OP: Bottoms Up
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Greystone Press, New York, 1962. Hardcover. Fine in VG slipcase. New and Revised edition.
A great favorite among collectors, Bottoms Up, originally published in 1951, is an engaging and very useful guide to making every sort of mixed drink using recipes gathered from bartenders and aficionados around the world. Assembled by Ted Saucier, the expansive publicist for the Waldorf Astoria, the volume is a treasure house of drinks, some of them well-known today, others preserved here.
Cocktails—more than 400 of them—lead the way with an abundance of Collinses, coolers, fizzes, frappes, and flips, juleps, punches, slings, smashes, and sours contributed by the likes of the Ritz Bar in Paris, Joe’s Bar in Havana, and the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, many honoring ‘40s and ‘50s celebrities. You might be tempted by the Cholly Knickerbocker, the Barbados Rum Swizzle, Malice in Follywood (from gossip columnist Hedda Hopper), the Pump Room Bath Cure, No. 1, and other treats.
Along with its encyclopedic coverage, Bottoms Up is avidly collected for its design and layout—risqué second color illustrations on every page, not to mention the neat dozen full-page glossy inserts of full color pinups, both topless and nude, each by a different artist.
Our copy, the 1962 revised and slipcased edition, is in Fine condition, clean, crisp, and soundly bound in printed cloth that is itself also on the racy side. The slipcase is solid but lightly scuffed and frayed, particularly about the edges.
