Presumed Early or First Edition. Original green illustrated wrappers, 7" by 5", 32 pages. Series number: "No. 1263". Includes recipes for cocktails, fruit wines, cordials and simple liquors, plus recipes for temperance drinks, and invalids' drinks. A rather plain Jane and fairly cheaply produced title, but scarce. Very Good. Item #32775

Presumed Early or First Edition. Original green illustrated wrappers, 7 by 5 inches, 32 pages. Includes recipes for cocktails, fruit wines, cordials and simple liquors, plus recipes for temperance drinks, and invalids' drinks. A rather plain Jane and fairly cheaply produced title, but scarce. Large 'supplementary catalogue of surprising novelties, puzzles, tricks, joke goods, and useful articles, etc. at rear. Note in ads states: Note our new address. For fifteen years prior to January 1, 1936, we have been located at Racine, Wisconsin. Please note, however, that we have now moved to Detroit, Michigan. Very Good, most pages dog eared. Item #37211

Second Edition stated, limited to 2,000 copies. Small octavo, 7 numbered pages plus colophon page and blanks. Near Fine, small tape shadow at front endpaper, in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket. Item #40924

Presumed First Edition. Tall octavo, original illustrated wrappers, 87 pages plus two page index. A contemporary ad for this book states: "American drinks: some new, some old, from buttermilk and ginger beer to whiskey punch. An effort is made to cover non alcoholic as well as alcoholic beverages. Even black coffee is included. The book has rubricated crossheads ornamented cover and a quaint format." Beginning in 1902, May E. Southworth wrote a series a cookbooks for Paul Elder, each containing one hundred and one recipes. Elder named the series “101 Epicurean Thrills”. They sold well and many were reprinted into the early 1910's. Very Good, dime sized chip at upper rear cover at spine end, two centimeters of loss to wraps at lower spine end. Item #32728

Revised Edition. Tall octavo, original illustrated wrappers (misbound, with publisher utilizing the '101 Entrees' wrappers), 87 pages plus index. A contemporary ad for this book states: "American drinks: some new, some old, from buttermilk and ginger beer to whiskey punch. An effort is made to cover non alcoholic as well as alcoholic beverages. Even black coffee is included. The book has rubricated crossheads ornamented cover and a quaint format." Beginning in 1902, May E. Southworth wrote a series a cookbooks for Paul Elder, each containing one hundred and one recipes. Elder named the series “101 Epicurean Thrills”. They sold well and many were reprinted into the early 1910's. Good copy, abrasion marks to margins of front and rear cover, stapled text block detached from binding. Item #35488

Revised Edition. Tall octavo, original illustrated wrappers, 87 pages plus index. A contemporary ad for this book states: "American drinks: some new, some old, from buttermilk and ginger beer to whiskey punch. An effort is made to cover non alcoholic as well as alcoholic beverages. Even black coffee is included. The book has rubricated crossheads ornamented cover and a quaint format." Beginning in 1902, May E. Southworth wrote a series a cookbooks for Paul Elder, each containing one hundred and one recipes. Elder named the series “101 Epicurean Thrills”. They sold well and many were reprinted into the early 1910's. Very Good, numerous small closed tears along wrapper edges, some small edge chips, some loss at spine ends. Item #40650

Sixth Edition (copyright page states: Reprinted, 1925). Original red boards and illustrated dustjacket. A not uncommon cocktail recipe guide that went through several editions from 1899 to 1925. However, this copy retains its original Phil May illustrated dustjacket, making it a true rarity. Very Good, cheap boards nicked and rubbed at top spine end, worn along lower edges, in Very Good dustjacket, spine darkened, shallow loss at spine ends and flap corners. Item #34227

First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 3 3/4 by 5 inches, 12 pages including covers. Scarce cocktail recipe guide, with no copies on WorldCat. Nice color drink illustrations. Very Good, modest soiling to wraps. Item #40676

'First Edition'. Original illustrated wrappers, 7 1/2 by 5 inches, 8 pages plus wrappers. Attractive post-Prohibition drink menu which includes cocktails, Daisies, Smashes, Sours, Flips, Cobblers, etc. with ingredients listed beside the drink. The original Hotel Statler, at Swan and Washington Streets in Buffalo, was opened in 1907. It was renamed Hotel Buffalo in 1923 upon completion of the new Hotel Statler at Niagara Square, but Statler continued to operate it until the 1930s, when they sold it. Very Good. Item #35728

First Edition. Original red cloth. Recipes and directions for making and serving non-alcoholic drinks for all occasions'. An uncommon book which gets an early jump start on Prohibition which began the year of publication. The book contains recipes for punches, cups, bowls, highballs, fizzes, sours, rickeys, cobblers, flips, juleps, noggs, etc. This copy retains front panel and front flap of original dustjacket. Very Good, practically Near Fine attractive copy. Item #37668

Revised and Enlarged Edition. Original orange cloth, 285 numbered pages plus ads, octavo. Scarce title concerning food preparation, with chapters on Meats, Poultry and Game, Vegetables, Condiments, Salads, Unfermented Beverages (Coffee, Tea and Chocolate), and Fermented Drinks. An interesting work which includes several recipes for mixed alcoholic drinks including Imperial Pine Apple Punch, Strawberry Punch, Arrack Punch Extract, Cardinal Extract, Rum or Arrack Grog, Iced Orange Toddy, Simple Gin Punch, Iced Gin Punch, Burnt Punch a la Francaise, Wine and Egg Punch, Gingered Egg Flip, Egg Rum Punch, Egg Grog, Cream and Egg Punch. The following is an extract from Strauss's introduction to the Fermented Drinks section of the Additions and Emendations chapter: "The same reviewer who would all but excommunicate my salads comes down with equal severity upon my cups grogs, toddies, and punches which he calls superb, yet fearful opining that none save millionaires with copper lined stomachs are likely to indulge in them. Really this is a little beyond the license of mere exaggeration, I am not in the habit exactly of consorting with millionaires rather very much the other way yet my cups, grogs, toddies and punches have never to my knowledge wrought the financial ruin of any moderate indulger in them." Very Good, modest darkening to covers. Item #37661

Revised and Enlarged Edition. Original orange cloth, 285 numbered pages plus ads, octavo. Scarce title concerning food preparation, with chapters on Meats, Poultry and Game, Vegetables, Condiments, Salads, Unfermented Beverages (Coffee, Tea and Chocolate), and Fermented Drinks. An interesting work which includes several recipes for mixed alcoholic drinks including Imperial Pine Apple Punch, Strawberry Punch, Arrack Punch Extract, Cardinal Extract, Rum or Arrack Grog, Iced Orange Toddy, Simple Gin Punch, Iced Gin Punch, Burnt Punch a la Francaise, Wine and Egg Punch, Gingered Egg Flip, Egg Rum Punch, Egg Grog, Cream and Egg Punch. The following is an extract from Strauss's introduction to the Fermented Drinks section of the Additions and Emendations chapter: "The same reviewer who would all but excommunicate my salads comes down with equal severity upon my cups grogs, toddies, and punches which he calls superb, yet fearful opining that none save millionaires with copper lined stomachs are likely to indulge in them. Really this is a little beyond the license of mere exaggeration, I am not in the habit exactly of consorting with millionaires rather very much the other way yet my cups, grogs, toddies and punches have never to my knowledge wrought the financial ruin of any moderate indulger in them." Very Good, covers rather age darkened as usual, spine ends rubbed. Item #39508

First or Second English Language Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 87 pages plus ads, 7 by 4 1/2 inches. Scarce collection of cocktail recipes by this Swedish bartender who spent seven years serving drinks on vessels of the Swedish American Line. WorldCat locates no copies of this 1930 issue, only one copy of the 1927 Swedish language edition, and 4 copies of the 1936 printing. A popular title with cocktail bloggers. The introduction by Sundin states: I do not omit to let you know that I have previously published a similar book of recipes in two editions, and that on account of desires expressed rather frequently from various quarters I have decided to place before the public this English edition, containing the absolutely latest drinks composed. Very Good, couple of spots at rear panel, two pages with shadow from a handwritten cocktail recipe laid in on, gift inscription possibly from a bar at front wrapper (not by author). Item #37062