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We sell Rare Books, Ephemera, and Manuscripts with a focus on Food & Drink History, Women's History, Cultural History, Children's Books, and anything else that makes us smile.

We are happy to help you start a collection, buy a gift for a loved one, or add to your present holdings. Most of our stock is online, but please reach out if you do not find what you are looking for - we have a LOT of stock uncatalogued, and would be thrilled to find a home for a book, picture, poster, or manuscript that is waiting to be uploaded.

The BarTender's Guide

Thomas, Jerry. The BarTender's Guide A Complete Cycolpaedia of Plan and Fancy Drinks. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1862. First Edition, Third Printing. 244 pages. 19 x 13.5 cm. A first for the United States, this guide codified what was then an oral tradition of recipes from the early days of cocktails. Includes all of the high points in mixology including Thomas' signature drink, the "Blue Blazer," which involved lighting whiskey afire and passing it back and forth between tow mixing glasses, creating an arc of flames. Jerry, aka, "The Professor" Thomas - as he is known, was the most celebrated bartender of the time. Original $2.50 price on cover. Owners signature - in German - on front free end paper. Expertly rebacked. Some foxing and light stains to interior. Green embossed boards, illustration and title in gilt. Very good. Hardcover.

$8,000.00

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[FRENCH] [WINE] [ART] Lists Des Grands Vins - 33 Vols.

Établissements Nicolas Maison Fondée en 1822. [FRENCH] [WINE] [ART] Lists Des Grands Vins - 33 Vols. Complete Set with 6 Wine Lists & 2 Pieces of Promotional Material Laid in. Paris: Nicolas, 1929 - 1973. 1st Printing. Collection of thirty-five lavishly produced wine catalogs issued by the famous wine merchant Établissements Nicolas Maison from 1929 to 1973. The catalogs are issues in three variant formats. This collection represents the complete set of catalogs published by Nicolas, all protected by modern mylar. In the years 1937, 1940-1948, 1952 and 1968 no catalogs were published. Design by Alfred Latour and, starting in 1966, by his son Jean Latour. All issues printed by Drager Frères.

This collection contains the rare catalogs of 1929 (showing a tipsy bottle of wine printed in gold, framed with red type), 1930, 1931 and 1972. Nicolas' catalogs were illustrated and designed by famous artists and typographers, e.g. A.M. Cassandre, Georges Darcy, Paul Iribe, Louis Legrand, Henri Fantin-Latour, Demetrios Galanis, André Diginimont, Bernard Buffet, roger Chapelain-Midy, Francois Kollar, Bernard Lorjou, Kees van Dongen and others. The illustrations are rendered in different techniques, including screen printing, lithography, photomontage and four color printing.

The catalog for 1972, the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Nicolas, entitled "The Genius of Wine" was published in honor of the "Wines of France." It is illustrated with thirteen gouaches by André Derain, rendered lithographically. Printed by Draiger Frères in Montrouge on September 29, 1972, and presented by Thierry Maulnier of the Academy Francais.

For full descriptions of individual catalogs, please contact info@lizzyoungbookseller.com. [3565]

$3,700.00

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The Joy of Cooking

Rombauer, Irma S. & Marion Rombauer Becker - Adapted for use in England By M. Baron Russell. The Joy of Cooking A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with an Occasional Culinary Chat. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1957. 902 pages. 22 x 15 cm. After the suicide of her husband in 1930, Irma Rombauer cobbled together a cookbook, illustrated by her daughter Marion. By 1936 the Bobbs-Merrill Company agreed to publish the expanded version, keeping the narrative style later known as the "action method", in which ingredients are called for within the recipe. This Revised, British Edition of The Joy of Cooking includes additional chapters on Pressure Cooking, Deep Freezing, and the Electric Blender. Presentation on front free end paper: "To Mrs. Gordine (?) With every good wish from Gladys & Hedley Atkins, Christmas 1960" - (Sir Hedley John Barnard Atkins 1905-1983) Boards and interior crisp and clean, dust wrapper foxed with closed tears to spine. Covered in protective mylar. Blue illustrated cloth covered boards. Near fine, in good dust wrapper. Hardcover. [3502]

$300.00

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GERMAN COOKBOOK] [MANUSCRIPT] Illustrirtes Kock-Notis-Buch for gute Hausfrauen

[GERMAN COOKBOOK] [MANUSCRIPT] Illustrirtes Kock-Notis-Buch for gute Hausfrauen. Leipzig: J.G. Bach, 1887-1930. Unpaginated. 18.5 x 13.5 cm.Translation: Illustrated Cooking Notebook for Good Housewives. Illustrated notebook filled with handwritten recipes - two separate hands. Dates indicate this was used between the years 1887 to 1930. Four separate handwritten recipes laid in along with a hand written letter in what seems to be a different language. This motto appears on title page:

To a household small and fine

Have I been employed,

Which with certainly please my boyfriend

Covers rubbed, interior lightly toned. Text in German. Brown boards, embossed with gilt. Very good. Hardcover.

$250.00

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Bread Poems My Quarantine in 18 Breads

Katie King. Bread Poems My Quarantine in 18 Breads. Palo Alto, CA: United States of America Copy Factory, 2020. 25 pages. 22 x 14 cm. A collection from a poet who used the walk from her home to the local bakery to stay sane during the thick of Covid as well as enjoy delicious treats. These poems are an exploration of great feelings as equally as an appreciation of small joys, and begs to ask the question: Does toffee actually taste good? New, unused copies. Tape bound. Fine. Paperback.

$25.00

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PHYSIOLOGIE DU GOUT PRÉCÉDÉE D'UNE NOTICE PAR ALPH. KARR.

Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. Paris: Furne et Cie, LIBRAIRES-ÉDITEURS, 1864. 460 pages. 26.5 x 17.5 cm. Second printing of this edition, Paris, 1864, which was originally published, Paris 1848 (First edition 1826). Engraved frontispiece and six engraved plates as well as numerous wood engravings. This time-honored gastronomic classic is less a discourse on cuisine or culinary arts - the genius is the authors entertaining analysis of casual conversation and doctrines, observations and anecdotes of every kind that may complement the pleasures of the table. Brillat-Savarin, the man who gave us the expression - "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are" - was already an old man when he published (1825), at his own expense for an audience of friends, the one book for which he would be remembered. During his lifetime, he had been neither a man of letters nor a cook, as is often thought, but a provincial lawyer who rose to become a judge of the appeals court in Paris. He died at seventy a few months after the publication of his masterpiece. Text in French. Original wrappers preserved. Interior clean. Corners rubbed. [CAGLE 99]. Quarter bound, marble paper covered boards, spine decorated in gilt. Very good. Hardcover. [3260]

$250.00

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[BEER] [CYCLING] List of best European Cyclists

DAMM. Cervezas DAMM. c. 1957. 16 x 17 cm. (Opened) Folding illustrated beer glass accompanied by a list of the 101 best European Cyclists, listed by their last name and their team - including (1) Jesús Loroño and (2) Miguel Poblet. Damm beer is from a Spanish brewery located in Barcelona. Clean copy. Color illustrated paper. Near fine. Loose_leaf.

$40.00

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Il Cuoco Francese

la Varenne. OVE E INSEGNATA La maniera di condire ogni sorte di Viuande, E di fare ogni sorte di patticcierie, e di Confetti, Conforme le quartro Stagioni dell'Anno. Bologna: per il Longhi, 1693. Second Edition. (4) 544 pages. 14.5 x 8 cm. In three sections, continuously paginated - conforming to the four seasons of the year. Originally published in 1651, in French, this cookbook was a hit in Italy - enormously influential all around Europe. La Varenne is regarded as the founding father of modern, French cooking with his departure from the earlier style of heavily spice cooking to one that was based on natural flavors. Book plate of Dr. Georg Freund on paste-down endpaper. Owner's handwriting, crossed out, on half title page, as well as Drexel stamp and blue colored marker. A Berlin library stamp, in red, on title page. Clean copy, with small closed tear (repaired) to page 329. Half bound vellum with marbled boards. Very good. Hardcover.

$2,850.00

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