OP: Bottoms Up (first printing)
Greystone Press, New York, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. First printing.
A great favorite among collectors, Bottoms Up 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 still 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 glossy inserts of full color pinups, both topless and totally nude, each by a different artist.
Our copy is a first printing, soundly bound in printed cloth that is itself also on the racy side. Lacking the original glassine protective cover with title and illustrations. Lightly soiled but Very Good, overall.
