Cooking at Cooktique: Over 200 International Food Classics from a Teaching Kitchen by Lehrer, Sylvia - 1984

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil: Sextante, 2005. Rare Signed Portuguese Language Point of Impact by Dan Brown em Portugues do Brasil 8vo size trade paperback with interior flaps like a dust jacket; 440 pages From back: "Quando um novo satelite de NASA encontra um estranho objeto escondido nas profundezas do Artico, a agencia especial aproveita o impacto da sua descoberta para contornar uma grave crise financeira e de credibilidade. O peso dessa revelacao acarreta serias implicacoes para a politica espacial norte-americana e, sobretudo, para a iminente eleicao presidencial." "When a new NASA satelite finds a strange object hidden deep in the Arctic, the special agency takes advantage of the impact of its discovery to get around a serious financial crisis and credibility. The weight of this revelation entails serious implications for US space policy and, above all, for the imminent presidential election." Tear to spine cover extends onto front covers, wrinkles on spine, creases and… Read More

Baton Rouge, LA: Legacy Publishing Company, 1979. Signed and inscribed by author on fep. 213 pages; dust jacket has wear and tear including several tears and a large chip on back; light soil on top and side. From jacket: "...before (Otis Stone, M.D.) can return to the safety of his home in Washington, D.C. he becomes hopelessly trapped in the small Southern town where everyone is related to everyone else and the hospital administrator snares new doctors by persuading his nephew mechanic not to fix the cars which have swerved off the incompleted Eisenhower Bridge..." Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. Signed by author on ffep. First Edition with full numberline 302 pages plus a center section of color photographs on glossy stock From jacket: "Tania Aebi is the first American woman - and the youngest person ever - to sail around the world alone. (This book) tells the story of the coming-of-age of this troubled young girl - an 18-year-old whose life was going nowhere until she made the inner journey that would prove to be just as extraordinary as her true-life edge-of-the-seat adventure. Tania was a teenager working as a bicycle messenger in New York CIty and hanging out in Lower East Side bards until 4:00 a.m. when her father offered her a challenge: Tania could choose either a college education or a 26-foot sloop. The only catch was that if she chose the sailboat she would have to sail around the world - alone - and do some growing up along the way." Jacket is price clipped; light wear to jacket, bumped head and heel of spine and some very light… Read More

New York: Abbeville Press, 1992. Signed and inscribed by photographer Nevada Weir on title pages. 216 very heavy glossy pages. Dust jacket has only light rubbing and edgewear. Extra shipping for this heavy volume applies to any service other than US Media Mail. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Illustrator. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Wier, Nevada. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Bantam, 1986. Signed and with a lengthy inscription on fep. Rare signed copy and rare signature of the late actress. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with photo illustrated dust jacket; 270 pages From jacket: "(In March 1982) a man approached (actress Theresa Saldana) ... then began to attack her with a five-inch kitchen knife. He was determined to kill her - and he almost succeeded, stabbing her ten times, all over her body... (This book) is both the story of her hospital ordeal - her reactions, rage, torments, fears - and that of her determined climb back to living... She played the starring role in the television film about her experience, and went on to found Victims for Victims, a national organization dedicated to helping victims of crime." Ms. Saldana died in 2016. Book is bumped at head and heel of spine and three corners; bottom front corner is worn. Jacket has moderate wear with some creasing and minor chipping and a one inch and two inch tear on… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Nathaniel Dame & Company, 1967. Limited edition of 130 copies. This is book number 12. The "12" is inked in by hand. Signed and dated on the fep by co-author Mignon Rubenovitz (also on fep pencilled notation and price.) Rabbi Rubenovitz died prior to the publication of this volume. 8vo size hardcover, dust jacket in faux buckram covered slipcase. Cover underneath dust jacket is a rich mahogany color embossed in a maze pattern; 295 crisp, clean pages in excellent condition. From dust jacket: "How did it all begin? Conservative Judaism, The United Synagogue of America, Religious Education for Jewish Youth, Hadassah, the Jewish Women's League...where did these and many other groups and programs come from? The story is told in a vividly human account of fifty years of devoted labor by a rabbi and his wife dedicated to spread the gospel of Conservative Judaism and Zionism throughout New England... It began after the turn of the century, when Rabbi Rubenovitz… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1964. Laid inside front cover is a letter handwritten dated December 4, 1964 and signed by the author and and addressed to Mrs. Briggs, it also references Ambassador Ellis Briggs, so it has quite an interesting provenance. Briggs was a career diplomat, Ambassador to seven countries in 37 years of service and received the Medal of Freedom from President Eisenhower. This 48 page pamphlet has an illustrated cover with light soil. Some pages tips are turned at the bottom; pencilled price on title page. Bottom corner and title page previously folded. One of the Columbia Essays on Modern Writers. Number 5. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Stapled Pamphlet. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Scribner, 2003. Very rare Advance Reader's Edition, Uncorrected Proof. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. From back: (This book) weaves together two fascinating narratives that merge in a dramatic and surprising conclusion as a daughter's struggle to understand the father she never knew becomes a journey of self-discovery and self-realization, opening her to the possibilities of a new life and new love. Back cover has marketing plan for this title. This copy has been read. Some wear to covers, bookplate with name blacked out on fep; some light soil on inside back cover; curl to page tips at very front and very back of book. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Advance Reading Copy ARC. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading… Read More

Pomegranate, 2004. 8vo sized square hardcover with dust jacket, pictorial cover underneath jacket shows the same image. Unpaginated, more than 100 pages, profusely illustrated. Inscribed and signed by author on fep. From jacket: "Mark Hertzberg has written - and photographed - the first book to tie together all the Racine works of Frank Lloyd Wright, whose revolutionary designs galvanized American architecture...Hertzberg punctuates his lively, personalized account with anecdotes from people who worked or lived in Wright's creations and with inviting color photographs..." Contents include: Private Homes: The Hardy House, The Roy Peterson House, The Keland House; Public Buildings: SC Johnson Administration Building, Airport Lounge/Cafe Project, YWCA; Affordable Housing: The Monolith Homes, The Johnson Homes, more plus Appendixes, Endnotes, Bibliography. Inside jacket flap may be price clipped and there is some light wear to dust jacket. . Signed by Author. First. Hard Cover.… Read More

Apifera Press, 2013. Stated First Printing Private Press; 2013 8vo size pictorial hardcover with black and white photo illustrated endpapers; unpaginated - more than 50 pages with many full page illustrations and photographs Signed on half title page and inscribed "Love from the Misfits." From back: "(The author moved to a farm and) began adopting old and needy animals into her barnyard. These are the misfits... As I massaged their old joints and communed amongst them without words, a remarkable thing happened - that silence created an internal, safe space for me to float with memories, helping me work through my own grief and understand and accept life as it is." Bumped bottom corner and some light scratches on back cover. . Signed by Author. First. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press.