Presumed First Edition. Octavo, original stiff printed wrappers, side stapled, 40 pages. Uncommon, though rather plain looking, cocktail mixing guide with a scene of historical characters drinking at a table. Very Good, some darkening to front panel, a small abrasion and few tiny holes to mid rear cover. Item #35511

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 scarce title. Textually Very Good, but covers are worn, some loss at upper front and lower rear panel with signs of staining. Item #37233

First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 6 1/2" by 4", 32 pages. Includes 8 pages of popular cocktail recipes. Very Good. Item #35501

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, some modest staining to pages. Item #35478

First Edition. Original wrappers bound into hardcover binding with stamping at front cover and with publisher's compliments stamped at inside rear cover, 96 numbered pages plus fold out sheet of suggested uses for Angostura in food recipes, 4 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches. "the Accredited List of Recognized and Accepted Standard Formulas for Mixed Drinks Authentic Practical Concise". Uncommon with hardcover binding. Item #39534

Presumed First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers (with punch hole at upper inside corner with metal beaded loop), 4 1/2 by 3 inches, 24 pages. Uncommon cocktail mixing booklet from shortly after the repeal of prohibition. Very Good but for some soiling and light stains. Item #41606

First Edition. Small octavo. Uncommon collection of toasts including a quote from Mark Twain. Scarce in complete illustrated dustjacket, which duplicates the illustration on the front cover. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few tiny edge chips at spine ends. Item #37199

No date, but circa 1950's. Printed in West Germany. Original illustrated wrappers, 5 by 3 1/2 inches, 12 pages. Scarce recipe guide from West Germany for drinks utilizing Asbach Uralt. 'Press, Radio and Newsreel recently featured reports on the International Bar Mixers' Contest held at the Lindenwirt Hotel... every mixer had to promise to let us in on the secret of his prize recipe, and many of these are contained in this booklet'. Near Fine. Item #41370

First Edition. Original blue cloth wrappers, octavo, 96 pages, illustrated with photographs. Includes chapters on glassware, serving, wine, whiskey, liquor, beer, canapes, and mixed drink recipes (pages 83 to 88). Cocktails such as American Beauty Cocktail, Bronx Cocktail, Absinthe Cocktail, Blue Blazer, Froth Blower Cocktail, London Buck Cocktail, Journalist Cocktail, etc. Uncommon, four copies listed on WorldCat. Very Good, couple pieces of scotch tape at spine, dampstaining to rear cover, some page fore-edges with light stain. Item #39589

First Edition. Original red wrappers, 36 pages, 6 by 4 inches. Scarce Bahamas cocktail recipe booklet, no copies located on WorldCat. Very Good. Item #41324

First Edition. Original mimeograph single sheet, folded into eighths. Recipes for Rum Buster, Brandy Buster and Gin Buster. Was Baitz or Busters a bar, a man, a label, who knows. Unusual cocktailiana. Very Good. Item #41344

First Edition. Original wrappers, top spiral bound, 31 pages, 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. Extremely scarce cocktail recipe guide (of 103 recipes) by this Cuban-American bartender at the Anvil Club in East Dundee, Illinois and at the Villa d'Este in Cary. No copies located on WorldCat and is not mentioned in Bande's obituary (born in 1932 in Varadero Beach, Cuba). No publication information is printed, but if Bande was possibly in his 40's when publishing his book of recipes, one can guess a printing date in the 1970's. Includes a nice introduction about Bande's career in bartending and his finalist award in a national drink mixing contest sponsored by the American Society of Bar Masters. Includes a frontis of the author and his introduction. Includes such drinks as Rafael's Daiquiri, Happy Pete Daiquiri, One For the Ditch Cocktail, Adios Muchacho, Paradise Island, Enrique Bande Punch, Carlos Bande Cocktail, etc. Very Good. Item #40699

Early Edition. Vico cover art. Original illustrated wrappers, 53/4 by 4 1/2 inches, 76 pages, side stapled. Uncommon collection of cocktail recipes used as a promotion for the Bar La Florida. The bar was a favorite of Hemingway. Very Good or Near Fine. Item #41322