First Edition. Original limp tan leather, blindstamped at front cover, 5" by 3 1/2", 48 pages. Fabulous little volume of cocktail recipes, one of only two recipe books to include the Liberal Cocktail. Two recipes are food items: Clam Cocktail and the Oyster Cocktail. Three of them are drinks that are technically not cocktails: Chocolate Cocktail (a flip), Coffee Cocktail (flip), and the Soda Cocktail (a soft-drink). The other forty-five recipes are true cocktails. "No cobblers, Collinses, coolers, fixes, fizzes, highballs, juleps, punches or sours in it. The majority of today’s so-called ‘craft cocktails’ (most of them actually sours or other short punches) would not have passed muster to get into the Gorham Cocktail Book." [Andrew Willett, Elemental Mixology] A lovely and scarce title. Very Good, front pastedown paper has partially detached from inside cover, tear to rear pastedown paper, bit of leather loss at top fore-edge corner of rear cover. Item #31260

First Edition. 'The love story of the American heir (of an English estate) and the struggle of rival art collectors, is carried on in the midst of that English life which wittily contrasts with our own American point of view'. Uncommon title. Very Good, some cloth discoloration, in Good only dustjacket, lacking lower half of spine, stain at top rear panel. Item #37598

First Edition. "The romance and adventures of a modern demogog. Maurice Sangster comes to London to set the Thames on fire. The lining up of the forces of radicalism and conservatism in both politics and religion; the increasing pressure of Labor upon Church and State; and the drift of Protestantism towards Catholicism, and the easing of Catholicism toward Modernism, especially in America." Found in an early bibliography of Jewish Life in the Fiction of America and England, which states: "The anonymous author is at his worst when he essays to become humorous. His most ambitious flight in this direction is the creation of Mr. Girshel, the radical manager, who is endowed with all the follies and vices and sordidness of the traditional stage Jew of former years". Very scarce. Near Fine in Very Good soiled dustjacket. Item #25274

Deluxe Fourth Edition. Sextodecimo, original plastic printed covers and original printed cardboard box, spiral comb binding, presumed original glassine wrapper. 229 pages. Nice compact cocktail guide with original publisher's box. Near Fine, in Good box, with closed tears at box corners. Item #26885

Deluxe Fourth Edition. Sextodecimo, original plastic printed covers and original printed cardboard box, spiral comb binding. 229 pages. Nice compact cocktail guide with original publisher's box. Very Good, light stain at lower title page, in Good box, couple of tears to edge of lower half of box, top half lacking one edge and with tears at other edges. Item #26990

First Edition. Original chromolithograph illustrated wrappers, side-stappled, 16vo. Extremely scarce depreciating children's story concerning gypsies. Approximately 30 pages. Very Good or Near Fine copy with only mild signs of wear. Item #15303

First Edition. Bound volume consisting of separate issues of 'What's On in London' bound with illustrated wrappers. July 4th, 1947 - December 19th 1947, (Vol. 20 #607 - #630). Contemporary red cloth, gilt lettering at spine. A very uncommon collection of an English movie and entertainment magazine. Front wrapper illustrations include black and white stills from such films as So Well Remembered with John Mills and Martha Scott, The Perils of Pauline with Betty Hutton and John Lund, Dear Ruth with William Holden, Moss Rose, Dancing with Crime, For Whom the Bell Tolls with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Master of Bankdam, This Gun for Hire with Alan Ladd, Ivy with Joan Fontaine, Desert Fury, Woman in the Hall, It Always Rains on Sunday, Build My Gallows High with Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, and others. Rear wrappers with ads for other famous films including Gone With the Wind. Issues include photographic stills from films and some other color advertising. Very Good plus, some issues with moderate wear to wraps, #613 Jassy cover with ink notation and erasure, else attractive collection. Item #12918

Third Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 6 1/2" by 4", 51 pages. Includes 8 pages of popular cocktail recipes. Near Fine. Item #31255

First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 6 1/2" by 4", 32 pages. Includes 8 pages of popular cocktail recipes. Very Good, some tanning to covers, liquor store stamp at front wrap and front endpaper. Item #37682

Presumed First Edition. Original decorative gray wrappers, 6" by 4", 32 pages. This copy does not appear to have been published with additional title page beyond that of the front cover, first page is 'Wine Service' and then the index. From other copies we have catalogued we quoted from the title page: "System of mixing drinks for high class bartender's connoisseurs and liquor dealers - also a review of the art of mixing drinks written so it is easily understood by anyone desiring to be a mixologist". Uncommon. Very Good, light stain to front cover and most pages. Item #35553

First Edition. Quarto, spiral bound illustrated boards, original illustrated dustjacket. An odd spiral bound collection of four individual color picture books on rag paper: Our Dogs, Forest Animals, Animal Friends, and Kittens and Cats. All published by Saalfield with copyright dates of 1943. Illustrators include Will Rannells and Jack Murray. No doubt Saalfield had a collection of surplus unbound picture books in need of a creative purpose and were spirally bound under one title. An uncommon amalgamation with extremely scarce original dustjacket. An attractive Very Good to Near Fine copy in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #12516

First Edition. Spiral bound stiff wraps Christmas themed pop-up book in original illustrated publisher's box and complete with plastic spoon, band-aid, toy parachute, toy horn, small book, and image of a pig over a tiny squeeze box. Very Good-Near Fine complete copy, only lacking the piece of candy (perhaps for the best), some small abrasions at inner and outer covers, box covers with few closed tears at edges. Includes another copy in bright condition but lacking spoon and pig image formerly glued to squeeze box. Item #9736

First Edition. Original wrappers, 95 numbered pages, 4 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches. "the Accredited List of Recognized and Accepted Standard Formulas for Mixed Drinks Authentic Practical Concise". Uncommon. Very Good. Item #27901