Category: Wine and Alcohol

Real Photo Post Card: "Brewery - Virginia City Mont."

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 022887

Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1950s. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom on the image. The style of "Kodak Paper" was used from 1950 onward. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for some dampstaining on the back (does not affect front). A Very Good copy. This postcard shows the inside of a brewery in Virginia City, Montana. Montana's Virginia City was founded as a boomtown upon the discovery of gold in 1863. This prompted a local gold rush and the town became the new capital of Montana Territory in 1865. However, the prosper...
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Real Photo Post Card: Untitled

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 022806

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1908-1910. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." The style of "Kruxo" stamp box on back was used from 1908-1910. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact overall but has foxing on the back. The front image is mostly unaffected. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows three men in uniform enjoying drinks while seated at a table.
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Who Slew All These? An Authentic Narrative. No. 247.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, American Tract Society

Seller ID: 025364

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Formerly bound. Original publisher's beige paper wrappers. No date, circa 1833-1870s. 4" x 7." Four pages, complete. Pages are clean and intact overall except for a few wrinkles, slight rippling, occasional offsetting, light to moderate foxing and staining throughout (text still readable), and minuscule chipping along spine (text is unaffected). A Very Good copy. A Christian tract containing an anecdote about a prosperous and upstanding family who descends into ruin through the partaking and selling of alcohol. The story is tragic and intended to dissuade readers from drinking alcohol...
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Original Billhead - A. Finke's Widow, San Francisco, California

By: A. Finke's Widow

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA,

Seller ID: 021546

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original billhead on blue paper with printed text in black ink. Billhead has a decorative letterhead that reads, "A. Finke's Widow, Manufacturers of High Grade Sparkling Wines, Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Brandies; Established 1864." No date, circa 1910. Billhead has a blank fill-in date for the 1900s ("19__"). San Francisco, California. 7" x 8 1/4." Billhead is very clean and intact. Center vertical fold line and very slight wrinkling and few small, faint stains at the top. Also printed on the billhead are the names of the proprietors, E. O. Schraubstadter and E. A. Gr...
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The Story of a Dark Plot; or, Tyranny on the Frontier

By: A. L. O. C. (pseudonym of W. W. Smith)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, The Warren Press : 1903

Seller ID: 023375

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's maroon-brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 198 pages, complete. A few black-and-white plates, including a printed frontispiece portrait of the author, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Pages slightly age-toned. Slight rubbing and fading to spine. A few faint marks on front and back. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. Personal account of William W. Smith with a pro-temperance message. Smith writes his account under the pseudonym, "A. L. O. C." This is a retelling of an apparent attempt on Smith's...
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Andalusian Carts Coming Into Town, Almeria, Spain."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 9404

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

# 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.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Filling Pig Skins with Juice from Maguey Plant Used in Making Pulque, the Native Drink, Tacuba, Mexico."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 9266

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

# 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.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Italian Settler and Family, Vineyards in Background, Mendoza, Argentina, So.Am."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 9278

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

# 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.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Knoll's Beer Garden, a Popular Resort of Berlin, Germany."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, N.Y., Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publishers : 1894

Seller ID: 9096

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

'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.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Tivoli Beer Garden, Hanover, Germany."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Underwood & Underwood : 1904

Seller ID: 11312

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

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.
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "Toiling in the Vineyards - Picking the Luscious Grapes, Rudesheim, Germany."

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 9415

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

# 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.
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Original Stereocard Photograph: Tokay Grapes--In a California Vineyard, Acampo, Calif.

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 8165

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

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.
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Snappy Jokes: A New Collection of Rich and Rare Jokes, Compiled By a Jolly Bartender for Stag Parties, Smokers, Etc.

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Detroit, Michigan, Johnson Smith & Company

Seller ID: 13446

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

ca. 1920. 'No. 1947'. 32 pages; cartoons; illustrated paper wrapper (5 1/4 x 7 3/8 inch) with postal stamps on the back, dated Nov. 25, 1975. Collection of jokes and cartoons. Very good clean copy.
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Bergez-Frank's, Inc. Old Poodle Dog Wine List

By: Bergez- Frank's Old Poodle Dog Company, Incorporated

Price: $75.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Bergez-Frank's, Inc. Old Poodle Dog Company, Incorporated : 1908

Seller ID: 019862

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's multicolored wrapper. 5 1/2" x 9 1/4." Fifteen pages, complete. Multiple black and white illustrations throughout. Front and back covers feature color illustrations of men in formal French outfits, one holding drinks and the other holding cooked poultry on a dish, respectively. Covers and pages are very clean and intact. The wine list includes various alcoholic drinks and their prices in the following categories: "Champagnes," "French White Wines," "French Red Wines," "Burgundies, White," "Burgundies, Red," "Rhine Wines," "Moselle Wines," "Italian Wines," "California...
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Collection of Nine Wine Labels from the Famous San Francisco, The Old Poodle Dog, circa 1908

By: Bergez- Frank's Old Poodle Dog Company, Incorporated

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 019891

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Nine wine labels from the Old Poodle Dog restaurant. No date, circa 1908. Varying shapes and sizes, but all measure about 4 5/8 x 3 3/4" and are rectangles or rectangular in shape. Seven of the nine labels have gilt decorations. Three of the nine have black and white illustrated portraits of a poodle. All of the labels have "Bergez-Frank's." The following wines are included: Zinfandel, Chablis, Riesling, Sauternes (two labels), Burgundy, Cachet Rouge, Duff Gordon Sherry, and St.Emilion. Labels are very clean and intact. Fine copies. The Old Poodle Dog was a restaurant in San Francisc...
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Food and Beverage Analyses

By: Bridges, Milton Arlanden

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger : 1935

Seller ID: 8365

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

(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.
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The Gun Club Drink Book: Being a More of Less Discursive Account of Alcoholic Beverages, Their Formulas and Uses, Together with Some Observation on the Mixing of Drinks

By: Browne, Charles

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York and London, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1939

Seller ID: 13052

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Publisher's orange cloth binding with drawings of men and women drinking, titles in white on black background. The lightest of wear at the corners, but a very nice copy externally. Dust wrapper with some small chips at top and bottom of spine, not affecting lettering. Another chip on back cover at the bottom near the fold is about three quarter of an inch by one quarter and affects a few letters of the promotional text. Quarter sized stain on upper margin of frontispiece and title page (looking like a bourbon splash). Brown staining, this time perhaps a single malt, to fore edge and sometimes ...
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Original Billhead - California Winery, Sacramento, California, 1907

By: California Winery; Luttig, A. J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: St. Louis, MO, Woodward & Tiernan Prt'g Co. : 1907

Seller ID: 025078

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Near Fine (Near Fine)

Original billhead printed and handwritten in black ink on light beige paper. Black-and-white illustrated header at top. Datelined October 14, 1907 in Sacramento, California. Printed by the Woodward & Tiernan Printing Company of St. Louis, Missouri. 8 1/2" x 7 3/4." Billhead is very clean and intact except for a few small wrinkles, slight age toning, a few horizontal and vertical fold lines, and slight edge wear. A Near Fine copy. An original billhead from California Winery to A. J. Luttig of Franklin, California. Luttig purchased one line item, "1 case Rock & Rye," for $4.85. The item...
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Original Billhead - California Winery, Sacramento, California, 1907

By: California Winery; Luttig, H. J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: St. Louis, MO, Woodward & Tiernan Prt'g Co. : 1907

Seller ID: 025080

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original billhead printed and handwritten in black ink on light beige paper. Black-and-white illustrated header at top. Datelined March 9, 1907 in Sacramento, California. Printed by the Woodward & Tiernan Printing Company of St. Louis, Missouri. 8 1/4" x 6 1/4." This billhead appears to have a trimmed bottom edge but is sold as is. Billhead is very clean and intact except for a few small wrinkles, slight age toning, a few horizontal and vertical fold lines, and a paper stub tipped in on back right edge. A Very Good copy. An original billhead from California Winery to H. J. Luttig of Fr...
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In Old Vintage Days.With Decorations By Dorothy Payne

By: Colburn, Frona Eunice Wait

Price: $50.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Printed by John Henry Nash. : 1937

Seller ID: 2938

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-As New

750 copies printed, but not numbered or 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 man...
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Category: Wine and Alcohol