The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks
Garden City: Doubleday, 1952. xii, 372 pages. Thick narrow 8vo, two-toned beige & green cloth (spine ends just a bit worn; pages uniformly toned). Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1952. Second edition. A very good(+) early copy of this scarce and classic mixology book. "What 'Gray' means to the medical student and 'Hoyle' to the would-be card sharp, 'Embury' means to the budding mixologist. In 1948, David Augustus Embury, a sixtyish New York lawyer with no connection to, as he..... More