An Open Letter to Activists & Organizers of the Past and Present on the Need for a Mass Party of the People
by National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People
New York: National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People, c. 1973. Second Printing. Staplebound. Blue illustrated wraps. Near fine. 22 pages. "The virtually unprecedented political crisis, symbolized by Watergate and Nixon's resignation, is accompanied by an economic crisis of polluted air, earth, food and water; and by the continuing intensification of cultural and social crises manifesting themselves... Read More
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![[DIE-CUT] [PHARMACY] FREE, DEPENDABLE DELIVERIES ON ALL TELEPHONE ORDERS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/712/872/1446872712.0.m.jpg)
[DIE-CUT] [PHARMACY] FREE, DEPENDABLE DELIVERIES ON ALL TELEPHONE ORDERS
by Press Pharmacy
Cards. Illustrated die cut card, blue paper backing. Near fine. 9 x 12 cm. Die-cut image of a rotary telephone. "We welcome telephone orders and fill them promptly with the same quality merchandise you would select if you cam into the store. Just call MOnument 2-9091, PRESS PHARMACY
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[ADVICE] Two letters on Ladies Home Journal Stationary
by Philips, Eleanor H.
1916. Loose_leaf. Paper. Very good. Two letters (3 pages) 22 x 16 cm. Handwritten letters on stationary (The Ladies Home Journal - Independence Square - Philadelphia - Editorial Rooms) to a Mrs. Nash, offering advice on wedding etiquette including guidelines on monograms for silver and linens and what men should wear at weddings and the usual order of... Read More
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A SHORT HISTORY OF WINE
by Phillips, Rod
New York: ECCO, 2000. Hardcover. White boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper. 370 pages. 22 x 15 cm. The author re-creates each of the great eras of wine production, from the prehistoric fruits of the Fertile Crescent to this decade's explosion of the consumer wine culture with its varied values and palates, and vividly conveys the sheer magnitude... Read More
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[PROGRAM] [MENU] Program of the Seventy-Three Club Banquet
by Harris & Ewing (Photographer)
Washington DC, 1936. Staplebound. Illustrated wraps. Very good. Unpaginated (8 pages). 23 x 16 cm. A charming Program celebrating Eleanor Roosevelt by the Seventy Three Club on March 25, 1936 at the Mayflower Hotel; the wives of the members of the Seventy-third Congress. The 73rd Congress (1933-1935) passed an extraordinary burst of legislation to combat the immediate economic... Read More
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LE VIANDIER de Guillaume Tirel dit TAILLEVENT
by Pichon, Jérôme & Georges Vicaire
Paris: SE VEND CHEZ TECHENER, 1892. Hardcover. Half brown calf, tan cloth covered boards, raised bands, with black morocco titles. Very good. 297 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition #67 or 350. Le Viandier is one of the earliest and most influential cookbooks from medieval France. A recipe collection, generally credited to Guillaume Tirel, also known as Taillevent, is... Read More
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[QUACKERY] STUART'S ADHESIVE HERNIAL PLASTER-PADS CURE RUPTURE
by Stuart Plaster-Pad Co.
St. Louis: Stuart Plaster-Pad Co., c.1908. Staplebound. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. 32 pages. This company, Stuart's, gave an extensive treatise on every type of hernia, and all the complications that come with this ailment in this pamphlet. Illustrated throughout, the company proclaimed to cure all hernias with their Plaster-Pads. In 1910, the company was taken to court under... Read More
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Twenty-One Different Ways to Make Biscuits
by Edna M. Plunkett
Los Angeles, CA: The Joannes-Splane Co. , [~1920]. Staplebound. Yellow printed wraps, Fine. 16 pages, 14.5 x 7.5 cm. The Joannes-Splane Co.s Twenty-One Different Ways to Make Biscuits advertises the West Coast division of baking powder company Ben-Hur. This factory opened in 1917, as industry began to boom in California, shifting tides away from the dominant East Coast.... Read More
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Vingt Plats Qui Donnent La Goutte
by Pomaine, Edourd de
Paris: Paul-Martial pour la Pipérazine Midy, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Pink illustrated boards. Very good, in very good glassine cover. Giroux, André. 96 pages. Featuring hearty French recipes while advertising a digestif Pipérazine Midy. A case of "eat as much as you want, but then buy our product." Illustrated throughout, text in French. 1 cm. loss to head... Read More
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El Arte Del Licorista
by Porta, Mariano
Zaragoza, Spain, 1883. Sewn binding. Tan paper pamphlet. Good. 81 pages. 21 x 15.5 cm. (The Art of the Liquorist. From the Manufacturer of Wines of All Kinds, Spirits, Syrups & Ice Cream. New method to make all kinds of fine and superfine liquors without distillation by means of the extracts reconcentrados by steam at high pressure). ... Read More
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[NUTRITION] A Quick Story about Instant Postum
by Postum Cereal Co., Ltd.
Battle Creek, Michigan: Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., c. 1912. Pamphlet. Color illustrated glossy paper. Near fine. 13 x 8 cm. Color illustrated, folded pamphlet extolling "A BIG NEED" for the beverage - Instant Postum. Charles William Post (1854-1914) invented Postum, a cereal beverage, in 1895. Blaming various ailments on caffeinated beverages, Post heavily advertised this product and successfully... Read More
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Awful Ogres Awful Day
by Jack Prelutsky
Greenwillow Books, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards. Fine, in fine dust wrapper. Paul O. Zelinsky. 39 pages. 31.5 x 24 cm. Awful Ogre starts the day greeting his plethora of pests and goes on to scare villagers, dance in storms, tend to his poisonous garden, and more in an ogre's idea of a perfect day. Written... Read More
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The Complete Dairy Foods Cookbook
by Proulx, E Annie & Lew Nichols
Emmaus, Pennsyvania: Rodale Press, 1982. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards. Good. Gardner, Jean & Jerry O'Brien. 296 pages. 24 x 19.5 cm. From the Pulitzer Price winning author of The Shipping News, a refreshing look at creating dairy foods in your home. Everything you need to know for making cheese, butter, buttermilk, sweet cream, yogurt, plus an array of... Read More
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[MENU] [POSTCARD] R. M. S. "BERMUDIAN" BREAKFAST Menu
by QUEBEC STEAMSHIP COMPANY Ltd.
March 9, 1908. cards. White cards. Good. 15 x 10 cm. closed, 15 x 20 cm. opened. Early postcard/menu featuring black and white photos of Hamilton and Harbor, Bermuda. Breakfast menu includes: Oranges, Stewed Prunes, Quaker Oats, Force, Hominy, Boiled Salt Herring with Butter Sauce, Fried Salmon Trout, Ham & Eggs, Liver & Bacon, Broiled Sirloin Steak, Mutton Chops, Eggs... Read More
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The Subtle Alchemist
by Rainbird, George & Ronald Searle
London: MICHAEL JOSEPH, 1973. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Purple cloth covered boards. Very good, in very good dust wrapper. 206 pages. 22.5 x 14 cm. After a sensible introduction on the service of wine, the vineyards of Europe and the rest of the world are discussed fully but not laboriously. A keynote of the book is that as much attention is... Read More
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[POSTER] [WWI] HUNGER
by Raleigh, Henry Patrick (Artist)
Chicago: Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., 1918. Cream paper, illustrated in black and red. Very good. 74 x 53.5 cm. "For three years America has fought starvation in Belgium - Will you eat less wheat, meat, fats and sugar that we may still send food in ship loads?" US Food Administration issued many posters to encourage Americans to help with... Read More
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[FRENCH] [TRADE CATALOG] Album des Fusils de Bouchers et de Table
by Rameau
Paris: Mongin, 1902. Pamphlet. Tan illustrated wraps. Very good. 16 pages. 31 x 23 cm. Large format, fully illustrated lithographed trade catalogue of Butchers Guns (knife sharpener) with elaborate handles. Also, a selection of fusils de table, excellent for carving table-side in the home. Covers lightly toned, interior clean
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I Know a lot of things
by Rand, Ann & Paul
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Yellow illustrated cloth covered boards. Very good, in good dust wrapper. Unpaginated [29 pp.] 26 x 22 cm. A masterful collaborative effort by Ann and Paul Rand. Ann, an architect and Paul, an award winning art director fashioned this innovative, modern children's book for their daughter, Catherine. Highlighting brightly colored... Read More
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[AUSTRALIA] [WINE] Wine and Wineries of the Barossa Valley
by Rankine, Bryce
Milton, Queensland: The Jacaranda Press, 1971. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper. 114 pages. 24 x 17 cm. The Wines of Barossa Valley include: Grandfather Port, Para Liqueur, Château Leonay's aromatic Riesling, Yalumba's Galway Pipe port, and many more. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Boards and interior clean and crisp. Dust wrapper lightly rubbed... Read More
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The Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper
by Raper, Elizabeth
Soho: The Nonesuch Press, 1924. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards. Very good, in good dust wrapper. 94 pages. No. 217 or 850 copies thus. Marcus Crahan book plate on paste-down endpaper. Partially unopened. Pages lightly toned, otherwise clean. Dust wrapper toned with chips. In protective mylar cover.
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The Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper
by Raper, Elizabeth [Elizabeth David]
Soho: The Nonesuch Press, 1924. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards. Very good. 94 pages. No. 113 of 850 copies thus. Elizabeth David's oval bookplate at verso of front cover. Laid in: One page of Elizabeth David's notes on various recipes including reminder to "see Anne Blencowe much earlier" version. Composed between 1756 and 1770, this journal provides an autobiographical glimpse... Read More
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![[WINE] The Guide to Wine](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/266/285/1558285266.0.m.jpg)
[WINE] The Guide to Wine
by Ray, Cyril
New York: Exeter Books, 1984. Illustrated cloth covered boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 125 pages. A thorough introduction to wine, avoiding the snobbery that often surrounds the subject and explaining in simple terms how to find ones way through the maze of vintages and varieties. Illustrated throughout. Previous owner's bookplate of verso of cover. Covered in protective mylar.
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[WINE] BOLLINGER
by Ray, Cyril & Serena Sutcliffe
London: Heinemann, 1994. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards. Near fine, in fine dust wrapper. 229 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Sutcliffe and Ray combine the history of champagne including the fascinating story of the Champagne riots of 1911 along with detailed accounts of Bollinger today - the new generation of the family, how the wine is made, what has changed... Read More
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[BAKING POWDER] Cook Book, USEFUL INFORMATION AND INTERESTING DATA
by R. B. Davis CO.
Hoboken, NJ: R.B. Davis Company, 1904. Staplebound. Dark blue illustrated wraps. Very good. 64 pages, 17 x 11.5 cm. The R.B. Davis Manufacturings Dry Yeast Baking Powder Cookbook begins with a dedication to housewives who have been misled into a purchase of Baking Powder with Cream of Tartar and to those sufferers of Brights Disease which they attribute... Read More
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![[AGRICULTURE] R.D. Hawley & Co.'s Price-List of Select Novelties and Specialties](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/287/114/1449114287.0.m.jpg)
[AGRICULTURE] R.D. Hawley & Co.'s Price-List of Select Novelties and Specialties
by R.D. Hawley & Co.
Hartford, CT: R.D. Hawley & Co., 1890. Staplebound. Yellow illustrated wraps. Good. 78 pages. 23.5 x 15 cm. Profusely illustrated garden and farm catalogue. Features fruits and vegetable seeds, grain, tractors and farm equipment. Covers toned with water stain to the tail, staples holding.
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