(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Cocktails) Duffy, Patrick Gavin. The Official Mixer's Manual: The Standard Guide for Professional and Amateur Bartenders Throughout the World.

Illus. by Reisie Lonette. Jacket. Revised & Enlarged by James Beard. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, [1956]. A classic cocktail book, first printed in 1934, with over 900 recipes for mixing American favorites like sharky punch cocktail, tulip cocktail, Dick Molnar cocktail, silver stallion cocktail, Blue Grass mint julep, rail splitter, widow's kiss, etc. Advice also on glassware, how to draw beer, etc. Pieces of jacket lacking from lower front panel and spine ends and upper corner of front panel; front joint starting to crack, else good. Increasingly scarce. (96)