Cocktail Bill - World Drinks 1934

Boothby, William T. (“Cocktail Bill”). World Drinks and How to Mix Them. San Francisco: Boothby’s World Drinks Co., 1934. Revised & enlarged (1930) edition, later printing. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. 270, [1] pp. Illustrated advertisements, including vintage spirits and Pisco Punch promotions. Original pictorial wrappers in orange, black, and cream, with illustration of two hands toasting before a globe. Spine titled vertically. A greatly revised and expanded edition of the classic American cocktail manual by San Francisco’s legendary bartender William “Cocktail Bill” Boothby, originally issued in 1891. Boothby tended bar at the Palace Hotel and became one of the most influential mixologists of his era. This post-Prohibition edition, first issued in 1930, was intended as a complete and unabridged encyclopedia of “all popular beverages,” with sections on cocktails, highballs, fizzes, juleps, rickeys, punches, sangarees and slings, toddies and hot drinks, wines, and more. Condition: Very good, spine sound and uncreased. Binding firm, contents clean. A bright and appealing copy of this important and desirable cocktail book, a cornerstone of American bar literature. Inv. I1