Cocktail Recipes Mixed by Famous People for a Famous Hotel
193310324Del Monte California: Hotel Del Monte 1933. Stapled octavo-sized book 16.5 x 11.5 cm. unpaginated 32 pages. Illustrated throughout by Jo Mora; printed on alternating green and yellow paper and printed in black red and green ink. Second printing styled "second edition". Originally printed and distributed less than one week after the repeal of Prohibition with this second printing just thirteen days later. This cocktail manual also preceded publication of the Hotel del Monte's cookbook Famous Recipes by Famous People assembled from contributions by many of the same celebrities and with Cerwin at the helm. But in this cocktail collection the recipes were collected by The National Association for Advancement of Fine Art of Drinking in the year that brought the end of the long drought 1933 tested and sampled by a group of competent experts at Hotel Del Monte. Contributors include Ernest Hemingway Theodore Dreiser Edgar Rice Burroughs the Marx Brothers Marlene Dietrich Will Sparks George M. Cohan Ed Wynn W.C. Fields and Jo Mora. Rare. OCLC locates two copies of the first or second printing Texas Christian Woman's Univ & Cal State. Hotel Del Monte unknown
