The Bar-Tender's (Bartender's) Guide or How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks by Thomas. Jerry - 1887

Tokyo : Kenkyusha, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Very good copy in the original title-printed, stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. A rare copy. ; 117 pages; Description: v, 117p ; 19cm. Subjects: Japanese tea ceremony. Japan - Social life and customs.

London: Samson Low, Marston & Company, 1900. Octavo (22.8 x 15 cm.), 474, [2] pages. Illustrated with photographs by the author. All edges gilt. FIRST EDITION. A handsome and profusely illustrated survey of Ceylon and its tea industry, by a member of the Royal Asiatic Society and author of several other titles on the South Asian island nation, now identified as Sri Lanka. In very attractive gilt-stamped, white buckram.

[Barcelona: Encuardernaciones Patentadas Spirax Sol; Papeles de Estano-Barna, 1920. Booklet, spiral-bound along top edge (17 x 13 cm.), 58 leaves, printed rectos only. Illustrated throughout in chromolithography. Title from cover. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A trade catalog for the distinctive and elaborate bottles for wine and spirits from the firm of Destilerias Hilario Botella, from Jativa in Spanish Valencia. The first offerings are the highly decorated bottles in styles such as Anfora Valenciana, Nagasaki del Japon, Carmen, Sevilla, Piramidal, Conica, and most exciting, the Botella Pinguino Patentada- a 1000 gram bottle in the shape of a penguin. Bottles for dozens of types of spirits are included, as well as a lemonade dispensing device, and two pages of fine leather goods. Some offsetting throughout; rear wrapper panel soiled, but mostly clean and bright. Some early ink scribbles to front wrapper verso, otherwise generally very good or better. Scarce. [OCLC locates no copies].

New York: New York University Press, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Augie Pabst Jr. to Thomas N. McGowen on the ffep. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket has a few light scuff marks and a coffee drop in the upper left corner of the front panel; in a clear archival sleeve. 451 pages. 9 x 6 inches. A sharp copy. The inscription reads ''To Tom McGowen - / former President and C.E.O. / present Chairman of the Board / part time fly fisherman / would be hunter / and very good friend / August Uilhlein Pabst / 11/10/81''. August Uihlein ''Augie'' Pabst, Jr, is the great-grandson of Pabst Brewing founder Frederick Pabst. He joined the family business in 1966, following a highly successful motor racing career, and served the company in a variety of capacities, including as vice-president, before his retirement in 1983. Thomas N. McGowen had been on Pabst's board of directors since 1973 and was chairman from 1981 to… Read More

1922 COCKTAILS 1st ed Bartending Alcohol MIXOLOGY Liquor Prohibition VERMEIRE

"Cocktails: How to Mix Them" by Robert Vermeire is an all-encompassing guide to preparing a vast array of alcoholic beverages at home. Drawing on his experience at elite venues, Vermeire instructs readers on creating well-known cocktails and other drink types such as cobblers, coolers, fizzes, and highballs, demonstrating that good-quality cocktails can be made affordably. The book marries European and American cocktail traditions, establishing itself as a significant resource in the "classic" era of cocktail creation. It also includes an imaginative origin story of cocktails and provides detailed advice on drink-mixing techniques and ingredients.

Item number: #41202
Price: $499

[VERMEIRE, Robert]

Cocktails: How to Mix Them

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, ©1922. First Edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete
o 112, [16]
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Decorative… Read More

Tokyo : Kenkyusha, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Very good copy in the original title-printed, stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. A rare copy. ; 117 pages; Description: v, 117p ; 19cm. Subjects: Japanese tea ceremony. Japan - Social life and customs.

London: Samson Low, Marston & Company, 1900. Octavo (22.8 x 15 cm.), 474, [2] pages. Illustrated with photographs by the author. All edges gilt. FIRST EDITION. A handsome and profusely illustrated survey of Ceylon and its tea industry, by a member of the Royal Asiatic Society and author of several other titles on the South Asian island nation, now identified as Sri Lanka. In very attractive gilt-stamped, white buckram.

New York: The Scientific American Publishing Company, 1919. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 232, [1]pp. Contemporary ownership signature on the front pastedown, fine in an attractive, very good or better pictorial dustwrapper with several small nicks and tears. Largely about non-alcoholic drinks, it does contain chapters on wine, mixed-drinks, ciders, and punches. Very scarce in jacket.

[Havana, Cuba: F. Diaz], 1940. Small stapled booklet (9.5 x 6.5 cm.), [32] pages (including price list at center). Issued without the title page, otherwise found in other issues), and without the portraits or biography of the founders. ~ A later, apparently promotional issue of the famous cocktail manual, of which at least nine annual issues are known, all titled Sloppy Joe's Cocktails Manual, and most with the cover title of Sloppy Joe's Bar. While Sloppy Joe's is renowned as a bar, it's role as an important liquor store is less known. Charles Baker, in his South American Gentleman's Companion, recommends Sloppy Joe's (as well as Canal Liquor of Panama City) for those in search of difficult to find ingredients such as Pisco Brandy. ~ The original Havana Sloppy Joe's was the destination for thirsty Americans during Prohibition and after. After nearly fifty years inactive, the bar reopened in its original location in 2013. Publisher's color illustrated wrapper depicts interior of the bar - the same… Read More

[Barcelona: Encuardernaciones Patentadas Spirax Sol; Papeles de Estano-Barna, 1920. Booklet, spiral-bound along top edge (17 x 13 cm.), 58 leaves, printed rectos only. Illustrated throughout in chromolithography. Title from cover. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A trade catalog for the distinctive and elaborate bottles for wine and spirits from the firm of Destilerias Hilario Botella, from Jativa in Spanish Valencia. The first offerings are the highly decorated bottles in styles such as Anfora Valenciana, Nagasaki del Japon, Carmen, Sevilla, Piramidal, Conica, and most exciting, the Botella Pinguino Patentada- a 1000 gram bottle in the shape of a penguin. Bottles for dozens of types of spirits are included, as well as a lemonade dispensing device, and two pages of fine leather goods. Some offsetting throughout; rear wrapper panel soiled, but mostly clean and bright. Some early ink scribbles to front wrapper verso, otherwise generally very good or better. Scarce. [OCLC locates no copies].