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The Savoy Cocktail Book
Harry Craddock
1931
Constable & Company LTD : London
8" by 5"
286, [2pp]
SUMMARY
Henry Craddock's important cocktail recipe book, with over seven hundred popular recipes from the Savoy Hotel cocktail bar.
Colour Plates,Early Edition,Illustrated,Publishers' Original Binding
Overall Condition: Good
This book weighs 0.75 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
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DESCRIPTION
The fourth edition of this popular work.
One of the most important cocktail books of all time, this work features seven-hundred and fifty of the most popular recipes of the Savoy.
Henry Craddock was one of the most famous bartenders of the 1920s and 30s, working at the Savoy Hotel for eighteen years. He joined the Hotel in 1920, after feeling America during Prohibition.
Craddock is credited with creating many cocktails, including Corpse Reviver #2 and White Lady.
Illustrated with colourful Art Deco borders and decorations throughout, by Gilbert Rumbold.
CONDITION
In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally, generally smart. Light bumping to the extremities. Minor rubbing to the boards, resulting in a small patch of loss to the head of the front board. Marks to the boards, a little heavier to the rear. Small tear to the tail of the rear joint. Spots to the fore edge. Front hinge is tender, rear hinge is strained. Small tidemark to the tail of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with scattered spots. Mark to the margin of page 23/24.
Overall Condition: Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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