San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 1995. 127p., profuse color exhibit photography with extensive captioning, 11x8.5 inch openweave cloth boards gilt in glossy color dj; a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 168791
[San Francisco]: n.pub. [193-]. 5x3 inch label with gum on verso, unused, but with library stamp at edge, provenance available upon request. More
Cat.No: 187059
Kyoto: Omote-sen-ke dōmon kai, 1977-1991. 168 issues of the Japanese-language magazine about the tea ceremony; all bound in one-year runs in specially made plastic binders supplied by the publisher. Two pins in the binder go through holes punched at the spine (no damage to text). Generally very good, many color..... More
Cat.No: 182803
Washington DC: Co-op America, [c1999]. Pamphlet. 10p., stapled wraps, 5.25x8.25 inches, illus., wraps worn else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 259828
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2014. Pamphlet. [13p.], stapled pictorial wraps, 5.5x9 inches; in very good condition. Annotated event program put on by The Book Club of California. More
Cat.No: 278332
Paris: Larousse, 1993. 381p., massive production, nice alkaline paperstock on which, amidst a running text, are reproduced many period images of cafe interiors and patrons. Hardbound in 13x10 inch openweave brown cloth boards gilt, and decorated dust jacket. The book itself is virtually as new, while the dj spine panel..... More
Cat.No: 250983
Sao Tome: Imprensa Nacional, 1970. 48p., 7x9.5 inches, introduction, tables, decorations, maps, bibliography, text in Portuguese, very good in original stapled wraps. A guide to investing in the West African island nations São Tomé and Príncipe whose main exports have been fish, sugar and coffee. More
Cat.No: 99849
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Paperback. xii, 252p., wraps, 6x9 inches, illus., very good condition; signed by Dore (as "Liz") on the half-title. On the gendered dynamics of Nicaragua's coffee industry from the 1870s to the 1950s. More
Cat.No: 277061
San Francisco: Downtown Peace Coalition, [1969]. Handbill. Leaflet, 8.5x11 inches, very good condition. Rally featured entertainment by the comedy group "The Committee," and especially endearing to this cataloger - coffee to be served from 11:30 to 2:00pm - a very rare perk for demonstrators. More
Cat.No: 283075
Oxford, UK: Oxfam, 2002. Paperback. 54p., wraps, one corner badly bumped else good condition, 8.25x10.25 inches, illustrated (some color). On the collapse of coffee prices and the negative impact on farmers & their workers. More
Cat.No: 247032
Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2011. Pamphlet. 33p., stapled wraps, very good condition, 5.5x8.5 inches. PM Press Pamphlet Series no. 9. With cartoons by Tom Keough. More
Cat.No: 156466
New York: William Godwin,Inc., Publishers, 1932. Hardcover. 369p., nicely gotten-up hardbound book in openweave brown cloth boards gilt, untrimmed foredge, slight foxing/toning to endsheets, good hinges, spine letterings dim but legible, a sound, clean, unmarked copy. Author cites anecdote and statistic to argue that the pursuit of health can be..... More
Cat.No: 287664
Amnsterdam: Grace and Mike Hogan, 1997. zine. Four issues, various pagination for this zine-like "survivors guide" looking at daily life, mostly counter-cultural, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In English, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 291304
Emmaus, Pennsylvannia: Rodale Press, [c1990]. Hardcover. 379p., red cloth boards, head and tail of spine worn, corners bumped, rubberstamps on fore-edges, else in good condition. More
Cat.No: 276857
Hauppauge NY: Barron's Educational Series, Inc. / Gaia Books Ltd., 2002. 143p., coated paperstock throughout, color-photo illustrations integrated with text, softbound in 10x7 inch glossy cardstock wraps. Slight edgewear, a sound clean copy, very good. Author at this writing had been "teaching in the West" for twenty years. More
Cat.No: 184114
Bruxelles: M. Hayez/Georges Van Campenhout, 1941. 183p., avant-propos, indexes, footnotes, illustrated with maps, tables, figures and 19 plates, text in French, unopened pages, worn original wraps. Scientific study of the coffe trees and industry in the Congo. Institut Royal Colonial Beige Tome XI, fasc. 3. More
Cat.No: 115772
Paris: Bibliothèque de l'Image / Mariage Frères, 2002. Paperback. 92, [2]p., wraps, 9x11 inches, profusely illus., very good condition. Text in English and French. Mariage Frères is a French tea company. More
Cat.No: 270792
Havana: Editora Popular de Cuba y del Caribe, 1960. 197p. paperback, light shelfwear, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. Text in Spanish. Cover title: "El Drama del Cobre, del Café y del Petróleo en América Latina" Primer festival del pensamiento político, 5. More
Cat.No: 221020
London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1975. Hardcover. xiv, 192p., hardbound in light blue cloth boards gilt, lacks the jacket but has a lengthy (700 words) typewritten letter laid in, in response to editor's request for a reading; signed "hm", it elaborates two disagreements. This copy of the book, by the..... More
Cat.No: 288031
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Sao Paulo: [the photographer, or a trade association], 1938. Pamphlet. 16p., softbound pamphlet in 8.5x8 inch stapled self-wraps, fullpage captioned photographic studies throughout reproduced in sepia rotogravure, three of which cleverly-composed collages. The absence of publishing information suggests the item was issued with a coverleaf, now lost. The staples are..... More
Cat.No: 188271
New York: George W. Stewart, 1940. Hardcover. 94p., biege cloth boards, lacking dustjacket, top-edge lightly foxed, pages evenly toned, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 276576
Berkeley: Judah Magnes Museum, no date, circa 1980. 109p., illustrated with period photography and facsimiles, softbound first-issue 9.5x7.5 inch velo-binding, wraps slightly dust- and handling-soiled, a very good copy. Dad a "government tea-taster" connecting to FDA and later the MJB coffee company; his ability even made the "Strange as It..... More
Cat.No: 185129
San Francisco: Fielder, Sorensen & Davis, Transit Advertising, January 1, 1944. Pamphlet. [24]p., upright pamphlet in 8x4 inch staplebound wraps, cover red on yellow cardstock; each page has three "hints" in a clearly laid-out frame printed black on white over a grey background. Clean and sound with scarcely any sign..... More
Cat.No: 215326
Boroko, Papua New Guinea: Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1981. vi, 215 pages, paperback, light shelfwear. Monograph 15. More
Cat.No: 238493
