![TOBACCO] The Strawberry; Manufactured from the finest Connecticut Seed Tobacco](/pictures/thumb/1649.jpg?v=1556632823)
Loose_leaf. 17 x 13 cm. c. 1900 Color lithograph cigar label. Depicting a pair of mice pulling a carriage with two cigar smoking goblins. F.W. printed on carraige - Fred Wambach, 19th Century cigar maker. More
![ART] [POETRY] Just. Erik Benjamins](/pictures/thumb/1430.jpg?v=1601224927)
Erik Benjamins, 2012. Second Edition. Paperback. 187 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Signed, in pencil, by artist/author on title page. Initially published in conjunction with artwork - MFA Thesis, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A study of the senses focusing on social rituals and meal-making and meal-sharing..... More
![ART] LE TECHNIQUE. EMILY JENNE](/pictures/thumb/2025.jpg?v=1569690607)
2016. Sewn binding. 22 x 14 cm. Limited edition 1 of 26. Signed on the colophon by the artist. Le Technique is a collection of satirical essays under the guise of being a cookbook. Picking the upturned nose of the highbrow, exploring new depths of lowbrow and generally making mischief..... More
![ART] [FOOD] [PHOTOGRAPHY] Salami; Text by Gerard Oberle. Hans Gissinger](/pictures/thumb/1927.jpg?v=1576790463)
Phonecia, New York: Woodstock, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 194 pages. Folio, with 58 full page color plates. Limited edition of 500 copies (#129/500), signed by Hans Gissinger. Text in French and English. Amusing series of essays by Oberle accompanied by 58 provocative "portraits" of exceptional cured meats. Marbles edges. More
London: Darton, Harvey, & Co., 1816. Hardcover. 265 pages. 23 x 14.5 cm. An in-depth look at the friction between state governments and the gypsy population. Hoyland, a (lapsed?) Quaker, was particularly concerned with the problem of educating gypsy children. Some speculate that Hoyland fell in love with a "black-eyed..... More
![MODELING] [CHILDREN] [PHOTOGRAPHY] Modeling Portfolio. Jacqueline Eigen, Jackie](/pictures/thumb/1756.jpg?v=1571345224)
Chicago: late 1950's, early 1960's. 17 black and white photographs inserted in contemporary portfolio (1 loose), with news clipping laid in - Saturday, August 9, 1958. Daughter of radio and television personality, Jack Eigen, Jacqueline Eigen was a child model. News clipping details the burgeoning career of the then 5-year-old..... More
![WOMEN] [ART] Paintings of Illustrations of WOMEN AT WORK; READY - TO - USE. Maia Ruth Lee](/pictures/thumb/2001.jpg?v=1568919411)
New York: Peradam, 2017. First Edition. Staplebound. 24 pages. Limited edition, 1 of 200. Maia Ruth Lee was born in Busan, Korea, and is presently in this year's Whitney Biennial. From Printed Matter: "The paintings in this book reproduce designs originally created by Charles Horgath and published in Women at..... More
Paris: Vada Retro, 1992. First French Edition. Hardcover. 35 x 28 cm. Text in French. Spiral bound aluminum stamped and die cut covers with serial number embossed on lower edge of rear panel as issued. Original mylar sleeve neatly opened, with audio CD in unopened mylar sleeve, and bound in..... More
![EDUCATION] Coffee; The Story of a Good Neighbor Product. Pan-American Coffee Bureau](/pictures/thumb/2305.jpg?v=1606402683)
New York: Pan-American Coffee Bureau, 1957. Staplebound. 24 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Pan-American Coffee Bureau's marketing campaign targeting the up and coming generation of coffee drinkers. Includes History, Coffee Customs in Latin America, The Plantation, The Coffee Plant, Coffee Production, and Preparation. Part II furnishes learning projects and assignments..... More
New York: North Point Press, 2008. Paperback. 257 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Rosenthal shares the experience of learning his trade: the friendships, the adventures, and the challenge of convincing others to love what he loves. Introducing the reader to his growers and their land - we travel with Rosenthal..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana Strate University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 185 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, sugar in France was still a luxury commodity imported in small quantities and consumed only by the very rich. By the time of the revolution, sugar was so popular..... More
Boston: H.M. Caldwell, 1905. Hardcover. 128 pages. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. Filled to the brim with rib-tickling wordplay regarding booze while lampooning the temperance movement. Covers rubbed at corners. More
London: Casell, Petter, Galpin & Co., c. 1881. Hardcover. vii, 184 pp. Author of British Popular Customs, and English Folk-lore, Thiselton-Dyer notes in the Preface the importance of studying "Folk-Lore" as no easy task, "as school boards and railways are fast sweeping away every vestige of the old beliefs and..... More
![JAPAN] [RELIGION] Glimpses. Women's Work Committee of the Japan Lutheran Mission](/pictures/thumb/2152.jpg?v=1587672326)
Kumamoto, Japan: Women's Work Committee of the Japan Lutheran Mission, 1934. Sewn binding. 31 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. Decorative translucent booklet regarding the Janice James School, built at the foot of Mt. Tatsuda in Kumamoto City on land purchased in 1921. Describing the history of mission work in Japan..... More
New York: Artisan, 2018. Paperback original. 214 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Forward by René Redzepi. Nineteen thoughtful and engaging essays and stories make the case that we should think about cuisine as a collective human effort. "An awful lot of attention is paid to the differences and distinctions between..... More