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Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a map, two plates and numerous tables throughout;, neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary, neat contemporary inscription on title verso; original burgundy pebble-gained cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. With personal pictorial bookplate on front paste-down. This important text by the notable Mexican diplomat, politician and agricultural pioneer, is extremely scarce, especially in this condition.
Soft cover looks a little corner worn with light creases along spine. Bottom of page block is a bit grubby. Library plate on front inside cover, Library stamps on half - title and title pages and BEP. Ex - Library
New English Paperback. Oblong 12mo. (11 x 12 cm). In English. 61 p., color and b/w ills. Pera Museum presents a selection from the Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics Collection focusing on coffee, which was at the center of drinking culture during Ottoman era and continued to be so through the Republic of Turkey. One of the three big collections of Suna and Inan Foundation, Kütahya tiles and ceramics have been an important branch of Ottoman arts and crafts from the 18th to the 20th century. Preserving its cultural importance since its first discovery, coffee pursued its adventure in our daily lives with contribution of ceramics masters from Kütahya. Coffee cups, jugs, ewers and water pipes have become essential companions of both coffee and its rituals.
New English Paperback. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In English and Turkish. 167, [1] p., color ills. Coffee, pleasures hidden in a bean.= Tanede sakli keyif, kahve. [Exhibition catalogue].
94 pages Features: My Friend Ethel Barrymore; Trouble is My Middle Name - Rocky Graziano Story (part 3 of 3); Why You Haven't got a House; Thrill Pills Can Ruin You - Barbituates; The Strange Case of the Dionne Quints - article with great photos of the 15-year-old girls; Fox of the Indies - Matthew Fox on the prowl in Indonesia. Fiction: The Lollipop Tree; Arabella and the Susquehanna; A Wife Walks Out; For Every Man There's a Woman; The Rain Maker; Pride's Castle (part 6 of 8). Includes these ads: a great colour one-page ad for Zenith radios, Packard cars, RCA Victor radios, Ford cars, Oldsmobile cars, Chesterfield cigarettes - two-page color photo ad featuring Lou Boudreau, Ben Hogan, Joe Di Maggio, Jack Kramer and Frankie Albert, Hudson cars, Santa Fe Railroad, The Douglas Super DC-3, Monarch Coffee, and a back cover colour photo ad for Camel cigarettes featuring pool players Willie Mosconi and Willie Hoppe. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
70 pages. Features: Color Texaco ad inside front cover; Oakland 8 and Pontiac 6 ad on page 1; Classy color full-page ad for Maxwell House coffee; Mr. Peters makes his Train (short story); Where do we go from here? - an article about veterans and the nation's finances; Beginner's Luck - a short story about golf; What a Pal! (short story); A Way with the Women (short story); Yuan Hee See Laughs - continuation of short story by Sax Rohmer; Ridin' on Rubber - article and great photos of various types of transportation by bus and jitney - very nostalgic!; Gunsight Trail (short story); Through Russia Without a Guide - Lindsay Hoben recounts his 14,00 mile trip through the U.S.S.R. without a guide or supervision; Gorgeous full-page color ad for Life Savers candy; nice color full-page ad for the new Chevrolet six; Babies are Conservative (!) - practical advice for babycare by a lady doctor; April Prowess - predicting who will win the World Series; Nice Oldsmobile ad; The Sleeptalker (short story); Classy full-page ad for Hammond electric clocks; Smooching photo in Pepsodent antiseptic mouth wash ad; Spur Bow bowtie ad; Clicquot Club ginger ale full-page ad; B&O (Baltimore and Ohio) Railroad full-page ad; Bostonians shoe ad; Elgin watch ad; Nice 2-color Pebeco toothpaste ad; nice full-page color Arrow Shirts ad; Iver Johnson bicycle ad; Nice full-page color ad for Waterman's pens; Dixies drinking glass ad inside back cover; Nice Camel cigarette ad on back cover show's man lighting up with a candleabra. Above-average but not excessive external wear and soiling. Covers detached but present. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
70 pages. Articles: The War Against Dope Runners - death lurks along the border; Designs for Touring (#10) - the old Ute Trail in the Rockies; Assassin of the Dance - Iva Kitchell; The Secret Papers of Henry L. Hoplins (part 10 - Decision to invade North Africa; Pell-Mel Patton - the world's greatest sprinter?; Homemade Glamor - for girls who make their own stylish clothes. Fiction: The Chousey Man; Flannagan's Last Resort; For Divers Reasons; Monkey's Uncle; The High Hip Rider; More beautiful Than Murder(part 4 of 5). Ads include: Pan American World Airlines; Mennen Skin Bracer; Sieberling tires; GE Coffee makers; Buick Roadmaster; Milky Way chocolate bars; Sanka coffee; Awesome black background centerfold for Calvert liquor - very attractive; DeSoto cars; Kleenex ad with Little Lulu; Tawn cologne; Erie Railroad; Macmillan oil ad features James Kimble, Sr. of Fort Wayne, IN; Hudson cars; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
82 pages. Articles: Headline Heaven - The National Press Club; Our Poisoned Waters; How E.H. Crump, the boss of Tennessee politics, was Licked; She Dies for Old Columbia - Loretta Little is the wife of Columbia's football coach Lou Little; Joe Palooka and Me - Ham Fisher on his comic strip; Amos 'n' Andy - Ain't Dat Sumpin' - Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden; Bright Kids Can Fail; Uncle Sam's Latin Salesman - Victor Raul Haya de la Torre of Peru; Texas' star end Peppy Blount. Fiction: A Nice New Pair of Wings; Saturday Fever; A Man For Dalphine; Good-By, Good-By; The Impudent Rifle (part 1 of 6); Marriage '48 (conclusion of 5 parts). Ads include: Studebaker; GE radios; Ethyl; Florsheim shoes; Vitalis (with Sid Luckman); Union Pacific Railroad; Philco phonographs; International Trucks; Westinghouse radios and phonographs; Mercury cars; *Outstanding* Dodge Truck centerfold displays 29 of their 248 different basic chassis models; GE coffee makers; Botany 500 fashions; Lord Calvert Whiskey ad features full-page photo-portrait of Fulton Lewis Jr., radio commentator and news analyst; Sheppard Diesels; "Red River" movie with John Wayne; Goebel beer; U.S. Army; Blatz beer - featuring actor Victor McLagen; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
114 pages. Articles: Wanted - A Miracle in Greece - staving off economic collapse and Communist inroads; Hollywood Headache - The movie moguls are atwitter these days - audiences down, censors upset, costs up, etc. - nice color photos; Tuned in on the Surgeon - doctors now witness operations via television; The Abundant Henry Wallace - study of a man who'd like to be a key in the 1948 political scene; Heartless Harvest (conclusion) - plight of the country's migrant field workers; Behind Your Stick of Gum - men brave death in tropic jungles to gather its basic ingredients - with photos; They Can't Fool the Revenue Man - few succeed in income-tax evasion; Young Man of Fashion - Mr. Charlie James and his super dress designs - article with great color photos. Fiction: Sweet Water (part 1 of 5); Charlie Squires and the Seven Marchettis; Banner Over First; The Split Hickory; A Wonderful Mixer; Wait and See. Includes ads for: Parker pens (featuring Lily Pons); RKO movies; De Beers - featuring Miss Jean Bullitt of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia; Philco radio-phonographs; Plymouth cars; Firestone; Dodge cars; Mansfield Jogs shoes; Chevrolet cars; Cory all-glass coffee brewers - two pages!; Miller beer; DeSoto cars; Vintage cartoonPepsi ad involving large excavator; Fantastic two-page color ad for movie "Unconquered" starring Gary Cooper; American Airlines; Caterpillar - great color-photo ad with dozer and scraper; Westinghouse record players; Kodak film; Remington electric shaver ad features Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald in scene from movie "Welcome Stranger"; Are You Mitty?: Gillette razors; Budweiser; National Guard - with large photo of President Truman; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Somewhat above-average external wear. Covers holding by one staple. A worthy vintage copy. Book
98 pages. Fiction: Roman Mosaic; Old Sorority Sister; Stranger Than Truth; Tiger Swamp Campaign; The Spur; Faster Than a Mule. Articles: A Republican suggests solutions for our major problems; Peace Street / Rue de la Paix - The Wall Street of Fashion in Paris - article with photos of Rambaud, Schiaparelli; Billions in the Mud - article and photos of our pacific bases - wrestled from the Japs - which are now monuments of neglect (photos of acres of equipment); Brains in the Ballet; Ted Williams - The World Series and Me; Curare may be a cure for Polio; Pictures in Stones. Ads include: Sheaffer's pens; B.F. Goodrich tires; Seiberling tires; Rensie Watches; Knox men's fashions; Borden's Instant Coffee; Hudson Cars - a very attractive color ad; Firestone tires; Columbia Records - featuring Frank Sinatra; Ford cars; General Motors - featuring image of boy at wooden school desk; Miller beer; Jeep station wagons; Remington shavers; "No Leave No Love" movie ad featuring Van Johnson; Fantastic color photo ad for Caterpillar bulldozers; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring kindly old doctor. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
148 pages. Features: Does butter have a future?; Bulls to make more beef with less feed; A house to keep pace with your life; Soil tillers - weed killers; Calves are getting better care; Little farm, bountiful life; Record weights at weaning time; Helping others helps us; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
in-16, 105 pp., figures in-t., broche, couv. illustree. Bel exemplaire. [PM] Rites et techniques de lecture - Les interpretations selon les livres sacres.
28pp., 20cm., contemporary hardcover (cart. boards, leather spine), some browning of paper, text in Latin, good condition, [rare and early doctoral dissertation on the use and effects of drinking coffee], W90397
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers. A clean tight copy with unmarked boards and tanned/dusty page edges. 96pp. A wealth of articles on house repairs, renovation, construction etc - make a greenhouse, folding doors, mirror-topped coffee table, concreting, upholsteryball valves, carve a hippo, power tools, wine making.
Boxed set of two volumes describing and illustrating aspects of Traditonal Korean Tea Ceremonies . [1] Cho Ui's book Dongdasong (Praise for Eastern Tea) is written in verse - in 17 Cantos - praising the origin of Tea, the excellence of Korean tea and the gusto of the tea ceremony. 220p.lllus.Inscription on ffep [2] DaSeenJeon by Bonze Choyee, the father of the revival of the Korean tea describes everything from the picking of the leaves to the choice of a cup to drink it from.184 p. llus. Inscrption on ffep. The illustrations are by Damwon Kim Chang-bae who was born in Seosan in the South Chungcheong province in western part of South Korea. He is the 71st generation descendant of King Kim Su-ro, a founder of Geumgwan Gaya - the ruling city-state of the Gaya confederacy during the Three Kingdoms, the 10th generation descendant of master of traditional Korean painting Kim Hong-do (Danweon).The inscriptions seem to be in his handwriting. A publicity card from the artist's gallery in Seoul is laid in. Text in Korean, English and some Japanese.In original box wihich has slight crack at top. [Worldcat only ONE copy in the National L:ibrary of Korea] Book
Mm 140x210 Brossura editoriale con bandelle, 327 pagine. Libro in stato di nuovo. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
This is a very good softcover copy in a very good illustrated slipcase with only light wear to slipcase edges. Completely clean inside and out. Signed by Nestor Lujan and inscribed to one of America's best known food history writers dated 1985. Text in Spanish. History of coffee and cafes. Illustrated in color and black & white. Bibliography. 9" high X 11" wide, 149 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
80 pages. Songs include: Adelita, Alegrias, Allegretto, Alorno, Andantino, Bagatelle, Bolera, Boogie Flamenco, Bouree, Buleria, Cafe De Chinitas, Caprice, Chufla, Compas Flamenco, Corralera, Danza Espanola No. 5, Ecos De Sierra Nevada, EtudeEtude on A Theme, Guajiras, Huelva, Jota, Lagrima, Lute Prelude, Mazurca, Melodias De Jerez, Peteneras, Petite Piece, Rondo, Sarabande, Scherzo, Sonatine, Study in F, Temas En Farruga, Variaciones De Cadiz, Zambra, Zapateado. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
54 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Purina Poultry Chows inside front cover; Comment by E.T. Meredith; Our Vacation by the Gasoline Route - great photo-illustrated article about vacationing with car and tent; How I Built My Home in Spare Time - photo-illustrated article by Frank I. Hanson; How to Grow Asters Successfully; Perfect Privacy with Lattice Fences - photo-illustrated article; Have You Tried These Vegetables? - Cardoons, a variety of eggplant, a Japanese burdock, rocket salad, Chinese white cabbage, Shui-Tsai - with photos; Electricity in the Small Home; Radio is making the home the most interesting place to be; How We Finished Our Dream House - article with photos; Houses of Famous Americans - photo-illustrated article about "Hardscrabble" - the cabin home of Ulysses S. Grant; A Backyard Garden in June - with suggestiions for your city lot; The Society of Little Gardens - photo-illustrated article about an organization fostering the correct improvement of yards; Growing Sweet Corn Successfully; Nice one-page ad for Johnson's Polishing Wax; Tips to make your June work count; Nice one-page ad for Hupmobile cars; Great vintage one-page ad for Goodrich Silvertown Cord Tires; Successful Home Canning of Vegetables - article with photos; Half-page ad for The New Overland car; How to Adjust Your (Push) Lawn Mower - great illustrated article; How to build your own garage - illustrated article; Ads for oak flooring and the use of birch wood in homes; 2/3-page ad for The Davenport Bed; Has Music Led Us Astray?; The Novel of the Year - 'Trodden Gold'; Summer Care of Growing Stock (chickens); Nice half-page Coke ad; Two Compfortable Home Plans; Faust Coffee ad; Ad for the Iron Horse Cold Pack Canner; Illustrated embroidery article; Nice photo-illustrated one-page ad for Munsingwear underwear for ladies; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Dolly Gray of New York; Inside back cover is a fantastic two-color illustrated ad for Harris Brothers Co. of Chicago who sell many home building products; Nice back cover ad for the New Phaeton Reo car (partially covered by address label). Above-average wear. Coverfold mostly open. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 64 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Nice beach photo of Maritza Antoinette inside front cover; The Night's Beginning - story by F.G. Holcomb; New Import From Italy - color and black and white photos of Maritza Antoinette, who now works in Las Vegas; Crime and Passion - case history from new book "Crime and Passion" by Eugene B. Mozes; After Hours - story by R.E. Lotte; Flynn's Friend Beverly - photo feature of seventeen-year-old Beverly Aadland who lived with him for two years; What's In a Nameplate - Tom Jones suggests readers look to foreign cars; Oriental Dream - photo-illustrated article on Los Angeles' New Ginza, including sukiyaki recipe, by Ron S. Miller; Coffee Break - story by Earle Schell; Photo feature of Pat Conley, including color centerfold; Between Us Ladies - story by David Jenkins; Socks Appeal - article in favor of nylon-clad legs by Walter Plinge; Four pages of tasteful black and white photos of ladies in negligee; The Belly Ploy - short story by Ben Redmond; Beer - America's National Drink; In Our Own Backyard - photos of shapely Terri Summers of New York; Books and Records; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
380 pages. Designed to assist helpers in working more effectively with groups. Coffee stain at bottom of back cover has minor visibility at bottom edge of last few leaves. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
190 pages. Discover and celebrate the freshest foods in the west! Provides the information on where to buy healthy edibles produced close to home. Offers dozens of delectable recipes from innovative growers, bakers and cheesemakers, celebrated caterers and renowned restaurants including the Cafe Brio, the Empress Room and the Aerie Resort. Book
68 pages. Songs include: Alberta Bound; Beautiful; Brave Mountaineers; Christian Island (Georgian Bay); Don Quixote; Looking at the Rain; Ode to Big Blue; On Susan's Floor; Ordinary Man; The Patriot's Dream; Second Cup of Coffee. Reproductions of several black and white photos. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
238 pages. "Grogan's dismal cafe offers relief from the backbreaking toil of logging, but when long-simmering lusts and rivalries explode into mayhem at and island dance, Terry goes back to the woods, where Grogan's Cafe speeds to a powerful climax." - from front flap. Lovely clean, bright and unmarked copy with faintest wear. Gift quality. Book
Book shows light wear to covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for one ad with a location note in pen. Tourist guide from the Olympic Hotel for sights and establishments in Seattle. Publication date is estimated. Articles and ads throughout for such things as the Space Needle restaurant, Frederick and Nelson, I.Magnin, Baby & co. Pier 70, El Gaucho, Four Seas, China Gate, Gim Wah, the Wharf, Victoria Station, Merchants cafe, the Kingdome, Rosellini's Other Place, McCormicks, Bush garden, etc.