[Vienna: AO&, 2009-2010]. Folio, [78] pages. Full color and black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. This book documents approximately twenty interventions by the Austrian art collective AO& between 2009-2010. Consisting of its founding members, Philipp Furtenbach, Phillip Riccabona, and Thomas A. Wisser, AO& explores the intersection of food and place, taking inspiration from sources as diverse as Fluxus and molecular gastronomy. According to their own manifesto, “AO& is a semi-nomadic.....

[New York]: Gotham Book Mart, [1974]. Stapled, letter-sized booklet (8 x 11"), 14 pages, printed rectos only. Fully illustrated in black and white. Six pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. FIRST EDITION, ordinary issue (there was a signed and lettered issue of twenty-six copies). An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his pen and ink drawings at the Gotham Book Mart. Very light toning, otherwise.....

Amsterdam: De Spieghel, 1927. Portfolio (29 x 21 cm.), [48] pages, with twenty one hand-colored plates, all on a sturdy, thick card stock. FIRST EDITION, limited & signed, Roman numeral III of seven copies in portfolio form, signed by Bodenheim. There was also a state with 100 copies, in book form, bound in a Japanese style and printed on Japon Van Gelder. Rhymes by Lizzy Ansingh, with drawings by Nelly.....

San Francisco: International Airport/Community Arts, 1986. Small octavo in wrappers (16.5 x 13 cm.), 80 pages. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. FIRST EDITION. In 1980, the San Francisco International Airport developed an exhibitions program to "humanize the airport environment and to showcase the Bay Area's unique cultural life." This 1986 exhibition catalogue includes the one hundred sixty-nine item exhibition list with over thirty recipes from area restaurants, including Alice.....

Phoenicia, NY: Woodstock Editions, 2000. Two volumes, unpaginated, with black and white photographs. Quarto ( x cm.), boards covered in butcher paper, boxed. Text in French and English. FIRST EDITION, limited to 2000 numbered copies signed by Gissinger. An exchange in words and images between photographer Hans Gissinger and chef Marc Meneau, this book provides a sharp contrast to what is usually considered "food photography". The black and white images.....

Rochester: Humpy Press / Light Impressions, 1979. Square duodecimo, unpaginated. Illustrated with twenty-eight black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. An artist's book from Les Krims, in which the artist's mother demonstrates the step-by-step method for preparing her chicken soup. The book also includes Mrs. Krims' recipes for kreplach and matzo balls. Fine in photographically illustrated wrappers. A scarce photographic artist’s book and doubly so in that it is signed and.....

[Switzerland or Germany: circa 1835]. Folio notebook; loose gatherings in separate, ribbon-tied boards (38 x 25 cm.). Two hundred forty original drawings, with accompanying manuscript text, on individual trimmed leaves, each mounted thematically with others of its type, with brass pins to the inside of folio double leafs. Text is in German, with some plant names also in Latin. The lot housed in the original string-tied portfolio boards, heavy green.....

Venezia [Venice, Italy]: La Colomba, [1962]. Single-folded menu, (13 x 13 inches), with screen printed typo-pictorial design in green, bland, and orange. Verso printed in the same colors with food offerings and prices. A menu designed by the Belgian surrealist E.L.T. Mesens, probably created for the design contest of famed Venice art bistro La Colomba. Signed "Mesens 62" in the lower left-hand corner, and further inscribed in 1964 by Mesens.....

Bangkok, [Thailand]: 1903. Die-cut, pen and ink, and watercolor menu (17 x 13 cm.). Text in printed in French on the verso and in Thai on the recto. The fanciful menu for a dinner in honor of Prince Maha Valiravudh of Siam, depicts a royal procession. Printed fare, includes both Western and Thai dishes, including: Dindon Froid, Oie Rotie Froide, Aspci de Foie Gras, Jambon d'Yorck, Petits Fours, and Creme.....

New York: Printed Matter, Inc., 1978. Oblong perfect-bound book (12.7 x 20.3 cm.), [unpaginated]. FIRST EDITION, from an unnumbered edition of 1000. Three postal or mail art works by Martha Rosler combined into one offset printed artist's book. Contains "A Budding Gourmet," "McTowers Maid," and "Tijuana Maid." "This is a book of three novels and one translation. In their original form the novels were sent through the mail as postcard.....

[the artist], 2000. Plastic comb-bound book (15 x 10 cm.), 16, [1] pages. Illustrated in black and white and with color ink jet prints pasted down onto blank leaves; a yellow Post-it with handwritten note, "vomit", and a short handwritten text, "other side of the hole" with a pinhole by the artist in the final leaf (note the copy reproduced in Bessire's monograph has no modifications). Signed by the artist.....