Search Results: Food from Brillig Books

New York: Gallery Books, 1983. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, dark brown cloth covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. 141 pp. including index and glossary. Very generously illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs and drawings and diagrams. A clean, tight, crisp, unmarked volume with very fresh cloth, in a crisp, sharp, tight unblemished dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books Llc, 1997. Book. As New. Soft cover. Tall octavo, pictorial illustrated self=wraps (trade paperback). 160 pp. including index. The best available history of this infamouos French spriit and its legal prohibiton. Generously illustrated throughout with reproductions of paintings, posters, labels and vintage photographs. AS NEW..

New York: William Morrow, 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto, blue cloth spine over red paper covered boards. 285pp. including picture credits, extensive index and bibliography. Generously illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. A complete social history of popular dining out in America, from grand hotels to cafeterias, coffee shops, saloons, pizzerias and fast food. A very tight, clean, fresh, and unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, sparkling dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..

New York: Macmillan, 1989. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Later Printing. Very thick octavo, illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 632 pp. including index and glossary of Russian ingredients. Considered to be THE DEFINITIVE book in English on traditional Russian Cooking. A great copy of this comprehensive book. Very square, tight, crisp, glossy, clean, unmarked and apparently unread with a flat uncreased spine. A great copy. Surprisingly uncommon in collectible condition..

Minneapolis, MN: Pillsbury Flour Mills Company, 1933. First Edition. Octavo, aluminum clamshell box with black decorative title and blindstamped spine titles, with interior spiral binding coils holding individual printed recipes. Each of the 238 recipes is on a separate removable paper 5" x 3" "cards" with each dish titled and complete ingredients and instructions. The recipes are divided by tabbed full page cards (e.g. Bread Cakes, Desserts, Luncheon and Supper Dishes, Meat, Menus, etc.). Each of the cards is printed with sage advice for the totally inexperienced home cook in the manner of early "home economics" theories. Blank "cards" in the front for personal recipes. This volume is in excellent condition. Only one of the blank cards has been used, none of the cards shows wear at the coils, food stains, creases, tears, etc. Inevitable light tanning from the paper stock used. Otherwise, unmarked and virtually unused. The exterior aluminum box is in… Read More

NY: Grosset and Dunlap, (1974)., 1974. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First U.S. Edition. Quarto, red cloth covered boards with gilt cover decoration and gilt spine title. 271pp. including index. Illustrated throughout with color photographs (many full page). Printed and bound in Italy by Fabbri, a lovely production by one of the masters of writing on European cookery. Very slight toning to very edge of pages, else fine. Very near fine in fine dust jacket..

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, light brown cloth covered boards with red border decorations. Top edge stained red. 322 pp. A really startling well preserved copy of this collection with perfectly fresh, cloth an absolutely solid top edge and a very bright, fresh, clean, unblemished and unmarked interior. Marred only by a neat felt tip remainder mark tucked in at the spine on bottom edge. In an equally well-preserved unclipped dust jacket which is tight, clean, crisp and beautiful. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new..

White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 2001. Book. Illus. by Belkis Ramirez. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, purple cloth spine over white paper covered boards. 53 pp. Publisher's card laid in. Illustrated with about a dozen woodcuts by Dominican Republic artist Belkis Ramirez including the woodcut illustrated dust jacket. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, bright, tight, dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Art, 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong quarto, bright green cloth covered boards with silver title and spine titles.292pp. including index. Illustrated throughout with color photographs of paintings and sculpture from the Carnegie Institute's Scaife Museum of Art. Works from from Chardin to Warhol, Matisse, Degas etc. along with elaborate table presentations of the dishes and recipes. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, dust jacket with a tiny closed tear at top forecorner tip. Fine in near fine dust jacket..

Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1992. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, red cloth spine over tan paper covered boads. 179 pp. including index and glossary. An excellent introduction to this coastal Spanish/French cooking of a culture which is completely its own linguistically as well as gastronomically. The cooking which adds lustre to Barcelona's fame and the original location of sofrito and paella. With a special chapter on the Wines of Catalunya. A beautiful, very tight, bright, clean, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, sparkling dust jacket. With publisher's review material laid in. Fine in fine dust jacket. Flawless. BRAND NEW..

Assouline, 2002. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Oversized octavo, grey paper covered boards with white title and spine titles. Photo-illustrated endpapers. 239 pp. including index. Generously illustrated throughout with color photographs. The recipes, ambience and story of the 2010 James Beard Award winner for Best Restaurant. SIGNED BY BOULUD on a printed bookplate on front pastedown "Bonne Fetes et Bon Apettit December 2002, A very tight, clean , fresh, bright, unmarked, unread and unblemished volume in a tight, crisp, sharp, glossy unclipped dust jacket. A collector's copy. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Tyler, TX: Self-published, 1928. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, red cloth covered boards with gilt title. 208pp. including index and blank pages for notes. A very tight, unmarked volume with clean, crisp interior and clear gilt. A few trifling touches of soil to exterior, else fine. Near fine..

New York: Random House, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth spine over pale green paper covered boards with copper gilt spine titles. 302 pp. A very tight, clean, unmarked and unread volume with bright titles and fresh boards in a crisp, sharp, clean, tight dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. Quarto, grey cloth covered boards, 160pp. Very generously illustrated througout with full color photographs. Each sign has a chapter of recipes begiinnig with the attributes, the envrionments and the foods for that particular sign of the Zodiac. Plus a chapter on Foods of Love and Foods for Profit. Your culinary guide to the stars or your stellar guide to cuisine. A beautiful untouched volume with bright fresh, crisp, unmarked interior in a crisp, sharp. bright dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..

2003. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Small quarto, pale rose colored paper covered boards with gilt spine titles. 272 pp. including index. Illustrated throughout with full color photographs of prepared dishes. Elegant dishes from this leading New York restaurant illlustrating a range of classic cooking techniques Colicchio is a James Beard Award winner. A tight, clean, fresh volume with sparkling gilt and pristine interior, unmarked and unread in a crisp, tight, sharp, glossy, unclipped dust jacket. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

New York: New Press, 2004. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. 16mo, black cloth spine over cream colored boards. 326pp. including index and extensive notes and appendices. An exhaustive indictment of the agribusiness and fast food model of the American diet which has brought obesity and other chronic disease to the American public. A very tight, clean, bright, fresh, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp bright dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

New York: Fordham University Press, 1990. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Large octavo, illustrated scarlet stiff wraps.287pp. including index and bibliography. Illustrated with black and white reproductions and line drawings. A well-researched compendium of traditional English dishes from the pages of Conan Doyle's famous detective Sherlock Holmes. A very tight, clean, bright volume with a flat uncreased spine. FINE..

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1976), 1976. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Tall octavo, (7" x 10"), brown cloth spine over green paper covered boards. 239pp. including indices and bibliography. Illustrated with black and white drawings. Faithful renditions of Victorian recipes that were found in the Sherlock Holmes novels with lengthy quotations and settings from the work to which they are related. A very tight, clean, bright, fresh, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, bright price-clipped dust jacket. Fine in near fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy virtually as new..

New York: Abbeville Press, 1989. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Oblong quarto, black cloth covered boards with red title and spine titles. 120pp. including index and bibliography. Very generously illustrated throughout with brilliant full color full page photographs of teapots in every shape, color and motif except the usual. A vivid tour through the eccentric and decorative teapots of modern art. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, sparkling dust jacket with original publishers mailing card laid in. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. BRAND NEW..

Butterworth, 2007. Book. As New. Soft cover. First Edition. Large octavo, yellow and blue stiff wraps (paperback). 397 pp. including index of securities-related websites by country. A comprehensive study of the laws, regulations, structures and legal and communications issues of electronic stock, bond and currency exchanges in online transactions, both domestic and international. Tight, square, crisp, stiff, fresh, unmarked and unread with a flat uncreased spine. AS NEW. Uncommon..