New York & Toronto, Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946
A classic cocktail book from café society New York. The Stork Club was established during the prohibition by the bootlegger Sherman Billingsley, going on to become one of the most prestigious clubs in the world before its closure in 1965.
With recipes for the times of day including Rob Roys, Daiquiri, and the signature Stork Club Cocktail — a dash of lime juice, half an orange, triple sec, 1½ oz gin, Angostura bitter 'Shake well and strain in chilled 4 oz. glass'.
First edition; 8vo (20.5 x 14.5 cm); publisher's limp red morocco by Brown & Bigelo, lettered in gilt to upper panel, gilt typographic ownership stamp, minor wear to edges, a very good copy; 136pp.
With recipes for the times of day including Rob Roys, Daiquiri, and the signature Stork Club Cocktail — a dash of lime juice, half an orange, triple sec, 1½ oz gin, Angostura bitter 'Shake well and strain in chilled 4 oz. glass'.
First edition; 8vo (20.5 x 14.5 cm); publisher's limp red morocco by Brown & Bigelo, lettered in gilt to upper panel, gilt typographic ownership stamp, minor wear to edges, a very good copy; 136pp.
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