Five rare books on cocktails, bartending, and the manufacture of liquor. Includes: a rare paperback edition of Jerry Thomas' Bar-Tender's Guide or How to Mix Drinks ("An Entirely New and Enlarged Edition"), published in New York by Dick & Fitzgerald in 1887; a hardcover edition of Cocktails by 'Jimmy,' late of Ciro's, published in Philadelphia by David McKay Company circa 1930; a hardcover edition of How to Mix Drinks by Bill Edwards, published in Philadelphia by David McKay Company in 1936; a late 19th-century reprint hardcover edition of The Manufacture of Liquors, Wines, and Cordials by Pierre Lacour, published in New York by Dick & Fitzgerald; and a paperback uncorrected proof of The Taster's Guide to Beer: Brews and Breweries of the World by Michael A. Weiner, published by Macmillan in 1977. In overall good to fine condition with several old tape repairs and small losses to the spine of Jerry Thomas' Bar-Tender's Guide.
