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SAVOY COCKTAIL BOOK CRADDOCK (HARRY, of the Savoy Hotel, London) The Savoy Cocktail Book, FIRST EDITION, Constable & Co., 1930 image 1
SAVOY COCKTAIL BOOK CRADDOCK (HARRY, of the Savoy Hotel, London) The Savoy Cocktail Book, FIRST EDITION, Constable & Co., 1930 image 2
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SAVOY COCKTAIL BOOK
CRADDOCK (HARRY, of the Savoy Hotel, London) The Savoy Cocktail Book, FIRST EDITION, Constable & Co., 1930

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SAVOY COCKTAIL BOOK

CRADDOCK (HARRY, of the Savoy Hotel, London) The Savoy Cocktail Book, FIRST EDITION, printed in colours, illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold, full red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers with 2-line fillet border, roll tool inner border of alternate diamonds and circles, enclosing on the upper cover an illustration of a cocktail glass with stirrer and cherry in gilt and morocco only beneath the title, spine tooled in gilt within raised bands, g.e., slipcase using the original "Art moderne" design wrappers, 8vo, Constable & Co., 1930

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Presentation copy, inscribed on verso of dedication leaf: "'Here's how' / Harry Craddock / To my dear wife Babbie".

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