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Harry's A B C of mixing cocktails : over 300 cocktail recipes
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London: Dean & Son, Limited / 29 King Street / W.C. 2, 1927. Early Reprint. Original Cloth. Fine. Fourth Edition (so stated), giving recipes for more than 300 cocktails, including Angel's Kiss (creme de cacao and fresh cream), Brooklyn (picon, maraschino, rye whisky, vermouth), Monkey's Gland (absinthe, grenadine, orange juice, gin—"Invented by the Author and deriving its name from Voronoff's experiments in rejuvenation," and the Morning Cocktail (curacao, maraschino, orange bitters, absinthe, brandy, vermouth). Small, slim 8vo: 109,[1]pp, including portrait frontispiece and 20 full-page advertisements. Publisher's red cloth, upper board titled and ruled in black. Fine, virtually pristine (one page edge creased) example. Covers are clean and unfaded, pages fresh and unmarked, binding square and secure. All early editions are scarce, especially in such exemplary condition. Noling, pp. 192, 269. McElhone was a Scottish-born bartender, famous for his cocktails. His compendium of recipes, arranged alphabetically, also includes tips on the arrangement of a bar, hints to bartenders, and selected toasts. This edition also has an introduction by Harry claiming the "little pocket manual" is in great demand since he left Ciro's to open his own place in Paris (Harry's New York Bar). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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- Palabras clave Cocktails—Handbooks, manuals, etc. Cocktails.
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression of the author's important first novel. 8vo: 283 [1]pp. Publisher's rust-colored cloth with matching top stain, spine stamped in gold; price-clipped first issue dust jacket (without reviews) illustrated by Tom Adams. A Fine, bright example, probably unread, with crimp to head of spine; about Fine jacket (light dust-soiling to back panel). A psychological thriller (and instant bestseller) about a repressed council clerk and butterfly collector, Edward Clegg, who kidnaps an art student, the talented, beautiful Miranda Grey. (The William Wyler film starred Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar.) Almost the entire novel is set in the claustrophobic confines of the cellar where Clegg keeps Miranda until she eventually dies of pneumonia. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged…
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Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers [through 1942], 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine-/Very Good+. First Edition, second issue (with 1943 copyright), of this World War II-era collection of "favorite stories, verse and cartoons for the entertainment of servicemen," including Salinger's first appearance in book form. Small 8vo: 336pp, with numerous color and black-and-white cartoon illustrations. Publisher's red, white, and blue pictorial boards (issued without dust jacket), in original pictorial shipping carton. About Near Fine, rubbed with minor loss of color to corners and tips and browning to wartime paper; Very Good or better shipping box (unused), reproducing book's cover image, rubbed along all edges. Not uncommon, except in the shipping carton (as here), very few of which have survived. Slawenski, p. 38. Originally published in the July 12, 1942, issue of Collier's. Salinger's story, "The Hang of It," begins on p. 332, and was carried into battle by countless soldiers." (Slawenski)…
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Franequeræ [Franeker, the Netherlands]: Typis & impensis Johannis Gyzelaar, illustr. Frisiæ Ordd. atque eorundem Academiæ typograph. ordinar, 1696. Second Edition. Vellum. Fine. Second Edition of this work on the ancient synagogue and development of the early Church. Complete in two continuously paginated volumes bound in one. Small 4to (194 x 156mm): [30],608,[6],609-1138, [38]pp, with identical additional engraved title pages showing Jews before a temple and signed "J. Goeree delin. / J. Mulder sculp" to both parts and woodcut headpieces, initials, and ornaments. Contemporary vellum, edges stained red, manuscript title to head of spine in early hand. Title pages printed in red and black, with woodcut printer's device bearing motto "Ego Iehoua vocauite iuste," the title page to the second part reading "Campegii Vitringa De synagoga vetere liber tertius: quo rectores & ministri synagogarum conferuntur cum praepositis & diaconis ecclesiae Christianae pars II." Bookseller's ticket to front…
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1955. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Edition (so stated), first state binding (vivid green cloth spine), second issue (title / copyright leaf a cancellans, with multiple dates [1949-1955]). Signed by Welty in her tiny scrawl on title page. 8vo: [8],207,[1]pp. Publisher's blue and green mottled paper-covered boards, vivid green fine bead cloth spine stamped in silver, pictorial dust jacket priced $3.50. About Fine (spine ends bumped, shelf-worn bottom board edge); about Fine jacket (very brief expert restoration, involving neither lettering nor design, to head and tail of spine panel, which is lightly toned). Not the concealed second printing (Polk 11.1.2, as are many copies advertised as first printings), in which the title / copyright leaf is integral). Welty's important seventh book, nominated for the National Book Award. Polk A11.1b. According to Polk, "Heavily revised versions of stories originally published in magazines." N. B. With few exceptions…
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