Americana Eight Cocktail Napkins Hand Blocked with Recipes and the Histories 1st

Description: Cocktail Book Illustrated with Cocktail NapkinsAmericana: Eight Cocktail Napkins Hand Blocked with Recipes and the Histories of Eight Famous Drinks [cover title] Title: Americana: Eight Cocktail Napkins Hand Blocked with Recipes and the Histories of Eight Famous Drinks [cover title] Publication: France: (ca. 1920s). First Edition Edition: First Edition Description: Hardcover. One of the more curious Prohibition-era cocktail books, eight recipes illustrated with attractive color-printed cocktail napkins mounted on the facing page.The cocktails are the Manhattan, Blue Blazer, Deadwood Duck, Rip Van Winkle Sleeper, Belmont Park, Alabama, Barbary Coast, and the New Orleans Drip. The recipes all call for "non-alcoholic" spirits (dating this to Prohibition) and can be rather odd. For example, the Barbary Coast Cocktail is usually whiskey, gin, creme de cacao, and cream. The version here is actually a Singapore (or Gin) Sling:1/2 Holland Dry (non-alcoholic)1/2 Cherry Brandy Flavor4 Dashes Lemon Juice4 Dashes Grenadine (non-alcoholic)More strangeness: The supposedly "wellknown" Belmont Park is basically a flat Chicago Fizz (gin, egg, port, hold the soda ). The Blue Blazer, a cocktail made by tossing flaming whiskey through the air, is credited to one "Bill Murphy" in the Gay 90s, some 30 years after the instructions were first published. It is illustrated with a napkin depicting a gravity-defying horizontal toss of flaming liquid, possibly based on the well-known image from Jerry Thomas's Bartender's Guide, first published in 1862.A rare and one-of-a-kind sort of cocktail book. 18 pages. 9 by 7-1/2 inches. Eight mounted napkins (6-1/8 by 4-3/4 inches) of woven white cotton fabric with fringe on the two short ends. Most of the designs are printed in five colors: black, blue, red, yellow, and green; one adds orange; the Blue Blazer is printed without any blue. Very good. First edition. A very good copy, with minor wear to the covers and professional (ECS Conservation) reinforcement of the notoriously fragile spine and gutters. Napkins all present and very good (minor discoloration due to the glue, as usual). Conservation report laid in. Seller ID: 361676 Subject: Cocktails, Beer & Wine, COOKING, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS Downtown Brown Books has been selling on eBay since 1998. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), the International Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), and the Cascade Booksellers Association (CBA), and we adhere to their codes of ethics. Condition grading is done in compliance with IOBA's published standards. Terms All orders ship within one business day. Standard mail is USPS Media Mail. Expedited and international shipping are also available. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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