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198010051Sydney Australia: David Ell Press 1980. Second-hand hardcover. <p>Kelly A C. The Vine in Australia & Wine-Growing in Australia. facsimiles of 1861 & 1867 Ed David Ell Press: Sydney 1980. 8vo 215x140mm 2 vols in slipcase 24ix32135 & 16viii2348pp. intro & bio by Dennis Hall & Valmai Hankel VG/-</p> David Ell Press unknown
1990025334Cernobbio Lake Como: Villa D'este 1990. First Edition . Grey Boards. Fine/Near Fine DJ. 12 " Tall. 136 Pp. Hardcover. Fine Book In Dj With Touch Of Wear At Corners. Inscribed To David Copley Of San Diego And With A Few Original Color Photos Of The Villa Laid In Loosely. <br/> <br/> Villa D'este hardcover
1971017693Saigon: iMinistry of Foreigh Affairs 1971. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition First Printing. pp. 78. A paperback original issued as a manual for Vietnamese delegates on overseas issues. Foreword by Tran Vin Lam who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Vietnam. Light creasing to cover internally clean. iMinistry of Foreigh Affairs Paperback
1970032564New York: The Macmillan Company 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Color Plates By Otto Fenn Drawings By Rosalie Schmidt. 335 Pp. Black Cloth Purple Boards. Stated First Printing Of This Clear Guide To Over 200 "Authentic Recipes For Classic Pastries And Warm Desserts". Near Fine Touch Of Rubbing In Near Fine Dj With Just A Touch Of Rubbing At Corners. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
195111153London: Saccone & Speed 1951. Second-hand softcover. <p>David Elizabeth. The Use of Wine in Fine Cooking. FIRST EDITION Saccone & Speed: London ca.1951. 160x120mm illust cream stiff wrappers stapled 212 incl rear wrapperpp.</p> <p><br /> DAVID Elizabeth née Gwynne 1913-1992<br /> <br /> The Use of Wine in Fine Cooking. <br /> <br /> London : Saccone & Speed Ltd undated circa 1951. First and only edition. Printed by McCorquodale & Co.<br /> <br /> Octavo 160x120mm illustrated cream stiff wrappers stapled 2 12 including the wrapper versopp. Wrappers faintly soiled edges faintly agetoned; else crisp clean and bright. The illustration on the cover is by Grimod de la Reyniere Alexandre Balthazar Laurent 1758 - 1838 and is taken from the engraved frontispiece of volume one of his Almanach des Gourmand Paris 1804.<br /> <br /> <br /> ¶ Saccone & Speed are venerable London fine wine merchants known for their sherry port and other wines. The firm was established in 1908 from the merger of two family firms of wine merchants established in the early part of the nineteenth century. For many years they had outposts in Gibraltar East Africa and elsewhere in the British Empire. Written on commission the booklet discusses the role of wine in cooking and how to flamber marinate and chose wines before giving nine elegantly written recipes for French dishes using wine and a liqueur. With the permission of Saccone & Speed the content was incorporated into the first edition of David's French Country Cooking published by John Lehmann in 1951.<br /> <br /> One of the most scarce of David's publications. A near fine ephemeral item.<br /> <br /> § OCLC records only three holdings all in the UK: BL NLS and Oxford Brookes.<br /> <br /> </p> Saccone & Speed unknown
1959536718Greenwich Connecticut: Gold Medal Books / Fawcett Publications 1959. Softcover. Very Good. First edition paperback original. Perfectbound in wrappers. Very good with some waviness along the spine and some toning to the wrappers. Gold Medal Book S861. Gold Medal Books / Fawcett Publications unknown
195527833Fawcett Publications. Very Good. 1955. First Edition. Softcover. Signed to title page "Vin Packer". Light edge wear. Tight and square. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Signed by Author . Fawcett Publications paperback
19643iiiAd0029San Francisco CA: Wine Institute for the Wine Advisory Board 1964. Book. Very Good. Pamphlet. April 1964. 8vo or 8° Medium Octavo: 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 49 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear crisp pages and clean text. Top right corner of front cover is creased. Wine Institute for the Wine Advisory Board Paperback
193908040NY: Coward McCann 1939. UK Presumed 1st edition No markings pages clean book is square and tight Near Fine in price-clipped Acceptable dust jacket with edge chips and tears and tow skinned spots to the back panel and with a short pencil note to the rear flap; Dj is in mylar sleeve. Blue cloth 155pp B&W illus. Goudge was long a popular author in the UK and the US and regained attention decades later. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for The Little White Horse. J. K. Rowling identified The Little White Horse as one of her favourite books and one of few with a direct influence on the Harry Potter series. "Sister of the Angels" is the second novel in her Torminster series. The novel tells an enchanting story about Henrietta a young girl in love with every nook and cranny of her grandfather's cathedral. 1.5 JM LVR 206/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Acceptable. Illus. by Hodges C. Walter. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Coward McCann Hardcover
20009781559705318-1New York: Arcade Publishing 2000. Second-hand hardcover. <p>Yan Mo. The Republic of Wine: a novel. FIRST EDITION Arcade Publishing: New York 2000. 8vo 240x160mm illust dj qtr bnd red gold bds 2v335512pp. translated by Howard Goldblatt VG/Near Fine slight edgewear to dj & bds</p> <p><br /> YAN Mo Guan Moye 1955 - <br /> <br /> The Republic of Wine: a novel<br /> <br /> New York : Arcade Publishing 2000. First North American Edition. <br /> <br /> Octavo 240x160mm pictorial dust jacket quarter bound red and yellow papered gilt lettered boards 103553pp. Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt.<br /> <br /> ¶ A satirical novel The Republic of Wine explores the relationship between the Chinese people gastronomy and alcohol using cannibalism as a metaphor for Chinese self-destruction whilst commenting on government corruption and excesses. It has two seperate narrative threads the first standard form fiction following a detective and the second a series of letters between "Mo Yan" and an aspiring author who is a fan of his work. Over the course of the book the narrative threads cross over and merge.<br /> <br /> Originally suppressed in China as subversive it was first printed in Taiwan in 1992 under the title "Jiu Guo". Mo Yan meaning "Don't speak" is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. In 2012 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.<br /> <br /> A near fine copy.<br /> <br /> § OCLC suggests only 1 holding this edition; COPAC records 8 holdings in the UK this edition.<br /> <br /> </p> Arcade Publishing unknown
1980Lap00432Un-Published USA 1980. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. 84pp hand typed manuscript housed in a dark blue 80's manila folder eleven chapter work promised to be continued which never did rare find. Quantity Available: 1. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: Lap00432. . Un-Published hardcover
1964035090Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Xiv 319 Pp. White Cloth. First Printing. Inscribed By Robert Balzer Dated In 1966 At Villa Fontana To Nancy And George Parsons Recipient's Signature On Front Pastedown. Near Fine No Wear But Some Foxing To Covers; Dj Price Clipped Tears At Edges Some Very Small Losses At Edges; Two Clippings About Balzer Taped To Front Flap. <br/> <br/> Bobbs-Merrill hardcover
1987131355Adelaide: G. Gramp and Sons 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide G. Gramp and Sons 1987. Quarto 79 pages with numerous illustrations most in colour and many full-page plus colour pictorial endpapers. Pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper. Signed in ink by K.J. Swann S.W. Gramp Colin R. Gramp and one more Gramp on the half-title. From Johann Gramp's first wine in 1850 'Messrs. G. Gramp & Sons Ltd. was to grow into one of the giants of the Australian wine industry by the 1930s' 'Pioneer Vignerons' website; today 'the winery continues under the label Jacob's Creek' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. G. Gramp and Sons hardcover
1968029354Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press 1968. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Jacket. 150 Pp. First Printing. Cookbook By The Los Angeles Celebrity Tv Chef Of His Time. Near Fine Book Just A Trace Of Rubbing At Lower Corners In Vg Dj With Slight Wear At Corners Not Price Clipped. <br/> <br/> The Ward Ritchie Press hardcover
1935991F8London: Gamages 1935-1937 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 9". Not Stated. Charmingly illustrated with diagrams and with articles on a diverse range of subjects this is a wonderful collection of twenty-five 1930s issues of this monthly periodical for magicians. A wonderful volume featuring twenty-five 1930s issues of the entertaining periodical 'The Magician Monthly' illustrated by R. Wine.With twenty-five consecutive issues from Vol XXXI No. 11 October 1935 to Vol XXXIII No. 12 November 1937.This intriguing monthly periodical is filled with tricks history and gossip for magicians offering detailed instructions for tricks and featuring prominent magicians covering various aspects of stage and close-up magic.Articles include 'My Visit to the States' by Will Blyth 'Theme for Conjuring' by Norman Hunter and 'If You Forgot Your Props' by George Lorimer. In a full cloth binding. Boards bright with fading and rubbing to back strip. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned but clean. Tape repairs to closed tears of six leaves towards the rear. Very Good Gamages hardcover
1952029048New York: Greenberg Publisher Circa 1952 1952. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good DJ. Illustrations By The Author. 226 Pp Index At End. Decorated Cloth With Spine Lettered In Red And Black. Slight Wear At Corners No Names Or Marks Or Stains Hinges Tight. With The Original Clear Glassine Dj Small Losses At Upper Corners. A Rare Edition This Early If Not First Edition Is Undated But Circa 1952 <br/> <br/> Greenberg Publisher [Circa 1952] hardcover
1974BIBLIO-59316International Wine and Food Society London original journal issues 1974-1992. 19 issues laminated illustrated wrappers or printed wrappers 8vo. typically between 64 and 136 pp per quarterly issue and between 120 and 176 pp per annual issue. A group of 16 issues of the quarterly Journal of the International Wine and Food Society comprising issues Vol. 1 No. 1 Vol. 1 No. 3 Vol. 2 No. 1 Vol. 2 No. 2 two copies Vol. 2 No. 3 Vol. 2 No. 4 Vol. 3 No. 1 Vol. 3 No. 4 Vol. 9 No. 1 Vol. 9 No. 2 Vol. 9 No. 3 Vol. 9 No. 4 Vol. 15 No. 1 and Vol. 15 No. 3 Summer 1990; and the annual issues Vol. 13 16 and 17 for 1988 1991 and 1992 respectively. The contents generally include an editorial several articles on aspects of gastronomy food and wine and the arts of the table book reviews and reports of the society's proceedings. The content is generally of a less "historical and literary" nature than in the earlier 'Wine and Food' Journal. Covers generally a little marked and/or creased one or two issues with some staining contents generally Very Good. International Wine and Food Society, London, original journal issues, 1974-1992 unknown
19402221991<p>Second revised edition. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait. 20 b/w illustrations of bottles of various alcoholics drinks with a double page illustrations of cocktail glasses. Pages 117-212 with recipes for various cocktails. Tipped in at end is an eight page folding booklet of additional cocktails. Original gold cloth over black boards edges rubbed with gilt name of William Clarence Tackett on front cover. No dust jacket. Very good tear to frontispiece; small chips to title page. 224 pages.</p><p>William Clarence Tackett was a Chicago Construction Executive 1897-1958 who died in Palm Springs.</p> The Marco Importing Company hardcover