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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, 0

Seller ID: 021546

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. Sch...
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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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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. "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. "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. "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. "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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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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Woman to the Rescue. A Story of the New Crusade.

By: Arthur, T. S.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, J. M. Stoddart and Company: 1874

Seller ID: 020841

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's brown cloth binding with impressed decorations on the front and back covers and spine. Gilt lettering on spine. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 226 pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece, complete. Twelve additional advertisements in the back for other works by T. S. Arthur. Former ownership inscription on two flyleaves: "Ruth H[...]." Pages are very clean and intact. Covers are clean and intact except for a stain at the top of the back cover. Timothy Shay Arthur (1809-1885) was an American author whose work was popular during the antebellum era. He ...
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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 W...
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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

Publisher: 0

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 ...
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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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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, r...
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The Rubiyat of Ohow Dryyam.with Apologies to Omar, Illustrated by Benjamin Franklin (Not of Philadelphia).

By: Duff, J. L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Old Book Shop. San Francisco. 1922.: 1922

Seller ID: 598

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

First edition. Illustrated wrapper. Black and white illustrations. A Rubiyat parody, set to the times of Prohibition. Unpaginated, but fifteen pages.
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How to Mix Drinks

By: Edwards, Bill

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, David McKay Company: 1936

Seller ID: 021475

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's blue cloth binding with an illustration on the front cover showing an artistic rendering of the American flag with a blue star-spangled shape in the upper-left corner, a white background, and red hands and sleeves resembling the stripes. One of the hands holds a glass with a drink. Upper-left corner has an original punched hole extending through the whole book with an original red string tie to hang the book while making the recipes. Printed text on front cover: "Drinks: How to Make Them, How to Serve Them." 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 102 pages, complete. Black...
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Prohibition and the 1916 Campaign

By: Gandier, D. M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, California Campaign Federation: 1916

Seller ID: 019860

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original publisher's beige wrapper. 5 3/4" x 9 1/4." Eight pages, complete. Blue stamp in lower-right margin of front cover: "California State Library, California Section." In pencil above it, also in the margin is the word, "dup" [duplicate]. A very clean and intact copy. A pamphlet with an address made before the California Commonwealth Club by California preacher D. M. Gandier, who promotes "Amendments 1 and 2," which would enact the complete prohibition of alcohol in 1920 and limit the sale of alcohol in 1918, respectively. Gandier uses several points...
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Our New Crusade: A Temperance Story.

By: Hale, Edward E.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Roberts Brothers: 1875

Seller ID: 019511

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's brown cloth binding. 4 1/2" x 5 7/8." 287 pages, complete. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Pages are very clean; binding is tight. All edges have original red coloring.
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When Grog May Be Taken Medicinally

By: Hindley, Charles

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Santa Cruz, CA, Felicia Rice; Moving Parts Press: 1986

Seller ID: 019881

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Fine

White broadside printed on fine paper with red decorative motifs and black text. 10" x 14." Page is very clean and intact with minimal wear. A reprinted excerpt from Charles Hindley's Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings (London, 1875). Excerpt reads in part: "When Grog May Be Taken Medicinally: Invariably after salmon. ... When a person feels faint and doesn't know what is the matter with him. ... When a friend turns up after an absence of several years, or when you are parting with a friend whom you do not expect to see for several years." At the bottom is the following: "Pr...
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