Asheville: Three Mountaineers Press, 1941

8vo, pp. 76, bound with leather ties. Original scalloped wooden boards, doubly hinged at left edge. A fine copy.

First edition of this compendium of 1940s mixology.

One of two cocktail books published by Three Mountaineers Press in Asheville, South Carolina. Founded in 1938 and trading until the 1990s, Three Mountaineers specialised in producing mountain crafts and pottery. Here they applied their expertise to the creation of one of the most striking cocktail books of the period.

A fine copy.