Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1989. First edition. Unique approach to bar culture. Unrepresented in WorldCat, this slim volume provides women of the late 1980s and early 1990s with advice on how to play so-called Bar Games.With sections on "Playing Games," "Before You Play," "Game Strategies," "How to Get Rid... Read More about A Single Lady's Guide to Bar Games

[New York: 1870s]. A striking CDV portrait of Tennessee Claflin, who with her sister Victoria Woodhull, opened the first women-run stock brokerage, in 1870. Significant backing for the venture came from Cornelius Vanderbilt, whom Claflin had become close to as his personal medium. Part of the fortune the sisters raised... Read More about CDV photograph

New York: Richard R. Smith, 1930. First American edition. First American edition of the classic cockail manual, collecting more than 700 cocktail recipes by Harry Craddock, bartender at the American Bar at London's Savoy Hotel in the 1920s and '30s. One of the most imporant, and useful, cocktail manuals and... Read More about The Savoy Cocktail Book

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Fifth printing. The first edition of Thomas's book, published in 1862, is the first cocktail manual. This Knopf edition features an introduction by Herbert Asbury with a biography of the author. Read More about The Bon Vivant's Companion, or How to Mix Drinks

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, (1940). First edition thus. 1940 reprint of the rare 1934 first edition published by Richard R. Smith (American publisher of the Savoy cocktail Book) and Ray Long. Read More about The Official Mixer's Manual

New York: Geo. T Stagg and Co, 1933. First edition. "Is is our hope again to revive the pleasures of the past …" (Foreword). A charmingly illustrated pocket drinks manual issued on the occasion of the repeal of Prohibition. With the imprint of the the George T. Stagg Company, distillery... Read More about The Merry Mixer, or Cocktails and Their Ilk. A Booklet on Mixtures and Mulches, Fizzes and Whizzes

New York: The Angostura-Wuppermann Corporation, (1950). Later printing. Pocket cocktail manual produced by Angostura, makers of the popular aromatic bitters used in so many classic cocktails. Read More about Professional Mixing Guide. The Accredited List of Recognized and Accepted Standard Formulas for...

Cairo: Nile Mission Press, 1913. The Cairo Study-Centre was founded in 1912 by the American missionary Samuel Zwemer (1867-1952), who was "the driving force behind Protestant collaborative missions to Muslims in the early twentieth century" (Sharkey, American Evangelicals in Cairo, p 92). The report details the lecture series delivered by... Read More about Cairo Study-Centre for Arabic, Islam, and Mohammedan Evangelisation. Report of First Session,...

[De Land, Florida: 1934]. The first communication from Lovecraft to Smith during his long stay with young Robert H. Barlow in Florida in the spring of 1934, anticipating in miniature — “86º here yesterday, grandpa is in his element” — the expansive reports in subsequent letters, with allusions to Smith’s..... Read More about Autograph Note, signed (“Ech-Pi-El”), to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked De Land, Fla., 1 May...

London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1822. Facsimile of the First Edition. Printed in 1991. Copy #96 of 100 Library copies, signed by the editor, Malcolm Woodbridge. A fine facsimile of the first book on tennis in the English language.. Lukin was one of the great players of his time... Read More about A Treatise on Tennis. By a Member of the Tennis Club

Baltimore: Racquet Sports Information & Services, 1973. Photographic reprint of the original London edition of 1878. Read More about The Annals of Tennis

[Oxford]: (Ironbark) Ronaldson Publications, [1987]. First edition of this translation. Read More about Rules and Principles of Tennis … (1800). Translated by Sir Richard Hamilton. [Foreword by...