Found it. I had no idea you had collected so many links to vintage cocktail books, thank you for finding and posting them! The EUVS library copy of the Savoy book with Harry Craddock's signature, dated October 1931, is clearly a 1930 or 1931 printing of the first edition, and there's the Self-Starter on p. 144. Examining the EUVS copy, however, reveals a big difference between it and the Martino Fine Books reproduction, which is widely available (e.g., on Amazon and other online sources) and seems to be coming out in near-annual reprintings. Although Martino appears to have reproduced a very early edition, lacking a listing of previous printings or editions in the front-matter, the recipes in the edition they reproduced make no mention of absinthe. Drinks containing absinthe in the EUVS copy either have the absinthe changed to "Pernod" in the Martino copy (e.g., the Sazerac, the Saucy Sue,...) or else are missing altogether (the three "Absinthe" cocktails on p. 16, the Atty,....) There doesn't seem to be a consistent strategy to this bowdlerizing, since some drinks with just a dash or two of absinthe (like the Bombay #2 and the Self-Starter) have been omitted from the Martino copy while others with considerably more absinthe have survived after having the absinthe converted to "Pernod" (the Brunelle, the Choker, the Duchesse, the Suisse, T.N.T.,....) Then again, the Bunny Hug is missing from the Martino copy (and from Difford's Guide, too), and probably deservedly so. The possibility that Martino, publishing in Connecticut, had reproduced the 1930 Richard R. Smith American edition was appealing since absinthe was banned in the US (though not in Britain) years earlier, but I found a vintage copy of the 1930 Smith edition listed for sale online (for US$1095.00) with a photo of p. 16 that clearly shows the three "Absinthe" cocktails (calling for absinthe, not Pernod). I give up on trying to figure out which edition Martino has used that removes all mention of absinthe from the recipes (and added the superfluous Scotch Mist and Scotch On-the-Rocks), but you might point this idiosyncrasy out to readers who might be considering the Martino reproduction. It is ubiquitous in the online book market despite being representative of neither Craddock's original edition nor of contemporary mixology, now that absinthe is legal once again. Cheers!