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Searle, Ronald: Something in the Cellar. Ronald Searle's Wonderful World of Wine
Book Number: 34806
Souvenir Press 1986 4to hardcover 80pp colour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Book DescriptionnThis lighthearted look at the secrets of the world's wine ceremonies invites vintners and wine drinkers to experience the mysteries of wine and its production. Illustrated in Searle's inimitable style are the ancient noble ceremony of slashing the trockenbeerenauslese, the inauguration of the first authentic denominazione di origine controllata e garantita, and the vinolympics. For wine lovers who have never tasted ptolemy nouveau or watched the uncorking of the kangarouge, these experiences are related with warmth and humor. The many ways to open a bottle of wine are illustrated, and the rituals and delights of wine around the world are described.
Keywords: Cooking Food Wine Drinks Beverages Spirits Something in the Cellar Ronald Searle's Wonderful World of Wine Searle Ronald
Price: $25.00 |
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Honeysett: The Not Another Book of Old Photographs Book
Book Number: 34846
Methuen 1983 8vo. Paperback. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Honeysett.
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Price: $7.00 |
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Morgan, Chris: Facts and Fallacies: A Book of Definitive Mistakes and Misguided Predictions
Book Number: 34987
Webb & Bower 1981 8vo hardcover 176pp index. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Errors Popular Facts and Fallacies A Book of Definitive Mistakes and Misguided Predictions Morgan Chris
Price: $18.00 |
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Grenville-Murray, E. C.: Side-lights on English Society : Sketches from Life, Social & Satirical
Book Number: 35029
London: Vizetelly & Co 1883 Second Edition Hard Cover. Good/In Pictorial Boards. thick 8vo. 436 pages, 8 pages of ads at the end. Second Edition, and first one-volume edition, with several additional chapters added. With nearly 300 engravings. Bound in red cloth-covered boards, with gilt lettered spine and with elaborate gilt pictorial on the front. Faded spine, front and rear boards still strong in colour, but show age. Text has some light foxing in some parts. Contents includes Flirts, On H. B. M.'s Service, Semi-detached Wives, Noble Lords, Young Widows, Our Silvered Youth or Noble Old Boys.
Keywords: Flirts, On H. B. M.'s Service, Semi-detached Wives, Noble Lords, Young Widows, Our Silvered Youth or Noble Old Boys
Price: $55.00 |
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Farnes, Norma: Spike: An Intimate Memoir
Book Number: 35591
Harper Perennial 2004 8vo softcover 366pp index, b/w illus. very good+.
Keywords: Biographies Memoirs General Spike An Intimate Memoir Farnes Norma
Price: $20.00 |
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Livingston, Paul: Flacco's Burnt Offerings
Book Number: 35686
Ringwood, Vic. Penguin Books Australia Ltd. 1995 8vo softcover 152pp, b/w illus. very good. CIP confirmed.
Keywords: Fiction Humour Flacco's Burnt Offerings Livingston Paul
Price: $18.00 |
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Brunvand, Jan Harold: Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends
Book Number: 35953
W. W. Norton & Company 2001 Small 4to softcover 480pp, b/w illus. very good. From Publishers Weekly: If a story sounds too good to be true, well, then it's probably an urban legend. Brunvand, the nation's leading authority on these contemporary folktales, draws from five previous collections (The Choking Doberman, Curses! Broiled Again!, etc.), from letters to his syndicated columns and from newspapers around the country, in this truly colossal anthology of horrendous and hilarious stories that sound as if they're true and most of the tellers believe are true, but somehow can never be verified. These are stories told by a FOAF (a friend of a friend) or a neighbor of the radio dispatcher who knows the deputy who talked to the doctor who treated 18 slash victims at the local mall. Many are familiar talesAof the hook heard rasping against the car door handle, of alligators in the sewers of New York, of earwigs in ears and spiders in bouffant hairdosAthis last traced back to the 13th century. Everyone will find at least two or three stories they could have sworn really happened. These are stories that turn up in every region of the country, every walk of life, and that invariably involve laughing paramedics, a dead grandmother stashed on the luggage rack, a fantastically cheap price for a Porsche or an exorbitant one for a cookie recipe from Neiman MarcusAor is it Marshall Fields? In demonstrating how such stories spread, change and endure, and how certain kinds of stories attach themselves to certain franchises and products ("Kentucky Fried Rat" is an especially gruesome example), Brunvand has constructed not only an enterta
Keywords: Entertainment Humor Urban Legends Too Good to Be True The Colossal Book of Urban Legends Brunvand Jan Harold
Price: $25.00 |
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Paterson, A.S.: The Bull Pen
Book Number: 35921
Hodder & Stoughton 1984 4to softcover 36pp colour illus. very good, 2 library stamps on title page.
Keywords: Literature Fiction General Contemporary The Bull Pen Paterson A S
Price: $10.00 |
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Lancaster, Osbert: The essential Osbert Lancaster: An anthology in brush and pen
Book Number: 36085
London Barrie & Jenkins 1988 Small 4to hardcover 186pp b/w & colour illus. very good, small owner's inscription on fep. / very good d/w.
Keywords: Arts Photography The essential Osbert Lancaster An anthology in brush and pen Lancaster Osbert
Price: $18.00 |
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Rudd, Steele: Me an' th' Son and The Miserable Clerk
Book Number: 36183
UQP, St. Lucia. 1973. Small 8vo hardcover 82pp. very good, page edges browned / very good d/w.
Keywords: Rudd, Steele australian humour literature
Price: $18.00 |
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