The Official Mixer's Manual The Standard Guide for Professional and Amateur Bartenders Throughout the World

[Food and Drink] DUFFY, Patrick Gavin

Published by Halcyon House, New York, 1940

8vo. Pp. xvii, 328. Illustrated with glassware drawings. With index. Brick-red cloth, titles stamped in black over gray illustration on the cover, wire ring bound: corner bumped, light wear to spine ends, leaves crisp and bright. In the color illustrated dust jacket: edges rubbed, spine sunned and a bit chipped. More than 900 drink recipes organized by essential base, first published in 1934.Duffy got his start at the Ashland House in New York and claims here to have introduced the highball to America in 1895. He shows pride in his "old and honorable trade" (but "mixologist is nonsense") and reluctantly accepts the best of Prohibition-era innovations, though cocktails he does not personally recommend are marked with a "precautionary" symbol. This enlarged edition augmented with a wine section by Murdock Pemberton, first art critic for The New Yorker and member of the Algonquin Round Table.Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Seller Inventory # 7426

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Official Mixer's Manual The Standard ...
Publisher: Halcyon House, New York
Publication Date: 1940
Binding: Hardcover Wire Ring Bound
Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Good+
Edition: Revised Edition.