WINE AND FOOD: A GASTRONOMICAL QUARTERLY No.15
London: The Field Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Single issue for Spring 1937. Covers toned, some loss top of spine. Internals fine. More
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Isola, Antonia (pseudonym). Mabel Earl McGinnis
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First book on Italian food published in the US. Pub tan cloth toned, internals near fine. Solid copy. Small 8vo, 68p. More
CONSTABLE WINE LIBRARY: Sherry (and) Maderia (and) Champagne (and) Claret and the White Wines of Bordeaux (and) Port (and) Burgundy (and) Wine in the Kitchen (and) Hocks and Moselles (complete series 8 titles)
London: Constable, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A seldom-found complete set of the Constable Wine Library, published between 1933 -1935. All first editions, uniform format 8vo and uniformly illustrated dustjackets by Gladys Hynes, except Wines in the Kitchen, with a dustjacket by Barbosa. Each issue very good or better; the dustjackets..... More
THE FiNER COOKING or DISHES FOR PARTIES
London: Cassel, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce Boulestin first edition in dustjacket. 8vo, cream-colored cloth flecked in blue, with burgundy leather label and gilt titles to spine. Dustjacket pictorial and frontispiece by Laboureur. Book near fine - little sign if any of use. Dustajcket duty and a tad soiled. 2..... More
MORE GOOD FOOD
London: Faber& Faber, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. One of the harder-to-find of the many of Heath's cuisine titles. Pictorial cloth, front and back, in matching pictorial dustjacket. Decorations and cover art by Edward Bawden. Cloth tanned and dustjacket toned, more so at spine. Dustjacket price-clipped with some chipping and an..... More
WHAT SHALL WE HAVE TODAY?
London: William Heinemann, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing January 1931. Near fine copy, lacking dustjacket. Frontispiece by French artist Jean Emile Laboureur. Rust-colored cloth, slightest wear spine tips. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. More
BACCHUS OR WINE TO-DAY & TO-MORROW (and) A BOOK OF FRENCH WINES (and) A BOOK OF WINES OTHER THAN FRENCH (and) A BOOK OF FOOD (4 titles)
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A set of cuisine author Morton Shand titles. All first US editions with Knopf imprint - FRENCH WINES 1928, OTHER WINES 1929 and FOOD (1928) - but printed in England. BACCHUS, which was written before the other three titles is undated, bearing..... More
ITALIAN WINES AND LIQUERS
Roma: Federazione Italiana Produttori ed Esportatori di Vini Liquori ed Affini, 1953. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Trade book promoting Italian wine exports, this copy with the stamp of the Sommelier Society of America on the fee and title page. Large 8vo-sized, 158 pages, full page illustrations, includes broadly interpretive (promotional)..... More
THE TENTH MUSE
London: Putnam, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon cuisine title in original dustjacket with painterly pictorial by William Maclaren. Gift inscription dated 1978 in calliogrpagic script ffe. Dustjacket price-slipped with some professional internal repair. Still, highly presentable. More
Establissements Nicolas. Liste Des Grand Vins 1955. Sous le signe des "Still life" (vies silencieuses).
Paris: Draeger Freres, 1955. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1955 catalogue from the preeminent French house of wine. Strikingly designed by Alfred Latour, with color reproductions of paintings by Andre Marchand. Spiral bound. Near fine. More
A SECOND HELPING or More Dishes for English Homes
London: William Heinemann, 1925. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. The scarce limited edition of this Boulestin title, only 20 copies, this numbered 6 and signed by Boulestin on the limitation page. Printed on hand-made paper, with a special frontispiece designed by J. E. Laboureur. 8vo, sides untrimmed, boards covered in distinctive..... More
WINE AND FOOD: A GASTRONOMICAL QUARTERLY (lot of 37 issues)
London: The Field Press, 1935. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Mixed lot of 33 issues by number: 5 - 12, 14 - 27, 40-41, 49, 67, 69-70, 75, 82, 96, 117 , 120, 122, 124-125 variously from the years 1935 - 1964overs variously toned or soiled with some loss to spines..... More
WINE AND FOOD: A GASTRONOMICAL QUARTERLY (lot of 12 issues)
London: The Field Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Mixed lot of 8 issues by number: 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19-20, 23, 25 and 26, variously from the years 1935 - 1940. Covers variously toned or soiled with some loss to spines here and there. Internals near..... More
WINE AND FOOD: A GASTRONOMICAL QUARTERLY (lot of7 issues)
London: The Field Press, 1936. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Lot of six issues. By number 12, 15, 17, 21, 22, 24, and 26, variously from 1936 - 1940. Minor loss on spine to two of the issues. Internals near fine. More
VINIANA (and) A MISCELLANY OF WINE INSTRUCTIVE AND AMUSING (2 titles)
London: Contsable, 1934. 2nd Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. A fine pairing of Berry's books on wine. VININIA is the second, enlarged edition after the 1929 first. MISCELLANY is a first. Both apparently unused in near fine dustjackets. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. Laid-in to VINIANA is compliments card of Berry Bros..... More
Almanach de Cocagne pour l'an 1921. Dédié aux vrais gourmands et aux Francs-Buveurs.
Paris: Editions a la Sirène, 1921. Preinted. Soft cover. Printed covers in original glassine. An apparently unused copy, 12mo, 232p with text contributions by Jean Cocteau, Pierre Mac Orlan, Max Jacob, Darius Milhaud, André Salmon, Erik Satie, Jacques-Emile Blanche, Fernand Fleuret, et al. With woodcut illustrations and text decorations by..... More
WINES OF THE WORLD Pocket Series 1 and 2
London: The Wine and Food Society, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommonly found complete, scarcer still in decorated cardboard slipcases, which show some wear and some paper over board loss here and there. Individual volumes, 8 titles to each series, show the slightest edgewear top of spine, internals fine, apparently unused..... More
A BOOK OF FRENCH WINES (and) A BOOK OF FOOD (and) A BOOK OF OTHER WINES THAN FRENCH (3 titles)
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Three of Shand's earliest food and wine titles - each an America first edition: FOOD and FRENCH WINES both 1928, OTHER WINES 1929. Solid copies, lacking dustjackets, no names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
KITCHEN PRELUDE (Mes Metiers)
London: Contsable, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce English translation of a food-worker's memoir by Pierre Kamp, a pseudonym for Henri Bourillon (1876- 1962), the French writer known for "his hyper-realistic descriptions of the world of work and the working class" (Wikipedia). This memoir focuses on his experience as a young..... More
THE BOOK OF ICES
London: Marshall's School of Cookery. Later Edition. Hardcover. Stated Revised and Enlarged Edition on title page. List of Marshall's publications list this title as 19th thousand, c1880-90, so later printing. In publisher's blue linen cloth, gilt titles front cover. vii + 80pp. Lots of illustrations of ice machinery and moulds..... More
Establissements Nicolas. Liste Des Grands Vins Fins 1934
Paris: Draeger Freres, 1934. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1934 catalogue from the pre-eminent French house of wine. Strikingly designed by French artist Alfred Latour. Spiral bound. Clear plastic spiral spine tanned and the covers a tad soiled. Internals near fine. More
Establissements Nicolas. Liste Des Grands Vins Fins 1932
Paris: Draeger Freres, 1931. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1932 catalogue from the pre-eminent French house of wine. Strikingly illustrated by French artist Edy Legrand. Black paper cover is an oval cut out that reveals pictorial underneath. It is missing its right lower quadrant. The rest of the catalogue is near..... More
Establissements Nicolas. Liste Des Grands Vins Fins 1936
Paris: Draeger Freres, 1935. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1936 catalogue from the pre-eminent French house of wine. Strikingly designed by French artist Cassandre. Spiral bound. Near fine. More
JUDY'S BOOK OF HOUSEWORK
London: Faber & Faber, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The second title of Muriel Goaman's "home economic" series for girls. Very good condition in original very good dustjacket that has some chips at corners. Only published in the UK: no American editions. More
JUDY'S COOKERY BOOK (and) JUDY'S NEXT COOKERY BOOK
London: Faber & Faber, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first and tenth title of Muriel Goaman's "home economic" series for girls, the two titles specific to cooking, both first editions, 1947 and 1958, uniform format. Both very good condition in original very good dustjackets that have some chips about the..... More
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