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Paris: Au Bureau du Dictionnaire Général de Cuisine, 1839. First edition. Full marbled leather, gilt spine titles and decorations, marbled endpapers. Published Paris: Au Bureau du Dictionnaire Général de Cuisine, 1839. Large 8vo., 6 3/4" x 10", 635pp., comprising 3 sections - Dictionnaire de la Cuisine Française; Recueil des Menus; Pharmacie Domestique, ou Recueil des Recettes Medicales. Title page lacking, text complete, pages clean and bright with no markings or foxing. Light spill outline to top margin of of several sets of leaves, else very good internally. Binding tight, leather strong, rubbed at the tips. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston (playwrights) New York: Lincoln Center Theater, 1991. Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) poster, USA. Artwork by James McMullen. Archivally mounted on artboard, FINE. Due to an acrimonious falling out between Hughes and Hurston, it took six decades for this play about African American life in '20s rural Florida to finally get its world premiere. ""Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life is a 1930 play by American authors Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. The process of writing the play led Hughes and Hurston, who had been close friends, to sever their relationship. Mule Bone was not staged until 1991, when it was produced in New York City by the Lincoln Center Theater. ""Hughes and Hurston began writing Mule Bone in March 1930. They wanted to write a comedy about African-American life that didn't consist of racial stereotypes. They decided to base the plot on a folktale which Hurston had collected in Florida during one of… Read More

New York: New World Records, 1977. Pop artist Robert Indiana's vivid serigraph poster for the 1977 New World Records release of The Mother of Us All, Virgil Thomson's 1947 opera about Susan B. Anthony, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein: "The right to sleep is given to no woman." Indiana had long been an active admirer of The Mother of Us All, designing sets for several stage productions, including the Santa Fe Opera's 1976 bicentennial production, whose recording is advertised here. The typography features Indiana's signature tipped O in MOTHER, a design element that recalls his iconic LOVE sculpture and stamp. For more on Indiana and The Mother of Us All, see David Littlejohn, "Artists on the Opera Stage" in The Ultimate Art (1992). A really attractive promotional poster, whose minor flaws would be mitigated by proper framing. Promotional poster, measuring 36 x 24 inches, screenprinted in red, yellow, black, white, and purple. Three corners creased, several short closed tears to bottom edge.

Finland: Warner Bros, 1953. No Binding. Fine. An extremely rare Finnish "tour",(possible "insert") poster for the Alfred Hitchcock movie STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. The film was first screened in Finland on the 7th March in 1952. It was re-released in 1962 and had a further screening in 1984 in Helsinki. You are looking at a "tour" poster issued following that initial release of 1952. The poster has a printed date of 1953 - it is most unusual for Finnish movie posters to have a printed date on them. At the bottom there is a blank margin where you might normally expect printed text concerning times, dates, location and ticket price headings for hand-completion in respect of regional/local screenings. The dimensions of this poster are also non-standard. You can reasonably expect a normal Finnish "tour-poster" to conform to approx 24" x 13" but in this case the poster measures 27" x 13.25" - more akin to the Italian locandina. It is possible that… Read More

USSR propaganda posterEvery child in the USSR heard about the distant Chilean people suffering under the Pinochet junta. The USSR led the international campaign for the release of Luis Carvalan and since 1975 has been negotiating on this topic. In September 1976, the option to exchange Korvalan for the famous Soviet political prisoner, dissident Vladimir Bukovsky was officially announced simultaneously by the Danish Committee of the Sakharov Readings in Copenhagen and by Academician Andrei Sakharov himself in Moscow. On December 15, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU adopted a decision "On measures in connection with the release of Comrade L. Korvalan", in accordance with which a special aircraft was allocated to deliver Korvalan and his family from Zurich, where the exchange was planned, to the USSR. The KGB of the USSR ensured the delivery of Bukovsky on a special plane to Zurich and sending his mother with him. On December 18, the exchange took place, after which Corvalan received… Read More

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1827. Antiquarian cookery book giving receipts for making soups, gravies, ragouts, pies, puddings, pickles and preserves plus home made wines and much more. 525 pages with some foxing and some marks throughout, foxing is a little heavier at beginning and end few pages but not too excessive and percentage of pages affected is around 30 to 35% to a greater or lesser degree of foxing, Page 518 has a tear which has been repaired with see through archival tape, text can still be read,though not as clearly as the rest. Some illustrations. Book has been rebound a while ago and has endpapers and spine renewed, outer covers rubbed and worn on edges, a sound copy of an antiquarian cook book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Second Edition. Half-Leather Marbled Boards. Good/No Jacket. 7½ x 4¼ Inches. Hardcover.

Country Life,Ltd.London. 1926. FIRST EDITION.8vo.(8.5 x 7 inches).Decorated initial letters to each chapter.A very good copy in a fine early binding by Bumpus of London.Half tan calf,spine with raised bands and twin light and dark brown labels,gilt.Marbled paper on boards.Circular brown calf label,with owners initials,on front board.Marbled endpapers.Top edge gilt,others untrimmed.Previous owners small neat inscription "C.M.H from K.M.H" on front blank endpaper.Some minor rubbing to extremities but overall a very good copy of this interesting book.In the introduction the author reveals his thoughts on dining. "Really intense and progressive people count the calories in carrots and the vitamins in veal and advise us to live on raw cabbage.This book is not for them,but for the bad lots who openly admit that they like the pleasures of the table and who enjoy life".

First printing by Turnpike Press, the book was subsequently published by Simon & Schuster. Great old time country recipes. The 7 page introduction by Ms. Gaskin is a must read. The book has gotten wet and is wrinkled and lightly stained for an inch down from the top. The pages are lightly and evenly toned. There is damage at the top and bottom of the spine and there is shelf wear. The pages are clean and unmarked. Listed as Good.

J. Stratford. London. 1807. FOURTEENTH EDITION, corrected, revised and considerably improved by Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie. 8vo. (8.3 x 5.6 inches). 12 copper engravings, including two fold outs that are a bit rubbed and creased but complete. Pages generally clean and free from marks. Contemporary tree calf boards with new tan calf spine. Raised bands, the compartments double ruled in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards but overall a very good copy of this famous work.

Whether you are a collector of unique cookbooks, or a heritage chef that can translate German, or you remember a favorite recipe from your German grandmother, this is a wonderfully unique early 20th century cookbook that is looking for a new forever home. Published as a blank book, probably in Bavaria, Germany, c1900, it has side tabs that identify the different types of recipes to be added in each section. Possibly written by different cooks based on the handwriting, the front sections still have some blank pages but the last five sections after salads have all the pages filled. A rarity even in Germany where it was published, this well-preserved copy is truly a keepsake that deserves to be treasured.
Condition: Leather edition with spine and corner tips in black textured leather with remainder of board in dark green cloth. The title "Koch Recepte" embossed on the front cover in gold gilt with an old German typeface shows some rubbing but is still legible. The leather back strip has four blind… Read More