First Edition. Original painted wooden boards, metal hinges, bound with leather straps, 55 pages. This copy nicely signed and inscribed by MacNiel at title page. Collection of cocktails named for the signs of the zodiac, stars, and constellations. Includes Astral Toddy, Big Dipper Punch, Gulf Stream Cup, Saturn Shrub, Ghost Star Cocktail, etc. Very Good. Item #35544

Presumed First Edition. Original blue illustrated wrappers, 62 pages and 64 pages. Bound with Harry Montague's "The Up to date Bartender's Guide" (1913) A Valuable Ready Reference Guide To The Art Of Mixing Drinks, Containing All The Standard And Popular Drinks, With A Choice Selection Of Appropriate Toasts. Uncommon cocktail collection. Very Good, few nicks and short closed tears to wrappers. Item #35525

Presumed First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 31 pages, 6 by 3 inches. Uncommon DuBouchett recipe book. Very Good. Item #35493

First or Early Printing. Original brown cloth, gilt stamping, octavo, 311 pages, 12 pages of ads. Uncommon book of recipes for various necessities such as preserves, perfumery, ice creams, inks, dyes, etc. which seems rather preoccupied with alcohol production, including 25 recipes for Brandy (cherry, cognac, French, Peach, Rochelle, etc.), various beverages including Cottage Beer, Cream Beer, Ginger Beer, Mead, Spruce Beer, Pineapple-ade, Silver top, nine varieties of Cordials, Spirits for beverages, five variants of Holland Gin, seven variants of Rum (Jamaica, New England, St. Croix), eighteen different types of wine, and seven types of Whiskey (Apple, Bourbon, Irish, Monongahela, Scotch, Wheat). Very Good firmly bound volume, moderate shelf wear. Item #34477

Early Printing, no statement at copyright page, but 'Sixth Printing' plug at top front flap of jacket. Original red cloth and illustrated dustjacket, small octavo, 76 pages. An uncommon cocktail guide. Includes Chocolate Cocktail, Mocha and Java Cocktail, Pick-Me-Ups, etc. Near Fine in almost Near Fine dustjacket, some spotting to rear panel. Item #34474

Presumed First Edition. Original green printed wrappers, two side staples, approx. 200 pages, 5 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches. This copy inscribed to one of the school's graduates by Pat McCann (Owner of Modern School) in 1972 at rear endpaper. Approved and endorsed by the executive board of Bartenders Local Union 694 in Sherman Oaks. Very scarce recipe guide, no copies found on WorldCat or blogosphere. Very Good, tape residue along spine of covers, spotting to page edges. Item #34725

Tenth Edition. Small octavo, original red cloth, illustrated dustjacket, 5" by 3 1/2", 123 pages. Mcelhone was a defining figure in early 20th-century bartending, most famous for his role at Harry's New York Bar (in Paris), which he bought in 1923. He worked at Ciro's Club in Deauville and the Plaza Hotel New York. He is often credited with inventing many cocktails, including the Bloody Mary, Sidecar, the Monkey Gland, the White Lady, and an early form of the French 75. The 1922 edition is credited with containing the first recipe for the Pegu Club Cocktail. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, few closed tears and edge nicks, rubbing to edges. Item #34776

First Edition. Small octavo, original illustrated boards, 112 pages, illustrated. A very uncommon cocktail collection with only four library holdings found on WorldCat. Mcelhone was a defining figure in early 20th-century bartending, most famous for his role at Harry's New York Bar (in Paris), which he bought in 1923. He worked at Ciro's Club in Deauville and the Plaza Hotel New York. He is often credited with inventing many cocktails, including the Bloody Mary, Sidecar, the Monkey Gland, the White Lady, and an early form of the French 75. "Barflies and Cocktails conveys a whiskey-addled sense of zany humor that seems tied to the Roaring Twenties, when the book was first published. The running conceit of the book has to do with the fictional association of International Bar Flies, the rules of which include the admonition that, “Those seeing cerise cats with purple ears should keep it to themselves.” [Peter Meehan. New York Times, 2008] Nearly Very Good, soiling to covers, cover corners slightly rounded, couple signs of cracking at interior pages. Item #34412

Eighth Impression. Small octavo, original red cloth, illustrated dustjacket, 5" by 3 1/2", 102 pages. This copy nicely signed and inscribed by Mcelhone at half-title page and additionally signed and inscribed by Roy Barton at rear endpaper. Barton was an American composer and lyricist who co-wrote the Buzz Buzz Buzz song of the I. B. F. [International Bar Flies], the 'tongue in cheek' fraternity of Harry's New York Bar regulars and honorees (who had their own secret handshake and decorated their ties with a tie clip featuring two friendly looking, well dressed flies). In the I. B. F. handbook Barton is listed as one of four 'Dragon Flies' honorees. And in the Tenth edition of this title Roy Barton is credited for the recipe for the Zero Hour Cocktail. But more importantly is Barton's role in the lore of the invention of the Bloody Mary cocktail. According to many bloggers and journalists on the subject (and Fernand Petiot's obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle), the most likely genesis of the name Bloody Mary is that Roy Barton christened it thusly after being served a vodka and tomato juice drink by well known bartender at Harry's, Fernand Petiot, because it reminded him a of a Chicago club, the Bucket of Blood. A fascinating association copy and, one imagines, an incredible rarity. Harry Mcelhone was a defining figure in early 20th-century bartending, most famous for his role at Harry's New York Bar (in Paris), which he bought in 1923. He worked at Ciro's Club in Deauville and the Plaza Hotel New York. He is often credited with inventing many cocktails, including the Sidecar, the Monkey Gland, the White Lady, and an early form of the French 75. Five copies of the Eighth Impression listed on WorldCat. Very Good bright copy, frontis fore-edge bumped, in Good only dustjacket, lacking front flap, half inch by two inch wide chip at top front panel, chipped at spine ends, light stain to front panel. Item #34429

First Edition. Original printed faux leather over boards, octavo, 170 pages plus blank note pages. Large formatted cocktail recipe guide book published immediately after the demise of prohibition. WorldCat locates six library holdings. The anonymous author's collaborator Patrick W. Guinee is described on title page as being "formerly of the Old Iroquois Bar, Plainfield, New Jersey, and one of the best Mixers in the days when drinks were Drinks.” Very Good attractive volume. Item #35486

First Edition. Original blue cloth, octavo, 222 numbered pages. Uncommon collection of nonalcoholic drink recipes published at the beginning of Prohibition. Very Good, some discoloration or staining to covers. Item #34778

First Edition (no later printings stated). Original printed boards, 7 by 4 1/2 inches, 100 pages. Collection of cups, punches and cocktails, notes on beer and wine and drinks for invalids. 'American Drinks' section include Brandy Scaffa, Ching Ching, Peach Drink, Kentucky Flip, St. Charles, Prima Donna, etc. A Very Good copy, some roughly opened pages causing chips to page fore-edge, front inner hinge mildly cracked, modest shelf wear. Item #35490

First Edition. Original decorative cloth, 10 1/2 by 5 inches, 115 pages. Includes recipes for fizzes, cups, punches, cocktails, flips, sours, and cordials. Cocktail recipes include Pousse-Cafe, Barnyard Cocktail, Marliave’s Cocktail, Marine Cocktail, Wells Cocktail, etc. This copy with typed sheet titled "Gone Are the Days' in which the writer documents how they used to serve Chatham Artillery Punch at parties. The recipe is included and credit given to Mary Lou King, Betty Ewing and Harriet Ross Colquitt (author of The Savannah Cook Book). Very Good but for some ink notes to two pages in the wine section and inked measurements added to the 'Note' page. Previous owner signature at lower front pastedown, modest shelf wear to cloth. Item #35531