$400.00
Description
Description: This scarce item features a cardboard sleeve cheekily illustrated on both sides with small cut-out windows that reveal different cocktail recipes as you pull up on the inserted card. The recto is identified as: Forty Famous Cocktails: Being a Compendium of Reliable Recipes Carefully Compiled for Use in this Arid Era. Engraved with Humble Apologies to that Master Engraver John Held Jr. The verso is captioned: The Path to Perdition or a Scene from the Back Room in the Days When Life was Simple, with Apologies and a Toast to John Held Jr Master Eng. There are 40 cocktail recipes on the insert, including such classics as Side-Car, Old Fashioned, and Manhattan, as well as some more humorously named concoctions like Corpse Reviver, Bosom Caresser, and Monkey Gland.
Published by Colonial Sales Corp., New York and engraved by John Boland. 11" x 7 1/2". Item #DA00167.
Condition: Wear on edges, several short tears along top opening, scattered spots on sleeve and areas on insert that line up with windows, otherwise in good condition with none of the faults being terribly distracting.