Inscribed Fireside printing of the "autobiographical journal of America's most noted food authority."

First American edition of the one of the most influential books in culinary history.

First edition of the memoir of the famous bartender of the Stork Club and beyond, filled with colorful anecdotes of the people for whom he mixed drinks.

First printing of the first cook book by the manager of the Algonquin Hotel, who formed the famous Algonquin Round Table with members Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and Edna Ferber, and who counted as regulars John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, and Orson Welles.

Second printing of Hayes's memoir-style cookbook, with a bookplate signed by Hayes affixed to the front fly leaf.

First edition of the first published book on this culinary tradition, "an invaluable record of the history of Creole food, New Orleans, and Louisiana" (John T. Edge).

First edition of this cocktail book created to advertise a liquor company based in Great Neck, NY, the setting of THE GREAT GATSBY a generation before.

Updated edition of the Prohibition-era cocktail classic, this printing published the year after Prohibition ended in the United States, in the scarce original dust jacket.

First edition of "the earliest California imprint devoted solely to wine making as distinct from vine growing" (Gabler), with terrific California winemaking provenance: from the library of the first statewide board to promote California winemakers, the State Viticultural Commission.

Second printing (issued simultaneously with the first printing) of the second edition, a resurrection in the middle of the Prohibition era of the scarce 19th-century classic that codified American cocktails.