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Tokyo : Kenkyusha, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Very good copy in the original title-printed, stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. A rare copy. ; 117 pages; Description: v, 117p ; 19cm. Subjects: Japanese tea ceremony. Japan - Social life and customs.

Country Life,Ltd.London. 1926. FIRST EDITION.8vo.(8.5 x 7 inches).Decorated initial letters to each chapter.A very good copy in a fine early binding by Bumpus of London.Half tan calf,spine with raised bands and twin light and dark brown labels,gilt.Marbled paper on boards.Circular brown calf label,with owners initials,on front board.Marbled endpapers.Top edge gilt,others untrimmed.Previous owners small neat inscription "C.M.H from K.M.H" on front blank endpaper.Some minor rubbing to extremities but overall a very good copy of this interesting book.In the introduction the author reveals his thoughts on dining. "Really intense and progressive people count the calories in carrots and the vitamins in veal and advise us to live on raw cabbage.This book is not for them,but for the bad lots who openly admit that they like the pleasures of the table and who enjoy life".

Millers Point, Australia: Murdoch Books, 2012. Second-hand hardcover. Shewry, Ben. Origin: the food of Ben Shewry. [FIRST EDITION] Murdoch Books: Millers Point, Australia 2012. 4to (320x295mm) qtr bnd black cloth, dec emb bds xii,[1],288,[2]pp. (photography by Colin Page) [SIGNED with dedication] Near Fine/- light edge wear Shewry, Ben. Origin: the food of Ben Shewry [FIRST EDITION] Sydney, Australia: Murdoch Books, 2012. 4to (320x290mm) HC Half Bound Black Gilt Embossed Cloth, decorative pictorial blind stamped boards xiii,[1],288,[2]pp. (photography by Colin Page; design by Reuben Crossman) Near Fine/Fine.  very discrete rub marks to several cnrs. Winner Australian Book Design Awards Illustrated Book 2013. Ben Shewry is the chef patron of Melbourne's award-winning restaurant Attica and is one of Australia's most significant and influential chefs.  Under his direction, Attica has become one of Australia's best restuarants repeatedly winning awards,  Attica was ranked for a number of years in… Read More

First printing by Turnpike Press, the book was subsequently published by Simon & Schuster. Great old time country recipes. The 7 page introduction by Ms. Gaskin is a must read. The book has gotten wet and is wrinkled and lightly stained for an inch down from the top. The pages are lightly and evenly toned. There is damage at the top and bottom of the spine and there is shelf wear. The pages are clean and unmarked. Listed as Good.

New York: Frederick Stokes Company, 1895. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Black leather, red lettering to cover and spine. Very minor scuffing to cover, front free endpaper missing, some separation to endpaper gutters, binding holding tightly, text is age-toned and there is a very occasional spot or smudge in margins, former owner's name and some soiling on title page. Book is divided into 10 sections, each section paginated individually : Fifty Soups, Fifty Salads, Breakfast Dainties, Puddings and Dainty Desserts, The Book of Entrées, Cookery for Invalids, Practical Carving, Luncheon, Oysters and Fish and The Chafing Dish.

No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston (playwrights) New York: Lincoln Center Theater, 1991. Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) poster, USA. Artwork by James McMullen. Archivally mounted on artboard, FINE. Due to an acrimonious falling out between Hughes and Hurston, it took six decades for this play about African American life in '20s rural Florida to finally get its world premiere. ""Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life is a 1930 play by American authors Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. The process of writing the play led Hughes and Hurston, who had been close friends, to sever their relationship. Mule Bone was not staged until 1991, when it was produced in New York City by the Lincoln Center Theater. ""Hughes and Hurston began writing Mule Bone in March 1930. They wanted to write a comedy about African-American life that didn't consist of racial stereotypes. They decided to base the plot on a folktale which Hurston had collected in Florida during one of… Read More

[Minneapolis, Minn: New Hotel Dyckman, 1909. Duodecimo-sized booklet, single-stapled in wrappers (11 x 6.5 cm.), [44] pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional drink manual, promoting Minneapolis' very fine Dyckman Hotel. One hundred-one recipes for cocktails are listed, including some lesser-known gems: American Beauty, Careless Love, Bijou, Charlie Horse, Opalescent, and the Electric Eel. Pages a bit age-toned, and staples somewhat oxidized; a few small dog ears. In publisher's black wrappers, titled in silver. Very good. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies; not in Noling].

1840. Rare "Temperance" Broadside in the Style of a Court Document [Broadside]. [Temperance]. [Great Britain]. The ---- Day of 18 ----. This is to Our Sheriff of Sheriffdoms, Steward of Stewardries, Bailiffs of Regalities, & All Others, The Officers and Executors of the Law, To Interpose Their Power and Authority to Assist Us in the Execution of This Our Decree, It Being Conformable to Law. Lincoln, England: R.E. Leary, Printer and Bookbinder, [c.1840]. 10" x 7-1/2" broadside, woodcut royal arms flanked with the initials of Queen Victoria at head of text. Light toning, faint horizontal fold, a few minor creases. A well-preserved item. $350. * A parody of a temperance poster in the form of a sentencing document issued "at our court, the day and date above mentioned, at the Cockhead, near the Barrel Bung, adjacent to the Gin Cask, Before us-Sir Thirsty Tippler, Sir Mathew Malt, and Sir David Drynall." The text reads (in part): "Whereas it is humbly proved and shown to us by our beloved brother Sir John… Read More

1869 1ed Harriet Beecher Stowe Woman's Home Economics Cooking Americana

"There is nothing which has a more abiding influence on the happiness of a family than the preservation of equable and cheerful temper and tones in the [mother]."
― Catharine Esther Beecher

"The American Woman's Home", originally published in 1869, was one of the late nineteenth century's most important handbooks of domestic advice. The result of a collaboration by two of the eras most important writers, this book represents their attempt to direct women's acquisition and use of a variety of new household consumer goods available in the post-Civil War economic boom. It is an update to Catharine Beecher's influential "Treatise on Domestic Economy" and incorporates domestic writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in The Atlantic in the 1860s.

This first edition, in a beautiful green cloth binding, features a lovely frontispiece as well as 77 in-text illustrations throughout!
Item number: #13885
Price: $499
BEECHER,… Read More

New York: New World Records, 1977. Pop artist Robert Indiana's vivid serigraph poster for the 1977 New World Records release of The Mother of Us All, Virgil Thomson's 1947 opera about Susan B. Anthony, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein: "The right to sleep is given to no woman." Indiana had long been an active admirer of The Mother of Us All, designing sets for several stage productions, including the Santa Fe Opera's 1976 bicentennial production, whose recording is advertised here. The typography features Indiana's signature tipped O in MOTHER, a design element that recalls his iconic LOVE sculpture and stamp. For more on Indiana and The Mother of Us All, see David Littlejohn, "Artists on the Opera Stage" in The Ultimate Art (1992). A really attractive promotional poster, whose minor flaws would be mitigated by proper framing. Promotional poster, measuring 36 x 24 inches, screenprinted in red, yellow, black, white, and purple. Three corners creased, several short closed tears to bottom edge.