Fancy Drinks Mix, First Edition (13 results)

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.

Staplebound. Condition: Color illustrated wraps. Good. Presumed First Edition. 40 pages. 21 x 14 cm. This pamphlet, a post-Prohibition era publication, makes it historically significant among American cocktail guides produces right after alcohol became legal again. Interior very lightly soiled, wraps rubbed and lightly soiled.

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.

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, mild signs of dampstaining to some pages.

First Edition. Original red printed wrappers, 6 by 4 1/2 inches, 70 pages. Cocktail recipe guide produced for Caldwell, Inc. and advertising piece for Caldwell's Maryland Straight Rye. Very Good.

First Edition. Original tan wrappers, 32 pages, 6 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches. Scarce pre-Prohibition cocktail recipe guide published by a company that went out of business in 1918. Includes well over a hundred recipes. Scarce. No copies on WorldCat. Very Good.

First Edition. Original silver illustrated wrappers, 80 pages, 8 by 5 inches. An uncommon cocktail recipe guide located in 'Cocktail Books, Selected Titles from the Library of Congress Collections'. Includes several drinks served at the Silver Dollar Bar. Very Good but for heavy creasing to covers.

First Edition. Original silver illustrated wrappers, 80 pages, 8 by 5 inches. An uncommon cocktail recipe guide located in 'Cocktail Books, Selected Titles from the Library of Congress Collections'. Includes several drinks served at the Silver Dollar Bar. Very Good, some mild creases, stain to fore-edge of page margins and at fore-edge of covers.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition (?). First edition, wrappered issue. Octavo, 116pp., plus [38]pp. of advertisements at rear (see description to follow). In fair condition, with some maringal stains, a number of short tears to extremities, a few of which affect the text. Rear wrapper lacking, and half of the final integral page missing. Presumably at least one ad leaf is missing at rear, as well. However, there are so few well-catalogued copies in worldwide libraries to which we might compare this example. This appears to be the genuinely rare first edition, with no date later than 1895 printed anywhere in the book, no "Revised edition" statement on the front wrap, and with 116pp. only of the main text. The revised editions, which appeared later the same year and again in 1897 and 1899, have at least 170pp., including the advertisements, which also have numbered folios. In our example, the advertisement leaves are unnumbered, and even with the unknown exact number of missing leaves, the construction suggests that there were fewer than 170pp. in its original state. A significant early American cocktail book, prized by collectors and held by very few institutions (a dozen at most hold any edition, and apparently just two of them hold this first edition - Ohioana Lib. Assoc. and Wofford College). Though defective--and priced accordingly--still a rare, textually complete example of the first edition.

Condition: Very good plus. Early edition of this very scarce classic cocktail manual, by the onetime chief bartender of Cincinnati's Grand Hotel and the Burnet House. An authoritative guide for the aspiring barman, THE MIXICOLOGIST extends beyond recipes alone to cover all aspects of the trade: essential stock for a first-class bar, the history of brewing and distilling, and the proper attitude, principles, and deportment for a young person just entering the profession. This early edition precedes the later Revised Edition, but includes two press notices from the Cincinnati Papers praising Lawlor as the "prince of mixicologists" (he was also the inventor and sole holder of the title, the simple "mixologist" being insufficient to his talents). The text through page 116 is identical to that of the first edition; beyond that point are a new and fascinating array of advertisements for Cincinnati's finest reliable dry goods, cigars, hatters, lithographers, corned beef dealers, dye houses, dairies, dentists, frogs, oysters, and young parrots ("warranted to learn to talk"), as well as any number of brewers and liquor merchants. C.F. Lawlor was the bartender at Cincinnati's Burnet House, and formerly the chief bartender at the Grand Hotel. An endorsement from The Enquirer (Cincinnati) in 1895 states, "As a prince of mixicologists C.F. Lawlor, of the Burnet House, has a national reputation; it only remained for him to write a book to gain immortality. Lawlor's commentaries on aspects of the bar trade ("The Model Bartender," "Preparation for Customer," and "Don'ts for Young Bartenders") alternate with the ads, and include two essays not present in the first: "The Wine Cellar" and "Cups and their Customs," which ends with the admonishment "When you drink-think." Rare. OCLC locates only five copies of this issue, and just thirteen copies of all editions. Further, we trace just a single copy at auction in the last fifty years. An unusually attractive copy of this essential historical reference for all mixers and historians of fancy drinks. 7.5'' x 5''. Original gilt-lettered brown cloth. [2], [1-4], 5-6, [6, index], 11-73, 74-84 [ads], 95-104, 104a-b, 105-116, 117-134 [ads], [135], 136-138, 139-158 [ads], 159-160, 161-165 [ads], 166-169, 170-173 [ads], 174 pages, plus photographic frontispiece; apparently complete despite irregular pagination (which comports with similar copies we've seen and suggests ads were planned but not sold). Light rubbing, sun, and edgewear to boards, with two small chips to cloth along spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Third edition, with a Wilport Press cancel on the title page. Laid in is a one sheet (4 ½" x 7") with instructions for measurements used in the book; for example, one wine glass is equivalent to four ounces or half a water tumbler. 12mo: 130 p. with textual illustrations. Original brown cloth binding, with black stamping. A remarkably fresh copy. Near fine. Considered the father of American mixology, "Professor" Jerry Thomas (1830-85) published the first edition of this guide in 1862. It was the first cocktail book published in the United States and contained the first written accounts of many cocktails such as the Fizz, Brandy Daisy, and the Sour. Thomas updated the guide several times, and in this edition, which was published two years after his death, he introduced the Martinez, which is understood to be the precursor to the martini. It calls for one pony of Old Tom gin, a glass of vermouth, two dashes of Maraschino, and a dash of Boker's bitters with ice, garnished with a slice of lemon.

First Edition, 'Revised Edition' plug at top front cover. Octavo, original cloth, 170 pages. Containing Clear And Reliable Directions For Mixing All The Different Beverages Used In The United States, Embracing Juleps, Cobblers, Cocktails, Punches, Durkees, "Trilbys," Etc., Etc., In Endless Variety, With Some Recipes On Cooking, And Other General Information : An Up-To-Date Recipe Book By C. F. Lawlor recently Chief Bartender of the Grand Hotel and Now at Burnet House, Cincinnati. Rather scarce title, WorldCat finds 8 copies of all four editions: 1895, 1895 Revised Edition, 1897, and 1899. Of this title Ted Haugh [Meet Dr. Cocktail blog] writes: Much of the contents came from one or another of Jerry Thomas's Bon Vivant editions, but examination shows substantial alterations in proportions, ingredients, recipes and commentary. The book specifies a particular cocktail bitters never to be found in another bar guide: Schroeder's Cocktail Bitters. Did any other author come up with a drink variety called a Durkee? Memory fails to produce one. Similarly, Punch a la Dwyer, The Crank's Drink, Whiskey & Glycerine, the Big 4 Mint Julep the Attorney General and Lawlor's Pousse Café could possibly be his work. The Mixicologist is the only bar guide ever published to include a punch recipe that utilizes the ingredient ambergris (a waxy secretion of the sperm whale, its use in beverages is obscure beyond telling). Lawlor notes that- to some tastes, a cocktail is much improved by the addition of two or three drops of Absinthe - a proposal Americans have only just regained the legal means to test. Good, with some crayon marks to rear endpaper and rear pastedown, first couple pages of recipes with pencil marks, a mid page with few business stamps at margins, couple of fore-edge corners chipped, cloth with wear and soiling, frontis portrait of Lawlor is detached but present with some closed tears at edges.

Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, 1862. First Edition with $1.50 price stamped in gilt to upper cover. 12mo. 244pp. + [8]pp. publisher's advertisements including ad for this volume under the title "The Bar-Tender's Guide" (also for $1.50); illustrations throughout, the first signed "Avery" in image. Original brown wavy-grained cloth with elaborate blind stamped decorative leaf designs on both covers; gilt stamping to front and spine; yellow advertisement endpapers. Corners bumped and lightly worn; rubbing and small burn mark to spine. Binding sound; contemporary gift inscription in pencil to preliminaries, else unmarked and free of foxing. A remarkably well-preserved, Very Good or better copy; quite uncommon in such beautiful condition. The first true cocktail book issued in the United States from the founding father of American mixology, How to Mix Drinks classifies drinks as cobblers, cocktails, fixes, juleps, punches, sours, slings, smashes, toddies, and "fancy drinks." A commercial success upon publication, Thomas did more than anyone else to establish a canon of American drinks, and, according to cocktail historian David Wondrich, helped establish the "First legitimate American culinary art." In the fog of whiskey and war, exact states of this work are difficult to pin down, but our volume aligns with the first issue points enumerated by NYPL in their announcement for their January 16, 2024 article regarding their acquisition under the Bar-Tender's Guide title. We note that nearly all contemporary newspaper advertisements use the "How to Mix Drinks" title and the type from stereotyped plates in this copy is largely unblemished. We have handled a later state with a $2.50 price with the same binding variant, though the bartender vignette appears to be the more common of the two. Regardless, a major work of Americana and culinary history. References: "New to the Rare Book division: The First Modern Cocktail Manual," by Michael Inman, Susan Tane Curater of Rare Books, NYPL Blog, January 16, 2024 Gastronomic Bibliography by Bitting, p. 403 The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails by Wondrich and Rothbaum, p. 726 Imbibe! by Wondrich.