Search Results: Titles starting with I from Chanticleer Books

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. Paperback. Fine. Small octavo, decorative printed paper wrappers, [12] pp.

n.p.: Fratelli Melita Editoriale, (1988). Hardcover. A fine set, books and dustjackets are clean and unworn. 6 volumes, quartos, original red cloth,1230 pp. Color plates from photographs throughout. Each volume with several blanks for notes and added recipes at rear. Organized in 18 sections: First volume - Gli antipasti; i primi con la pasta; i primi con il riso; le minestre. Second volume -, I piatti unici; i secondi con la carne; i secondi col pollame.Third volume - I secondi con il pesce; i secondi con le verdure; i secondi con la cacciagione. Fourth volume - I secondi col formaggio; i contorni; i funghi; le sale e il sughi; marmellate e conserve. Fifth volume - Dolci e desserts; i vini italinai dall'A alla Z. t. Sixth volume - I migliori menu. "Cook Perfect" - an exhaustive encyclopedia of modern Italian cooking. Recipes of all kinds for every course, with suggested Italian wine accompanyments. Last volume has suggested menus. Not found on OCLC or on OPAC Biblioteca nazionale… Read More

no place: (University Printing Co.), no date (circa 1910-1920). First edition (?). Bit of loss at top of spine, lower front corner tip chipped, rear wrapper creased, else very good. 128 pp., printed wrappers, 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Signed recipes of all types. 1 copy on OCLC/World Cat. Not in any culinary bibliography.

San Francisco: Illuminations Press, 1965. First edition. Minor wear to spine fold of second number, else both near fine. 2 number, original wrappers. First number 18 x 11.5 inches, 10 numbered loose sheets printed on rectos only; second number has 42 loose sheets most printed on recto and verso A short-lived poetry/arts magazine

Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Minor scuffs to covers, short split to bottom of rear joint, foxing to frontispiece and many of the photogravure plates, else overall near fine. Large quarto (12 x 9.5 inches), full dark brown morocco with cover ornaments and title stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt.; viii, 737 pp., illustrated with frontispiece portrait engraving of Hon. George Johnson, Attorney General of California, many plates of important buildings, several fine photo-engraved portrait plates with tissue guards, etc. A fine history of Sonoma County with general overview of early years of settlement, Mexican land grants, Bear Flag Revolt, etc. Much information for the potential immigrant, including agriculture, topography, weather, etc. The 2 largest cities, Santa Rosa and Petaluma, are each granted a chapter. Another chapter is devoted to the histories of the smaller townships. Many biographies of prominent citizens. Engraved illustration of the Stamer &… Read More

London / New York: J.M. Dent / G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. Limited edition. Covers moderately worn, endpapers foxed, plates fine with 20 tissue guards present. Folio (15 x 10.5 inches), wood-grain cloth spine and black card covers with printed paper label, 21 facsimile reproductions of William Blakes engravings. Limited edition (1000 copies) facsimile reproduction of the 1825 original edition.

(Taipei), 1973. Hardcover. Very good. Original red cloth, about 400 pp., 100s of illustrations, text in Chinese throughout.

NY: Thames & Hudson, (1979). First edition. A fine copy, book and dustjacket quite clean and unworn. Original pale green cloth, quarto (9 x 12 inches), 191 pp. 64 color plates, 80+ b/w woodcuts and engravings. A detailed study of the medieval and early renaissance herbal books.

New York: American Art Association, 1914. First edition. Paperback. Good. unpaginated (approx 200 pp); profusely illustrated with 3 color plates with tissue guards, 18 full page plates printed in blue, many more plates and text illustrations in halftone; original printed wrappers over plain card, 10.5 x 7 inches. Moderate wear and toning to wrappers, about 20 pages with price annotations in margin, else near very good. 1027 items described in full. This important sale was conducted by the American Art Association at the American Art Galleries over a period of 6 days in February and March, 1914. Collector Solomon Solis Carvalho (1856-1942), was the son of Solomon Nunes Carvalho, the artist who accompanied John C. Fremont on the 1853 expedition to the Rockies. A successful newpaperman and journalist, S. S. Calvelo's career included a long association with Joseph Pulitzer before leaving Pulitzer's "New York World" for William Randolph Hearst's "New York Journal" during the bitter circulation war… Read More

University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, (2002). First paperback edition. Paperback. Light wear to wrappers, but about very good. 227 pp., illustrated; pictorial wrappers, 11 x 8.5 inches. A scholarly survey of medieval bible illustrations.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Spine gilt dulled, else fine. xi, 142 pp. + [5] pages publisher advertisements at rear; octavo, original dark blue cloth with gilt title. "Dalcroze Eurythmics" was developed in the late 19th century by Swiss music educator Emile Jaques-Dalcroze as a method of early music training based on integrating rythym and body movement.

London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1899. First trade edition. Spine a bit faded, foxing to endpapers, tissue guards, and some plate margins. Fore-edge ribbon ties missing.. Original red cloth, octavo, xxiv, 241 pp. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 44 stereoviews (including frontispiece, plate "B" in the preface and 42 numbered plates), many diagrams in the text. Tissue guards. Lacking stereoscope and instructions for its use - and the pocket which should contain them on the inside of the rear board. Interesting travel narrative by an English academician who traveled from New York to California. Quite a bit on Yellowstone, Yosemite, San Francisco, etc. In his preface, the author claims this to be only the second published book to be illustrated with stereo views. Flake 6416

Irvine: Irvine Museum, (1996). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket a slipcase. (200) pp., profusely illustrated with color plates throughout, color pictorial jacket. A study of the impressionist movement throughout California from the mid-19th century to 1930. This volume was produced as a companion to a public television documentary series.

Chicago: Belford-Clarke, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Tastefull vintage bookplate to front fixed endpaper, slight wear to spine ends, else fine. Original dark brown cloth with title and cover ornament in gilt and black, small octavo, 154 pp. BAL 13821 (first edition copies bound in different color cloth with no determined precedence).

Koln: Taschen, 2003. Hardcover. Fine, entirely clean and unworn, no previous owner markings. 415 pp., profusely illustrated with color reproductions from medieval illuminated bibles; folio, color pictorial cloth. Beautifully presented study of medieval illuminated bibles with many fine reproductions from the collection of the Austrian National Library.

Hastings-on-Hudson: Valentine's Manual, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fairly worn pictorial jacket - complete but with chips and closed tears. 422 pp., profusely illustrated from engravings, halftones, line drawings, etc, many are full-page and 8 in color; octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title. "A vivid picture of life as it was lived [in New York] before the close of the century illustrated with over a hundred contemporaneous pictures in black and white and eight full pages in color." Scarce in jacket.

Yosemite and Oakland: The Old Cabin, Yo Semite Valley and Pacific Press, 1888. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Front joint neatly split from top to bottom though board is held firmly in place by sewing cords and cloth inner hinge, lettering pieces chipped, brief Christmas 1900 gift inscription to back of Hutchings' portrait, else near fine.. xii, 496 pp.; frontispiece and 155 illustrations, including 3 maps (1 folding, 1 full-page, 1 in-text), many full-page plates, including many "photo-typos" printed by Britton & Rey. 1 wood-engraved botanical plate printed in red. This copy with extra plate not included in the list of illustrations; 8vo, publisher's full speckled sheep, morocco lettering pieces, octavo, marbled endpapers. James Mason Hutchings (1820-1902) spent much of his life in and around Yosemite and the high Sierra and was instrumental in promoting Yosemite Valley as a tourist destination. His "In the Heart of the Sierras" was the crowning achievement of his career as a writer and publisher.… Read More

n.p.: Southern Pacific Lines, [1928]. First edition. Rubbed and retouched area at center of rear board, else fine.. Original reptile-skin patterned boards, oblong quarto ( 8.75 x 15 inches), 20 leaves printed on rectos only. 9 large group photographs, several portrait photos of SP executives. Laid in loose are 1 5.5 x 9.5-inch cyanotype photo print of a locomotive works and 1 vintage 6 x 8.5-inch silver print photograph of a coal-fired locomotive and crew. Also laid in is a typed letter dated San Francisco, July 3, 1929, signed J. N. Clark to Mr. O. B. Schoenky presenting this album. Dated ink stamp recording receipt of Southern Pacific Co., Los Angeles, Cal. July 5, 1929 at top of sheet. Both sender and recipient are pictured in the management portraits portion of the album. Founded in 1865, 1929 was Southern Pacific's heyday, with 13,848 miles of their own track. A fine piece of railroading history.

NY: Century Co., 1903. First edition, first printing. Moderate overall wear, old cello tape mends at spine ends, but near very good. Complete magazine with all pages, illustrations, advertisements, etc.. Original printed wrappers. An earlier version of this story was published in 1895 in "The High School Aegis" as "A Night's Swim in Yeddo Bay." Eventually published in book form in the 1922 collection Dutch Courage and Other Stories. (Walker & Sisson #66; Woodbridge #688).

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Fading to covers, else very good. Original printed wrappers, octavo, vi, 274 pp. Inscribed on title page by progressive Texas Senator Ralph Webster Yarborough (1903-1996) to Famed California bookseller, editor, publisher, Jack Reynolds (1915-1993): "For Jack Reynolds who likes literature, and can find it in the Addresses of Jefferso, Lincoln, and Kennedy, my favorite addresses, Ralph W. Yarborough, US Sen - Tex, Washington, DC, Oct. 25, 1965."