[TABLE GAME] Who Wears The Crown

An Entire New Game. London: J. & E. Wallis. 60 x 44 cm. Published between 1812-1820. Color illustrated Table Game with Directions for Playing. Fifty titled spaces, illustrated and formed into a circle with the Crown at the center. Linen backed cloth, folded into 12 rectangles. Stains and foxing to cloth with some rolling at folds. Two spaces, "3 - Plough & 4 - Shepherd", titles penciled in. Cream cloth, linen backed, color illustrated. Good. Cloth. $1,250.00

Chianti Country

Tirinnanzi, Nino. Twenty-seven plates presented by Carlo Betocchi - Historical Introduction by Giuseppe Conti. Florence: Il Bisonte - Edizioni d'arte, 1974. 103 pages. 25 x 31. Copy 69 of 100. Volume VI. Published in the summer of 1974 by the Consorzio del Vino Classico, two thousand copies, 1500 in Italian and 500 in English, numbered 1/1-100 to xx/100-100. Roman numerals correspond to the reference number of the original lithograph contained in each volume. This copy contains the original lithograph - Houses at La Volpia. Each separate lithograph has been printed by hand on a stellar press at the ateliers of Il Bisonte. Four parts: 1. Homage to Chianti by Carlo Betocchi 2. Chianti Past and Present by Giuseppe Conti 3. Seven plates in colour by Nino Tirinnanzi 4. Twenty plates in black-and-white by Nino Tirinnanzi. Owners gift presentation on half title page. Crisp, clean copy. Slip case toned, expertly repaired and intact. Housed in custom made acid free portfolio. Green illustrated cardboard wraps. Very good, in good slip case. Cardboard covers. $575.00

The Joy of Cooking

Rombauer, Irma S. A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. St. Louis, Mo.: Rombauer/A.C. Clayton Printing Co., 1931. First Edition. 395 pages. 20 x 14 cm. After the suicide of her husband in 1930, during the first years of the Great Depression, Irma Rombauer, a St. Louis host and housewife, cobbled together a cookbook, illustrated by her daughter Marion. Since that original edition, the book has become one of the best-selling cookbooks of all time. Crisp interior, binding cracked but holding. Original pebbled blue boards. Very good. Hardcover. $2,750.00