Ring_bound. Minneapolis, Minnesota; Pillsbury Flour Mills Company, 1933. Clean tight aluminum case with 11-ring binder inside, 8vo size. Tabs for each type of food intact, minor shelf wear. Metal cover has some scratches and a bit of the paint on the title medallion is scuffed (see photos). Ames was a.... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997 & 2001. Both first editions softcover. Softcover. Two clean, tight-bound square 4tos, 424pp & 471pps. Very slight shelf wear only. Sold as a set. Price is for both. The best of the best recipes from the food section of the San Francisco Chronicle, one of... More
Hardcover. 1979, 1st edition, Orbis Publ., London (Times Books) 0812908260. Clean, tight, tall 8vo, 1914pp, very slight shelf wear. An excellent anthology about the colonization of countless isolated and independent societies in Africa, America and Australasia. A wide selection of these natives' responses to the arrival of the first Europeans... More
New Jersey: Morning Sun Books, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Tall, thin 4to, 128pp. More
Hardcover. London; George Routledge & Sons, 1888, 2nd edition. Tight 8vo, gilded edges, 398pp, first few and last few are very lightly foxed. Cover is very light concave. Spine slightly sun tanned. Some extraordinary illustrations by John Pedder, H. Sheppard Dale, George Bicham, and the author. A well written, not-at-all... More
London: Angus & Robertson, 1970, 2nd printing, 0207952469. Hardcover, 8vo, 168pp, index, biblio. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket has a couple of closed tears to edges, price clipped. Ex-private library with pocket and stamp, the usual mild library atrocities. The story of the wild and wooly... More
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight tall 8vo, 333pp. Dust jacket shows some shelf wear and very minor soiling. According to Craig Claiborne, this book is the most comprehensive book of Asian cooking ingredients ever published in English. If you sometimes go to the... More
Hardcover. Virginia, Nevada (now called Virginia City), F. Boegle Bookseller & Stationer, 1889, first edition. Clean tight 12mo in an orange cloth cover, 158pp. Appears to have been rebound at some point. Title page and page158 (last page) have had some sophisticated repair of tears, a small closed horizontal tear... More
Reno, Nevada, Great Basin Press, 1976. No. 233 of 300 signed copies, first limited edition. Six 8" x 7" very nice, detailed pen and ink drawings, suitable for framing, in a clean, tight folding portfolio, of the Virginia and Truckee (V&T) Railroad engines, depots and cars. The author was a.... More
Virginia: TLC Publishing, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Tall, thin 4to, 128pp. More
Hardcover. London: John Murray, 1963, 1st edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 174pp, spine is faded. Ex-private library with pocket and stamp, not the usual library atrocities. Written by the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame, this book speaks to the author's journey in the area of the... More
New York: Dodd-Mead, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 269pp, price clipped dust jacket. In less than 50 years, the steamboats traversed from the Ohio River to the Pacific Coast, delivering produce and gold seekers, trade goods and settlers to various parts of the country. A fascinating history. More
Hardcover. Boston; Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1956, 1st edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 239pp. Dust jacket has a v-shaped open tear to the top of the front edge and a smaller tear to the bottom edge. The Dust jacket is lightly soiled and the back is tanned around... More
Hardcover. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1876, 5th edition. Clean, tight bound 8vo, 355pp. Tips, head and tail of spine are bumped and scuffed. Green cover is somewhat faded with some rubbing to spine gutter. One of several volumes by Field and his niece and traveling companion, who traveled around... More
Softcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003, first UMP edition. Clean, tight 4to. The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series. The history of the railway that serviced the nation's largest iron ore deposits in Minnesota. In the 1880s and 1890s the Duluth and Iron Range, and the Duluth, Missabe and Northern... More
New York & London: Hermes House, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Large, heavy, 12" tall folio. The golden age of steam locomotives, the landmark engines, the railway pioneers and the great train journeys all represented in one beautiful book full of color photos. An historical reference and a world encyclopedia of... More
Hardcover. London, Century, first edition, 1995. Clean, tight 8vo, 182pp. Good photo section. However, it would be fine except the paper is lightly tanning. Dust jacket has very minor shelf wear. No tears or chips. Historic detective, Phillips, discovered an astonishing confirmation of Robert Vernon's early 1600s claim that the... More
Hardcover. London, J.B. Lippincott, 1935, first English language edition. Clean, tight, scarce, 8vo, 308pp, deckled front edge. 16 illustrations and 1 map. Written as the result of a first ethnographic and linguistic mission, which was followed up by scientific tomes. This was written for the general public and is very... More
Hardcover. Tennessee, Phila Hach, 1981, Second revised printing. Clean, tight 8vo, 158pp. Some bumping to bottome of spine, slight scuff to front top tip. 600 International and Appalachian Southern recipes. If you are looking for great recipes, this is not the book for you, but if you collect World's Fair... More
1942, 1st edition, Bobbs-Merrill. B, fat 8vo, 520pp, VG/VG for age, but some bumping to bottom of spine, d.j. has several small, open tears and one medium-size piece missing at the bottom edge of the spine and front. In Mylar cover. A book about the whole range of the business... More
Ames, Iowa: Iowa State Pr, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Clean tight, 8vo, 172pp, light bump to bottom of spinel. The story of one of the most fascinating, prominent frontier journalists and his career which paralleled the adventure and opportunity sought by the trappers, land sepeculators, settlers, and others during the... More
Softcover. Los Angeles, California; International Publishing Co., 1914. A collectible booklet from the International Cooking Library. Tight bound 12mo, 64pp. The wraps are in poor condition around the edges with numerous chips and cracks but the book is quite good condition. More
Grand Canyon: Hualapai Ethnobotany Project, Not given. First edition. Softcover. Clean, tight, spiral-bound 4to. Light shelf wear and one very small chip to top of spine edge. A very scarce cookbook of fascinating recipes of the Hualapai Tribe from Northwestern Arizona. Includes lots of ways to cook cacti, game and... More
Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. First annotated edition. Hardcover. Fairly scarce in this condition. Clean, tight 8vo, 424pp. Numerous prints and photos. Jacket has some shelf wear and chipping to edges, light rubbing. Price clipped. Green cloth cover is lightly bumped at spine tail. The marvelous adventures of one... More
2002, 1st thus ed., Barnes & Noble. HB, tall 8vo, 555pp, VG/VG with very minor shelf wear, clean and tight. An excellent A-to-Z description of 2,000 favorite flowers, veggies, shrubs, trees and houseplants with good photos and/or illustrations and info about each plant. Excellent gift for a gardener. More