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Your search for Wine and Alcohol has returned 16 results. Original Stereocard Photograph. "Andalusian Carts Coming Into Town, Almeria, Spain."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 15828 (438). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about southern Spain known as Andalusia and the port city of Almeria. Photo of a group of carts coming into the town with children possing at the front. Carts are loaded to the gils with barrels of wine. Clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Andalusia, Almeria, Spain. DK-7  (Book ID 9404)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Filling Pig Skins with Juice from Maguey Plant Used in Making Pulque, the Native Drink, Tacuba, Mexico."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 10926 (285). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the native manufacture of Pulque from the maguey (century plant) which is stored in pig skin containers. Also the legend of its' discovery and the fall of the Toltecs. View of a man filling a pig skin with pulque while a donkey waits with a bag tied on its' back among the plants. Nice clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Tacuba, Mexico, Pulque, Maguey, Liquor. DK-6  (Book ID 9266)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Italian Settler and Family, Vineyards in Background, Mendoza, Argentina, So.Am."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 21818 (319). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the province of Mendoza "Little Italy", its wine industry, and the system of absentee landlords who live in Buenos Aires half the year and on the plantations the other half to avoid the heat of the weather. Image of a Italian immigrant family resting before going back to tilling in the vineyards which stretch out behind them in rows after rows. clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Mendoza, Argentian, Immigrants, Vineyards. DK-6  (Book ID 9278)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Knoll's Beer Garden, a Popular Resort of Berlin, Germany."  Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publishers.  New York, N.Y..  1894.  'Sold by Underwood & Underwood, New York ...' printed on the right side of the stereograph on tan board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with title printed on the backside in six languages. Nice view of the beer garden with several people seated . Clean copy with slight bumps on several corners.   Condition: Very Good.  Berlin, Germany, Beer Garden. DK-3  (Book ID 9096)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Toiling in the Vineyards - Picking the Luscious Grapes, Rudesheim, Germany."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 10352 (390). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the production of grapes on the terraced side of the Rhine Valley in Germany. View of workers, both men and women, tilling the vines with a German monument in the far background. Clean copy with very slight bump to lower right corner.   Condition: Fine.  Grapes, Rudesheim, Germany. DK-8  (Book ID 9415)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph: Tokay Grapes--In a California Vineyard, Acampo, Calif.  Keystone View Company.  3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 236-16747 by the publisher. Shows a woman and child picking grapes with a barn and house in the background. Acampo is located in central California's San Joaquin County. Circa 1915. Two columns of text on the back discussing grape growing and wine production nationwide.   Condition: Fine.  Table Grapes. California Agriculture.  (Book ID 8165)  $25.00 Original Sterocard Photograph. "Tivoli Beer Garden, Hanover, Germany."  Underwood & Underwood.  New York, New York.  1904.  Original stereograph on tan board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with title on the front cover. Image of some gentlemen seated in the Beer Garden with an elaborate stage in the background for a band. A fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Beer Gardens, Germany. DK-66  (Book ID 11312)  $15.00 Bridges, Milton Arlanden  Food and Beverage Analyses  Lea & Febiger.  Philadelphia.  First Edition.  (1935). Publisher flexible green pebble cloth with gilt lettering. Nutrition, calorie, cholesterol, etc. for food; analysis of vitamins; compositions and food value of alcoholic drinks. 246 pages, including index.   Condition: Fine.  Calories. Fats. Proteins. Carbohydrates.  (Book ID 8365)  $17.50 Colburn, Frona Eunice Wait  In Old Vintage Days...With Decorations By Dorothy Payne  Printed by John Henry Nash..  San Francisco.  1937.  First Edition.  Number 166 of 750 copies printed. Signed by the author on the limitation page Cloth backed boards. An as new copy in the original dust wrapper. From Nell O'Day, "A Catalogue of Books Printed by John Henry Nash" pages 97 & 98: "...an interesting tale of the (18)90's set in one of the lovely vineyards of California. Mrs. Colburn is an authority on grape culture, her book entitled "Wines and Vines" publsihed in 1889 being a source book on the subject. "In Old Vintage Days is a colorful romance with the facts of the wine war that took place at the turn of the century, resulting in havoc to many of the Califor nia grape growers. It gives a vivid picture of the pleasant mode of living among the prosperous vintners which, as Mrs. Colburn says in her Foreword, will never be entirely relived." 178 pages, plus colophon.   Condition: As New.  VITICULTURE. WINERIES. MAKING. VINEYARDS. GRAPES. Wine and Alcohol  (Book ID 2938)  $75.00 Colburn, Frona Eunice Wait  In Old Vintage Days...with Decorations by Dorothy Payne.  John Henry Nash..  San Francisco.  1937.  First Edition.  Leather backed boards in slip case. Limited edition, one of 750 copies printed, this being one of 250 in this binding. This copy not numbered or signed on the limitation page. From Nell O'Day, A Catalog of Books Printed by John Henry Nash, pages 97-98: "...an interesting tale of the (18)90's set in one of the lovely vineyard districts of California. Mrs. Colburn is an authority on grape culture, her book entitled "Wines and Vines" published in 1889 heuing a source book on the subject. "In Old Vintage Days" is a colorful romance with the facts of the wine war that took place at the turn of the century, resulting in havoc to many of the California grape grower. It gives a vivid picture of the pleasant mode of living among tghe prosperous vintners which, as Mrs. Colburn say in her Foreword, will never be entirely relived." 178 pages, plujs colophon.   Condition: As New.  AMERICAN WEST, CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, LITERATURE . WINE.  (Book ID 1092)  $50.00 Duff, J. L.  The Rubiyat of Ohow Dryyam...with Apologies to Omar, Illustrated by Benjamin Franklin (Not of Philadelphia).  Old Book Shop. San Francisco. 1922..  First edition. Illustrated wrapper. Black and white illustrations. A Rubiyat parody, set to the times of Prohibition. Unpaginated, but fifteen pages.   OMAR KHYYAM PARDODY. DRINKING. PROHIBITION. Childrens and Illustrated Books  (Book ID 598)  $15.00 Earle, Alice Morse  Stage-Coach and Tavern Days  The MacMillan Company.  New York.  1922.  Later Edition.  Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Photo illustrated, including some tavern signs. 449 pages, including index.   Condition: Very Good.  Bars. Restaurnats. Early American Travel  (Book ID 8332)  $17.50 Kane, Frank  Anatomy of the Whisky Business  Lake House Press.  Manhasset, New York.  First Edition.  (1965). Publisher's red cloth with gtilt lettering. In slipcase. Number 233 (of an unknown limitation), signed by author. A variety of articles on the liquor business by Kane, publisher of "Frank Kane's Weekly Letter for Liquor Executives" and the "National Liquor Review." 204 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Signed and Inscribed Books.  (Book ID 8372)  $37.50 Ottley, Allan R.  Vines, Rails & Comet Tails: Mother Lode Byways of California History  The Sacramento Book Collectors Club.  Sacramento.  1977.  First Edition.  Wrappers. 24 pages. 300 copies printed by the Feathered Serpent Press. Chapter on: Vineyard House (Coloma); Bayley House; Ice; John A. Stone; Latrobe; George Madeira; Calaveras Skull   Condition: Fine.  Gold Rush. Railroads. Wine.  (Book ID 7181)  $25.00 Pinney, Thomas  John Ignatius Bleasdale: a Friend of Wine in New Worlds.  The Book Club of California.  San Francisco, California.  2006.  First Edition.  Publication Number 221, by The Anchor & Acorn Press, Petaluma. viii, 67 pages; illustrations; bound in light burgandy cloth (7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inch). Biography of John Ignatius Bleasdale (1822-1884) who played a major role in both Australia and California wine industries and includes a biblography of his wine writings from 1867 to 1884 with annotations as to content. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Fine Press, California Book Club, Wine. DK-73  (Book ID 11462)  $125.00 Simon, Andre L.  Wine and Spirits: The Connoisseur's Textbook.  Duckworth & Co..  London, England.  1919.  First Edition.  FIRST EDITION. xvii, 273 pages; rebound in full blue leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine. Contains comments on wines and spirits of the world with chapters on different wine and spirits, the care of wine, list of shippers of port, and some notes on past vintages. This was the author's first book. Andre L. Simon (1877-1970) was born in France and was a leading expert on wine and food. He founded, in 1933, the International Wine and Food Society (now 8000 members in 40 countries). He is the author of A CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GASTRONOMY, his most famous work. Renowned as a bibliophile, gourmet, wine connoisseur, historian and writer, he is noted for saying "a man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar". Handsome example of Simon's first publication.   Condition: Fine.  Wine, Andre Simon, Spirits. DK-64  (Book ID 11282)  $150.00

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