"The Captain Macedoine Cocktail" 1930 MCFEE, William (SOLD)
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MCFEE, William (1881-1966)
William Morley Punshon McFee (15 June 1881 – 2 July 1966) was an English writer of sea stories.
[4] pp.
Fifty copies printed at Christmas, 1930
9 1/2" x 6 1/4"
Laid-in bookplate of James Tinkham Babb:
James Tinkham Babb (August 23, 1899 – July 21, 1968) was an American librarian and book collector affiliated with Yale University. He was born in Lewiston, Idaho. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale College. He was a member of the Acorn Club and served as University Librarian from 1945 to 1965. He served as president of the Connecticut Library Association and councilor of the Bibliographical Society of America; he was elected to the American Antiquarian Society in 1946.
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library was built and dedicated during Babb's tenure as University Librarian.
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The "Captain Macedoine" is a highly elusive, literary cocktail created by British author William McFee (1881–1966) in a 1921 letter to his friend, Christopher Morley. It was later privately published as a limited, 8-page Christmas pamphlet in 1930. Because the recipe is essentially a piece of 1920s literary ephemera rather than an established bartending staple, an exact, standardized ingredient list isn't widely circulated. Instead, it is treated as a historical curio by collectors.