WORKADAY LIFE OF THE PUEBLOS
by Underhill, Ruth
Phoenix: Indian Life and Customs, Department of The Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1954. Large format paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Very good. 175 pages. 25 x 18 cm. Focusing on the everyday activities, social organization, and customs of the Pueblo communities such as agriculture, crafts, home life and communal events, Underhill draws on her extensive fieldwork and research... Read More
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[YEAR BOOK] 1976 BISON Volume 53
by Howard University
Washington DC: Howard University, 1976. Hardcover. Blue embossed and textured boards. Near fine. 424 pages. 31 x 24 cm. 1976 was the 109th anniversary of the founding of Howard University and the faculty and students came together for the annual re-dedication of the University - renewing the task for which it was created - that of education Black men and... Read More
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[MENU] THE EMPIRE DINING ROOM
by HOTEL UTAH
Salt Lake City, Utah, December 26, 1935. Cards. Cream illustrated cards. Very good. Dinner menu for the day after Christmas. The Empire Dining Room was lavishly decorated and hosted the privileged class throughout the years it was open. This particular menu includes an added specials menu entitled: Southern Style Mammy's Dinner - $1.25 Per Plate. Highlights on this menu include... Read More
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The Cuisine of Armenia
by Uvezian, Sonia
New York: Harper and Row, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Black boards. Near fine, in near fine dust wrapper. 409 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. With the author's extensive notes on the history of Armenian cuisine, along with hundreds of recipes, this book brings it all. The author, Sonia Uvezian, includes both traditional and newly inspired recipes. Armenia, situated... Read More
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Dissertations Gastronomiques
by Verdier, Ernest
Paris: A. Noel et Chalvon, 1916. Hardcover. Decorated paper covered boards, vellum spine. Very good. 352 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Limitied editon no. 301/500 on antique Hollande. Signed by the author on half title page: "To Mr. Robert Barton with the author's best regards". A distinguished work combining essays on gastronomy with numerous recipes, reflections on menu planning and... Read More
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THE White House Chef COOKBOOK
by Verdon, René
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Hardcover. White boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper. 287 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Dedication page: "Respectfully dedicated to our late President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and to Mrs. Kennedy, Caroline and John with gratitude for giving me the happiest years of my life." 8 full-color, full-page photographs by George Lazarnick. With... Read More
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[MILK] ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE and PRICE LIST of the U.S. CREAM SEPARATOR
by Vermont Farm Machine Co.
Bellows Falls, VT: Vermont Farm Machine Co., 1896. Staplebound. Green illustrated wraps. Very good. 64 pages. 22 1/2 x 14 1/2 cm. Descriptions, sizes, and price of equipment for creameries and private dairies. Beautiful engravings of every typle of machine that was used at the time. Surprisingly, machines were made to be used with Dog and Sheep power... Read More
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Wine Wars
by Veseth, Mike
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012. First Paperback. Paperback. Color illustrated wrap. Very good. 255 pages. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Economist Mike Veseth, an authority on the global wine market, presents the main forces shaping the wine world today in a readable and comprehensive style. Informative on economic and social history, the current wine industry, and... Read More
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[WINE] Les Vignes Américaines
by Viala, P. & L. Ravaz
Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1896. Hardcover. Cream wraps. Good. 390 pages. 21 x 14 cm. With 147 illustrations. Title translation: The American Vineyards, Adaptation, Cultivation, Grafting, Nurseries. A thorough look at American wine grape varieties and how they adapt to French agricultural conditions. Text in French. Pages very brittle. Cover has some loss. Archival tape used... Read More
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Le CUISINIER ROYAL, ou L'Art de Faire la Cuisine et La. Patisserie, Pour Toutes Les Fortunes;
by Viard, Alendré
Paris: Chez Barba, 1817. Hardcover. Contemporary tree calf, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, brown morocco label. Very good. 485 pages. 21 x 13 cm. Le Cuisiner Royal is a renowned French cookbook originally published as Le Cusinier Impérial in 1806. The book's title changed to reflect political regime changes in France: 1806 during Napoleon's rule, 1817 after the restoration... Read More
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The Barefoot Boy Of Brittany Hills
by Vinton, Arthur R.
Rock Tavern, NY: Arthur R. Vinton, 1947. First Edition. Staplebound. Green illustrated wraps. Good. 34 pages. 14 x 21 cm. A fun, corny narrative of a Wall-Streeters' wake up call after the 1929 market collapse. Dreaming of a quaint little farm to live out his dreams, Vinton decides on raising Turkeys. With Recipes, black and white illustrations and... Read More
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THE RITUALS OF DINNER
by Visser, Margaret
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. First American Edition. Hardcover. Mustard boards, purple cloth covered boards. Near fine, in near fine dust wrapper. 432 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. When we eat together, we bring our culture with us, with all the possibilities for pleasure and danger that implies. Throughout our history, table manners have been one way of keeping the... Read More
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MUCH DEPENDS ON DINNER
by Visser, Margaret
New York: Grove Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. White boards, red cloth boards. Very good, in very good dust wrapper. 351 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Much Depends on Dinner explores the webs of myth and legend, the growth of empires - political and economic, the imaginations of scientist and artists, and the appetites both secular and spiritual that have... Read More
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Menu No 4
by Voll, Brian
Brooklyn: Brian Voll, 2021. First Edition. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. Unpaginated. [31 pp.] 17.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition 1/750. Brian Voll is producing beautiful booklets that guide the reader to an elegant but sustainable menu/dinner party. From the author: "Each booklet contains a set of recipes for a multi-course dinner thats well-suited for a little dinner... Read More
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Menu No 1
by Voll, Brian
Brooklyn: Brian Voll, 2021. First Edition. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. Unpaginated. [31 pp.] 17.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition 1/750. Brian Voll is producing beautiful booklets that guide the reader to an elegant but sustainable menu/dinner party. From the author: "Each booklet contains a set of recipes for a multi-course dinner thats well-suited for a little dinner... Read More
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Menu No 2
by Voll, Brian
Brooklyn: Brian Voll, 2022. First Edition. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. Unpaginated. [32 pp.] 17.5 x 13 cm. Brian Voll is producing beautiful booklets that guide the reader to an elegant but sustainable menu/dinner party. From the author: "Each booklet contains a set of recipes for a multi-course dinner thats well-suited for a little dinner party. And with... Read More
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Menu No 3
by Voll, Brian
Brooklyn: Brian Voll, 2021. First Edition. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. Unpaginated. [31 pp.] 17.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition 1/750. Brian Voll is producing beautiful booklets that guide the reader to an elegant but sustainable menu/dinner party. From the author: "Each booklet contains a set of recipes for a multi-course dinner thats well-suited for a little dinner... Read More
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[COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] [WOMEN] [MANUSCRIPT] Virginia Cookery Book
by Virginia League of Women Voters
Richmond, Virginia: Virginia League of Women Voters, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream illustrated boards. Poor. 192 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Recipes attributed to members of the community with local advertisements giving the reader a genuine feel for the community. The Virginia League of Women Voters (VLWV) was organized to succeed the Equal Suffrage League (ESL) in 1920. By October... Read More
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[AGRICULTURE] [MILK] Letter to Mr. Seth Gray
by M.W. Doten
Northfield, ME, September 30, 1908. White lined printed paper, Very good. 1 page, 26.5 x 20.5. This letter to Mr. Seth Gray in Marion, ME is handwritten from M.W. Doten on his professional stationary, which reads "Agent for the Tubular Cream Separators". He is advising on a bill for $4.95 for fertilizer, he will come to collect in... Read More
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[WINE] A Wine-Grower's Guide
by Wagner, Philip M.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream cloth covered boards. Very good. 230 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Containing chapters on the past and future of wine-growing in America, the management of a vineyard, and the choice of suitable wine-grape varieties. Includes two fold-out maps and illustrated throughout. Interior clean and crisp, boards lightly soiled on spine.... Read More
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Rumford Common Sense Cook Book
by Lily Haxworth Wallace
Rumford, RI: Rumford Chemical Works, 1932. staplebound. tan printed wraps, good. 64 pages, 12.5 x 18.5 cm. The Rumford Common Sense Cook Book includes pages of recipes, cooking terms, and instructions. One page informs the homemaker of how to bake by temperature as a helpful tidbit to those who had just acquired a gas stove. Throughout are various... Read More
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Rumford Common Sense Cook Book
by Wallace, Lily Haxworth (Compiled by)
Rumford, RI: The Rumford Company, c. 1930's. Staplebound wraps. Brown illustrated wraps. Very good. 64 pages. Recipes, terms, and instructions. Interesting page discussing the need to bake "by temperature" - most likely focusing on the homemaker who recently acquired a gas stove. Recipes for preparing and cooking meats, fish, poultry, vegetables and food for the sick; instructions for... Read More
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[ART] About Face: Andy Warhol Portraits
by Warhol, Andy & Nicholas Baume, Richard Meyer, and Douglas Crimp
Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum and Andy Warhol Museum, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. 128 pages. 15.5 x 20.5 cm. September 1999 - January 2000 Wadsworth & March - June 2000 Miami Art Museum Exhibition catalog. Forward by Peter C. Sutton - Essays by: Douglas Crim, Nicholas Baume, and Richard Meter. Illustrated throughout in color and black and... Read More
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Pickups and Cheerups
by Waring Products Corp.
NY: Waring Products Corp., 1947. Staplebound. Pink printed wraps, Fine. 21 pages, 18 x 9.5 cm. An early recipe booklet for the Waring Blendor, an invention of Fred Osius - financed, completed, and advertised by Fred Waring, a famous entertainer at the time. Waring advertised through many different avenues, including a band titled "The Waring Blendors." This booklet was released... Read More
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Jesse's Book of Creole and Deep South Recipes
by Watts, Edith Ballard with John Watts
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue and brown cloth covered boars. Very good, in good dust wrapper. 184 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Recipes of Jesse Willis Lewis, African-American chef from New Orleans as set down by his employers, Edith Ballard, daughter of Jesse's employer. The book showcases Jesse's passion for the rich culinary traditions of... Read More
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