Vintage Mixology Bottom's Up Book- Author Signed Introduction
Ted Saucier's, Bottoms Up , Greystone Press, 1951. ,Hardcover. First Edition.
Book and jacket in Very good condition. Book also has plastic cover. Cardboard slip jacket cover has worn areas.
Cocktail recipes, illustrated with lovely “artistic” illustrations of beautiful–if naughty–ladies in glamorous poses, in colour and black and white.
270 pages.
7.5 x 10 inches.
Saucier was the publicist for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. This 1951 cocktail classic book, Bottoms Up includes over 200 drinks, fully indexed, plus twelve risqué [for the period] illustrations by twelve different artists. A typical review of a cocktail follows the actual recipe:
