Search Results: Bartending and Cocktails from Minotavros Books

Manchester: Arrowsmith & Rider, 1912. Soft cover. Very Good. 18mo. Printed wrappers, saddle stitched. 20 pp. B&W videos. Covers lightly soiled, bumped to edges. A history of Arrowsmith & Rider, 1797-1912.

London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 32mo. N.d., [1870?]. Fourth edition, corrected & improved. Contemporary brown blindstamped cloth, gilt titles. xii, 238 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Slight bowing to rear board. Some damp staining to cloth, rubbing to extremities, bumping to corners. Blind publisher's device of James Cornish to rear board. Some moderate soiling and foxing to interior commensurate with age. Cracking to inner hinge at p. 13. This book was originally published in 1824 after the passage of The New Brewing Act, which regulated the prices of beer and improved competition for smaller breweries. This book offered an accessible introduction to the process of brewing in the wake of such changes to the industry. "There is not at present a subject occupying more general interest than the motion introduced into Parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, having for its object the general extension of the trade in beer...Beer, used as an… Read More

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Orig. maroon cloth, grain device to front board. Illustrated endpapers. xiv, 398 pp. [17] plates. Light rubbing to extremities. Spine tilted. Light toning to text block. Rust stains from paper clip to head of frontispiece. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, lightly bumped to extremities, small chip to lower corner of front cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, signed by Asbury to limitations page, #3/160. Quarter orange cloth, green textured paper boards with gilt goblet vignette to front board. Green ribbon marker. Unopened, roughly cut edges. li, 170 pp. Spine faded, rubbing to extremities, scuffing to boards, wear to corners. Significant paper repairs with tape to head of dedication page. Jerry THomas was formerly the Principal Bartender at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, and at the Planters' House, St. Louis. Herbert Asbury was an author and journalist, best known for his books about American crime, including The Gangs of New York, which was loosely adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese in 2002.

New York: M. S. Mill, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. xv, 64 p.p. Cloth. Colourful illustrated frontispiece. Some tearing to edges of dust-jacket, worse to bottom of jacket. Foxing along jacket as well. Light discolouration to boards and bruising to corners and spine ends. Very small marks throughout book. Overall, a very good copy of book. This book shares cocktail recipes and tips.

Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Green paper boards. 431 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine.

Ottawa: Brewers Association of Canada, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Orig. green cloth. xii, 142 pp. Spine slightly tilted. Dust jacket sunned to spine, short open tears and some creasing to top and tail of rear cover. About fine.

New York: Elizabeth Norman Restaurant, 1951. Hardcover. Fine. Willyoung, Carla. 8vo (small). Unpaginated. Paper boards. Foxing to boards. Sporadic browning to pages. Previous owner's inscription in blue ink to rear endpaper, stating a cocktail recipe. Otherwise, book is in fine condition. This scarce cookbook shares simple ways to make 100 different drinks.

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co, 1877. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Eighth edition, to which are added, Practical Directions for Distilling. From the French of Th. Flinz, Brewer and Distiller. Orig. purple blind stamped cloth. 217 pp., [23 pp. ads]. B&W line illustrations in text. Previously rebacked with original spine laid down. Sunning and offset panels to boards, rubbing to extremities, small chips to head of joints. Cracking to hinges. Ink ownership inscription of Mildred Martin to head of title page. Chipping to tail edge of first 16 pages. Interior age toned. "I trust that in the following pages the reader will find every thing that the present state of science calls for, and that the suggestions may prove of great practical advantage; which I think they will do, as every thing is given in the shortest and plainest manner. It is also needless to say that I have consulted every authority I could find, for the purpose of making this a complete work..." (from the Preface).

London: Simpkin Marshall & Co. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. N.d. [Ca. 1890's]. Orig. brown cloth with decorative black and gilt tooling, xiv, 306pp. Light foxing (heavier at endpapers) with spotting to edges, boards worn and edges with a small bump to spine head, some rubbing on cloth o/w very good. An encyclopedia of condiments and beverages from Absinthe to Yeast.

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Paul, T.. 8vo. Orig. tan cloth with wine-drinking cherub vignette to front board. Illustrated endpapers. ix, 382 pp. B&W line drawings. T.E.R. Staining to top edges of boards and text block. Dust jacket is sunned and stained to spine, worn and chipped to extremities. Here for the first time in English is a dictionary which covers the whole field of alcoholic drinks, from Aargauer to zythus.

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Gibbons-Smith, Leo. 16mo. Full burgundy leatherette. 175 pp. B&W line drawings in text. Dust jacket is price clipped, slightly toned, lightly worn to extremities, creasing to top edge of front cover.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 18mo. Second impression. Quarter cream cloth, burgundy paper boards. 103 pp. B&W illustrations. Spine darkened, cloth rubbed. SUnning to top and fore edges of boards, a few scuffs and stains. Some offsetting to endpapers.

Herbert Jenkins, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Full green paper boards. 96 pp. Spine and edges sunned, light spot of damp staining to head of rear cover, light rubbing to edges. Inner hinge cracked at a p. 16.

Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 3" x 6" First edition. Orig. yellow cloth. 160 pp. Light soiling to cloth, rubbing to extremities. Spine slightly shaken. Stain to fore edge. Some light damp staining to endpapers. Features over 350 drink recipes for your next party or reception. Also Includes directions for stocking and conducting first-class hotel, club and public bars, together with a choice selection of toasts for all occasions.

New York: Hearthside Press, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tan paper boards. 125 pp.[8] pp. B&W photos. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to spine head, light rubbing to rear joint.

Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo. Green cloth, 178pp. About fine in d/w. History of Mooshead Beer, which opened in 1867 in Nova Scotia, the year of Canada's Confederation.

New York: Sterling Epicure, 2016. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pictorial paper boards. Art deco patterned endpapers. xiii, 242 pp. Copiously illustrated in colour. Spine tilted, else fine condition.

Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. Second printing. Full black cloth, white lettering to spine and front, colour pictorial onlay to front board. 248 pp. B&W and sepia photos in-text. Fine condition. Sleeve wrapper to rear board has a few scuffs. Part travelogue, part instruction manual, part bar philosophy, part discursive history, Mondo Cocktail: A Shaken and Stirred History fits into a larger genre than your average bartending book. It is a whimsical examination of the drinks that have captured our imagination and have symbolically identified certain eras and people all over the world.

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hall, Brian O.. 16mo. Full blue cloth. 175 pp. B&W line drawings in text. Some offsetting to pp. 66-67 from a bookmark. Dust jacket is price clipped, slightly toned, lightly worn to extremities, short tear to foot of front cover.