Gastronomy 2021 Catalogue

14 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s G a s t r o n o m y 2 0 2 1 “One Of The Only Books With The… Pegu Club Cocktail” 14. CIRO’S LONDON. Cocktails. Philadelphia, 1930. Small octavo (4-1/4 by 6-3/4 inches), original half orange and black pictorial cloth, dust jacket. $1400. Click for more info First edition of this collection of over 250 cocktails by “Jimmy” of the legendary London club, Ciro’s, in colorful dust jacket. “Ciro’s was a hip London establishment (before another popular one opened up in Los Angeles in 1940), that had as their bartender Harry McElhone (author of ABC of Cocktails ), at which Jimmy took over when Harry went off to Paris. This book is one of the only books with the… Pegu Club Cocktail, and has quite a few pages of interestingly worded toasts. And in its remarks answers what was at that time Old Time Gin and Dry Gin, as well as a very different grenadine than pomegranates or red syrup” (Ross Bolton). While Jimmy’s identity remains uncertain, some hint he may be Jimmy Charters of the Monte Carlo and Deauville. Small owner signatures; rear blank with cocktail recipe in unidentified cursive. Book fresh and crisp; light edge-wear, crease with small loss to lower edge of dust jacket front panel. Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps 15. CRADDOCK, Harry. The Savoy Cocktail Book. New York, 1930. Octavo, original half black cloth, Art Deco pictorial boards. $1500. Click for more info First Americaneditionof this quintessential bookof cocktail recipes, with lively and colorful Art Deco illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold and bold Art Deco binding. Compiled by “the king of cocktail shakers,” this witty, informative, and eminently useful book on how to make and mix drinks contains humorous anecdotes on the origin of the cocktail and its purpose (“for the solace of man”), as well as “an elucidation of the Manners and Customs of people of quality in a period of some equality.” In 1926, Harry Craddock fled prohibition in the United States to become Head Barman at the London Savoy. He was the inventor of the “Old Fashioned.” His book includes a chapter on “Cocktails Suitable for a Prohibition Country” and an entertaining autobiographical essay on wines by Colette. Without Bacardi Cocktails addendum slip at page 25. Preceded in the same year by a signed limited edition and a London edition. Colorful text quite fresh with trace of soiling, mild rubbing, edge-wear to bright boards. A near-fine copy.