'Cocktail Bill' Boothby's World Drinks and How to Prepare Them

BOOTHBY, Hon. William T.

Published by Boothby World Drinks Co, San Francisco, 1934

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First Edition Thus, "Completely Revised and Greatly Enlarged into an Unabridged Encyclopedia of All Popular Beverages". Original yellow printed wrappers, 7 1/2" by 5 1/4", 271 pages. WorldCat lists five library holdings for this edition. This title was originally published in 1891, with the title "Cocktail Boothby s American Bar-Tender" Additional editions were published in 1908, and 1930. By this last printing the original four hundred recipes had expanded to seventeen hundred concoctions. "Recipes included Absinthe, of egg whites and/or yolks, Alexanders made with Gin and Coffee Ice Cream, many vodka concoctions, dozens and dozens of recipes with a Martini base, French 75 s without Champagne, Gin is the dominate spirit, numerous famous recipes with other names, sweet and sour, bulk recipes for up to twenty people, Hurricanes with Gin and Cr�me de Menthe." Nearly Very Good, lower fore-edge of early pages bumped and causing some dog-eared pages and a couple with short tears, small chip to front cover at same location, couple inch closed tear at lower rear cover.

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'Cocktail Bill' Boothby's World Drinks and How to Prepare Them

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Boothby World Drinks Co, San Francisco

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1934

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Soft cover

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1st Edition

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