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[MIXOLOGY]. McELHONE, Harry (1890–1958), D.B. Wyndham Lewis (“Wynn”) (1891–1969), and Arthur MOSS (1889–1969). Barflies and Cocktails: Over 300 Cocktail Receipts. Paris: Lecram Press, 1927.
12mo. (Few marginal stains). Numerous drawings after Moss, several plates after photographs. Original–cloth backed pictorial boards (light dust soiling and edgewear, hinges tender, old cocktail receipts penned on endpapers, rear free endpaper partially torn away).
FIRST EDITION of this rare mixology book (the first to come to auction) authored by the head bartender and later proprietor of the famous Harry’s New York Bar in Paris. The Bar was known for its American expatriates and authors including Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, McElhone is often credited with inventing the Bloody Mary, Sidecar, the Monkey Gland, the White Lady, and the Boulevardier, an early form of the French 75. The Bar is still run today by a McElhone.