Hardcover. NY, Artisan/Workman, 1st, 2024, Hardcover decorated gray boards with embossed gilt lettering. Knowledgeable, entertaining, and more than a little infatuated with his subject, award-winning food writer and chef Edward Lee gives us his insight into bourbon, telling us everything we should know about the mellow honey-brown treasure that's put Kentucky on the global map: How bourbon is made. Its history. How to read a label. A look inside the famous distilleries. The influence of oak. Tours of Kentucky's bourbon regions. How to taste bourbon like a professional. And, in the most delicious surprise, how to cook with bourbon, with 50 recipes from Bourbon-Glazed Chicken Wings and Blackened Salmon with Bourbon-Soy Marinade to a Bourbon and Butterscotch Pudding. Plus the best Old-Fashioned you'll ever mix. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Switzerland, A. Guichard, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A very good hardcover copy, 126 pages with decorative burgundy boards and gilding on the spine and covers. A book of 164 facsimile tipped-in plates. Production by Edita S. A. Lausanne. Illustration by Imprimerie Centrale Lausanne S. A. Text by Offset Jean Genoud S. A. Lausanne. Engraving by Photogravure Dupuis & Cie Lausanne. Binding by Maurice Busenhart, Lausanne. At the age of seven, at the begining of the 20th century, Lartique received a camera as a gift from his father, and from then on, day after day, he would try to 'fix' scenes of his domestic life, having been allowed by the conditions of his life sufficient leisure to do so." Roger Therond. In this, Lartique's premier collection, presented in the form of an album of pasted-in pictures, we are treated to his madcap antics with flying machines and automobiles when they were still a novelty. With his cousins, we have pictures of their three-seater peddle racing machine of their own invention - gliders built and flown in the field, crashes included, an inflatable suit for drifting in the river without getting wet . These are photographs one would not see in a typical family album, rather, they are the record of a joyful and artistic youth. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Switzerland, A. Guichard, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A very good hardcover copy, 126 pages with decorative burgundy boards and gilding on the spine and covers. Covers, spine head and tail have some light wear. Small scrape on front cover. Tight binding. Clean pages. Though not indicated as such, appears to be a book of 164 facsimile tipped-in plates. Production by Edita S. A. Lausanne. Illustration by Imprimerie Centrale Lausanne S. A. Text by Offset Jean Genoud S. A. Lausanne. Engraving by Photogravure Dupuis & Cie Lausanne. Binding by Maurice Busenhart, Lausanne.
Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 8 black & white drawings by George Foster Barnes. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise excellent condition, illustrated cover with gilt lettering on spine.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 143 pages with 111 b&w photos. "This book presents a collection of socially and historically relevant photographs of Boston and vicinity, taken between 1890 and 1920 by G. Frank Radway, a highly perceptive if unknown photographer...." From the Introduction. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 683 pages, b&w illustrations. He was not much of a player and not much more of a manager, but by the time Branch Rickey (1881-1965) finished with baseball, he had revolutionized the sport--not just once but three times. In this definitive biography of Rickey--the man sportswriters dubbed "The Brain," "The Mahatma," and, on occasion, "El Cheapo"--Lee Lowenfish tells the full and colorful story of a life that forever changed the face of America's game. As the mastermind behind the Saint Louis Cardinals from 1917 to 1942, Rickey created the farm system, which allowed small-market clubs to compete with the rich and powerful. Under his direction in the 1940s, the Brooklyn Dodgers became truly the first "America's team." By signing Jackie Robinson and other black players, he single-handedly thrust baseball into the forefront of the civil rights movement. Lowenfish evokes the peculiarly American complex of God, family, and baseball that informed Rickey's actions and his accomplishments. His book offers an intriguing, richly detailed portrait of a man whose life is itself a crucial chapter in the history of American business, sport, and society.
Hardcover. Denver, CO, Fred and Jo Mazzulla, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 56 pages, b&w photographs. Light foxing to top edge. Very minor soiling to boards; covered by plastic dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NewYork, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Covers lightly bowed.
Softcover. London/NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 234 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when that commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber from Southeast Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key role in the many failed attempts to once again produce a significant rubber crop in Brazil. Dean traces the numerous attempts to plant rubber in Brazil, including the ill-fated Ford estates, and others established by the major multinational tire companies. He also analyzes the struggles of the Brazilian government to foster rubber development, in the hope of obtaining a domestic source of supply for national industries that are now dependent on imports from Southeast Asia. Bookseller label on rear cover otherwise clean.
Hardcover. US, Atlas & Co, 6th, 2008, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. SIGNED BY WATSON on title page. A history of the winter of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts that began when thousands of workers stormed out of the massive textile mills that lined the Merrimack River north of Boston. After receiving their paychecks that morning, they were protesting a pay cut, but were really on strike for their lives. Black and white photographs. Remainder line bottom edge, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VI in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 463 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 201 pages. A fascinating look at the theories behind fairy tales and fantasy. The works of J.R.R.Tolkien and his essay 'On Fairy Stories' is a major focus of the book as are German fairy tales or Marchen and Marx and Fairy tales. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, British Library, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, illustrated in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Breaking the Rules draws upon the British Library's unrivalled collection of artists' books, manifestos, little magazines, literary manuscripts, sound recordings, and posters from across Europe in order to explore the rapid exchange of ideas through printed matter that marked the avant-garde movement--and led to its presence in cities as diverse as London, Brussels, Munich, Zurich, Florence, Rome, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Prague, Tbilisi, Budapest, and Belgrade, among others.
Hardcover. Pennsylvania, Hermes Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Featuring artwork by the legendary Jerry Iger Studio and Brenda Starr Creator Gale Messick, this volume presents the remaining four Brenda Starr Pre-Code books, issues #9-12, and the very mod and 1960's version of Brenda drawn and scripted by Dale Messick. In addition to presenting Brenda Starr stories, this reprint also boasts all of the scintillating back-up features.
Hardcover. Zaltbommel NL, European Library, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth boards with black lettering to spine and front board, no dustwrapper. Old Photograph inlaid into front cover. Introduction followed by 108 old photographs (one to a page) with short caption notes. Bookplate on inside front cover, small name stamp on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st UK, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 189 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of the collecting mania in the 19th century & the transformation of art from an aesthetic experience to the acquisition of objects. Light shelf wear, clean copy.
Softcover. London, Seven Dials, Cassell & Co., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Softcover with French flaps. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Previous bookstore price tag on back cover. Edges of pages slightly yellow, otherwise very clean inside and out.
Hardcover. Richmond VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 190 pages, b&w illustrations, plates, portraits, maps, facsimile, genealogical tables. Internally very good, clean, but the rear cover has some of the top edge chewed away. Dust jacket present in name only with major loss to rear panel.
Hardcover. London/Portand OR, Fank Cass, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This work examines in a comparative historical way the socialist, liberal and conservative strands of Anglo-American anticommunist thought before the Cold War. In so doing, this book provides us with an intellectual pre-history of Cold War attitudes and policy positions. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Hardcover. Three-color decorated cloth cover boards. Gilt top edge. Some light fraying to top and bottom of spine. Pages offset, and some untrimmed. 9 full-page color illustrations, over 100 b/w illustrations, also 459 in-text illustrations. Some very light foxing and slight tanning to pages. History of English fashion through19th Centuries, including clergy, etc. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Plattsburgh, NY/ Elizabethtown, NY, Clinton County Historical Association/ Essex County Historical Society, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. Blue cwrappers with some faint smudges, small sticker on back, but otherwise very little wear. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.