4.037 Ergebnisse
1979112 pages. Features: The Liberated Cook; The Personal Touch; A Bit of Mexico in Manhattan; Unique Chic; Banquet on a Budget; Eclectic Elegance; How to Cook the Ideal Meal; Buying Wine Wisely; Stocking a Bar; Dining Decor; The Well-Tempered Kitchen; Catering to Your Every Whim; Essentials of Rentals; Business is Pleasure; Smirnoff ad features Groucho and Charlie Chaplin impersonators; Great nostalgic one-page color-photo Sony Betamax ad; and many more wonderful ads. Above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1960An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 64 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Nice beach photo of Maritza Antoinette inside front cover; The Night's Beginning - story by F.G. Holcomb; New Import From Italy - color and black and white photos of Maritza Antoinette, who now works in Las Vegas; Crime and Passion - case history from new book "Crime and Passion" by Eugene B. Mozes; After Hours - story by R.E. Lotte; Flynn's Friend Beverly - photo feature of seventeen-year-old Beverly Aadland who lived with him for two years; What's In a Nameplate - Tom Jones suggests readers look to foreign cars; Oriental Dream - photo-illustrated article on Los Angeles' New Ginza, including sukiyaki recipe, by Ron S. Miller; Coffee Break - story by Earle Schell; Photo feature of Pat Conley, including color centerfold; Between Us Ladies - story by David Jenkins; Socks Appeal - article in favor of nylon-clad legs by Walter Plinge; Four pages of tasteful black and white photos of ladies in negligee; The Belly Ploy - short story by Ben Redmond; Beer - America's National Drink; In Our Own Backyard - photos of shapely Terri Summers of New York; Books and Records; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1970Features: The Seven Best Highway Diners in Canada - Parkside Service Centre, Maberley, Ontario - Kanaka Bar Restaurant, Lytton, BC - Helen's Coffee Shoppe, DeWinton, Alberta - Headingley Husky Travelcentre - Headingly, Manitoba; Gil's Truck Plaza, Quebec City - Valley Restaurant, Saint-Basile, New Brunswick - Blanche's Grill, Moosomin, Saskatchewan; Miss Nude America... is a Canadian, Dianne Boisclair; Colour ad for GM Pontiac models - Firebird, Le Mans, Grand Prix; The NHL's Ten Best Fighters - John Ferguson, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr, Orland Kurtenbach; Ted Harris; Reggie Fleming; Eddie Shack; Derek Sanderson; Jim Dorey; Shades of Captain Marvel - fashion; Nice colour Hush Puppies ad; Nothing succeeds like failure - ask Marvin Fleishman of auctioneer Danbury Sales Ltd; Rebuilding a wreck and restoring a memory - an HS-2L flying boat and Don Foss; The Things you didn't know about Nature; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
195538 pages. Illustrated with black and white reproductions of photos. "Independently panel-tested and found to be 100% practical under all everyday, normal conditions - by a group of average Canadian housewives." - title page. Undated but appears to be circa 1950s. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy of this charming Canadian chocolate/cocoa cookbook. Book
197084 pages. Features: How Many Canadians Really Want Independence?; Turmoil in Quebec - the day the faces closed; Canada needs a 'National' National Hockey League; How Manitoba Turned 100 by Standing on its Head; The Outsider Moves In - Joe Borowski; Who is the Successful Canadian? - the Maclean's-Goldfarb Report; The Birth of a Movie - major article with photos of Genevieve Bujold and Paul Almond; ; The Battle for a Place Under Your Christmas Tree - an informative snapshot of Canada's toy industry; Food & Drink - Diets by Damned; Nice full-page colour photo ad for the Ski-Doo lineup of snowmobiles; Excellent uncommon full-page colour photo ad for CBC's The National with large photos of Lloyd Robertson and George Finstad; Sam the Record Man begins dealing in tapes - Should You?; Nice colour photo Christmas Coke ad on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1972108 pages. Features: Two-page ad for Electrohome televisions, of Kitchener, Ontario; The Operational Code of Pierre Elliott Trudeau; One-page colour-photo ad for the (green) Chrysler Newport Royal; Have I Ever Lied To You Before? - The Table Talk of Jerry Goodis; Two-page Volkswagen Beetle ad shows Beetle confronted by a 'gang' of North American cars; Colour Royal Bank ad features photo of 'Mary'; One-page colour-photo ad for Molson Canadian (in stubby bottle) beside fancy drink; Arrow shirt ad features colour photo of Toronto disc jockey "Jungle" Jay Nelson (of 1050 CHUM) and John McLeod; Keeping Toronto Hateful - Eight pages explain why any sensitive Canadian continues to live in such a rotten place(!); Toronto - Middle-Class capital of the world; Who's Who in the Toronto Power Game; Feature article on hockey player Derek Sanderson; Colour photos and interview with Derek's lady, Judy Martin; 20 Things You'd Better Know About the New Taxes, by Izzie Asper; The Sound of Mario Bernardi; Backing the Better Mousetrap - article on inventors taking their ideas to market, including Harold Humphreys who invented the Polypump, and Peter Davis; A Feast of Provinces - article on Canada by Al Purdy; Colour-photo ad for the Series 30 Chevy Van (RV) includes photo of A.R. Williams of Terence Bay, Halifax County, Nova Scotia; Canadian Club ad features colour photos of the Mudmen of New Guinea; One-page colour ad for the Chevrolet Vega; Classy one-page colour-photo ad for the 1972 Buick Centurion (green two-door); Article on television includes small photo of comedian Flip Wilson; Fiat black and white photo ad inside back cover features photo of Mr. Ferrari and the Fiat 128 he drives. Average wear. Unmarked. Minor bit of moisture exposure at bottom of coverfold. A sound vintage copy. Book
Best.-Nr. 19207785like new. unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 26936blue RP: Dunod 1969. Unknown Binding. Used: Acceptable. Condition clean with dustjacket. ref ZKVQ Dunod unknown
Best.-Nr. 42456599-nnew. unknown
Best.-Nr. 42456599like new. unknown
Fifth edition, considerably enlarged, 8vo, 310, 22pp., with the 22pp., added chapter at the end entitled 'Men and Manners,' engraved frontis., slightly offset, name erased from title and repaired with archival paper, text lightly age-toned, orig. boards, rebacked with orig. printed spine label laid-down, uncut. Bitting, p.238.
1741By John Arbuthnot, doctor to Queen Anne and inventor of the character John Bull. Two parts in one volume. Small wormhole next to inner gutters, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, gilt spine in five bands, head of spine little chipped, corners, worn, rubbed.
Best.-Nr. 054025Sommières Typographie de E. Hamelin 1849 in 8 (24x15) 1 volume reliure demi basane havane de l'époque, dos lisse orné de faux-nerfs à froid, pièce de titre de cuir rouge, couverture conservée, 529 pages. Edition originale. Rare. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request
1995Best.-Nr. BN581784Egert G 1995. 1995. Softcover. Unterrichtssprache Deutsch-Französisch Unterrichtssprache Deutsch-Französisch Anne Boisson et Wolfgang Reumuth Egert, G paperback
Best.-Nr. BN325042BUCHET CHASTEL. Softcover. Celibidache et Furtwängler : Le Philharmonique de Berlin dans la tourmente de l'après-guerre Celibidache et Furtwängler : Le Philharmonique de Berlin dans la tourmente de l'après-guerre Hélène Boisson et Klaus Lang BUCHET CHASTEL paperback
1957xxiv, 62 pages. Features: First to Sail the Sahara - article (with cover illustration) about the Sheppard family which attempted to windsail across the Sahara Desert - with map and photos; The Bull of Contention - melons of the Bhelwah plantation in north Bihar are being destroyed by a bull antelope which the Hindus consider a sacred nilgai; The Forest Glade Murders - photo-illustrated article from Northern Rhodesia; Captain Mitchell's Last Fight - his schooner spots a U-boat in 1942 (article with photo of the U-boat); The Incredible Snake Man - "Professor" Morrisey deliberately exposed himself to venomous snake bites in Africa; Black Death - a wolf terrorizes farmers and livestock near Kamloops, B.C.; Eggs for the Prisoner - the author was accused of smuggling and imprisoned without food or drink in a cabin of a stifling Pakistani river steamer; March Macabre - horrific ant attacks while obtaining WWII rubber in Ecuador; Britain's Unmapped Outpost - St. Kilda; Trouble at Thirty Fathoms - something goes wrong while welding underwater in a fast-flowing Papua, New Guinea river; Killer Turned Preacher - last instalment of "West to Adventure", the thrilling story of the life of "Jack" Letheby, trapper, prospector and professional gambler; The Squaw's Curse - Marie was the prettiest girl in the Spalumcheen tribe near Kamloops, British Columbia; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Best.-Nr. 1292.1aaf90.5x127.5 cm
1911Best.-Nr. 56761New York: Octave Grillon 705 W. 170th St. 1911. 12mo. 140 pp. plus 4 pp. illust. manufacturers ads. Numerous text illustrations photo plates. Quarter-brown cloth over beige-coloured boards brown lettering on front cover minor soiling edgewear some rubbing still VG- copy. First edition of this very scarce candy making work detailing the processes for manufacturing and producing gum drops chewing gum jelly gum marshmallows French Swiss & German Nougat rock candy jujube paste along with instructions on how to replace albumen and white of eggs in moonshine. The author not only includes many recipes but also the necessary specialized tools equipment cooking times molds and even includes recipes for medicated gum and confectionary products. Grillon b. 1865 was as an award-winning candy maker and foreman at a candy factory in New York who had immigrated from Beaugeney France in 1907 and winner of the Culinary Exhibition Gold Medal in 1899 at Toulouse. Worldcat locates 2 copies U of Chicago Nat. Lib. of Scotland; See: Publisher’s Weekly Nov. 4 1911 p. 1477. Octave Grillon, [705 W. 170th St.], hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 63534Seattle WA: Carl W. Art Lloyd Building 1937. 12mo. 109 3 pp. Illustrated title text illustrations throughout. Quarter-green publisher’s cloth over Spruce wooden covers black decorative lettering on front cover very slight chipping to couple corners still a VG bright copy w/ bookseller’s label for Frederick & Nelson on front pastedown. First edition of this surprisingly scarce and inventive travel guide for motorists and travelers to Seattle Tacoma & Spokane as well as Vancouver and Victoria BC at the end of the Great Depression modeled off of the author’s very successful “Curious California Customs” 1935. Alongside such landmarks as the Frozen Fish Aquarium Meany Hotel Smith Tower & the Persian Dining Room Herrick 1894-1994 breezily details as well the famed Shell House at the University of Washington where George Pocock built racing shells for West Coast championship rowing teams; Maneki’s Japanese-American restaurant at 212 Sixth South or the several Chinese-American restaurants along King Street where the wait staff speak Oxonian English. Herrick Steake was married to Spokane WA realtor printer and publisher Arthur Steake her father H.A. Herrick was a prominent New York newspaperman and in the 1930’s she tried her hand on inventive guidebooks. This work includes illustrations created by students at the famed Cornish School in Seattle. Carl W. Art, Lloyd Building, hardcover
New edition, carefully revised, 8vo, [10], 541, [1]pp., engraved frontis., (lightly offset), 7 plates of Bills of Fare printed in green, some occasional foxing, cont. half calf, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked.
1869Best.-Nr. 63221London: Houlston & Sons Paternoster Square 1869. 12mo. xvi 368 pp. Embossed & decorated red publisher’s cloth gilt illust. front cover gilt lettering on spine advertising on endpapers minor dustsoiling darkening to spine slight shelfwear still a VG bright copy. Revised & expanded edition of this Victorian handbook which served as precursor to the modern-day search engine and offered concise quick researched facts about food cookery food science chemistry heating & ventilation cleanliness women’s medicine pediatrics and more. Philp 1819-1882 was an organizer and contributor to the Chartist Movement in the UK pushing for universal male suffrage secret ballots annual parliamentary elections and other reforms but is perhaps best remembered as the very successful publisher of his handbooks on practical everyday topics which originally launched in 1856 with “Enquire Within” and later in 1867 with the early version of this title. Houlston & Sons, Paternoster Square, hardcover
Best.-Nr. Marketta KlemolaIn Pristine Condition. unknown
1888Best.-Nr. 1200738Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1888. 16, 567, (1) S. m. 17 Abb. Hldrbd d. Zeit m. Rückenvergoldung (Einbd am Kopf m. Einriß u. kl. Fehlstelle, Kanten beschabt, Vorsätze randgebräunt u. etwas leimschattig).
1913Best.-Nr. 64366Portland OR & Chicago IL: Denno’s Food Co. 925 Union Ave. N. June 1913. One oblong 4to. mounted silver gelatin photo sized 7.25 x 5.25 on 10 x 8 in. tan & brown studio board slight out-of-focus w/ weak depth-of-field still a NF exemplar from the library of the former factory manager. An excellent original photograph depicting 3 women workers and 1 male worker weighing and packing cans of Denno’s Baby Food into cans and labeling them by hand with stack of labels and glue depicted in the photo as well with cases stacked in the backgrounds. Calendar mounted on the wall dates the photo along with the long skirts and tufted sleeves of the women workers typical for Progressive Era dress. Based out of Chicago IL the company maintained the Portland manufacturing and canning facility for processing and supplying their West Coast customers. These home-mixed products were advertised as early as 1911 in Meier & Frank Store Annual Pure Food Fairs and continued to be marketed through the 1920’s in the Medicine Dept. of department stores and specialty stores alongside Horlick’s Malted Milk Borden’s Malted Milk Dryco Milk and other similar products. See: Great 6th Annual Pure Food Fair Meier & Frank Store The Entire Fourth Floor. . . Sunday Oregonian Jan. 22 1911 p. 14; Medicine Department Kennedy Cut-Rate Store New Castle News April 5 1923 p. 10. Denno’s Food Co., 925 Union Ave. N., unknown
1897Best.-Nr. 64376Philadelphia: G.W. Bertron 1897. Thick 8vo. 608 pp. plus 16 pp. in manuscript. Title in red & black numerous colour plates black & white plates text illustrations diagrams historiated chapter headings. Illustrated gray oil cloth cover art on front & spine in pink black & blue some soiling scuffing edgewear rubbing to corners still G copy w/ former ownership signature on 2nd flyleaf for Mrs. Thomas H. Simpson Eleanor Ashland Oregon renowned for her cooking and lavish parties at the beginning of the 20th century and whose husband owned Ashland Hardware for over half a century before his death in 1953. First edition of this expansive Victorian work on cookery including instructions and recipes for candies cheese dishes cookies croquettes frog legs ice cream salads turtle and squirrels along with extensive instructions on sanitizing the kitchen and sick room as well as a section on toxicology. Other works issued by Maud C. Cooke included “Three meals a day” 1887 “The great 20th Century cook book” 1902 and “Social Etiquette” 1895. The Maud Cooke series of cookery and etiquette social handbooks remained popular with door-to-door canvassers and publishers up until World War I. G.W. Bertron, hardcover
