Old Waldorf Bar Days.
CROCKETT, Albert Stevens.
Old Waldorf Bar Days.
First Edition of Old Waldorf Bar Days; Presentation Copy from Ted Saucier
New York: Aventine Press, 1931.
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First edition of Albert Stevens Crockett’s Old Waldorf Bar Days. Octavo, original silver cloth, illustrations Leighton Budd. Bound in silver cloth with black titles and designs. Presentation label of the Waldorf Astoria’s public relations executive, Ted Saucier. For forty years Saucier was the Waldorf Astoria’s authority on food and drink and responsible for promotions and recipes of it’s famous bar. In very good condition, previous owner’s inscription to the half-title page.
“[The Old-Fashioned] was brought to the Old Waldorf in the days of its ‘sit-down’ Bar, and was introduced by, or in honor of, Col. James E. Pepper, of Kentucky, proprietor of a celebrated whiskey of the period. It was said to have been the invention of a bartender at the famous Pendennis Club in Lousiville, of which Col. Pepper was a member.” The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book, Albert Stevens Crockett, 1935.
