Description
Cotton, Leo. Old Mr. Boston Deluxe Official Bartender’s Guide (Boston: Ben Burk, 1941) 5th printing, printed only two months before Pearl Harbor.
SextoDecimo (16mo). 160 pages. Hardcover. Bound in maroon pebble-textured cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt on spine and front cover with laid on image of “Mr. Boston”.
Condition: Near Fine. Straight, bright, crisp, tight.
Old Mr. Boston Official Bartender’s Guide is considered by both professional and home bartenders as the “Bible of Booze.” The Guide was first published 1935, the early days after the Repeal of Prohibition, when the distillery started up business again.
