First Edition. Original green cloth, octavo, 220 pages plus two pages of ads. An uncommon treatise on consumable liquids, including chapters on Beer, Malt Liquors, Wines and Spirituous Liquors, as well as Cocoa, Coffee, Tea, Milk and Waters. The two chapters concerned with liquors covers spirit history, Brandy, Rum, Whiskey, Gin, Absinthe, and Arrac. Uncommon. Very Good attractive copy, old previous owner signature at front endpaper. Item #37667

Fourth Printing, "Revised or Repeal Edition". Octavo, original cloth and decorative dustjacket, 114 pages. Collection of cocktails, beer and wine. Cocktails include Gin Cocktails (Bronx, Ritz, etc.), Whiskey (Hong Kong, Tennessee, etc), Plain Bacadi Cocktail, Vivary Cocktail, Cuban Cocktail, etc. Scarce in dustjacket. Very Good, bookplate at front pastedown, in Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, darkening at spine, lacking top 2 1/2 inches of rear panel. Item #34753

Second Printing (November 1933). Octavo, original cloth and decorative dustjacket, 112 pages. Collection of cocktails, beer and wine. Cocktails include Gin Cocktails (Bronx, Ritz, etc.), Whiskey (Hong Kong, Tennessee, etc), Plain Bacadi Cocktail, Vivary Cocktail, Cuban Cocktail, etc. Scarce in dustjacket. Very Good, some spotting to cloth, in Very Good dustjacket, some nicks to edges, some mild soiling to panels. Item #37246

Second Edition. One of the basic cocktail mixing books, with 700 recipes. Very Good in Good dustjacket, shallow chips to edges, creases along lower front panel, some foxing to flaps. Item #34302

New Revised Edition (no printing statement at copyright page).John Reed jacket photograph. One of the basic cocktail mixing books, with 700 recipes. Near Fine but for some black residue from an old jacket protector along lower edge of covers, in Near Fine bright dustjacket. Item #37195

First Edition stated. Octavo, original black cloth, rust colored dustjacket. Seldom encountered true first edition of one of the best known cocktail mixing books, with 700 recipes. Near Fine but for a couple stains at middle pages, in dustjacket that is Very Good but for some kind of surface 'erosion' to rear panel which obscures a good part of the panel text. Item #41312

No date, circa 1920's to 1930's (or later, difficult to tell, and I find no references to this booklet) First Edition. Original green wrappers, 36 pages, 6 by 4 1/2 inches. Collection of short and tall drink recipes by this Dutch company that started in the 16th Century. Very Good. Item #41376

First Edition. Octavo, original printed orange cloth, stamped in green, 59 numbered pages (plus note pages). This copy signed by author at front free endpaper. Also includes four original recipes (presumably not in the hand of the author, but possibly) at rear pages intended for that purpose. They include J. M. K. Special, Miami Beach 1929, 211 East Chestnut St. Special, and Tink (Victorious Red Chinaman) Extra Special. Scarce Prohibition era cocktail recipe guide published on the cusp of repeal. Includes Buster Brown, Bronx, Cold Whiskey Sling, Auditorium Cooler, etc. WorldCat locates two copies, one at the Library of Congress and the other at the New York Public Library. Very Good, bit faded at spine. Item #35479

Early Edition (cover varies from 1908 issue, but appears to be pre-prohibition vintage). Original illustrated wrappers, 16 pages, 5 by 3 inches. Very scarce guide, no copies found on WorldCat. Includes five pages of cocktail recipes, such as Rum Highball, Rum Flip, Old Rum Cocktail, Fancy Rum Smash, Rum Crusta, Tom and Jerry, etc. A 1908 review of an early printing of this brochure states: "Messrs Felton & Son of Boston Mass., the distillers of Old Crystal Spring Rum, have issued a very neat little pamphlet about old rum and its uses. After reading this little pamphlet through, which has a word about the merits of rum in general and then tells of its medicinal uses and gives a number of recipes for medicinal culinary and beverage purposes, one feels that there is no finer beverage made or one so beneficial to use than good old rum. We don't know who prepared this dissertation on rum for Messrs Felton & Son but it is written in such a way as to make your mouth water, as the little boy would say, for a taste of some of the pleasant and refreshing rum drinks described. He is in fact so enthusiastic about this particular brand that Felton's Old Crystal Spring Rum is now being bottled in bond, the only rum in the world with this distinction. This is also told about in the little book on Old Rum and Its Uses". Very Good, tiny nick at mid front panel. Item #34312

Presumed First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth, photographically illustrated dustjacket. Very uncommon German post-World War Two cocktail recipe guide with drink titles in English and recipes in German. Illustrated with photographs. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #35483

First Edition. Original wrappers, 16 pages (including wraps), 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches. An uncommon small cocktail recipe guide. Near Fine. Item #40947

First Edition. 6" by 3 1/2", original illustrated wrappers, 12 pages. Mixing manual for Gin, includes recipes for Ping Pong Special Cocktail, Mabel Berra Cocktail, Futurity Cocktail, Eclipse, etc. We believe this to be the first Fleischmann's recipe book and to be published shortly after prohibition ended. Very Good. Item #40655