3] pages. Color illustrated. Text in Japanese only. FIRST EDITION. A collection of cocktail recipes from the iconic Bar Radio in Tokyo's Aoyama district. Koji Ozaka was head bartender there for over forty years. Clean and sound, in publisher's pink and orange wrapper. Additional color illustrated dust jacket has lightest abrasions at edges. With printed blue belly band. Overall.....

London: Baldwin and Cradock, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, Robertson and Atkinson, Glasgow, W.F. Wakeman, Dublin, and G. and C. Carvill, New York, 1829. Two volumes. Octavos (22.7 x 15.2 cm.), 32, [4] pages; 32, [2] pages. With six steel engraved illustrations of equipment in the text, and additional charts and tables. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Two additional volumes were issued in 1834 by F.J. Madon of London. A practical explanation of.....

Del Monte, California: Hotel Del Monte, 1933. Stapled, octavo-sized book (16.5 x 11.5 cm.), unpaginated [32] pages. Illustrated throughout by Jo Mora; printed on alternating green and yellow paper, and printed in black, red, and green ink. Second printing (styled "second edition"). Originally printed and distributed less than one week after the repeal of Prohibition, with this second printing just thirteen days later. This cocktail manual also preceded publication of.....

Waukesha, Wisconsin: Published by Clysmic Spring Co., [1912]. Booklet, cord-tied in wrappers (18 x 13 cm.), [2], 32, [2] pages. Illustrated. Title and publication information from wrapper. Date from external evidence (1912 issue of Life Magazine announcing the publication). Evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional bar manual consisting of cocktail recipes made with Clysmic water. Most of the recipes are followed by quoted toasts. At the bottom of each page is.....

[England: Cunard White Star, 1937]. Tri-fold, card-stock menu (15 x 8 cm. folded), [6] pages. Illustrated, and signed "A.K. MacDonald" in the print. A shipboard cocktail menu, labeled "Express Steamers, (American Cruise, 1-12-37)". The name of the ship is not specified. The menu offers lists of Aperitifs, Cocktails, Liqueurs, Mixed and Fancy Drinks, Cigars, Tobacco, Cigarettes, and Playing Cards. two panels illustrated with a fantastic image by A.K. Macdonald, featuring.....

Philadelphia: 1880. Champagne bottle-shaped die cut, (19 x 7 cm.), 12 pages, plus card cover. Chromolithograph illustrated wrappers, bound with a brass grommet. Decorative blue and white silk cord and tassel. The text outlines the Officer and Trustees, Conductors, The Programme (a series of Marches and Promenades, Quadrilles and Waltzes), Supper is served in the foyer. Fine.

Osh Kosh, WI: Direct Mail Associates, Inc., [circa 1935]. Tall booklet, stapled in wrappers (22.5 x 10 cm.), [16] pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cocktail recipe book, although it is unclear what it is promoting, as no specific products are mentioned. It was issued by the Direct Mail Association, an early innovator in the field of marketing through the mail. The piece itself is not dated, but laid-in is a......

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1958. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 362 pages. Third Edition, Revised. 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.....

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, [1931]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (12.5 x 8.5 cm.), 32 pages. FIRST EDITION; the issue with yellow wrappers, printed in red. Little Blue Book No. 1688. A prohibition-era cocktail book, with recipes made with "non-alcoholic ingredients". Internally a bit age-toned, in keeping with the poor-quality paper generally used by Haldeman-Julius; Wrapper lightly soiled and starting to separate at the spine crease. Still near very good and.....

Berkeley & Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2009. Quarto (26.5 x 22 cm.), 336 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The gonzo wine memoir from the original Rhone Ranger, one of California's great innovative vintners. Fine, in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title.