First Edition. Original brown cloth, gilt stamping (variant binding with stamping that does not include more of the title as seen on other copies and less decoration), octavo, 496 pages. Title continues: Hotel & Restaurant Cookery, as now Practised, With the Newest Entrees and Dishes. The First Part Treats of Home Brewing; The Manufacture of Wines, Spirits, Liqueurs and Cordials Without Distillation – The Preparation and Manipulation of, With the Newest Names and Styles of Mixing and Dressing American Drinks, Suitable for Licensed and Non-Licensed Houses, Garden Parties, Clubs, Temperance Fetes, Bazaars, Etc. By Bacchus. The Second Part Treats of All Branches of Cookery, Confectionery and Bread, Suitable for Public Dinners, Clubs, Small Family Parties, Balls, Routs, Luncheons, Garden Parties, Suppers, Etc., by Cordon Bleu. Very scarce title. Found in Tom Sandham's World Best Cocktails who cites this title for containing the Fred Collins Fizz. Included in bibliography of Ted Haugh's Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. Very Good, signs of a bookplate having been removed from front pastedown, original owners name and address at front pastedown and top title page, few pages of first signature a bit uneven - perhaps indicating it was long ago reglued, rear yellow endpaper removed, rear inner hinge shows webbing and a bit loose. Item #34418

Early Printing (with 3/6 price. The publisher made very few changes to this title throughout the 1950's, but some have been noted to have 2'6, 3/- and 3'6 prices, as well as an early form of ISBN number at lower rear jacket panel). Original green stiff wrappers, illustrated dustjacket, 96 pages, 6 by 4 inches. "An ideal cocktail guide for every home, and for party occasions". Very Good in nearly Very Good dustjacket, some light staining to rear panel. Item #34311

First Edition. Original black wrappers, 7 by 5 1/2 inches, 56 pages. Includes two pages of well known cocktail recipes and suggestions for a cocktail party. Very Good. Item #34291

First edition. Original biplane illustrated card stock wrappers, string bound, 41 pages, 9 by 6 1/4 inches. Die-cut in the shape of a cocktail shaker. "52 Cock-Tail Spins for High Flyers from the Recipes of Many Celebrities", there are in fact only 28 recipes, contributed by celebrities including Fanny Brice (Coronation Cocktail), Marilyn Miller (Bronx Cocktail), June Walker (Absinthe Cocktail), The McCarthy Sisters (Sherry Cobbler), W.C. Fields (Clover Club Cocktail), Florenz Ziegfeld (Sloe Gin Fizz), and George Gershwin (Silver Fizz). "Bottoms Up is notable for two reasons. It was one of only a few cocktail books published in the U.S. during Prohibition, and it's the earliest known example of a book of cocktail recipes of famous celebrities. It's significant that "Tex" Guinan is included [as she had a] notorious reputation as the owner and manager of a Prohibition Era speakeasy called the 300 Club at 151 W. 54th Street in New York City." [Richard Powers; Stanford] An uncommon guide. No copies located on WorldCat. Very Good, lacking corkscrew bottle opener that came with this guide (and the box it was once housed in). Item #34407

New Revised and Enlarged Edition. Original illustrated cloth and illustrated dustjacket, 7 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches, 49 pages. Title continues: Including a Chapter of Celebrities,Their Favorite Drinks. From the preface: "Today, that Art of creating exquisite drinks to match exquisite moods is gasping on its death-bed, and the dull ogre, Puritanism, supplanting the Skeleton, sits gloating by the bed-side, waiting eagerly to hear the last death-rattle. If this volume succeeds in preserving, even a little while longer, that ancient and much beloved Art, the writer will be happy." Contents include Morning Cocktails, Known as "Pickups" or "Bracers", Before and After Dinner Drinks, Midnight and Before-Bed Drinks, "Tapering Off" Cocktails, Ladies Cocktails and Other Delicacies, Temperance Drinks, Rare and Fancy Drinks, Fancy Wine Drinks, Punches and Party Drinks, etc. Cocktails include Minute Man Highball, North and South Cocktail, Jamaica Glow, Metropole Cocktail, Forty Second Country Club, Florida Special, etc. Extremely scarce in thin-paper fragile dustjacket. A Very Good copy, smell indicates previous ownership by a smoker (this will fade over time), in Good dustjacket, perhaps a square inch of loss at top front panel, small stain at upper rear panel. Item #34335

First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, string bound, 7 by 5 inches, 32 pages. Attractive 1910's produced cocktail recipe guide printed on green paper, includes many well known drinks as well as the Raymond Hitchcocktail, Clymsic Cooler, Clysmic Lemonade, and others. Very Good, modest shelf wear, few pages with small abrasion at lower page edge. Item #34221

First Edition. Original wrappers, 4 by 2 1/2 inches, 40 numbered pages. Cocktail recipe guide produced by this (what we believe to be) New York City liqore store. No printed date, but circa 1933. No copies found on WorldCat. Very Good, some light stains. Item #34314

Original steel body in shape of two barrels (copper colored), approximately 30 bakelite tabs, 6 by 3 1/2 inches. Fabulous cocktail mixing guide inventively housed in a miniature sized barrels with side turn dial and 'bakelite' recipe tabs. Includes such recipes as Morning Bracer, Brandy Flip, Merry Widow, Pink Lady, etc. Production date is an educated guess, possibly earlier or later, but appears to be 1940's or 50's vintage. Very Good, mechanism fully functional. Item #34411

First Edition. Original card stock folded once, 6 by 4 1/2 inches. An uncommon advertising item from Jock Colling Grenadine, which includes two cocktail recipes for Red Britches and Green Jeans. Very Good. Item #34339

First Edition. Small octavo, 334 pages, original black faux leather and illustrated dustjacket. De Fleury's earlier title: 1700 Cocktails for the Man Behind the Bar claimed to be "The largest collection of formulae ever included in one book. 1,262 Sweet Cocktails, 287 Dry Cocktails." This guide adds 100 cocktails to this collection. Appears to be considerably less common than his previous title. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, clear tape mend at verso of front spine edge (difficult to tell if the spine edge is split), area of fairly shallow loss at top front panel. Item #34213

First Wrappers Edition. Original stiff wrappers, small octavo, 102 pages. Great cocktail mixing guide including such drinks as: Absinthe, Boomerang, Haymarket, Hurricane, Manhattan Cooler, etc. Very Good, some creasing to wraps, modest edge wear. Item #34218

Second Edition. One of the basic cocktail mixing books, with 700 recipes. Very Good in Good dustjacket, shallow chips to edges, creases along lower front panel, some foxing to flaps. Item #34302