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1995Best.-Nr. 12033New York: Citadel Press 1995. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition. Original Wraps. From the Collection of Jenny Lens. Signed by Michael Ochs. Light shelfwear around edges toning closed tear else tight bright and unmarred. Matte color pictorial wrappers. 8vo 364pp illus. b/w. Citadel Press unknown books
1924Best.-Nr. 151017N.p.: N.p. 1924. Vintage publicity photograph of actress Virginia Valli from the 1924 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso along with the stamp of King Features Syndicate. Based on the 1920 novel "Belonging" by Olive Wadsley. Considered a lost film. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. D3989London: Edward Arnold 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth. Spine tips and corners bumped. Dust jacket wrinkled and a little torn along the edges. Regents Renaissance Drama Series. Edward Arnold hardcover books
1965Best.-Nr. D3991London: Edward Arnold 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Blue cloth; printed dust jacket. Top corners gently bumped otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket a little soiled at tail of spine; wrinkled at corners. Regents Renaissance Drama Series. Edward Arnold hardcover books
2011Best.-Nr. 2812New York: HarperCollins 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream boards red cloth binding. Very good in very good dust wrapper. 356 pages. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. In this lively sweeping account that spans the early seventies to the present day David Darlington employs a sharp journalistic eye to profile a group of wine pioneers. A tale of vision and disillusion brinksmanship and pragmatism nature and business politics and culture An Ideal Wine is a fascinating look at an ever-evolving industry that reflects the values of our society and our civilization. In protective mylar cover. HarperCollins hardcover books
1963Best.-Nr. 31061Greenwich CT: Fawcett 1963. Paperback. 159p. very good first edition PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Lesbian pulp fiction. Grier A Gold Medal Book k1313. Fawcett paperback books
1864Best.-Nr. 24078Philadelphia / New York: Flentje L 1864. First only Edition. Stitched as issued in plain paper wrappers. Good; some browning; spotted; old small institutional stamp on one side of the wrapper - no other accessioning. 8vo iv 1 - 76 pp. The text is in German. A most interesting pamphlet based on English continental and American sources according to the author to produce various fruit wines. OCLC locates a single copy Boston mis-identifying the author it is attributed to Steiger who in fact is the printer. Flentje is recorded as holding the copyright. In addition to directions for all kinds of fruit wines there are instructions for "root" e.g. parsnip wines and a section devoted to wild grapes and unripe grapes. Preservation and storage is also addressed. Absent from the histories of the subject consulted. The author wrote at least two other works in the 1870s on "vitalist" medical philosophy. [Flentje, L] unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 004532San Francisco: Wine Advisory Board 1966. Very good. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5 1/4; pp. 3-23; stapled pictorial wraps in red white and black; illustrated with drawings and photographs; light wear along spine and fore-edge and a bit of creasing; in very good condition. An interesting take on then a novelty idea - the booklet focused on throwing a wine tasting party at home - with chapters on tasting games proper glassware wine types proper party food to go with the wine and so on. Wine Advisory Board paperback books
1985Best.-Nr. 21802New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394545893 . An attractive first edition/first printing in about Fine condition seemingly unread in alike lightly spine-sunned dust-jacket. From the collection of Betty Anderson legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her small and unobtrusive inventory number on front paste down; The Gourmet's Menus for Contemporary Living is a cookbook that offers recipes for a variety of contemporary dishes. The book contains recipes for dishes such as braised short rib with roasted Brussels sprouts and bacon roasted chicken with fig and blackberry and raspberry tart. The book also features wine suggestions by Gerald Asher who is a wine expert.; Color Photographs; 4to . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 253514Ayer MA: Hale-Moore Printing 1976. ix 315p. wraps illus. 2.75 inch tear along spine on front wrap repaired with tape previous owner's ownership label on first page rear wrap lightly soiled else good condition. Autobiography and poetry by the African American Mississippi native. Some Christian content. Hale-Moore Printing unknown books
1830Best.-Nr. M11919Philadelphia:: L. Johnson 1830. 1830. "4th improved edition." 8vo. 385-90 381 pp. Foxed throughout not hindering legibility. Original red cloth spine paper title label; front cover detached but present ffe loose extremities worn spine chipped. Rear free endpaper early ownership signature. As is. RARE. The first volume of a pioneer American health journal published from 1829-33. It features a selection of fascinating perspectives on medicine including analyses of the effects on health of headwear wine and malt liquor consumption mealtimes and water drinking among other things as well as considerations of race and longevity quacks mothering and more. On tobacco: "'A Victim of the Weed' is desirous of knowing whether he can at once abandon his pipe and segars or must part company in a gradual manner. Our advice is to desist immediately and entirely from the use of tobacco in every form and in any quantity however small" 220. On race: "The differences in this respect are primitive in the different races; the mucous body or varnish which constitutes the layer between the true skin beneath and the outer covering or cuticle being white or nearly so in the European or Caucasian races; yellowish in the Mongul or African; and black in the African" 146. On the education of girls: "Under twelve years of age it should be an invariable rule that the hours of close application should never exceed those of amusement and exercise" 267. Contains nos. 1-24: September 9 1829 through August 25 1830. L. Johnson, 1830. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 20406ITALIAN WINE MAKING DISCIPLINARI DI PRODUZIONE VINI A DENOMINAZIONE DI ORIGINE "CONTROLLATA". Two volumes. Conegliano: Casa Editrice Scarpis 1968 and 1971. 4to. Cloth. 303; 433 pages and numerous maps in color. First edition thus. The complete text of the incredibly complicated DOC regulations which governed and stifled Italian wine makers for a generation. Very good. unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 140945704Philadelphia: Margo Wine 1950. A 1950s day-glo advertising board for Margo-brand sherry featuring African American crooner Nat King Cole. Cardboard sign printed in black white green and pink. Measures 11.75" x 9". Good with small tear to bottom edge bumped and worn corners light wear heavier on verso original adhesive strips on verso still intact. An eye-catching piece of ephemera showing one of America's best-known Black entertainers of the 1950s. Among Cole's many achievements was that in 1956 his TV show was the first nationally broadcast television show hosted by an African American. Margo Wine unknown books
1833Best.-Nr. 1714281833. VEVEY. Fête des Vignerons 1833. Continuous panorama scroll containing 30 consecutive lithographs numbered 1-30 from the 1833 Festival of the Vignerons at Vevey hand-coloured at the time of publication backed with linen and conjoined to form a continuous scroll of 14.4 meters long. Plate size: oblong folio 170 x 470 mm. in a new cloth folding box. Lausanne: Lithographie de Spengler & Cie 1833. An extremely rare complete copy in contemporary hand-colouring of this remarkable series of plates in scroll format depicting the 1833 Festival of the Vingerons at Vevey Switzerland -- since 1791 this ancient festival has been celebrated five times per century. The scroll shows the entire procession in panorama format; the procession moved in three groups: Herds and Flocks plates 1-8 the Harvest plates 9-18 and Winemakers plates 19-30. The festival celebrates the vineyards and wine production in the Vevey area. The artist of the work was Christian Gottlieb Steinlen 1779-1847 a resident of Vevey who acted as the official artist for the 1833 Festival see Thieme-Becker. Sources for the Festival of the Winegrowers are unusually diverse: besides Greco-Roman gods such as Bacchus Plates 20 & 22 there were representations of Judeo-Christian myths such as the story of Noah first winegrower in the Bible -- see Plate 27. OCLC records only the copy at Getty Center in the U.S. Vicaire 270. Brunet I 616. Lipperheide 2870. Ruggieri 1142. Vinet 787. Brun Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon IV p. 415. Thieme-Becker XXXI pp. 574-5. hardcover books
1860Best.-Nr. 9034New York: Lith. of W. Faust 105 Nassau St 1860. Broadside wine list 25.5 x 15.5 cm. 1 page. Porcelain card decorated in chromolithograph with text in blue and red. A very early wine list from an important New York hotel and dining establishment. The hotel was at the corner of Broadway and Eleventh Street across from Grace Church and Rectory. Both the hotel and the church were designed by the architect James Renwick Jr. Named for its original owner Denis Julien the St. Denis Hotel opened in 1853 just in time for the Crystal Palace Exhibition. The building was leased to William Taylor in 1875 who incorporated the Taylor Saloon into the facility. The list features Clarets from Finke Merman of Bordeaux mostly from 1847 and 1848. And French whites including 1847 Latour Blanche and 1847 d'Yquem. Champagne Sherries and Madeiras are also included. A solid piece of printing from a firm more known for fruit labels. Verso contains an unattributed primitive pencil drawing of a horse. Some darkening to the top edge of the recto. Lith. of W. Faust, 105 Nassau St unknown books
1903Best.-Nr. 3754Various 1903. Octavo with eleven pamphlet volumes mostly in original wrappers bound together in blue cloth with handwritten spine label featuring seven of the eleven titles. Text is predominately in French with two volumes in English. These are rare volumes that cover topics related to viticulture and oenology specifically wine production but also include a report on federal protection to American commerce and a French price guide to historic coins and medals. Blue cloth with some rubbing small white mark to the cover and mild foxing to the end pages otherwise very good. ~ 1. Manning J.F. Federal Protection to American Commerce. New York: Evening Post Job Printing Office 1882. 48 pages. Lacking back wrapper. 2. "Congrès de Reims Les 23 24 25 et 26 Juillet 1903". Bulletin de l'Association des Chimistes No. 3-Tome XXI Septembre 1903. 1903. 27 pages paginated 145-172. With fourteen illustrated figures. Text in French. Because this is just a section of the bulletin there are no wrappers. 3. Salleron J. Notice sur les Instruments de Précision Appliqués A l'Oenologie. Paris: Chez L'auteur 1887. xvi 182 pages. Second edition. Illustrated with numerous figures and two plates. Text in French. Lacking back wrapper. 4. Duclou Georges. De l'Epamprement ou Écimage de la Vigne en Gironde: Effets qu cette opération semble produire sur le cep et le vin. Paris/Bordeaux: Les Libraires Associes/Feret et Fils 1896. 8 pages. Text in French. In orange wrappers. OCLC locates one copy at UC Davis Shields Library. 5. Barbet M.E.A. Concours Relatif a la Rectification des alcools. Paris: Imprimerie Noizette 1892. 19 pages. Illustrated with figures. Text in French. In heathered blue wrappers. OCLC locates no copies 6. Bouffard A. La Loi Griffe et le Platrage. Montpellier: Aux Bureaux du Progrès agricole et viticole 1890. 12 pages. Text in French. In blue wrappers. OCLC locates no copies. 7. Marès M.H. Du Prix de Revient Des Vins dans Le Departement de l'herault. Montpellier: Imprimerie Typographique de Gras 1866. 18 pages. Text in French. In blue wrappers. OCLC locates just one copy at Bibliothèque nationale de France. 8. Andrieu Pierre. Nouvelle Mèthode de Vinification de la Vendange par sulfitage et Levurage: Ses application en 1900 et 1901 dans diverses contrees viticoles de la France. 1902. 22 pages. Text in French. In blue wrappers. OCLC locates one copy at the University of Chicago Library. 9. Salleron J. Notice ser les Instruments de Précision appliqués a l'oenologie. Paris: Chez L'auteur 1882. 82 pages index. Illustrated throughout. Text in French. Lacking front wrapper. OCLC locates no copies of this edition. 10. Administration des Monnaies et Médailles. Catalogue et Prix de vente des Medailles de la Monnaie: Prix de vent des Medailles de administrations de l'etat: Tarif des frappes sur coins particuliers des inscriptions en creux et end relief etc. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale 1902. 31 pages. Text in French. In green wrappers. OCLC locates no copies of this edition. 11. Grazzi-Soncini G. Appendix E to the Biennial Report of the Board of State Viticultural Commissioners for 1891-92: Wine. Classification-Wine Tasting-Qualities and Defects. Translated by F.T. Bioletti. Sacramento: State Office 1892. 57 pages. Lacking wrappers. OCLC locates no copies of this edition. hardcover books
1950Best.-Nr. 4971Biebrich Germany 1950. Photographers and compiler uncredited. Large album format 30 x 23.5 cm. 23 leaves 19 with black-&-white photographs. Captions in English. Collection of photographs dating variously from the middle years of the last century assembled evidently for an English-speaking audience and providing an overview of the cellar maturation monitoring and bottling operations of the German sparkling wine specialist Henkell & Co. Famously known as the Schloß palace the complex on view was built in the Wiesbaden suburb of Biebrich between 1907 and 1909 by the architect Paul Bonatz 1877-1956 to the specifications of Otto Henkell 1869-1929. Henkel & Co. more than weathered World War II. It does not appear that the family sought ties with the National Socialists but they didn't have to. Otto's daughter Anna Elisabeth Annalies 1896-1973 married the future NS foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop who became a principal investor in the firm. It is worth remembering that Germans have always appreciated sparkling wine and a great deal of it was drunk in the domestic market during war time especially after the regime abolished the tax on Deutscher Sekt and Schaumwein. In 1952 Annalies petitioned for her son Rudolf to regain partial control of the company and the West German courts ruled in their favor. Henkell & Co. continued to produce Henkell Trocken under its own name until the sale of the winery in 1986. Little is ascertainable regarding the origins of the album. Otto Henkel--the elder Otto's nephew son of his brother Karl--is present in the portrait collection of company managers on the final leaf of photographs but his presence spans many years. The vintage labels have not yet been applied to bottles shown in a production line on photograph fifteen. Possibly automobiles of ca. 1950--including a white roadster--are depicted in an aerial photograph of the Schloß though sufficient details are undiscernable. And a Bizerbo scale shown in the seventeenth photograph was no longer manufactured by 1951 though of course it may have been in use well before being captured by the photographer. Unique; well-mounted and artful arrangement of professional images celebrating a revered German wine house very likely as it looked before during and immediately after the Second World War. Buff paper age-toned. Brown paper wrappers lightly worn sewn with a brown cord; head and foot of spine lightly chipped. Helmut Arntz. Für ihre Probe deutscher Sekt. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner 1979; Fritz von Ostini. Der Prachtbau der Sektkellerei Henkell & Co. erbaut von Paul Bonatz mit Haus Henkell in Wiesbaden. Darmstadt: Koch 1920; Michael Weisser. Deutsche Reklame: 100 Jahre Werbung 1870-1970. Munich: Edition Deutsche Reklame 1985. includes chapter on Henkell & Co.'s advertising. unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 4330New York 1962. Large folio unpaginated 22 leaves printed rectos only. Printed text from a hand-lettered original; columns for handwritten prices not entered. An early wine list from the legendary Manhattan restaurant Lutèce 1961-2004. The list opens with an introductory statement to diners from the restaurant's founder André Surmain who thanks the restaurant's seven suppliers a rare credit on modern wine lists and Alexis Lichine the author of The Wines of France. Displaying a fine selection of Bordeaux Rouges & Blancs; Bougognes Rouges; Roses Loire; Alsace Rhône; and Champagnes including Lafite Rothschild dating to the 1890s Haut Brion from the 1930s and pre-depression era Mouton. Throughout each selection lists producer as well location of the vineyard. The three Alsatian wines on the list have been credited as the primary genesis of the Alsatian wine market in the United States. Julia Child Playboy Magazine and Zagat each proclaimed Lutèce the best restaurant in the United States; the New York Times gave the restaurant four stars. Spiral bound in gilt-stamped blue wrappers. Wine sections are thumb-indexed. The list was never used and thus the wines remain unpriced. Very near fine. Signed by head chef André Soltner "En Souvenir". unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 3748Firenze: Casa Vinicola Barone Ricasoli 1934. Eight octavo booklets 15; 34; 20; 39; 23; 14; 14; and 14 pages. FIRST EDITIONS. Complete set of individually authored instructional booklets for the Italian hospitality industry for use in the promotion of gastronomical tourism in Tuscany. Subjects include characteristics of "genuine" wine; where to find the best Italian wines; the wine production process; and how to best present wine to customers. Published by the Barone Ricasoli winery notably a continuously run family business since 1141 and still in operation today. Baron Bettino Risacola Italy's second prime minister wrote the modern formula for Chianti wine in 1872. In variously colored wrappers with some chipping and discoloration otherwise very good. Rare. OCLC locates no copies. Casa Vinicola Barone Ricasoli unknown books
Best.-Nr. 3555Porto: J.R. Goncalves; Instituto do Vindo do Porto n.d. Three works in one volume. Quarto 21.6 x 28 cm. 339; 60; 75 pages. Text in Portuguese. Photocopy facsimile of the three volumes of the Portuguese Port Wine Institute's bibliography and two supplements from 1945 1947 and 1952 respectively. Thousands of bibliographic entries related to port wine and its production. Bound in pink wrappers with some wear. Some annotations in ink to text otherwise very good. Scarce and useful. J.R. Goncalves; Instituto do Vindo do Porto unknown books
1865Best.-Nr. 1564Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung J. J. Weber 1865. Octavo 435 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A classic 19th century popular work on wine by the Austrian agronomist and writer Wilhelm Hamm. Some light spotting to pages throughout otherwise clean and tight in light brown half morocco with raised bands over green paper covered boards. Some edgewear to the boards but still a handsome near very good copy. Simon Bibliotheca Vinaria 42. Verlagsbuchhandlung J. J. Weber hardcover books
1980Best.-Nr. 625153Farmington Hills Michigan: Society for Humanistic Judaism 1980. Unbound. Fine. Publisher's promotional poster. Measuring 14" x 21" folded down to 7" x 8½". Printed on both sides. Fine with a promotional pamphlet laid in titled "Humanistic Judaism. What Is It" A handsome production for the group's journal described as being for "those who seek to participate in the secular cultural and creative aspects of the Jewish experience. Society for Humanistic Judaism unknown books
1933Best.-Nr. 167812Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1933. Vintage pressbook for the 1933 pre-Code espionage film. An Austrian agent is tasked with capturing "K-14" a skilled Russian spy-unaware that she is secretly his girlfriend a beautiful Russian countess. 12 x 18 inches. 12 pages side-stapled. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1997Best.-Nr. 48079Berkeley CA: Ten Speed Press 1997. Very Good/Very Good. Berkeley CA: Ten Speed Press 1997. First Edition with full number line. Large quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial unclipped dust jacket; 240pp.; color photographic illus. throughout. Moderate wear and surface scratches to dust jacket else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on title page "April 1997 / Jacques When cooking seafood.Always Have a Sensual Touch! With High Regards / Charlie. Ten Speed Press unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. 623611Farmington Hills Michigan: Society for Humanistic Judaism 1985. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Slim octavo. 52pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Prints "The Real Story of Passover" by founding Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine "Our Exodus" compiled and edited by Marilyn Rowens "Interrupted Exodus: Soviet Jews" by Kevin Klose "Black Jews in Mid-Exodus" by Arlene Kushner "Exodus to the Sunbelt" by Marcia Himelhoch "Passover Past: A Passover Memory" by Reuben Copperman "About a Nightmare and a Passover" by Arnold Polak "Sephardic Memories" by Jerrie Laytner/Liebowitz "Creating Your Own Seder" by Terry Toll "A Children's Haggadah" by Daniel Friedman "Passover "Midrash for Adults and Children" by Robert Barr "Passover in Israel" by Shalom Lilker and "Afterimage" by Theodore Gaster from Festivals of the Jewish Year. N.B. Our date attribution comes from a notice that Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine's forthcoming book would be published mid-1985. Society for Humanistic Judaism unknown books
