Shaking in the 60's
London, Cocktail Books Ltd, 1963. Clarke, Eddie. Shaking in the 60's. [FIRST EDITION] Cocktail Books Ltd: London, 1963. 8vo (200x130mm) pink illust dj, red, gilt dec cloth bds 256pp. (illustrated by William S McCall) Bookplate to fep; dj edges faintly worn, sm rep tear; internally fine.
Second-hand hardcover
CLARKE, EDDIE. [Edwin "Eddie" John (ca.1908-ca.1972)]
Shaking in the 60's.
London : Cocktail Books Ltd, 1963. First edition. Printed by Saffron Hill Printers, London. Price 25/-.
Octavo (200x130mm) pink illustrated dust jacket and end-papers; publisher's gilt decorated, red cloth boards, 256pp. Illustrated title page, frontispiece and numerous vignettes printed in red, black and green, all by William S McCall. Dust jacket edges lightly worn, small closed repaired tear; bookplate to front free end-paper.
¶ Clarke began his career as a ship's bartender in 1926. By 1939-1940, he was the head bartender of the American Bar at London’s Savoy having taken over from Harry Craddock. After World War II, he was, for a while, the head bartender at the fashionable Albany Club in London. In 1954, he opened his own establishment, the Albemarle Club in Mayfair graduating from bartender to nightclub owner. ¹ The Club closed in 1970.
Shaking in the 60's was Clarke's fourth and final cocktail book. Billed as 'a complete guide to entertaining [for those] in the service of drinking. Subjects covered include the mixing of all types of drinks, some 200 cocktail recipes; parties at home; storage, tasting, serving , and articles on wine." ² Clarke's most famous recipe "The Comet" was created to celebrate the first-ever commercial flight of a jet aircraft; BOAC's de Havilland DH 106 Comet, from London to Johannesburg in May 1952. The cocktail, featuring a South African liqueur is on p.87.
Scarce. A fine copy.
§ OCLC records 13 holdings, all in the USA, Ireland or the UK.
§ EUVS; Noling, p.107;
¹ Wondrich, David & Rothabum, Noah (ed). The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails. Oxford, 2022. p.155.
² from the dust jacket blurb.
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