FOOD/WINE from Houle Rare Books & Autographs

First edition (?) Octavo. There is no frontispiece. Original gilt stamped blue cloth. No dust jacket. Very good (spine faded). 294 pages + 10 pages of ads, two of which feature works by Mark Twain. No signatures or bookplates. This work appeared in at least three period bindings. This binding appears to be the third, as it is the plainest. Printed by… Read more about this item

Third edition, revised and expanded. Thick octavo. Original white pictorial cloth stamped in black, marbled edges. Illustrated with two full page color plates; eight full page sepia tone plates; and over 30 smaller b/w illustrations. No dust jacket. Good. 597 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Brown #1734 (1892 edition 573 pages). Includes a chapter on beverages. This edition with an added chapter… Read more about this item

First edition. Octavo. 2 page introduction. Original yellow cloth. Pictorial dust jacket (unclipped with $4.50 price). Very good (minor rubbing; few chips and nicks). 386 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Over 1,100 recipes. Noling page 129. Small bookseller label.

Third edition (so stated; "August, 1931"). Octavo. 3 page introduction by Will Rogers. Illustrations; advertisements. Original white pictorial cloth stamped in black by Vivian V. Robeson (light soiling to back cover), else fine. 239 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by the Beverly Hills Citizen. Brown 163. Bitting p. 550. Contributors include: Eddie Cantor; Ramon Novarro; Clara… Read more about this item

London, Bell & Daldy, 1871.. Third edition, with additions and corrections (so stated). 8vo. Engraved frontispiece "Relics of the Boar's Head." Woodcuts and diagrams/charts in the text. 440 pages + 14 pages of publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth stamped in blind (spine lacking). Good. No signatures or bookplates.. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Good.

New York, GMG Publishing/Parents Magazine Enterprises, 1982., 1982. First edition thus ("New Presidential Edition"). 4to. Preface by Margaret Brown Klapthor. Introductory notes by Helen Duprey Bullock and Celia G. Segal. Illustrated with 170 color photographs by Otto Maya; over 80 color portraits; numerous b/w illustrations; color pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine. 237 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.… Read more about this item

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1942., 1942. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket (unclipped; short tear). Very good. 284 pages + 17 page index.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

[London] Elm Tree Books [1974]., 1974. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Foreword by Hugh MacDairmid. Illustrated in color and b/w halftones; chapter illustrations by D.A. Mckay. Index of recipes. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine. 122 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. [1984]., 1984. First edition. Square 4to. Edited by Darlene Geis. Foreword by Maynard A. Amerine. Introduction by Robert F. Erburu. Illustrated with over 400 color and b/w photographs; 1 color map. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine. 272 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Los Angeles, The Zamorano Club, 1964., 1964. 4to. 8 facsimile illustrations; text designs by Marion Kornfeld. Original 1/2 tan cloth over pictorial brown boards with printed paper label on the spine. Very good. One of 150 copies printed by the Plantin Press for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe Club and the Zamorano Club (so stated on tipped in bookplate)..… Read more about this item

Boston, The Page Company Publishers [1917, 1909]., 1917. First edition, third printing (so stated; "April, 1917"). 8vo. Original brown pictorial cloth stamped in red, black and cream signed "AS" with a design of a couple and their dog at the dinner table. Very good. 268 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1960 [1959]., 1960. First American edition. 8vo. Decorations and endpapers by Harold Freedman. Dust jacket (price clipped). Very good. 208 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Dictionary/glossary of wine, brandy and other spirits. Printed by the Aldine Press.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York, M. Barrows and Co., 1952., 1952. First edition, first printing (so stated: "October, 1952"). 8vo. Dust jacket (unclipped; few nicks). Very good. 192 pages. No signatures or bookplates. First book ever published on curry dishes, containing 178 curry recipes from around the world (not solely limited to India).. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Berkeley, Ten Speed Press [2000]., 2000. First edition, first printing (so stated). 8vo. Illustrations from b/w photographs and sketches; pictorial endpapers. Pictorial dust jacket designed by Campana Design (unclipped). Fine. 224 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Marilyn Lewis on the title page in black ink: "To Irene and David Karney: We go back a long… Read more about this item

New York, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949., 1949. First American edition (from English sheets). Small 4to. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Very good. 264 pages. No dust jacket.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London, Faber and Faber [1969]., 1969. First edition (so stated). 8vo. About 10 b/w vignettes by the author. Glossary. Dust jacket (price clipped). Very good. 168 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Small bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

London, Michael Joseph, 1969., 1969. First edition. Tall 8vo. Frontispiece b/w photograph. Bibliography. Dust jacket (price clipped; few nicks). Very good. 182 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by the Curwen Press.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1948 [1938]., 1948. New edition, ("April, 1948") revised and edited by Crosby Gaige. Editor's introduction; chapter 5 "American Wines" by Frank Schoonmaker. 5 color plates by Nancy Dyer. Glossaries. Dust jacket (price clipped). Very good. 342 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1934., 1934. 8vo. Frontispiece and 50 illustrations. Original pictorial olive cloth stamped in white and black with a maid standing in the foreground, a table and a buffet in the background (light foxing at edges). Very good. 184 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. An attractive pictorial cloth binding.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.… Read more about this item

New York, Atheneum, 1971., 1971. First edition (so stated). 8vo. 3 page introduction by James Beard. Dust jacket designed by Muni Lieblein (unclipped). Fine. 239 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.