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1970ZB1116961Dorka Bruxelles 1970. 892 pp. Hardcover ex library spine and covers faded else text and binding clean and tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Dorka Bruxelles hardcover
1999Q-0521654807Cambridge University Press 1999-10-28. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Cambridge University Press paperback
193462684West Bend WI: West Bend Aluminum Feb. 1934. 8vo. 15 1 pp. printed in green & black throughout. With photo & text illustrations throughout self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of lunch counter small tear back cover minor dustsoiling darkening to fore-edges VG- copy. First edition of this remarkably scarce collection of recipes targeting drug stores soda fountains and lunch counters designed by the West Bend Aluminum cookware Home Economics Department to aid in selling cookware and economical large serving recipes. The supplied recipes include those for chili Corn Chowder Griddle Cakes Spanish Steak hot sandwiches with beef made slow cooked in the Dutch Oven and more. Of particular interest are the directions on making drip coffee with West Bend drip coffee makers and even a one-cup coffee maker. No copies in Worldcat. West Bend Aluminum, paperback
194764164Washington D.C.: Ice Cream Merchandising Inc. 1947. 4to. 351 1 pp. Double-page title in blue & black text in red & black with 100’s of photo and colour illustrations throughout. Brick-red publisher’s cloth lettered in black & yellow front cover spine minor bumping head & foot of spine slight fraying to corners slight interior age toning still a VG bright copy from the Excelsior Creamery Co. w/ ownership stamp on ffep. First edition of this informative and lavishly illustrated sales and merchandising manual for ice cream and frozen dairy products in the Mid-20th-Century following World War II. Sponsored by the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers Hennerich emphasized sales ad campaigns and encouraged training of soda fountain employees using filmstrip/cartoon strip format with sample training scripts. He also emphasized local markets the importance of competent management and improved sales techniques. Over half the book is devoted to the best recipes for ice cream sodas sundaes banana splits freezes floats shakes and more. Of particular interest are specific instructions on post-War upgrading with Mid-Century Modern counters lettering window displays lighting cost controls and adding air conditioning. Ice Cream Merchandising, Inc., hardcover
197963295La Mesa CA: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation 1979. Two works in one. 8vo. xxiv 4 431 1; 4 433-526 pp. Photo frontisp. over 150 photos illustrations plates x-rays. Blue cloth gilt lettering NF from the libraries of Betty Surprise and Eleanore Weinstock. First Heritage edition early printing of this scarce work on anthropology medicine diet and nutrition. The author examines in detail the diets and nutrition of primitive cultures including the Eskimos North American Indians Polynesians African Tribes New Zealand Maori Peruvian Indians and more and compares their results to that of modern urban countries. Continually pointing out that modern diet and eating when it supplants the native diet leads invariably to physical degeneration in the ethnic populations offering an object lesson to modern western civilization. Supplement includes sections on soil fertility dangers of pesticides fluoride chemicals and means by which to combat this. Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, hardcover
196064227Osaka & Tokyo Japan: Suntory Limited 1960. 12mo. 5 x 6.75 in. Triptych 6 pp unpaginated. w/ 20 pp unpaginated. colour-illustrated catalogue stapled in center self-printed illustrated softcovers in whisky-coloured and photo illustrated softcovers slight soiling back cover NF copy. First edition thus of this exceedingly scarce original Suntory Limited catalogue detailing the whiskies wines and liquers available from the storied Japanese distillery with the line-up introducing their Rare Old Whisky Suntory Royal 60 introduced in 1960 company founded in 1899 special label “Extra Special†Old Suntory Japanese Whisky only marketed for a couple years in the early 1960’s along with their standards. Other products included their Akadama wines Suntory Sparkling wines Green Tea Liquer Cherry Blossoms Liquer Creme de Cacao along with their brandy vermouth sloe gin vodka absinthe and sake brands. Alcohol content Net content weights and measures per carton and more are supplied within the tables. No copies in Worldcat. Suntory Limited, paperback
192411449Seattle: Seattle Fruit and Flower Mission 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Pp. 393 plus several pages of advertisements. Illustrated with black & white advertisements. Two handwritten recipes transcribed within. Bound in silver cloth with black lettering stamped on cover and spine and three-color illustration stamped on front board. Edges rubbed; light foxing and light stains throughout. Title on front board: "Fruit and Flower Mission." The first edition of this fine collection of recipes representing the cuisine of post-WWI Seattle; subsequently reprinted 1930. The superb ads suggest a return to a thriving Seattle economy. Seattle Fruit and Flower Mission hardcover
19407427Birmingham: Linley Heflin Unit 1940. First Edition. Wire Coil Bound. Very Good. Roderick D. Mackenzie cover art. 8vo. Pp. 268 followed by 18 of advertising. Illustrated with black & white drawings recipes hand-lettered. Stiff paper photo illustrated boards wire coil bound. Edges minimally rubbed. Leaves crisp bright and unmarked. The recipes are signed by their contributors and accompanied by charming illustrations. Even the display advertisements are attractively hand-lettered. The misguided covers were intended to be an Art-Deco triumph of metallic sheen: Instead they flopped displaying an austere industrial aesthetic.<p>Linley Heflin continues to provide scholarships for Alabama women to attend Alabama colleges. Despite all their good intentions it's been suggested that recipes contributed by member's of Southern women's clubs are actually the toothsome creations of their African-American domestic help. Of this first edition OCLC records holdings at ten libraries. A notably well-preserved copy of a scarce pre-WWII cookbook. Linley Heflin Unit unknown
194763568Geneva Switzerland: Advertising and Graphic Art Publicite et Arts Graphiques 1947. 4to. 9.75 x 12.25 in. 184 pp. With 100s of illustrations photos tipped-in samples 1 leaf of printed brushed aluminum advertising cellophane packaging and more. Colour-illustrated softcovers striking cover art by Kurtz minor scuffing shelfwear slight rubbing still VG bright copy. First edition of this beautifully printed sample Special Issue from the noted “Review of Advertising and Graphic Arts in Switzerland.†Included are concept art and sample labels for wine bottles and winemakers; cigar and tobacco packaging with sample label; the development of cellophane and aluminum cans; the importance of commercial artists in packaging; extensive tips on window displays window display designs and sales marketing displays following World War II. Advertising and Graphic Art, Publicite et Arts Graphiques, paperback
1999Q-0521652421Cambridge University Press 1999-09-28. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Cambridge University Press hardcover
194563927Los Angeles CA: Forbidden Palace New Chinatown 447-451 Gin Ling Way ca. 1945. 4to. 7.25 x 11 in. 4 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black on coated paper stock self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers front cover art idyllic image of traditional Chinese restaurant NF copy. First edition thus of this beautifully printed menu for the storied Chinese-American restaurant after being moved from its original location for the demolition and construction of Union Station and the surrounding area. The new restaurant served as the press reception location for the reopening of “New Chinatown†in 1939 and through World War II was a very popular reasonably priced eatery and night club for the Wartime military personnel. Their cocktails list was extensive and even served the Chinese liqueurs Ng Gar Pai & Mui Kwe Lu. No copies in Worldcat; 1 copy held by The Huntington Library. Forbidden Palace, [New Chinatown, 447-451 Gin Ling Way], paperback
193463742Philadelphia PA: Dr. D. Jayne & Son Inc. 250 Delaware 1934. 12mo. 132 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. With text illustrations. Tan illustrated softcovers Art Deco lettering front cover yapp fore-edges minor shelfwear pulling to lower fore-edge of title at gutter margin slight creasing still a VG copy from the library of Samuel S. Berman 1906-1982 longtime San Francisco attorney patron of the arts. First edition of this popular cocktail guide issued by the Philadelphia patent quackery medicine supply house first founded by David Jayne before the Civil War intending to capitalize on the revival of cocktails following the repeal of Prohibition. Including sections on drinks cobblers brandies punches cocktails theatrical drinks fizzes syrups and even helpful hints this guidebook was intended to ensure that bars & taverns offered the purest and best cocktails & drinks to their customers. Along with the myriad of cocktails & mixed drinks featuring bitters absinthe and others the work includes an extensive section on wines. Of course Jayne & Son as evidenced by the ads at the rear did not overlook the opportunities to sell their “cures†for upset stomachs constipation hangovers erectile dysfunction and skin cleansers. Dr. D. Jayne & Son, Inc., 250 Delaware, paperback
197663553Seattle WA: Peanut Butter Partners Epicure 1976. 4to. 160 pp. printed on tan-tinted paper illustrations throughout 1 map. Colour-illustrated softcovers wraparound cover art photo birdseye view of Portland OR by Jan Jackson shot from Washington Park slight shelfwear very slight scuffing back cover NF copy. First edition thus of this installment in the noted Epicure menu guidebook for Portland OR purportedly issued biannually from 1976 through 1983 by the entrepreneurial Mort Cone partner with his brother Gerald Cone in Cone Company Printers and later editor and publisher for Epicure menu guides in Portland Seattle Sun Valley Aspen Vail St. Louis and even Hawaii. Featuring a blizzard of original restaurant menus in the Bicentennial Year with all their original cover art this guidebook covering Portland Vancouver and environs includes such noted local staples as Asparro’s Union Ave. Social Club the Dan & Louis Oyster Bar the Fish Grotto Henry Thiele’s London Grill Mr. C’s Hippopotamus Old Spaghetti Factory The Ringside Trader Vic’s and any others. Also included are a significant number of Asian and Hispanic ethnic restaurants including Casa Molina The Chili Pepper Hong’s Cantonese Pavilion Benihana of Tokyo Paco’s Sang’s Chinatown Zen and others. Worldcat locates 3 copies Multnomah Co. U of W State Lib. of OR. Peanut Butter Partners], Epicure, paperback
194263580New York: Macmillan Co. 1942. 8vo. xx 2 147 1 pp. Blue publisher’s cloth red & white printed title label mounted front cover w/ d.j. minor scuffing front cover affecting a couple letters couple minor closed tears still a NF/G copy from the library of Margaret E. Love w/ ownership markings on ffep. First edition 1st printing stated of this concise and straightforward cookbook targeting housewives on the home front during World War II Wartime rationing. Winn-Smith 1892-1991 has adopted and translated rationing and “thrifty†recipe techniques from those used during the Revolutionary War Civil War and World War I. She advises cooks to use just one crust rather than double pie crusts for pies reuse rendered fat in a variety of different recipes or instead of mixing chocolate chips into the batter simply decorate on top with them substitute ingredients and more. She worked as a fashion designer of millinery and wedding trousseaus in Olympia & Seattle was interior decorator for Gump’s in Honolulu and later head of the Art & Picture Dept. at Meier & Frank Department store in Portland OR and later became a noted landscape painter while her husband Xenephon Smith was librarian at Arizona State the Library of Congress and the US Postal Service Chief Librarian. Macmillan Co., hardcover
191156761New York: Octave Grillon 705 W. 170th St. 1911. 12mo. 140 pp. plus 4 pp. illust. manufacturers ads. Numerous text illustrations photo plates. Quarter-brown cloth over beige-coloured boards brown lettering on front cover minor soiling edgewear some rubbing still VG- copy. First edition of this very scarce candy making work detailing the processes for manufacturing and producing gum drops chewing gum jelly gum marshmallows French Swiss & German Nougat rock candy jujube paste along with instructions on how to replace albumen and white of eggs in moonshine. The author not only includes many recipes but also the necessary specialized tools equipment cooking times molds and even includes recipes for medicated gum and confectionary products. Grillon b. 1865 was as an award-winning candy maker and foreman at a candy factory in New York who had immigrated from Beaugeney France in 1907 and winner of the Culinary Exhibition Gold Medal in 1899 at Toulouse. Worldcat locates 2 copies U of Chicago Nat. Lib. of Scotland; See: Publisher’s Weekly Nov. 4 1911 p. 1477. Octave Grillon, [705 W. 170th St.], hardcover
193763534Seattle WA: Carl W. Art Lloyd Building 1937. 12mo. 109 3 pp. Illustrated title text illustrations throughout. Quarter-green publisher’s cloth over Spruce wooden covers black decorative lettering on front cover very slight chipping to couple corners still a VG bright copy w/ bookseller’s label for Frederick & Nelson on front pastedown. First edition of this surprisingly scarce and inventive travel guide for motorists and travelers to Seattle Tacoma & Spokane as well as Vancouver and Victoria BC at the end of the Great Depression modeled off of the author’s very successful “Curious California Customs†1935. Alongside such landmarks as the Frozen Fish Aquarium Meany Hotel Smith Tower & the Persian Dining Room Herrick 1894-1994 breezily details as well the famed Shell House at the University of Washington where George Pocock built racing shells for West Coast championship rowing teams; Maneki’s Japanese-American restaurant at 212 Sixth South or the several Chinese-American restaurants along King Street where the wait staff speak Oxonian English. Herrick Steake was married to Spokane WA realtor printer and publisher Arthur Steake her father H.A. Herrick was a prominent New York newspaperman and in the 1930’s she tried her hand on inventive guidebooks. This work includes illustrations created by students at the famed Cornish School in Seattle. Carl W. Art, Lloyd Building, hardcover
1999DADAX0521652421Cambridge University Press 1999-09-28. hardcover. New. 6.50x1.75x9.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Cambridge University Press hardcover
196926936blue RP: Dunod 1969. Unknown Binding. Used: Acceptable. Condition clean with dustjacket. ref ZKVQ Dunod unknown
192346736Chicago: Published by the Author 1923. Oblong 4to. 2 pp. 60 plates each with explanatory text of facing plate on verso most in colour some tinted photos 8 pp. plus 2 illustrated publisher’s ads. Embossed ribbed blue cloth gilt lettering octagon-shaped colour plate mounted front cover of decorative cake icing piece very minor bumping to corners front hinge starting edgewear still VG- copy w/ former ownership signature on title. First edition of this beautifully printed work on Jazz Age decorative cakes. There are cakes for New Years birth announcements Easter birthday cakes wedding cakes cakes with macaroons Marzipan decorated cakes caramel sugar baskets post card cakes very beautiful and many others. The recipes and ads at the end offer the instructions and equipment to produce these beautiful confections. Published by the Author, hardcover
193563707Cincinnati OH: The Zanol Products Co. Feb. 1 1935. Folio. 56 2 pp. Red & black borders decorative printing throughout numerous photo illustrations diagrams. Orange textured softcovers brick-red coloured lettering & design on covers textblock slightly curved minor shelfwear dustsoiling occasional pencil annotations still VG copy with the National Recovery Administration logo printed on front cover corner. First edition of this fantastic Zanol products direct sales catalogue including such products as perfumes fragrances creams lotions powders other cosmetics as well as cooking products and cleaning chemicals. The company’s most popular cosmetics product lines included the Faith Avery and La Bara lines. The La Bara cosmetics borrowed the femme fatale art deco image established by the actress Theda Bara in Cleopatra Salome and Manon Lescaut who began life as Theodosia Burr Goodman from Cincinnati OH. The perfume bottles lipstick compacts soaps were all produced with distinctive art deco packaging and remained popular through the 1930s. Of additional interest are their pioneering direct sales of packaged foods to shorten preparation time for housewives and home cooks as well as offer quick meals. Along with extracts for Root Beer and other soft drinks the Zanol line-up included Marshmallow Cream Lemonade Ezemade Biscuits Ice Cream Powder and a variety of boxed pasta and canned Italian style sauce for preparing meals within minutes. See: Cosmetics by the American Products Company -- Zanol The Vamp and America’s Greatest Perfumer 2015; Worldcat locates 1 copy Public Library of Cincinnati. The Zanol Products Co., paperback
1936WB19100New York: Longmans Green & Co 1936. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to 235 x 145 mm bound in recent red half morocco over red cloth. Printed in England at the Curwen Press this is a deluxe bound copy of one of Andre Simon's classic titles. It is considered one of the best wine dictionaries in English and written by one of the great authorities on the subject. The work is comprehensive and sweeping in scope ranging from Aargau a minor wine-producing Swiss Canton to Zucco a Sicillian dessert wine. With a short introduction on how to buy wine how to preserve wine and how to serve wine. Uneven fading to spine internally fine. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> Longmans, Green, & Co hardcover
192362386Oceanside CA: Dirk Vandegeer 1923. Tall 8vo. 318 2 pp. Frontisp. numerous plates drawings text illustrations. Gray publisher’s cloth decorative blue & black lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight dustsoiling still VG copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock. First edition of this well-written and nicely illustrated cook book for bakers pastry and confectionery chefs in Southern California during the Roaring 20’s. Included are sections on puff pastries German Coffee Cakes dumplings tarts and elaborate fancy deserts with over 100 pages of cake and pastry designs for the pastry and candy shop. Included as well are recipes for everything from Mexican Sausage to Suckling Pig and applesauce as well as Green Turtle Soup and Horseradish Butter. Vandegeer 1867-1928 worked in hotels as baker and pastry chef in leading hotels of France Belgium and the Netherlands before finishing his career in Southern California near San Diego and eventual retirement by 1924. Dirk Vandegeer, hardcover
193064180Boston MA: Little Brown and Co. 1930. 8vo. xii 173 1 pp. Frontisp. numerous plates. Illustrated mustard-coloured publisher’s cloth wine glass illustration front cover w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art by Herold of drunken revelers minor shelfwear darkening to spine still NF/NF copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock. First edition of this nicely illustrated and fascinating satirical examination of Prohibition Speakeasies Alcohol and the possible futures at the end of the Roaring 20’s as Americans invented a myriad of ways to keep drinking and socialize. Seldes has managed to inventively interweave a myriad of cocktail recipes into his observations along with a legion of cautionary and humorous tales. Little, Brown, and Co., hardcover
1999SONG0521652421Cambridge University Press 1999-09-28. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.50x1.75x9.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Cambridge University Press hardcover
19322110502150400420Publishing and printing person Taizo Ishiba Hinoue-cho Kita-ku Osaka 1932. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Publishing and printing person Taizo Ishiba (Hinoue-cho, Kita-ku, Osaka) paperback
