Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. Later printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 4to, 378pp. Dust jacket has some minor shelf wear and a few very small scuffs along the edges. Fabulous recipes from the length and breadth of Mexico. Not just the tacos and tamales that we all recognize, but exquisite fish..... More
Bristol Park Books, 1996. Appears third edition. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 369pp. Light shelfwear. Lo provides simple step-by-step instructions for preparing more than 600 Chinese dishes ftrom steamed noodles and Chinese curried chicken to Nanking salt duck and braised fish balls using utensils and ingredients that are easily accessible. There..... More
Ten Speed Press, 1986. Later printing. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 511pp. Shows light shelf wear, rem mark on bottom edge. Used but not abused. Pages 169-172 has some damp wrinkling. (It's the soup section, maybe clear broth or water?) which does not impair the text at all. A complete cookbook..... More
David R Godine Pub, 1985. First revised and updated edition from 1970. Hardcover. Cleaqn, tight 8vo, 295pp. Very light shelfwear and a couple of tiny edge chips to the dust jacket. A classic cookbook, completely revised and sensibly arranged. The food and wines, herbs and sauces are arranged by the..... More
Ten Speed Press, 1986. All new tenth anniversary edition. Hardback. Clean, tight 4to, 511pp. The front of the dust jacket has a neatly repaired closed tear with fold wrinkles and a few small chips across the top and bottom (in Mylar), price clipped. A complete cookbook and reference work for..... More
New York: William Morrow Cookbooks, 1995. First edition, 4th printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight, heavy 4to, 457pp. A baking book with pictures that make the pastries look so good you want to bite the photos. The author, one of America's preeminent bakers and baking teachers leads cooks through the simple art..... More
New York: Broadway, 1991. Later printing. Softcover. Clean, tight, heavy 4to, 497pp. Very light shelf wear. An award winning collection of more than 500 recipes reflecting the culinary diversity of the City by the Bay. Includes menus, beverages, appetizers, soups, salads & dressings, eggs & cheese, pasta and rice, vegetables..... More
Ten Speed Press, 1983. First edition. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 160pp. Very light shelf wear and the top front tip is scuffed. More than 100 traditional African recipes adapted for the modern cook from all corners of the Dark Continent; Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Morocco,Egypt, and to the countries where..... More
Ithaca, New York: Ten Speed Press, 1977. First edition. Softcover. Clean, tight 4to, 227pp. A small triangular water wrinkle on the first few page, top front tip, doesn't affect text. Very light shelf wear. A small book plate on the verso of the front cover. An adaptation for home use..... More
New York: Broadway, 1997. Second printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight, heavy 4to, 742pp. The 1,400 recipes in this book can be prepared if you are a vegetarian, if you are a vegan, you can cook most of them. If you'll eat most anything that won't eat you first, you can cook..... More
Toronto/New York: Bantam, 1987. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Clean tight 8vo, 396pp. Dust jacket has some shelf wear and a few tiny chips along the edges, one finger print on the bottom inside flap. The book has the matching fingerprint on the bottom ffe and a dollar-size grease spot on the..... More
Hardcover. New York, Grammercy Publishing, 1962, 1st edition. Clean, tight 8vo, 234pp. Dust jacket is somewhat shelf worn with chips along the top and bottom edges. Book has slight bumping to bottom of spine. The philosophy and art of over twenty-two centuries of Oriental cooking written inpractical terms for the..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap Publ. 1949. Louis Jambor. Special Edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 338pp. The book is near fine but the dust jacket, though in excellent shape otherwise, was printed on fragile, postwar paper and has a few chips and tiny tears, especially on the edges and the..... More
Oregon: Urion Press, 1974. First edition was in 1914, this is a facsimilie reprint. Softcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 295pp. Very slight shelf wear to cover. Many photographs. The author has given both sides of the story of the Modoc War in the Lava Beds near Tule Lake and Mt. Shasta..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 1995. Later printing. Softcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 511pp. Very slight soiling of the bottom edge at the bottom tip. If you live in a funny-named place in the U.S. and you always wanted to know why it was called that, this is the book..... More
Minnesota: Herter's, 1968. Later printing. Hardcover. Clean tight 8vo 352pp with Herter's usual gold faux leather board cover. Some light soiling and a light bumping to the spine bottom. Herter has put down some of the recipes of old world cooks who taught the other cooks his country cooking secrets..... More
Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 2003. Hardcover. Claean, tight 8vo, 305pp. Features many of Muybridges previously unseen photographs. Eadweard Muybridge's photographs might be said to have ushered in the the latter half of the American 19th century. He was the proto-inventor of motion pictures. The book weaves together biography, history, and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 339pp. Dust jacket is price clipped and has two small chips out of the top of the to spine edge. Book is very lightly bumped on the bottom of the spine. In 1851 San Francisco, California was a lawless..... More
New York: Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight, lightly faded 8vo, 241pp. Dust jacket is lightly shelf worn with a couple of short, closed tears to the top edge at the spine and one small v-shaped open tear on the back top edge. Price..... More
San Francisco: Not given, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Scarce~ Clean, tight, faded blue cloth 8vo, 187pp. Back bottom tip is lightly bumped, spine ends are lightly bumped and very lightly scuffed. The only real flaw is that there is a short closed tear to the bottom 1/2" of the "Illustrations"..... More
Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Historical Foundation, 1978. First edition. Softcover. Clean, tight tall 8vo, 210pp, light shelfwear and one tiny chip to the center of the back edge. The story of the Wells Fargo stage lines; Wells Fargo in Arizona and Ho for the Colorado. Opening the frontier, an imrpudent enterprise..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1957. Written in1905 by Tibbles, first published in 1957. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 336pp. Dust jacket shows mild shelf wear and a few very small scuffs. D. J. lightly rubbed along part of the spine gutter on the back cover. Book is mildly bumped on the bottom..... More
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1953. First edition, 197 copies printed by Wm. M. Cheney. Hardcover. Clean, tight, 12mo, 20pp, each copy signed by Cheney. Cover is slightly shelf worn, otherwise near fine except for a small, neat f.o. name plate on the top tip of the front pastedown. This gentleman..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. first edition ; first printing. Hardcover. Clean, tight 8vo, 462pp. Very light shelf wear. would be near fine except for the very light bump at the base of the spine. Gen. George Armstrong Custer, (1840-1876). A careful and truthful examination of one of the..... More
British Columbia: Greystone Books, 2000. first edition. Hardcover. Clean, tight oblong 8vo, 105pp. The dust jacket shows some minor scuffs and scrapes but no tears. Book has very light 'bend' lines along the spine gutter. There were, maybe, 40,000 young migrant workers at the close of the 19th century who..... More