| Napa Wine; With notes and Introduction by Brian McGinty. Stevenson, Robert Louis. San Francisco: Westwinds Books, 1974. First Edition. 38 pages. 19.5 x 13. 5 cm. Limited edition of 950 copies - two-color frontispiece portrait of author. With an intriguing introductory by... (#2506) Price: $50.00 | |
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| Le Confiseur Royal, Ou L'Art Du confiseur Dévoilé Aux Gourmands;. Utrecht-Friedel (Madame). Paris: Chez Tardieu-Densesle, 1816. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. 352 pages. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Three plates: Frontispiece (confectioner's laboratory) and 2 plates illustrating kitchen utensils and motifs/decorations. The author, the widow... (#2208) Price: $450.00 | |
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| More Pious Friends and Drunken Companions. Shay, Frank (Songs and Ballads); John Held Jr. (Illustrator). New York: Macauley Company, 1928. Hardcover. 190 pages. 22.5 x 18 cm. Songs and Ballads of Conviviality Collected from Curious Sources by Frank Gloriously Illuminated by John Held Jr. Interior... (#1869) Price: $250.00 | |
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| The Juice; Vinous Veritas. McInerney, Jay. McInerney, Jay. The Juice Vinous Veritas. New York: Vintage Books, 2013. First Edition. 284 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. A collection of essays on wine from Jay McInerney, winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Distingushed Writing Award and writer for the Wall Street Journal. Here, in his third collection of thirst-inducing essays, McInerney provides a master class in the almost infinite varieties of wine and the people and places that produce it all the world over. Color illustrated wrap. Near fine.. Paperback. [2818] $10.00 Price: $10.00 | |
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Wine & Conversation. Lehrer, Adrienne. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Second Edition. paperback. 314 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. The vocabulary of wine is large and exceptionally vibrant - from straightforward descriptive words, colorful metaphors... (#2805) Price: $20.00 | |
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| The Wines & History of The Hunter Valley. Halliday, James & Jarrat, Ray. Sydney: McGraw Hill, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 143 pages. 21 x 29 cm. Profusely illustrated wine book covering the past and (1979) present of Australia's Hunter Valley Wine country including... (#935) Price: $50.00 | |
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| The Wine Savant; A Guide to the New Wine Culture. Steinberger, Michael. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. 198 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. The Wine Savant takes a modern and dynamic approach to wine writing. Punchy... (#2808) Price: $20.00 | |
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| Japanese Whisky; The Essential Buyer's Guide. Ashcraft, Brian. Tokyo: Tuttle, 2018. Ueda, Idzuhiko. Hardcover. 144 pages. 7.5 x 10 inches. For the first time in English, this book presents over a hundred independently scored reviews from a leading... (#1662) Price: $19.99 | |
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| How to Love Wine; A memoir and manifesto. Asimov, Eric. New York: William Morrow, 2014. First Paperback. Paperback. 278 pages. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. In How to Love Wine, New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov examines why the American... (#2810) Price: $15.00 | |
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| The Common Sense of Drinking. Peabody, Richard R. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 191 pages. 20 x 13.5 cm. Before Bill Wilson's Alcoholics Anonymous was published, Richard Peabody book on alcoholism treatment achieved success... (#2821) Price: $650.00 | |
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| A B C of America's Wines. Mabon, Mary Frost. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. 233 pages. 20 x 14 cm. An early guide to American wines describing 350 wines along with the history of America's... (#2273) Price: $40.00 | |
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| [MANUSCRIPT] [TEMPERANCE] Account Book. Jones, Ann. Aberdare, Wales: 1860-1876. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Hand written account book primarily recording the Church and Temperance societies transactions - dues, wine, candles, and maintenance. Unusual reference to the US Civil war... (#2407) Price: $325.00 | |
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| A Contemplation of Wine. Allen, H. Warner. London: Michael Joseph, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 232 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Allen, educated in the classics at Oxford, contends that a knowledge of, and a taste for the... (#2816) Price: $30.00 | |
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| The Juice; Vinous Veritas. McInerney, Jay. New York: Vintage Books, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. 284 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. A collection of essays on wine from Jay McInerney, winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Distingushed Writing... (#2818) Price: $10.00 | |
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| Wine. Scott, George E. Chicago: n.d., but 1936. Hardcover. 103 pages. 15.5 x 12 cm. Limited edition - 44 of 500. Inscribed and signed by author - "For Lee & Stella with much love... (#1561) Price: $75.00 | |
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| [WINE] Hocks and Moselles; With a Folding Map. Rudd, Hugh R. London: Constable & Co Ltd., 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. 165 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Part of Constable's Wine Library, Edited by André L. Simon. Folding map at rear: The... (#2133) Price: $50.00 | |
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| In Praise of Wine; and Certain Noble Spirits. Waugh, Alec. New York: William Sloane Associates, 1959. First American Edition. Hardcover. 304 pages. 24 x 26 cm. An entertaining and informative history of drinking - from the honey, date and palm... (#2823) Price: $45.00 | |
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| American Wines; Illustrated by Julian Brazelton. Schoonmaker, Frank & Tom Marvel. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. 312 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Written during the age when American Wines were at last "growing up" - Schoonmaker... (#2824) Price: $50.00 | |
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| Wine, the Vine, and the Cellar. Shaw, Thomas G. Baltimore: Bacchus Press, nd (1992). Facsimile edition. Hardcover. xv, 540, (24 index) pages. Octavo. One of 500 copies. A very attractively bound facsimile edition of the 1864 second edition (expanded... (#878) Price: $175.00 | |
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