Recent Arrivals from The Book Shed

Philadelphia: Running Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. No additional standard domestic postage for this heavy book (5+ lbs). About As New in all respects. First printing, full number line. "Aliza Green is the author of five successful cookbooks, beginning with her authorial partnership with French chef Georges Perrier on Le Bec-Fin Recipes. She also… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/none as issued. No additional standard domestic postage for this heavy book 5 lb.). A small stain at the lower edge of the front cover, else clean and unmarked. No jacket as issued. First printing, full number line. In red, white and black cloth. Winner… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. Signed. Price-clipped jacket ( a bit of the pricing is visible) else about As New in all respects First printing, full number line. Signed by the author on the title page. “Chris Wren’s Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom shatters legends and long-standing Vermont creation myths.… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: McGraw-Hill / General Mills, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Fifth printing of the first edition, not a facsimile. Tips, corners, and edges shelf worn, some kind of spotting to the rear endpapers. In original red and white decorated cloth. Binding sound. 463 pages. "Since 1921, the Betty Crocker name has symbolized the General Mills continuing tradition… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First printng as per Random House number line. A ding to the bottom edge of the front cover, top edge dusty, some recipes starred by the previous owner else clean and unmarked.else very light shelf wear to the book; the price-clipped jacket shows a chip to the… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. Shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, corners bumped, top edge spotted, some wrinkling at top of pages from copyright page to page 10; no jacket Clean and unmarked. First Edition stated, no other printings noted. American classic cooking and also American with… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Paul Child. wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket; jacket shows shelf especially at the spine tips, two closed tears. Clean and unmarked. First edition, first printing. A companion volume to Julia's public television series. If you find Mastering the Art of French Cooking… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Press , 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Shelf wear to the book and price-clipped jacket, fant inked note to the front paste down endpaper. Brick cloth over paper boards. The first state dust jacket makes no mention of the play. Brick cloth spine and paper covered boards with stamped Hamilton signature. 8vo -… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Press , 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Lightest wear to the book; priced jacket shows wear along the edges. Clean and unmarked. The first state dust jacket makes no mention of the play. Brick cloth spine and paper covered boards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. First printing, full number line.… Read more about this item

Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Historical Society, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Ex-library copy, usual marks and stamps, surface loss to front and rear cover from label removal. First printing, no others noted. Interesting narrative of the author's purchase and subsequent search for information about an old stone school building said to have been a very early New England… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Volume 1 only. Lightest wear to the book, clean and unmarked. Volume 1: Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus. The American editor's preface to volume 1 begins: "This volume, containing the equivalent of three volumes of the Edinburgh series of the Ante-Nicene Fathers...It is a volume… Read more about this item

New York: Bloomsbury,, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Second printing. Lightest shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket. Clean and unmarked. "Chef at New York's Les Halles and author of Bone in the Throat, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business. His fast-lane personality… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Revised Standard. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition thus. No additional standard domestic postage for this heavy book. Clean and unmarked. Light shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book and priced jacket which has a short closed tear to top of rear flap. The Oxford Annotated Bible (OAB)… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Signed. About as new in all respects.Inscribed by the late author on the half-title page. First printing, full number line. "An exciting and richly detailed narrative history of the events leading up to the decisive battle that altered the course of the American war for… Read more about this item

London: Offices of the Best Way Series. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. No date, circa mid 1930's. In blue and gray boards. Light shelf wear, clean and unmarked. Interesting pre-war English cook book. English cooking has often gotten a bad rap but many of these now hard-to-find recipes sound and look delicious Every effort is made to ship… Read more about this item

Wakefield: Moyer Bell Ltd, 1993. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket, page edges darkened / dusty From the flap: "Take twelve Irish literary masters, among them James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey, Elizabeth Bowen, and Mary Lavin, and note from pastiches of… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. New/new. New. First printing stated. A gripping history of often overlooked heroes by the author of The Boys in the Boat. “Facing the Mountain is more than just the story of a group of young men whose valor helped save a country that spurned them, it's a fascinating, expertly written… Read more about this item

Farmington, PA: Plough Publishing House, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. About As New in all respects. First printing, no others noted. Plough Publishing is unaffiliated with a particular denomination, and we have staff and contributors from across religious and political persuasions. As the publishing house of the Bruderhof, the editorial direction of the magazine comes from the… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Robert Camp. Shelf wear to tips,corners, and edges of the jacket which is price-clipped, small chips and closed tear, clean and unmarked. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. First printing, letter A. Wrap around illustrated dust jacket with matching hard covers, illustrated endpapers.… Read more about this item

New York: Plume, 1997. Revised & Expanded. plastic_comb. Good. Light shelf wear to the book,clean and unmarked. "The book is number one on my list...the one book of all cookbooks that I would have on my shelf--if I could have but one."--Julia Child. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours.… Read more about this item