HARVEST OF THE COLD MONTHS

New York: Viking, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards. Fine, in fine dust wrapper. 413 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Published after David's passing in 1992 - David's final book, which was in the works for many years. A full history of ice and ices including sixteenth-century Italy and the splendor of the Medici banquets, snow pits in Persia, and the influential ice trade in Boston to the growth of the ice cream business in London. Pristine copy. Covered in protective mylar.