Meehan's Bartender Manual by Meehan, Jim
Meehan's Bartender Manual By Jim Meehan (Collectible First Edition Copy)
The Monumental, Critically Acclaimed Modern Magnum Opus and Masterclass Reference for High-End Professional Mixology, Bar Design, and Hospitality Mechanics
The Monumental, Critically Acclaimed Modern Magnum Opus and Masterclass Reference for High-End Professional Mixology, Bar Design, and Hospitality Mechanics
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Meehan's Bartender Manual
- Author: Jim Meehan
- Illustrator: Gianmarco Magnani
- Photographer: Doron Gild
- Publisher: Ten Speed Press, Berkeley
- Publication Date: 2017
- ISBN-10: 1607748622
- ISBN-13: 9781607748625
- Edition Details: First Edition, First Printing (Collectible Professional Mixology Release)
- Binding: Original publisher's premium industrial-grade olive green textured linen cloth, complete with crisp, debossed white graphic lettering to the front and spine panels (heavy hardcover as issued without a dust jacket).
- Physical Format: Large Octavo (8vo), 248 pages. Lavishly enhanced with 150 distinct black-and-white stylistic technical illustrations by noted Peruvian designer Gianmarco Magnani, alongside hundreds of detailed, annotated cocktail layouts and stunning full-color documentary photography by Doron Gild.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Cloth: The unique, texturized olive green linen cloth binding remains structurally robust, remarkably flat, and true. The debossed white enamel lettering on both the front board and spine remains exceptionally bright and clean. Exhibits only very slight, superficial storage friction along the far corner tips and spine extremities, completely consistent with careful, professional reference use.
- Interior: The inner hinges, heavy endpapers, and complex binding structure are pristine, tight, and highly sound. Internal pages are completely clean, clear, crisp, and intact. Free from standard consumer ink inscriptions, wet bar stains, recipe checkmarks, or dealer pencil annotations.
- Preservation: This modern classic has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. It is now protected inside a clear protective Cellophane archival wrap to shield the textured cloth borders and preserve its top-tier collectible status.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued on heavy embossed linen boards)
Synopsis & Mixology Value
Published in 2017 by Ten Speed Press, Meehan's Bartender Manual stands as the absolute modern magnum opus and definitive, professional-level blueprint for contemporary bartending. Written by the internationally acclaimed mixologist and bar pioneer Jim Meehan, this comprehensive manual skips past basic drink mixing to deliver an exhaustive, uncompromised structural study of the entire hospitality ecosystem.
The text seamlessly bridges the gap between historical scholarship and real-world execution, outlining the chronological history of cocktails and bartending, foundational service ethics, menu development, functional bar design engineering, and spirits production. To support the technical data, the volume contains 150 stunning black-and-white illustrations by Peruvian designer Gianmarco Magnani and hundreds of meticulously annotated, tested cocktail recipes accompanied by Doron Gild's award-winning color photographs. Interwoven with photo-illustrated biographical portraits of global industry experts, this scarce modern first printing is an indispensable cornerstone collectible for professional bartenders, beverage directors, and serious collectors of historic spirit manuals.
Author Profile: Jim Meehan
Jim Meehan is an internationally celebrated American mixologist, journalist, bar consultant, and hospitality icon who is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures of the 21st-century global cocktail renaissance. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Meehan rose to global fame as the founder of PDT (Please Don't Tell), the legendary New York speakeasy that won the inaugural James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Bar Program. A regular columnist for Food & Wine and author of the iconic PDT Cocktail Book, his writing has earned multiple Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards, establishing him as a world authority renowned for his deep engineering approach to cocktail composition and bar metrics.
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