THE RITUALS OF DINNER
by Visser, Margaret
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. First American Edition. Hardcover. Mustard boards, purple cloth covered boards. Near fine, in near fine dust wrapper. 432 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. When we eat together, we bring our culture with us, with all the possibilities for pleasure and danger that implies. Throughout our history, table manners have been one way of keeping the peace, of domesticating some of the wilder aspects of human - especially men's - behavior. The Rituals of Dinner explores... Read More
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MUCH DEPENDS ON DINNER
by Visser, Margaret
New York: Grove Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. White boards, red cloth boards. Very good, in very good dust wrapper. 351 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Much Depends on Dinner explores the webs of myth and legend, the growth of empires - political and economic, the imaginations of scientist and artists, and the appetites both secular and spiritual that have been nourished by the foods we eat most often. Salt, for instance, opened trade routes between Europe and Africa in... Read More
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Menu No 3
by Voll, Brian
Brooklyn: Brian Voll, 2021. First Edition. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. Unpaginated. [31 pp.] 17.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition 1/750. Brian Voll is producing beautiful booklets that guide the reader to an elegant but sustainable menu/dinner party. From the author: "Each booklet contains a set of recipes for a multi-course dinner thats well-suited for a little dinner party. And with a plan to boot! But more than a collection of really tasty recipes, the aim is to... Read More
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Menu No 2
by Voll, Brian
Brooklyn: Brian Voll, 2022. First Edition. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. Unpaginated. [32 pp.] 17.5 x 13 cm. Brian Voll is producing beautiful booklets that guide the reader to an elegant but sustainable menu/dinner party. From the author: "Each booklet contains a set of recipes for a multi-course dinner thats well-suited for a little dinner party. And with a plan to boot! But more than a collection of really tasty recipes, the aim is to minimize waste by... Read More
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Menu No 1
by Voll, Brian
Brooklyn: Brian Voll, 2021. First Edition. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. Unpaginated. [31 pp.] 17.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition 1/750. Brian Voll is producing beautiful booklets that guide the reader to an elegant but sustainable menu/dinner party. From the author: "Each booklet contains a set of recipes for a multi-course dinner thats well-suited for a little dinner party. And with a plan to boot! But more than a collection of really tasty recipes, the aim is to... Read More
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Menu No 4
by Voll, Brian
Brooklyn: Brian Voll, 2021. First Edition. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. Unpaginated. [31 pp.] 17.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition 1/750. Brian Voll is producing beautiful booklets that guide the reader to an elegant but sustainable menu/dinner party. From the author: "Each booklet contains a set of recipes for a multi-course dinner thats well-suited for a little dinner party. And with a plan to boot! But more than a collection of really tasty recipes, the aim is to... Read More
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[COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] [WOMEN] [MANUSCRIPT] Virginia Cookery Book
by Virginia League of Women Voters
Richmond, Virginia: Virginia League of Women Voters, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream illustrated boards. Poor. 192 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Recipes attributed to members of the community with local advertisements giving the reader a genuine feel for the community. The Virginia League of Women Voters (VLWV) was organized to succeed the Equal Suffrage League (ESL) in 1920. By October 1920, more than 13,000 Richmond women, including 10,645 white women and 2,410 black women, had registered to vote in the... Read More
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[WINE] A Wine-Grower's Guide
by Wagner, Philip M.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream cloth covered boards. Very good. 230 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Containing chapters on the past and future of wine-growing in America, the management of a vineyard, and the choice of suitable wine-grape varieties. Includes two fold-out maps and illustrated throughout. Interior clean and crisp, boards lightly soiled on spine.
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Rumford Common Sense Cook Book
by Wallace, Lily Haxworth (Compiled by)
Rumford, RI: The Rumford Company, c. 1930's. Staplebound wraps. Brown illustrated wraps. Very good. 64 pages. Recipes, terms, and instructions. Interesting page discussing the need to bake "by temperature" - most likely focusing on the homemaker who recently acquired a gas stove. Recipes for preparing and cooking meats, fish, poultry, vegetables and food for the sick; instructions for preserving and pickling; the making of ices, beverages, and confections. Owners inscription on cover. Black and white illustration including... Read More
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[ART] About Face: Andy Warhol Portraits
by Warhol, Andy & Nicholas Baume, Richard Meyer, and Douglas Crimp
Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum and Andy Warhol Museum, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. 128 pages. 15.5 x 20.5 cm. September 1999 - January 2000 Wadsworth & March - June 2000 Miami Art Museum Exhibition catalog. Forward by Peter C. Sutton - Essays by: Douglas Crim, Nicholas Baume, and Richard Meter. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Sealed in original cellophane. Pristine.
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Pickups and Cheerups
by Waring Products Corp.
NY: Waring Products Corp., 1947. Staplebound. Pink printed wraps, Fine. 21 pages, 18 x 9.5 cm. An early recipe booklet for the Waring Blendor, an invention of Fred Osius - financed, completed, and advertised by Fred Waring, a famous entertainer at the time. Waring advertised through many different avenues, including a band titled "The Waring Blendors." This booklet was released in the big blender boom that occurred after the second World War when blender (or blendor) production could be resumed.... Read More
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[MENU] Welcome to Boston! "The Hello America Hour!"
by The Veterans of Foreign Wars
Boston: The Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1939. Cards. Cream illustrated cards. Good. 23 x 15.5 cm. Folding cream card menu featuring photo illustrations of Eugene I. Van Antwerp (Commander-in-Chief) and Anna Mae Lockner (National Auxiliary President). Cover: Reception and Banquet Tendered by the 1939 National Encampment Corp. - HOTEL SOMERSET, Boston, Mass. Wednesday Evening, Feb. 15, 1939 in conduction with 40th National V.F.W. Encampment. The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) - an organization of U.S.... Read More
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MY PANTRY
by Waters, Alice with Fanny Singer
New York: Pam Krauss Books, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Color illustrated paper covered boards, red cloth spine. Fine. 143 pages. 22 x 17 cm. Signed on front free end paper. Chez Panisse Restaurant menu, November 15, 1991 laid in. In My Pantry, Alice shares her home cooking philosophy: by preserving seasonal foods to use throughout the year, she can use them as seasonings and flavorings to transform basic staples into delicious, simple meals with very little effort. Clean, crisp copy.... Read More
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MY PANTRY
by Waters, Alice with Fanny Singer
New York: Pam Krauss Books, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Color illustrated paper covered boards, red cloth spine. Fine. 143 pages. 22 x 17 cm. In My Pantry, Alice shares her home cooking philosophy: by preserving seasonal foods to use throughout the year, she can use them as seasonings and flavorings to transform basic staples into delicious, simple meals with very little effort. Front free end paper rubbed, otherwise crisp and clean.
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THE CHEZ PANISSE MENU COOKBOOK
by Waters, Alice
New York: RANDOM HOUSE, 1982. Hardcover. Brown boards, gilt title. Very good, in very good dust wrapper. Goines, David Lance. 312 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Signed by the author on half-title page. In this spectacular menu cookbook, Alice Waters assembles 120 of Chez Panisse's inspired transformations of classic French dishes - compiled from the best meals served at Chez Panisse in the ten-plus years of its existence, including several of the galas, festivals, and special-occasion meals that... Read More
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THE PLEASURES OF SMOKING
by Watkins, Sylvestre C. (Compiled by)
New York: HENRY SCHUMAN, 1948. Hardcover. Tan illustrated cloth covered boards. Good. 203 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Filled with poetry, fiction, narratives, anecdotes and humor. Authors include: Melville, Kipling, Thackeray, Longfellow, Twain, Wilde, Doyle, Fielding, Zola, and many more. Illustrated throughout. Interior lightly toned. Boards water stained at bottom edge. Dust wrapper price clipped, rubbed and chipped. Covered in protective mylar.
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Jesse's Book of Creole and Deep South Recipes
by Watts, Edith Ballard with John Watts
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue and red boards. Good, in good dust wrapper. 184 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Recipes of Jesse Willis Lewis, African-American chef from New Orleans as set down by his employers, Edith Ballard, daughter of Jesse's employer. The book showcases Jesse's passion for the rich culinary traditions of the Deep South, particularly those rooted in New Orleans and surrounding regions. It is packed with recipes that reflect the diverse cultural influences... Read More
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[SHEET MUSIC} Blue Champagne
by Watts, Grady & Frank Ryerson (Words and Music)
New York: Encore Music Publications, Inc., 1941. Sheet_music. Illustrated wraps. Very good. 5 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Interior crisp and clean. Cover lightly rubbed at edges.
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[WINE] HARRY WAUGH'S WINE DIARY 1982-1986
by Waugh, Harry
San Francisco: The Wine Appreciation Guild, 1987. Maroon boards. Fine, in very good dust wrapper. 234 pages.The wine business produces characters who are authoritative, universally respected and usually long lived. Harry Waugh must be among the most internationally famous of these. T22 x 14 cm. his long-awaited volume of diaries covers the years of 1982 to 1886 and is filled with delightful and informative details of his wine tastings and journey's. Presentation copy, signed by Author to Bob Finnigan. Interior... Read More
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Chattel or Person?
by Wegner, Judith Romney
New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1988. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Near fine. 267 pages. Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules compiled by Jewish sages in second-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in women's role. Excluded from the life of mind and spirit (study), certain aspects such as conducting business, and managing their own affairs is analyzed here. Interior clean and crisp.
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Adolescence
by MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION of the Canadian Department of NATIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE
New York: WASHINGTON HEIGHTS FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, c. 1950's. Staplebound. Blue illustrated wraps. Near fine. Unpaginated. [12 pp.] Illustrated pamphlet emphasizing the misunderstood ages between 12-18. Includes chapters: Physical and Emotional Changes, Responsibility, Relationships, Working, and Maturity. Clean, crisp copy.
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Traité Général des HORS-D'OEUVRE & SAVORYS
by Werner, Ferdinand
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1912. Paperback. Tan wraps. Good. 142 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. The chef, Ferdinand Werner, made his way around Europe and at the time of this publication was the head chef in Moscow at the renowned Hotel Métropole. This cookbook is bursting with every type of Hors d'oeuvres one can imagine including: egg dishes, seafood options, butter combinations, cheese dishes, canapés of every sort and a full chapter on preserves. Text in French. Illustrated throughout.... Read More
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![[WINE] [LIQUOR] [TRADE CATALOGUE] W.H. CHAPLIN AND CO. WINE AND SPIRITS MERCHANTS - FOR THE TRADE ONLY - DUTY-PAID STOCK](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/240/187/1736187240.0.l.jpg)
[WINE] [LIQUOR] [TRADE CATALOGUE] W.H. CHAPLIN AND CO. WINE AND SPIRITS MERCHANTS - FOR THE TRADE ONLY - DUTY-PAID STOCK
by W.H. CHAPLIN AND CO.
London: W.H. CHAPLIN AND CO., 1874. Loose_leaf. Blue printed paper. Good. 37 x 21 cm. Extensive broadside for London wine and spirit merchant including Ports; Claret; Old Bottled Ports; Hock and Moselle; Sherries, Burgundy (White and Red); Marsala; Brandy; Champagne; Sauterne; Whiskey, Hollands and Rum; Sparking Hocks & Moselles. A comprehensive view of wines and spirits available during the late 1800's. W.H. Chaplin and Co. was established in 1867 Incorporated in 1898, and sold to Seager, Evans and Co. in... Read More
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[SHEET MUSIC] MRS. MURPHY'S CHOWDER
by White, Harry & Edgar Leslie (Words) - Willy White (Music)
New York: CLARKE & LESLIE SONGS INC., 1924. Wraps. Color illustrated wraps. 5 pages. 31 x 23 cm. Lightly creased.
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The Birds' Christmas Carol
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. Hardcover. Green illustrated cloth covered boards, decorated in gilt. Very good. 91 pages. Beautifully illustrated Christmas tale with over 25 adornments by Katherine R. Wireman. Clean copy, boards lightly rubbed at corners and spine.
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