Garden City: Doubleday & Co., (1946) copyright, but circa 1970 printing. Reprint. Hardcover. Original beige cloth, octavo, 272 pp. With water-color illustrations by Guy Huze and line drawings by William F. M. Kay. A reprint of the San Francisco restauranteur's popular compilation of recipes for food and drink - reflecting... More
San Francisco: Pacific Buffet, Pacific Building, 1908. First edition thus. Paperback. 139, [1], [12] pp.; 7.25 x 5 inches, original yellow pictorial wrappers. Unpaginated section at rear headed "Some New-Up-To-Now Seductive American Cocktails." An expanded edition of the work first published in 1891 as "Cocktail Boothby's American Bartender." In his... More
NY: Hacker Art Books, 1970. Reprint of 1917 edition. Original beige cloth, octavo (5.5 x 8.5 inches), 154 pp. Very good; a clean, unworn copy. No d/j. A fascinating history of drinking in America, including customs, laws, liquor traffic, and temperance societies. More