Hollywood's Favorite Cocktail Book, Including the Favorite Cocktail Served at Each of the Smartest Stars' Rendezvous -
George Buzza
1933 - Buzza-Cardozo of Hollywood, Hollywood - First Edition
Extremely rare and fine first ediiton of this wonderful little cocktail book, complete with the two part box.
Published the year prohibition ended and replete with favourite recipes of Hollywood stars of the day like Mae West, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Marlene Dietrich, Will Rogers and Jean Harlow. Some cocktail names include President Roosevelt Cocktail, Satan's Whiskers, San Diego, Shanghai, Sazerac, The Douglas Fairbanks, The Elissa Landi, the Jack Dempsey, the Jean Harlow, the Johnny Weismuller, The Lindbergh, The Lupe Velez, the Mae West, The Marlene Dietrich, The Mary Pickford, The Max Baer, The Roscoe Turner, etc. Signature cocktails from famous Hollywood hangouts like The Brown Derby, The Embassy Club and The Hi Ho, among others. ‘designed by George E. Buzza, Jr., and published by his greeting card company Buzza-Cardozo. George Buzza and Ralph Cardozo began their company in Minneapolis, but relocated to Hollywood in the early 1930s’ - Cocktail Kingdom Library
First printing of November 29, 1933 with no further printings stated on the verso of the title page, code ‘B 670 B-C’ on box and matching ‘B670 to rear wrapper, unlikely to have been a large print run, as there were at least two further printings in 1933 (Dec. 9 and Dec 20 (noted with ‘B850’ to rear wrapper) and a fourth noted (with code B 850 B-C’ to box and ‘B850 to rear wrapper), from the third edition onwards the internal illustrations where in red, the first edition has been noted with and without a red tie through hole to upper corner of book, later editions all had this tie.
Box size 17x15.5cm, book size 16x14.3cm), pp. 40 [7] [1]. In publisher’s fold-over three stapled card wrappers, with black and white art-deco illustration and lettering to upper cover, and black and white art-deco sketches to inside covers, red endpapers (rear one with cocktail recipes printed in black), housed in publisher’s two part box, lid with black and red illustrated and lettered on-lay mirroring the front cover. Condition: Fine but for some pulling away from inner cover around staples, in near fine box with some rubbing to outer corners of pictorial on-lay. Ref: 111896 Price: HK$ 20,000
Published the year prohibition ended and replete with favourite recipes of Hollywood stars of the day like Mae West, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Marlene Dietrich, Will Rogers and Jean Harlow. Some cocktail names include President Roosevelt Cocktail, Satan's Whiskers, San Diego, Shanghai, Sazerac, The Douglas Fairbanks, The Elissa Landi, the Jack Dempsey, the Jean Harlow, the Johnny Weismuller, The Lindbergh, The Lupe Velez, the Mae West, The Marlene Dietrich, The Mary Pickford, The Max Baer, The Roscoe Turner, etc. Signature cocktails from famous Hollywood hangouts like The Brown Derby, The Embassy Club and The Hi Ho, among others. ‘designed by George E. Buzza, Jr., and published by his greeting card company Buzza-Cardozo. George Buzza and Ralph Cardozo began their company in Minneapolis, but relocated to Hollywood in the early 1930s’ - Cocktail Kingdom Library
First printing of November 29, 1933 with no further printings stated on the verso of the title page, code ‘B 670 B-C’ on box and matching ‘B670 to rear wrapper, unlikely to have been a large print run, as there were at least two further printings in 1933 (Dec. 9 and Dec 20 (noted with ‘B850’ to rear wrapper) and a fourth noted (with code B 850 B-C’ to box and ‘B850 to rear wrapper), from the third edition onwards the internal illustrations where in red, the first edition has been noted with and without a red tie through hole to upper corner of book, later editions all had this tie.
Box size 17x15.5cm, book size 16x14.3cm), pp. 40 [7] [1]. In publisher’s fold-over three stapled card wrappers, with black and white art-deco illustration and lettering to upper cover, and black and white art-deco sketches to inside covers, red endpapers (rear one with cocktail recipes printed in black), housed in publisher’s two part box, lid with black and red illustrated and lettered on-lay mirroring the front cover. Condition: Fine but for some pulling away from inner cover around staples, in near fine box with some rubbing to outer corners of pictorial on-lay. Ref: 111896 Price: HK$ 20,000