Los Postres de el Bulli
Ediciones Peninsula, 1998. Hardcover. A guide to the desserts of El Bulli, photographed by Francesc Guillamet Slight wear and yellowing to edges of the dust jacket, slight bumping to red covers. 257 pages.
Ediciones Peninsula, 1998. Hardcover. A guide to the desserts of El Bulli, photographed by Francesc Guillamet Slight wear and yellowing to edges of the dust jacket, slight bumping to red covers. 257 pages.
Hädecke Opt Art, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Showcasing restaurants and chefs from New York and Paris, with menus, recipes, and stunning photography. Slight shelf wear to the sturdy, brightly illustrated slipcase. Black cloth covers, 495 glossy pages. 13.5 x 10.4 x 2". As a large, heavy book this order will.....
Jacqui Small, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A strikingly designed and photographed book from the chef Anne-Sophie Pic. Slight wear to edges of die-cut slipcase, faintest sunning to exposed edge of white covers. All edges silver, four silver ribbons, 228pp. 11.5 x 9.5 x 1.25". As an oversize, heavy book this.....
Agnès Vienot Editions, 2006. Hardcover. "Dix ans de collections. Dix ans de creation. Les idees respirent l'air du temps. Elles se nourrissent des rencontres, subissent les humeurs. Elles partent parfois en voyage, s'emerveillent devant banale troubaille...Certaines se presentent naturellement, avec simplicite..." Formerly owned by a working pastry chef, this book.....
Ici la Press, 2002. Hardcover. English translation. 90 dessert recipes from Michel Bras, with additional pages exploring the history of the natural ingredients. Symbols in the margins designate frozen recipes, as well as which desserts are served individually, shared, or can be given as gifts. Slight creasing to upper edge.....
Montagud Editores, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bilingual French/Spanish edition. Slight scuffs to the jacket, with noticeable indentations to the outer edge of the front panel. Fainter corresponding mark to the black cloth covers. 320 glossy pages. 11.5 x 10". As an oversize, heavy book this order may incur additional shipping.....
Vilbo, 2006. Hardcover. Bilingual Spanish/English edition, with accompanying "Recipe Book" in comb binding. Slight scuffs and bumps to glossy covers, 303 clean, glossy pages. 10.75 x 10". As an oversize, heavy book this order will be packed carefully and may incur an additional shipping charge.
Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis, 1915. Hardcover. 12 plates from photographs, 2 mounted color plates of fish. Unusually printed on gray paper. Textured gray paper boards, likely rebound. X, 263pp, press notices for the author's previous work. Old San Francisco bookseller's label to rear endpaper. 6.25 x 4.25"
Honolulu: Advertiser Publishing Company, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated by the author on the fixed endpaper. Taylor arrived in Hawaii with annexation, before spending decades as a journalist, detective and librarian. Illustrated blue cloth boards, wear and fading to the spine and corners. 399pp. 9 x 6.25"
Minneapolis: 1941. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Illustrated whimsical verse inspired by Hawaii. Inscribed by the author to a friend, with laid in slips translating Hawaiian vocabulary and a laid in letter describing the origins of the illustrations and outlining the author's hopes for the marketing of the book. Scarce, with.....
Honolulu: Advertising Publishing, 1930. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Scarce pamphlet of poetry inspired by Hawaii by the botanist Jared Gage Smith, signed by the poet ("Aloha! Jared G. Smith, Christmas 1930"). 16 pages stapled in stiff cream wraps. 7.75 x 4.75"
Cleveland: The World Publishing [A Tower Mystery], 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Stated first printing of the 1944 Tower Books edition, published in May 1944 following the release of the Warner Bros. film in June. Jacket illustrated with scenes from the film, creasing.....
Alameda, California: Isle City Publishers, 1966. Soft cover. "Illustrated with original linoleum blocks by the author". 10 leaves in stapled wrappers, slight toning throughout. Scarce, no copies listed on OCLC, although the title and a sequel can also be found in a hardcover Reilly and Lee edition of the following.....
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1885. Hardcover. Scarce. Written and initially received as science, Warren posits the North Pole as the source of all life, simultaneously Eden and Atlantis. A contemporary review in Science notes that "The book is very ingenious and learned, but, as it seems to.....
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. SIGNED by all seven of the Project Mercury Astronauts to the free endpaper: Leroy Cooper, Walter M Schirra, Virgil I. Grissom, M. Scott Carpenter, Donald K. Slayton, Allan B. Shepard, and John H. Glenn, Jr.. Illustrated from.....
1943. Plastic Comb. A high school yearbook prepared by Japanese-American students held in the Tule Lake Relocation Center. "Out in a desolate sand plateau in Northern California stands a row of 20 tar papered barracks, our Tri-State High School which opened its doors to 2400 students on September 14, 1942.....
Chicago: William Lewis & Son, 1959. Hardcover. "Library Edition", numbered 3098. Stamp of "Pier Music Company" to front free endpaper, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. In invaluable reference work. 335pp. 11.5 x 9". As a large, heavy book this order will be packed carefully and may incur additional shipping charges.....
Carteggio Media, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Exhaustively researched study of the maker of violins. Laid in invoice signed by the author. Slight wear to study slipcase, slightest wear to edges of glossy jacket. 315 glossy pages, bright and unmarked. 13.75 x 9.75". As a large, heavy book this order will.....
New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An important early work on the gardens of China, by an expert in the history of Chinese art. Slight wear to sturdy slipcase with paper label, faintest fading to edges of green cloth covers. Pages and plates clean and unmarked.....
New York: George Braziller, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. English translation by Elaine Desautels, with numerous color illustrations and two original lithographs. Unclipped jacket, slight wear to upper edge; red cloth covers, slight line of fading along lower edge. Endpapers from photographs, two original lithographs, 210pp. Slightest darkening to page edges.....
Champaign, Il. Sports Publishing LLC, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the first fly leaf. Unclipped jacket with "autographed copy" sticker, black leatherette boards. x, 550pp, 4 leaves of photographs.
New York: E.D. Slater. Hardcover. Undated fifth edition, c.1890. Illustrated catalog of anything and everything a horse might need, with chromolithographic title page and 8 additional color plates, the rest profusely illustrated in black and white. Each section begins with an exhortation "Do Not Cut This Book". 303, [1]pp. Publisher's.....
San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Company, 1908. Hardcover. "An Alphabetical List of Business Firms and Private Citizens: a Directory of the City and County Officers, Churches, Public and Private Schools, Benevolent, Literary and Other Associations, Banks, Incorporated Institutions, Etc." 2221 numbered pages, including opening and closing advertisements on orange paper. Additional.....
London: Cassell and Company, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes, beautifully bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red morocco. All edges gilt, lettering and rule in gilt, feather-patterned endpapers, inner gilt dentelles. xxi, [1], 416; xi, [1], 344; xi, [1], 332; xi, [2], 322pp. 9.25 x 6.25 x 5". As a......
Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. BAL 7581. Four pages of ads preceding; sixteen following; '78' for '76' in table of contents. Ornate early twentieth-century American binding, from the Bennett Book Studios of New York, with two samples of the original quatrefoil cloth bound in behind.....