[SHEET MUSIC] MOONLIGHT COCKTAIL; Introduced and Recorded by GLENN MILLER and his Orchestra
New York: Jewel Music Publishing Co., Inc., 1942. Loose_leaf. 5 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Light rubbing to cover. Interior pages lightly toned. More
New York: Jewel Music Publishing Co., Inc., 1942. Loose_leaf. 5 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Light rubbing to cover. Interior pages lightly toned. More
New York: Kendis & Paley, 1911. Sheet_music. 5 pages. 33 x 27 cm. Closed tears to cover. Partially disbound. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. Hardcover. 257 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. This moving memoir that explores the authors life from birth in the Deep South still living out the legacy of the Civil War to her historic role in desegregating the University of Georgia - a story of..... More
Périgueux, France: Imprimerie Ronteix, 1954. Staplebound. Unpaginated [17pp.] Title: Extract from the General Catalog of all-purpose Labels for Canned Goods - Collection of "Cooking Dishes" labels. French colorful trade catalog with an emphasis on canned food products. Merchandise includes Cassoulet, Tripe, Foie Gras, Patés, and more. A signed, typed letter..... More
Greenwillow Books, 2001. Paul O. Zelinsky. First Edition. Hardcover. 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..... More
Boston: John F. Murphy, c, 1890. Staplebound. 30 pages. Photographic views of Martha's Vineyard - Oak Bluffs, the Tabernacle, Gay Head, numerous Hotels and beaches, & Nantucket - Athenaeum, numerous Hotels and city scapes, Church and Bank buildings, and many more. Separated from cover wraps, staples holding. Interior clean, wraps..... More
Portsmouth, NH: Magee Ranges and Stoves, Glenwood Ranges and Stoves, Portsmouth Heating & Plumbing Co., 1893-1905. 10 invoices. This collection of invoices from three kitchen furnishing dealers, all in Portsmouth, NH around the turn of the 20th century, ranges in date from 1893-1905. They are billed to a number of..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 336 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. The iconic, passionate novel that explored some totally new territory - a highly sexual intellectual woman, a writer, and the craziness and misery of the war between the mind and the body. Interior..... More
Paris: Pellet, 1930. Wraps. 283 pages. 24 x 20 cm. Limited edition #157 of 250 copies. Frontispiece by Edouard Vuillard, 24 lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec. This book, both a food memoir as well as a homage to the pleasures of life - refers to fellow gastronomic voyagers who came of age..... More
Shelburn, VT: Shelburne Museum, 2003. Large Paperback. 140 pages. 27.5 x 21 cm. Fully illustrated. The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont has one of the largest and best-quality bedcover collections in the United States. This book highlights 100 masterpiece quilts, most of them made between 1800 and 1900. Interior pristine..... More
Pasadena, California: Mary Craig Sinclair, ND (c. 1926). Hardcover. 151 pages. 17.5 x 12 cm. A collection of letters to and from Kate Crane-Gartz, organized and edited by Mary Craig Sinclair. Kate Crane-Gartz was an activist who helped found the American Civil Liberties Union, the Pasadena Playhouse and the Pasadena..... More
Palo Alto, CA: United States of America Copy Factory, 2020. Paperback. 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..... More
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1964. First Edition. 166 pages. 28 x 22.5 cm. Early American founders of iron were highly instrumental in the country's national independence. Documenting the craft of blacksmiths, whitesmiths, farriers, edge toolmakers, cutlers, locksmiths, gunsmiths, nailers, wheelwrights, and tinsmiths. Board and interior pristine. Dust wrapper and..... More
Madras: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 215 pages. Presentation copy - Signed by the author on the half title page. Black and white photo of the author pasted in on the rear of the frontispiece - also, a New York Times article from May 21, 1944, taped to..... More
United States of America: 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 16 x 14.5. Mr. Mushroom lives under a… (What do you think?) Mushroom, of course! In this story we meet Mr. Mushroom and Miss Mite, whom Mr. Mushroom thinks is quite pretty. They decide to get married and throw..... More
Philadelphia: J. J. Woodward, 1829. Hardcover. 546 pages. 22.5 x 14 cm. If one wants to live off the grid, this is the book for you. This book literally has EVERYTHING under one cover, including, How to make any type of paint, paper hanging, dying, brewing, distillation, engraving, wines, cookery..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. First Edition. Cloth binding. Unpaginated. 21.5 x 16.5 cm. Lena is a dachsund that belongs to a couple of children. The children are sad that Lena cannot accompany them on various adventures, but Lena is more than happy to go to the park with..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1997. Hardcover. 63 pages. 17.5 x 13.5 cm. Cod spans a thousand years and four continents. It tells of the extraordinary Basques, who first commercialized cod in medieval times; of Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602; and of Clarence Birdseye, who founded an..... More
1992. 4 pages, printed on both sides. 75 x 55 cm. Four separate sheets - large format. This is the original publisher's color test for the Comic/Zine that accompanied Madonna's memorable SEX book. In this Zine, Madonna impersonates one the of the characters in Andy Warhol's iconic 1966 movie The..... More
Mentel Bros. Pub. Co., 1913. Sheet_music. 5 pages. 13 in. x 10.5. in. Closed tear at spine reinforced with tape in interior otherwise crisp and clean. More
Berkeley: The Jargon Society Ten Speed Press, 1986. Spiral_bound. 134 pages. 23 x 19 cm. The late cookbook author Barbara Kafka says it all when she wrote: "WHITE TRASH COOKING is a marvelous and genuine book - not camp - because it sees clearly, without condescension. The food goes from..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Henry C. Pitz. First Edition. Hardcover. 118 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. A series of short stories about a young girl who enjoys making shoo-fly with her mother, going to the market, and talking to her pop. There are detailed illustrations, including some in..... More
Budapest: 1970. Hardcover. Unpaginated. [12 pp.] 17.5 x 23 cm. Shaped, board book featuring a bunny and all his forest friends. Brightly and colorfully illustrated throughout. Pages and covers toned. Covers rubbed. Text in Hungarian. More
New York: APERTURE, 1987. Large format paperback. Unpaginated. 29 x 24.5 cm. Nearly ninety photographs contributed penetrating images of mothers and their daughters - women of every shape, hue and social station. The result is an emotional mosaic of depth and detail. Along with these images the writers add insight..... More
A.VIALON, 1858. Loose_leaf. 3 pages. 34 x 26 cm. Black and white lithograph illustration of a traveling Cocoa salesman and his customers. Sheet music for piano. Light foxing to cover, otherwise clean. Text in French. More