San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 1995. Hardcover. 127p., profuse color exhibit photography with extensive captioning, 11x8.5 inch openweave cloth boards gilt in glossy color dust jacket; a very good copy. More

Cat.No: 168791

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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