This is the up-to-date list of the pre-1920 anitiquarian bar & cocktail books in my collection.
(Only those which were published in the US or the UK in English. I have listed the French, Spanish, and German books separately.)
1862 How to Mix Drinks or the Bon Vivant's Companion - Jerry Thomas ($2.50 edition)
1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks - William Terrington
1869 Cups and their Customs - anon. (2nd ed.)
1883 Jerry Thomas' Bar-Tender's Guide - Jerry Thomas (Limited Special Edition, published for the patrons of Woodford, Dean & Co., Liqueur Wholesale Dealers, Copyright 1876)
1885 The Art of Blending & Compounding Liquors and Wines - Joseph Fleischman
1887 American and other Drinks - Charlie Paul
1887 Jerry Thomas' Bar-Tender's Guide - Jerry Thomas (Green cover)
1887 Jerry Thomas' Bar-Tender's Guide - Jerry Thomas (Red cover)
1887 Jerry Thomas' Bar-Tender's Guide - Jerry Thomas (Brown cover)
1891 Wehman's Bartender's Guide - Henry J. Wehman
1891 Drinks á la Mode - Mrs. de Salis
1892 The Flowing Bowl - William Schmidt (The "only" William)
1892 Drinks of the World - James Mew & John Ashton
1895 The Mixicologist - C.F. Lawlor (Revised Ed.) (170-page softcover ed.)
1895 The Mixicologist - C.F. Lawlor (Revised Ed.) (174-page softcover ed.)
1895 Modern American Drinks - George J. Kappeler
1899 The Flowing Bowl - Edward Spencer
1899 Ye Cocktails - Cocktails How to make them - anon.
1900 The new and improved illustrated Bartender's Manual - Harry Johnson
1900s Red Top Rye Guide, How To Make Fine, Fancy or Mixed Drinks - F. Westheimer
1901 The Cocktail Book - Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen (L.C. Page & Company)
1902 The Cocktail Book - Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen (John Mc Queen)
1904 Drinks as they are mixed - Paul E. Lowe
190x Drinks as they are mixed - Paul E. Lowe (Grein & Pahls Drink Mixer's Manual ed.)
1906 Louis' Mixed Drinks - Louis Muckensturm (Harcover, Caldwell Printing)
1906 Louis' Mixed Drinks - Louis Muckensturm (Softcover, Dodge Publishing)
1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard - A. Lyman Phillips
1908 Jack's Manual - Recipes for Fancy Drinks - Jack A. Grohusko
1909 Modern American Drinks - George J. Kappeler
1909 Drinks - How to Mix and how to Serve - Paul E. Lowe (US ed.)
1909 Drinks - How to Mix and how to Serve - Paul E. Lowe (UK ed.)
c1910 The Seductive American Cocktails - Hon. Wm T. (Cocktail) Boothby
1910 Jack's Manual - Recipes for Fancy Drinks - Jack A. Grohusko
1912 Bartender's Guide - How to mix drinks, Wehman Bros.
1912 Dr. Siegerts Complete Mixing Guide - Angostura Bitters
1913 Applegreen's Bar Book - John Applegreen (4th ed.)
1914 Rawling's Book of Mixed Drinks - Ernest P. Rawling
1914 New Bartender's Guide - 2-in-1 - L.&M. Ottenheimer
c1914 Modern Drinks (Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.)
c1914 The World's Drinks and How to mix them - William T. Boothby
1917 The Ideal Bartender - Tom Bullock
191x Snake bites or something - Good Cheer - anon.
191x Drinks - Jacques Straub
191x The Flowing Bowl - Edward Spencer (4th ed.)
191x Booze Book - Clysmic King of Table Waters
c1910s The Buckstone Book of Cocktails - "Robert" Buckby (late of Noah's Club) & George Stone (Le Moulin D'Or Restaurant)
(Updated May, 29, 2011)
I'll list my cocktail books from the 20's and 30's at some time in the near future...
If you have any pre-1938 bartending/cocktail book for sale, feel free to send me an email... I am always looking to buy (no matter if they are already listed on my site or not.) Additionally I have posted previously a list of my doubles, which I might be willing to "swap"...
