New York: Rinehart & Company, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. red cloth.136 pp. Spine slightly tilted, very light fading to edges. Dust jacket is lightly worn to extremities, small chips to spine ends and head of front cover. "A wag one remarked that..... More
London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 4th Edition. Hardcover. 32mo. N.d., [1870?]. Fourth edition, corrected & improved. Contemporary brown blindstamped cloth, gilt titles. xii, 238 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Slight bowing to rear board. Some damp staining to cloth, rubbing to extremities, bumping to corners. Blind publisher's device of James..... More
Dean and Munday: London. Hardcover. 12mo. [ca. 1830]. Contemporary patterned cloth boards with modern rebacking, original paper spine label laid down. [title leaf], 10, iii-xvi, 13-284 pp. Spine label chipped and darkened. Light edge wear to boards and fading to spine, a few spots of staining to cloth. Hinges cracked..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., 1877. Hardcover. 12mo. Eighth edition, to which are added, Practical Directions for Distilling. From the French of Th. Flinz, Brewer and Distiller. Orig. purple blind stamped cloth. 217 pp., [23 pp. ads]. B&W line illustrations in text. Previously rebacked with original spine laid down..... More
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1965. Hall, Brian O. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Full blue cloth. 175 pp. B&W line drawings in text. Some offsetting to pp. 66-67 from a bookmark. Dust jacket is price clipped, slightly toned, lightly worn to extremities, short tear to foot of front cover. More
Tucson: HP Books, 1982. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). Soft cover. 112 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Fine condition. More
London: Constable & Company, 1930. Rumbold, Gilbert. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Black cloth backed boards lettered in gilt, with art deco illustrated front board in gold, green and grey. 287 pp. Fabulous, colourful art deco illustrations throughout, printed in black, red, blue, yellow, tan, and green..... More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. maroon cloth, grain device to front board. Illustrated endpapers. xiv, 398 pp. [17] plates. Light rubbing to extremities. Spine tilted. Light toning to text block. Rust stains from paper clip to head of frontispiece. Dust jacket is sunned to spine..... More
New York: Elizabeth Norman Restaurant, 1951. Willyoung, Carla. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Unpaginated. Paper boards. Foxing to boards. Sporadic browning to pages. Previous owner's inscription in blue ink to rear endpaper, stating a cocktail recipe. Otherwise, book is in fine condition. This scarce cookbook shares simple ways to make 100 different..... More
Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1956. Lonette, Reisie. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Revised and enlarged by James A. Beard. Full black cloth. xv, 203 pp. B&W line illustrations. Spine shaken, rubbed at extremities. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine, lightly edge work, with..... More
New York: Sterling Epicure, 2016. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pictorial paper boards. Art deco patterned endpapers. xiii, 242 pp. Copiously illustrated in colour. Spine tilted, else fine condition. More
Herbert Jenkins, 1956. Hardcover. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Full green paper boards. 96 pp. Spine and edges sunned, light spot of damp staining to head of rear cover, light rubbing to edges. Inner hinge cracked at a p. 16. More
London: Simpkin Marshall & Co. Hardcover. 8vo. N.d. [Ca. 1890's]. Orig. brown cloth with decorative black and gilt tooling, xiv, 306pp. Light foxing (heavier at endpapers) with spotting to edges, boards worn and edges with a small bump to spine head, some rubbing on cloth o/w very good. An encyclopedia..... More
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1965. Gibbons-Smith, Leo. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Full burgundy leatherette. 175 pp. B&W line drawings in text. Dust jacket is price clipped, slightly toned, lightly worn to extremities, creasing to top edge of front cover. More
London: Putnam, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. cream cloth. Map endpapers. 184 pp. Spine tilted. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly chipped to extremities, damp stained to rear cover. More
Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 3" x 6" First edition. Orig. yellow cloth. 160 pp. Light soiling to cloth, rubbing to extremities. Spine slightly shaken. Stain to fore edge. Some light damp staining to endpapers. Features over 350 drink recipes for your next party or reception. Also..... More
New York: Hearthside Press, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tan paper boards. 125 pp.[8] pp. B&W photos. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to spine head, light rubbing to rear joint. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1965. Paul, T. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. tan cloth with wine-drinking cherub vignette to front board. Illustrated endpapers. ix, 382 pp. B&W line drawings. T.E.R. Staining to top edges of boards and text block. Dust jacket is sunned and stained to spine, worn and..... More
London: Elm Tree Books, 1974. Zinkeisen, Anna K. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter red paper, grey paper boards. 272 pp., [10 pp. Menu Cards and Wine Lists]. Spine cocked, edges rubbed, white mark to fore edge of front board. Foxing to edges of text block, worse..... More
Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth, 178pp. About fine in d/w. History of Mooshead Beer, which opened in 1867 in Nova Scotia, the year of Canada's Confederation. More
Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2005. Hardcover. 12mo. Second printing. Full black cloth, white lettering to spine and front, colour pictorial onlay to front board. 248 pp. B&W and sepia photos in-text. Fine condition. Sleeve wrapper to rear board has a few scuffs. Part travelogue, part instruction manual, part bar philosophy..... More
Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green paper boards. 431 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, signed by Asbury to limitations page, #3/160. Quarter orange cloth, green textured paper boards with gilt goblet vignette to front board. Green ribbon marker. Unopened, roughly cut edges. li, 170 pp. Spine faded, rubbing to extremities..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1922. Hardcover. 18mo. Second impression. Quarter cream cloth, burgundy paper boards. 103 pp. B&W illustrations. Spine darkened, cloth rubbed. SUnning to top and fore edges of boards, a few scuffs and stains. Some offsetting to endpapers. More
New York: M. S. Mill, 1944. Hardcover. 12mo. xv, 64 p.p. Cloth. Colourful illustrated frontispiece. Some tearing to edges of dust-jacket, worse to bottom of jacket. Foxing along jacket as well. Light discolouration to boards and bruising to corners and spine ends. Very small marks throughout book. Overall, a very..... More