NY: The Stone Street Press, 1981. 1st Edition, limited. Soft cover. Set of series of three, limited edition booklets by writer and Stone Street Press publisher McCormick. Three pamphlets - uniform in format, string-tied spine, cover and spine title pastedown, stiff paper covers - in slipcase with title pastedown of..... More
Paris: Draeger Freres, 1931. Soft cover. A lot of 4 annual catalogs from the preeminent French house of wine, each strikingly illustrated or designed by various French artists. The 1932 issue is illustrated by Edy Legrand. Black paper cover is an oval cut out that reveals pictorial underneath. It is..... More
London: The Field Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Single issue for Spring 1937. Covers toned, some loss top of spine. Internals fine. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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