San Francisco: A. Finke's Widow, n.d. but after 1910. Pictorial receipt (17.5x21cm) printed on blue stock with printer's slug of Schmidt Lith. Co. Very slightly darkened along margins, else a Fine example. Unused receipt for the recently indicted wine distributors A. Finke's Widow, in reality the partnership of E...... More

Oakland, CA: Afrikan Peoples Alliance, n.d., [ca. 1974]. First Edition. Pictorial broadside flyer (21.5x28cm) printed offset on cream stock. Previous folds, brief soiling and red dampspot to verso, else Very Good. Invitation to a fundraising dinner at the Breakfast Club on 4606 Grove St. (renamed Martin Luther King..... More

Highland, IL: 1983-1985. Two black three-ring binders (29cm) filled with manuscript and printed recipes and accompanying chromogenic snapshots. Some wrinkling and soil to contents from use, else Very Good. Binding I: Relating entirely to the Bouquet Garni School of Cookery founded by Joy Bullivant, a graduate of the..... More

Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1938. First Edition. Octavo; 182pp. Three illustrations including frontis. Orange buckram with black lettering and rules to spine. Missing dust jacket. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with dulling and soiling to spine and a few stray scuffs to cloth. Inch split between..... More

Garden City: Garden City Books, [1948]. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.) publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 218pp. Some light wear to jacket extremities, tiny soil spot at spine crown, spine a bit sunned, old price sticker to rear panel, else Near Fine in a Very Good, better than..... More

[New York]: Bloomsbury, [2004]. First Edition with full number line. Smal quarto; publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 304pp.; halftone and full color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, corners a bit bumped, else a Very Good and sound example. Bourdain's first cookbook, a collection of 110 recipes from his..... More

New York: HarperCollins, 2007. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); [12],370pp. Boards in white and maroon cloth with white stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's intact jacket ($26.95). Jacket lightly rubbed with soiling to front panel from erased potential crayon. Board spine ends nudged. Interior clean. Lecture ticket from 2007 at Cathedral..... More

New York: Clarkson Potter, 2010. First Edition with full number line. Quarto (24.5cm); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; 256pp.; full color photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear and a few faint surfaced scratches to dust jacket, else Very Good and sound. Boldly inscribed and signed by..... More

Paris: Furne et Cie., n.d., [ca. 1864]. Octavo (18cm.); original blue pictorial wrappers; [4],294pp. Some light edge wear, small chip to spine crown and split along top third of front joint, contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper, minor later (early 20th century?) repair to loose signature, else a Very Good..... More

Octagonal collapsible tabletop candle screen composed of white cloth over stiff card stock to which is mounted to each folding panel a 3-D cloth, silk, and hand-colored paper rendering of the Eight Immortals, accompanied by a separate octagonal card paper base. Cloth slightly foxed at extremities, perished tape repair visible..... More

New York: Clarkson Potter, 2003. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Quarto (26cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket with $40.00 price intact; green boards with white lettering to spine; 320pp; color photos throughout. Jacket bumped at top corner with blind scribble impressions to front panel. Boards square with light bump at bottom..... More

New York: J. & J. Harper, 1829. First American Edition. Octavo; 212pp + 8pp of publisher's prospectuses. Two engraved humorous frontispieces—the Roman Senate contemplating a turbot, and Mr. Eatingtown being obsequious—which are repeated as illustrations later in the text. Original paper boards with cloth spine and printed spine label. Untrimmed..... More

Philadelphia: Geo. MacLean, 1872. First Edition. Octavo. 407pp. Four plates, complete. Red cloth boards decorated in black and gilt; brown endpapers; dark topstain. Light wear to edges; general scuffing; binding sound; tear to front free endpaper; ownership inscriptions, else unmarked. A Very Good copy of a scarce title from Lewis..... More