First Edition. Small octavo, 96 pages. Rare collection of cocktail recipes by this famous bartender. Near Fine but for some old newspaper clippings glued in at first 'notes' page at rear, which has caused some shadows to last page of text, in attractive Very Good dustjacket. Item #37241

First Edition. Original red cloth (variant), Small octavo, 96 pages. Rare collection of cocktail recipes by this famous bartender. Near Fine but for scotch tape shadow at half-title, in a Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at spine ends and lower rear flap edge. Item #34769

'First Edition'. Original illustrated cardboard, flip tabs with cocktail recipes on verso, 9 inches by 5 inches. Very scarce cocktail guide and promotion for a Boston liquor store. I find no reference to this guide. Illustrations by E. L. H. Flip Tabs unused, Very Good. Item #34719

First Edition. Sextodecimo, original pink boards with gilt lettering, original dustjacket. Third in a series of three cocktail titles by Judge Jr. Uncommon title. Includes recipes by such luminaries as Ralph Barton, H. L. Mencken, Walter Winchell and Florenz Ziegfeld. Very Good, top edge of cloth faded, small stain at rear cover, in Very Good dustjacket, red color modestly faded at spine and front panel. Item #37217

First Edition. Original decorative green cloth stamped with light green and brown design, gilt lettering, octavo, 120 numbered pages, 12 pages of ads. An uncommon cocktail recipe book by Kappeler, the head bartender at the Holland House Hotel in New York City. From the preface: “The recipes contained in this book are for the proper mixing of all kinds of drinks, such as Absinthe, Cocktails, Cups, Crustas, Cobblers, Coolers, Egg Noggs, Fixes, Fizzes, Flips, Juleps, Lemonades, Punches, Poussé Cafe, Frozen Beverages, etc. The formulas are simple, practical, and easy to follow and are especially intended for use in first-class Hotels, Clubs, Buffets, and Barrooms, where, if adopted and concocted according to directions given, they will be entirely satisfactory to the caterer and pleasing to the consumer, the latter of whom will immediately notice a marked improvement in his favorite beverages.” David Wondrich and Robert Hess have referred to this title as the first printed reference for the Old Fashioned, and Ted Haigh mentioned it in Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails as the original reference for the Widow’s Kiss. Very Good but for lower fore-edge corner of front cover creased, two pages share a newspaper shadow, a mid page with short closed tear at fore-edge, modest shelf wear. Item #34419

First Edition. Original single sheet folded into six panels, 7 by 4 inches. Nice brochure for famous Jamaican liquor store and bar room, which includes six cocktail recipes using Kelly's Grande Reserve Rum. Also includes, attached to front panel, a ticket for a free Planters Punch or Tropical Rum Cocktail. Very Good. Item #32819

First Edition. Original decorative red cloth, stamped in gilt, small octavo, 66 pages. Uncommon first printing of this cocktail book. Includes recipes for: Absinthe Frappe, Blue Blazes, Café au Kirsch, California Absinthe, Claret Punch, Egg Nog, Egg Nog Bowl for New Year's Party, Fog Horn, Gin Daisy, Gin Fizz, Gin Rickey, Golden Fizz, Hot Applejack, Hot Apple Toddy, Hot Irish, Hot Scotch, Hot Spiced Rum, John Collins, Maiden's Dream, Mamie Taylor, Medford Rum Punch, Milk Punch, Mint Julep, Mint Julep--Brandy, Morning-Glory Fizz, New York Sour, Peach Blow Fizz, Pick Me Up, Picon High Ball, Pigeon Wing, Planter's Punch, Port and Starboard, Port Wine Flip, Port Wine Sangaree, Pousse Café, Pousse L'Amour, Ramos Fizz, Remsen Cooler, Rhine Wine Cobbler, Rickety Scotch, Royal Fizz, Royal Plush, Sam Ward, Sauterne Cobbler, Sauterne or Hock Cup, Shandy Gaff, Sherry Cobbler, Sherry Flip, Silver Fizz, Souiesse, St. Croix Rum Sour, Stinger, Syracuse Cooler, Three Trees, Tom Collings, Tom and Jerry, Velvet, Ward Eight, Whiskey Rickey, Whiskey Sour, Bandel Melange, Shelburne Cooler. A very attractive Near Fine copy. Item #34488

New Revised Edition, 'Second Impression, August, 1914'. Original decorative red cloth, stamped in gilt, small octavo, 72 pages. Uncommon printing of this cocktail book and especially so in original thin-paper illustrated dustjacket. Includes recipes for: Absinthe Frappe, Blue Blazes, Café au Kirsch, California Absinthe, Claret Punch, Egg Nog, Egg Nog Bowl for New Year's Party, Fog Horn, Gin Daisy, Gin Fizz, Gin Rickey, Golden Fizz, Hot Applejack, Hot Apple Toddy, Hot Irish, Hot Scotch, Hot Spiced Rum, John Collins, Maiden's Dream, Mamie Taylor, Medford Rum Punch, Milk Punch, Mint Julep, Mint Julep--Brandy, Morning-Glory Fizz, New York Sour, Peach Blow Fizz, Pick Me Up, Picon High Ball, Pigeon Wing, Planter's Punch, Port and Starboard, Port Wine Flip, Port Wine Sangaree, Pousse Café, Pousse L'Amour, Ramos Fizz, Remsen Cooler, Rhine Wine Cobbler, Rickety Scotch, Royal Fizz, Royal Plush, Sam Ward, Sauterne Cobbler, Sauterne or Hock Cup, Shandy Gaff, Sherry Cobbler, Sherry Flip, Silver Fizz, Souiesse, St. Croix Rum Sour, Stinger, Syracuse Cooler, Three Trees, Tom Collings, Tom and Jerry, Velvet, Ward Eight, Whiskey Rickey, Whiskey Sour, Bandel Melange, Shelburne Cooler. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners, some closed tears to rear panel. Item #35475

Early Edition (Last page states: Imprimerie Floch. - 4 - 10 - 1932, Mayenne (France). WorldCat notes 1899 and 1912 printings, this present copy is a later 1930's printing) 95 pages, original illustrated wrappers. Very scarce French cocktail recipe book, with directions for making such cocktails as Derby, East India, Japanese, Laws, MacDonald's, Manhattan, Old Tom, Omnium, Absinthe, [Coolers] Rocky, Brunswick, [Crustas] St. Croix, Brandy, as well as an array of Daisies, Egg Noggs, Fixes, Fizzes, Flips, Juleps, Sours, Slings, Smashes, Limonades, Sangarees, Punches, Grogs, Toddies, Pousse Cafes, Cups, and Diverses. Very Good. Item #34224

Second Edition (originally published in 1895), 'Standard Edition reentered with Librarian at Washington, 1897' statement at copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, 170 pages. Containing Clear And Reliable Directions For Mixing All The Different Beverages Used In The United States, Embracing Juleps, Cobblers, Cocktails, Punches, Durkees, "Trilbys," Etc., Etc., In Endless Variety, With Some Recipes On Cooking, And Other General Information : An Up-To-Date Recipe Book By C. F. Lawlor recently Chief Bartender of the Grand Hotel and Now at Burnet House, Cincinnati. Rather scarce title, WorldCat finds 8 copies of all four editions: 1895, 1895 Revised Edition, 1897, and 1899. Of this title Ted Haugh [Meet Dr. Cocktail blog] writes: Much of the contents came from one or another of Jerry Thomas’s Bon Vivant editions, but examination shows substantial alterations in proportions, ingredients, recipes and commentary. The book specifies a particular cocktail bitters never to be found in another bar guide: Schroeder’s Cocktail Bitters. Did any other author come up with a drink variety called a Durkee? Memory fails to produce one. Similarly, Punch a la Dwyer, The Crank’s Drink, Whiskey & Glycerine, the Big 4 Mint Julep the Attorney General and Lawlor’s Pousse Café could possibly be his work. The Mixicologist is the only bar guide ever published to include a punch recipe that utilizes the ingredient ambergris (a waxy secretion of the sperm whale, its use in beverages is obscure beyond telling). Lawlor notes that- to some tastes, a cocktail is much improved by the addition of two or three drops of Absinthe - a proposal Americans have only just regained the legal means to test. An attractive, firmly bound Very Good volume, short closed tear at fore-edge of last page of index. Item #34483

First Edition. Illustrated cardboard wheel inside illustrated cardboard envelope, 12 1/2 by 10 inches. 'Originated and Published by H. M. Larry Lawrence', 'A Few Hints for the Young Mixer'. An extremely scarce oversized cocktail mixing guide in the form of a wheel. I find no copies on WorldCat or blogosphere. Copyrighted before the end of Prohibition, the envelope includes eight recipes and the wheel includes another 38. Very Good, two parts of the wheel were bumped causing closed tears, both mended with archival tape for protection. Item #34803

First Edition. Octavo, 88 pages. Tallows Stansfield dustjacket art. Uncommon book of drink recipes including alcoholic punches, mulls, flips, nightcaps and toddies (as well as wines, beers, cordial syrups, lemonades, etc.) Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some shallow edge chipping. Item #37238