American Bar-Tender: A Treatise on the Manufacture and Service of Drink, and a Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Etc.

by R. C. Miller

$3,800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

St. Paul, MN: R. C. Miller, 1895. First edition of this very early and scarce cocktail guide. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in black over semi-flexible boards. Very Good with fraying, soiling, light staining and wear to covers. Pages toned ink notation to contents page, the first two leaves are partially cracked at the hinge and fragile, occasional creased corners. Item #140943136

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