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Album of Ten Chinese Botanical Gouache Paintings on Pith Paper

Album of Ten Chinese Botanical Gouache Paintings on Pith Paper

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$10,000.00
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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Title
Album of Ten Chinese Botanical Gouache Paintings on Pith Paper
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. Spectacular groupings of flowers, all brightly colored and finely shaded. N.d., early 19th Century. Oblong, 24 by 33 cm. Each of the paintings is framed with blue paper strips, as typical. Condition: as inevitable with the brittle, fragile pith paper, some tears, holes and stains; in our judgment and experience, lighter by the norm, or put another way, not disconcerting ever. The album binding itself has abrasions and wear, but again, this is lighter than what usually encounters with such album covers.
Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes: Old Creole Cookery. Book by H. M. Mayo

Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes: Old Creole Cookery. Book by H. M. Mayo by [Southern Pacific Company (Firm: San Francisco, Calif.); Henry Monroe Mayo; Elizabeth Kettenring Bégué; Bégué’s (Restaurant: New Orleans, La.)]

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$1,500.00
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Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
Title
Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes: Old Creole Cookery. Book by H. M. Mayo
Author
[Southern Pacific Company (Firm: San Francisco, Calif.); Henry Monroe Mayo; Elizabeth Kettenring Bégué; Bégué’s (Restaurant: New Orleans, La.)]
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
[San Francisco; Chicago: Southern Pacific Railroad]; [Printed by] Poole Bros, 1900. Duodecimo-size booklet (14.75 x 8.5 cm.), 80 pages. Blue and brown ink on pink paper. Two photographic portraits (Monsieur and Madame Bégué). Illustrations. List of railway agents. Title from cover. In logo at head of title: Southern Pacific Sunset Route. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A souvenir anthology of writings, including sixty recipes from two landmark New Orleans restaurants, offered for sale to customers traveling the Sunset Route (San Francisco–New Orleans) by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. A sampling: Mutton Feet à la Créole, Liver à la Bégué, Jambalaya of Chicken, Codish with White Beans, Bisque of Crayfish, Creamed Cauliflower, Onion Salad, Eggplant with Rice and Ham, Mayonaise of Celery and Shrimps, Pineapple with White Wine. ~ The title displayed on the wrappers is misleading: the atmospheric essays and testimonials – arranged by a literary journalist who contributed to Southern Pacific's promotional magazine Sunset, Henry Monroe Mayo (1868-1950) – reveal little regarding the eponymous originator of the recipes or the history of the cuisine that brought her fame. Only pages 47-68 contain recipes by Elizabeth (née Elisabetha) Kettenring (Dutreuil) Bégué (1831-1906), the proprietary chef of the beloved restaurant in the Vieux Carré – the second oldest such establishment in New Orleans – located on the Rue de la Levée (Decatur Street, after 1870), downriver from Jackson Square and across from the French Market. An immigrant from southern Germany, she had opened a coffee shop with her husband Louis Dutreuil in 1863. After his death in 1875, she married again, and with her second husband Hippolyte Bégué (1842-1917) reopened in the same location, with the aim of serving one meal per day – a “second breakfast” beginning at 11:00 a.m. – to accommodate laborers in the meat markets and on the docks who started work at dawn. (A fuller history by David Shields is available in his The Culinarians [Chicago: University or Chicago Press, 2017], pages 270-273.) By the mid-1880s, trade fairs held in the city were bringing tourists as well, and Bégué’s became a destination on its own. Madame Bégué died in 1906. The restaurant continued under management of her daughter, but was sold in 1914 to relatives of the family Tujague, competitors since 1856 on Decatur Street, a few doors away. ~ A shorter tribute with recipes (pages 69-74) is accorded another restaurateur, presumably Victor Béro (d. 1904), an immigrant from Belgium who had presided over Victor's Restaurant since 1873. (Mayo appears to confuse the "Monsieur Victor" of his time with the founder and namesake of the establishment, Victor Martin [1812-1865]; cf. Shields, page 136, 445). ~ The Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Company was the southernmost of the transport lines to the West Coast originally contemplated by the series of Pacific Railroad Acts between 1862 and 1866. Of the resulting publicly subsidized corporate consortia that would transform western North America – known collectively as the transcontinental railroads – Southern Pacific was already a mammoth system in 1900, including smaller subsidiaries such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, and extending across territories that would later become New Mexico and Arizona, as well as northwards through Nevada, Utah, and much of California. The in-house Sunset magazine appears to have been printed close to headquarters in San Francisco, but like many publications issued by the transportation industry, Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes was printed by Poole Brothers of Chicago, who advertised as "railway printers" and also produced tickets, brochures, and mileage tables. ~ Internally clean and sound; in publisher's red wrappers decorated in black and white, with an image of Madame Chef in kitchen apron. Wrappers with some rubbing and two small chips to the spine Near very good. Rare. [OCLC locates thirteen copies; Uhler 28; New Orleans Culinary History Group, page 13; not in Bitting, Brown, or Cagle].
Morale-Building Activities in Foreign Armies

Morale-Building Activities in Foreign Armies

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
Morale-Building Activities in Foreign Armies
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
(Washington, D.C.): Military Intelligence Service for Special Service Division War Department / (Government Printing Office), 1943. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 59pp. Illustrated from drawings. Stapled printed wrappers. Name of a 2nd Lt. on front wrap, both stamped and handwritten, else near fine. Printed "Restricted" on front wrap and title page. As ebook reprints of this title apparently exist, we're going to go out on a limb here and guess this is no longer restricted. The first edition is very uncommon.
Signature Series: V.

Signature Series: V.

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
Signature Series: V.
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
[Oneonta, New York]: Hartwick College, 1999. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Oblong tall octavo. 10pp. Printed sewn wrappers. Fine. Poems by Donald Justice, Albert Goldbarth, Molly Bendall, Deb Westbury, Brigit Kelly, Carl Phillips, David St. John and Carol Frost. Frost is the founder and director of the Catskill Poetry Workshop at Hartwick College. Handset, letterpress printed & bound by Elisa Provensen & Jo Mish at the printing office of the Farmers' Museum. *OCLC* locates one copy (Hartwick College).
The Bond: The Servicemen's Newspaper – Vol. 3, No. 12, December 16, 1969

The Bond: The Servicemen's Newspaper – Vol. 3, No. 12, December 16, 1969

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
The Bond: The Servicemen's Newspaper – Vol. 3, No. 12, December 16, 1969
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: The Bond, 1969. Unbound. Near Fine. Vol. 3, No. 12. Folio. One sheet, folded to make 4pp. Folded in half, a couple of small tears and creases, near fine overall. A Vietnam-era protest periodical, this issue includes an article about Paul David Meadlo who just a couple of weeks earlier was on national tv discussing his involvement in the My Lai massacre, in an interview with CBS's Mike Wallace. Also includes an article discussing other massacres throughout history.
Jonas Wood: Paintings and Drawings

Jonas Wood: Paintings and Drawings by WOOD, Jonas (artist); J.C. GABEL (editor)

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
Title
Jonas Wood: Paintings and Drawings
Author
WOOD, Jonas (artist); J.C. GABEL (editor)
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
Lower corners bumped, otherwise fine
Description
Los Angeles: David Kordansky Gallery, 2015. Lower corners bumped, otherwise fine. 13.75 x 10.75 inches. 68 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original printed boards. First edition. Published in conjunction with the 2015 exhibition at the David Kordansky Gallery, which included eighteen paintings and twenty-five drawings by Wood.
Richard Vasquez's Chicano First Edition, 1970

Richard Vasquez's Chicano First Edition, 1970 by Richard Vasquez

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Seller: Max Rambod Inc.
Title
Richard Vasquez's Chicano First Edition, 1970
Author
Richard Vasquez
Seller
Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1970. [Chicano Literature] Vasquez, Richard. Chicano. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1970. Stated first edition. 8vo; 376pp. Original black board with silver title on spine, pictorial dust jacket, mylar covering. Vasquez's Chicano quickly became a bestseller at the height of the Chicano rights and literary movement. It follows the Sandoval family who flee the disparity of the Mexican Revolution to begin a new life in the United States. The themes deal with cultural isolation, discrimination, bi-racial love, and the struggle of the Mexican-American immigrant family. Vasquez, being born and raised in the Latino community of Los Angeles, wrote Chicano with an honest and raw first hand perspective of the Mexican struggle in the United States. In 1952 he quit his construction job to become a full time writer. He wrote for multiple Southern California newspapers such as The Los Angeles Times and San Gabriel Valley Tribune as well as authored two additional books and spoke on social justice at universities. This novel is a quintessential piece of Chicano literature. Dust jacket has edge wear and a chip to top of spine, not price clipped, and covered in mylar. Binding is tight, text and pages are clean and crisp. Overall very good condition.
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TWO WORLDS by Anderson, Poul

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Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY
Title
TWO WORLDS
Author
Anderson, Poul
Seller
THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description
TWO WORLDS, Gregg Press, 1978, first hardcover edition, fine in like color pictorial dust-wrapper. Signed by the author. Collects QUESTION AND ANSWER & WORLD WITHOUT STARS. The former is the first hard-cover appearance of this title while the latter is the first American hard-cover appearance.
Rehersals for Murder

Rehersals for Murder by Ferrars, E.

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books
Title
Rehersals for Murder
Author
Ferrars, E.
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
New York: The Crime Club - Doubleday & Co, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo., 275pp. Solid Stated First Edition. Bound in pinkish cloth with titles in black on spine. Slight spine lean, Mottling to both boards. Offsetting to end-papers and paste-downs. Remnant from some sort of paper that was affixed to the rear paste-down. More attractive is the unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.00), which is rubbed at the front fold and edges. A few tiny nicks at the spine ends. Spine panel mildly toned. Still bright and fresh and uncommon in any condition. Not perfect for sure but a presentable collectable copy at a great price. (Hubin, p.278).
Catalogue and price list: Volunteer, Monarch, All-Right, Hormey & Page Safety Steam and Hot Water Heating Boilers.

Catalogue and price list: Volunteer, Monarch, All-Right, Hormey & Page Safety Steam and Hot Water Heating Boilers. by Author not stated.

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$25.00
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Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Title
Catalogue and price list: Volunteer, Monarch, All-Right, Hormey & Page Safety Steam and Hot Water Heating Boilers.
Author
Author not stated.
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
New York: William H. Page, 1912. Good. 19 cm; 67 [1] pages, illustrated. Gray and red printed wraps. Upper and lower wraps creased, frayed along spine. Some pencil annotations. Still, a sound and entire copy of this unusual survival. Information-laden catalogue of steam and hot-water boilers.
A Sailor's Sketch of the Sacramento Valley in 1842

A Sailor's Sketch of the Sacramento Valley in 1842 by Yates, John

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Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB
Title
A Sailor's Sketch of the Sacramento Valley in 1842
Author
Yates, John
Seller
Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Shelfwear else a near fine unopened (uncut) copy.
Description
Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, Univ. of California, 1971. First edition. Paper wrappers. Shelfwear else a near fine unopened (uncut) copy.. Illus. with 1 color folding map. Sm. 4to. No. 19 in the series of Keepsakes issued by the Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members. Ferol Egan, intro. and notes.

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