The Drinks of Yesteryear: A Mixology : Being the 200 Authentic Favorite Formulas of a Pre-Volstead 'wine Clerk' who Long Smilingly Served All Men and Yale Men and All Their Goodly Company. [New Haven]: J. Sullivan, (1930).
First Edition. Original brown faux leather soft covers, 52 pages, octavo. Rare prohibition-era cocktail book. Includes recipes for cocktails, cobblers, coolers, cordials, daisies, flips, fizzes, freezes, highballs, juleps, punches, rickeys, smashes, sours, sangarees and toddies. Page 28 with drink titled: Yale. Known to Yale Men Everywhere. 1/3 French Vermouth, 1/3 Gin, 1/3 Creme de Yvette, Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Also, the Copper Kettle. Sullivan tended bar at The Drought in New Haven, a well known Yale hangout of the time. Copies found at the Culinary Institute of America and at UC Davis. Found in: Straight Up Or On the Rocks, The Story of the American Cocktail by William Grimes. Very Good, expected wear to edges and covers.
Price: $2,500.00