New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Publishers, [1939]. Octavo (24 x 19.5 cm.), 258, [3] pages. Printed throughout in black, red, navy, an brown. Designed by the great mid-century book designer Armitage and printed by Lynton R. Kistler. FIRST EDITION. In addition to essays by the contributors listed above, the book contains recipes by various famous figures of the 1930s, including Raymond Loewy, Rockwell Kent, The Browns, Edgar Varese, Feodor.....
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Amsterdam: De Spieghel, 1927. Folio, [48] pages, twenty one hand-colored plates, All the plates are on a sturdy, thick card stock (29 x 21cm). First edition, signed and limited. Roman numeral III of a limitation of seven copies in portfolio form, signed by Bodenheim. With an additional inscription dated 1941, signed by Bodenheim and Ansingh. There was also an edition of 100 copies, in book form, bound in a Japanese.....
New York: Macmillan, 1950. Octavo, 128 pages. First edition. A collection of poetry, by the Pulitzer prize winning writer, poet and professor. Coffin was a native of Brunswick, ME. Lightly foxed, otherwise near fine in publisher's green cloth, with a price clipped, but otherwise very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, "With best wishes, Robert Tristam P. Coffin," and with an ink drawing of a seabird over waves, with.....
Kassel: Fotoforum Kassel, 1983. Oblong octavo ( x cm.), unpaginated. FIRST EDITION, one of 1200 unnumbered copies. A photographic artist book about the work of Robert Heinecken, conceptualized and realized by Suzanne Pastor, who took on the subjects of food, sex and tv. Included are images from the series of documentary photograms of Heinecken's breakfast or dinner (1971). Near fine in photo-illustrated wrappers.
(Vienna): AO&, (2009-2010). Folio, [78] pages. (First edition). Full color and black and white photographs. 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.....
Phoenicia, NY: Woodstock Editions, 2000. Two volumes, unpaginated, with black and white photographs. Quarto, boards covered in butcher paper, boxed. First edition, one of 2000 copies, signed by Gissinger and numbered. This book, an exchange in words and images between photographer Hans Gissinger and chef Marc Meneau, provides a sharp contrast to what is usually considered "food photography". The black and white images reveal the grisly processes of haute cuisine;.....
Phoenicia, NY: Woodstock Editions, 2001. Folio, 194 pages with 58 full page color plates. First edition, limited to 500 copies signed by Gissinger and numbered. Nearly sixty "portraits" of salamis taken by Gissinger on his travels through Milan's salumeria, with a funny and erudite series of essays by Oberlé as accompaniment. Text in French and English. In the artist's salami-pattern printed cloth; edges of text block also with salami pattern.....
[Ipswich, UK: W.S. Cowell Ltd., 1956]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (23.5 x 16.5 cm.), [12] pages. Designed for Guinness by SH Benson Ltd.; illustrations by Antony Groves-Raines. FIRST EDITION. A marvelous printed promotional item for the Guinness Co., with fanciful designs – one for each month of the year – printed in color throughout. These booklets were sent annually to doctors from 1933-1939, then 1950-1966, after which the Christmas Guinness.....
[London: John Waddington Limited, 1950]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (23.5 x 16.5 cm.), [16] pages. Designed for Guinness by SH Benson Ltd.; illustrations by Antony Groves-Raines. FIRST EDITION. A marvelous printed promotional item for the Guinness Co., with fanciful designs – one for each month of the year – printed in color throughout. These booklets were sent annually to doctors from 1933-1939, then 1950-1966, after which the Christmas Guinness Book.....
[London: John Waddington Limited, 1939]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (24 x 15.5 cm.), [20] pages. Designed for Guinness by SH Benson Ltd.; illustrations by Antony Groves-Raines. FIRST EDITION. A marvelous printed promotional item for the Guinness Co., with fanciful designs – one for each month of the year – printed in color throughout. These booklets were sent annually to doctors from 1933-1939, then 1950-1966, after which the Christmas Guinness Book.....
Toronto: Arterial Books, 1976. Oblong quarto, 73 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. First edition of this artist book about - well, zucchini. The book group out of a pair of performance exhibitions given in Toronto in 1973 and 1974, and contains a brief history of the prolific squash, along with recipes for a 30 course zucchini meal, and a series of fun photos of the vegetable as hood.....
Dixfield, ME and Sioux Falls, SD: Jewett Bros & Jewett and Holt Brothers Print Shop, 1917-1918. Seven items in various sizes. This collection contains two renderings on tissue paper, a box template with handwritten notes, three order forms, and a note with cost calculations, all regarding the design and production of High Grade Brand toothpick boxes for Jewett Bros & Jewett of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The artwork and order.....
Leipzig und Nordhauser: Heinrich Killinger, n.d. c. 1910. Quarto, Fifty-four double page chromolithograph plates of prize-winning cake decorations. The plates are lovely, and the styles vary widely, from Vienna Secessionist to more traditional. With a tiny bit of adhesion to a few plates, otherwise the plates are bright and generally very good. Some soiling to edges of text block, and a bit of rubbing to the decorated blue cloth boards.....
Rochester, NY: the photographer, 1972. Small folding box (14 x 15 cm.), with two folding sheets containing text by Robert Sobieszek, and ten black and white prints. FIRST EDITION, limited, numbered 1047/4000 copies and signed by the author on the second text leaf. Internally fine; publisher’s blue folding box, with photographically illustrated title pasted-down to top panel, rubbed and slightly split at corners. Still, generally very good. [Not in Roth.....
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.....
Rochester: Humpy Press / Light Impressions, 1979. Square duodecimo, unpaginated. Illustrated with twenty-eight black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. A photographic artist 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.
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 ditto with food offerings and prices. Designed by the important Belgian surrealist, probably created for the famed art bistro's design contest. Signed "Mesens 62" in the lower left hand corner, and further inscribed in 1964 by Mesens to his long time friend and accomplice, the.....
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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.....
Niagara Falls: Press Today, 1966. Stapled booklet (13.5 x 10.5 cm.), [12] pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION, one of 150 copies printed via mimeograph. Unprinted brown wrappers purposefully trimmed smaller than the text block. Light offsetting from the wraps to verso of final leaf, else fine.
London: Atlas Press, 1995. Near-square octavo (23.5 x 21 cm.), unpaginated. Housed in publisher's two-chamber slipcase together with the separately printed fold-out photo-collage "Cubist View of My Room," here in the form of a six-color screenprint by Uldry Serigraphie printed on 105g Tyvek, in printed and embossed chemise and wraparound band. Number 48 of 100 copies, published in the series Atlas Arkhive, documents of the avant-garde. Signed on the embossed.....
Berkeley, Cal. Saint Heironymous Press, 1970. Paper portfolio with thirty loose prints of various sizes. Printed cardstock folder (39 x 31 cm.), with thirty prints on heavy paper. Fourth Printing of the first publication of famed Berkeley chef Alice Waters, originally issued the year prior to the opening of her restaurant Chez Panisse. Waters, and Chez Panisse, went on to be a cornerstone of California Cuisine restaurants, and is undoubtedly.....
New York: Bianchini Gallery, 1966. Exhibition announcement, single sheet of coated cardstock, 24 x 24cm. Watts, to some known as Doctor Bob, was an early participant in Fluxus activities, as well as a participant in the landmark exhibit, "The American Supermarket" at the Bianchini Gallery in 1964, along with Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenberg. Much of Watts' early work dealt with themes of food, homewares and the garden, and his.....