Visalia, CA: Las Madrinas Guild of the Valley Children's Hospital and Guidance Clinic, 1965. 47p., card covers somewhat spotted, plastic comb binding cracked; pages are reproduced from handwritten text. Text is in English. Cookbook issues to raise money for a local children's hospital. More

Cat.No: 247685

Oakland: 1992. Leafet printed on one side, 8.5 x 10 inches, mild wear at corners, leaflet prints a headline from 19 August 1992 Oakland Tribune newspaper announcing that Lucky Markets guilty of "widespread sex discrimination", union bug at bottom. The early 1990s were a rough time for Lucky Markets. There..... More

Cat.No: 172039

Cincinnati: Hotel and Restaurant Employees' International Alliance and Bartenders' International League of America, 1944-1958. Ten issues of the slender staplebound journal, generally very good, some with edgewear, two issues more heavily worn with splitting along parts of the spinefold. Issues present are vol. 53 nos. 6 and 12; vol. 54..... More

Cat.No: 252312

Paris: College des Rites du Grand Orient de France, 1895. Paperback. 82p., letterpress on laid-lined paperstock, sewn signatures mostly unopened (where opened, done neatly) and untrimmed, softbound pamphlet in 7.5x5 inch wraps printed in gold ink on japanese paper vellum. The untrimmed margins protrude a quarter to a half inch..... More

Cat.No: 226962

Portland, OR: Cooks and Assistants Union, 1939. One inch diameter pin, very good. More

Cat.No: 202850

Las Vegas, NV: n.pub. 1992. 2x3 inch rectangular pin, graphic of a picket sign in the desert. Issued in support of the strike by culinary workers and four other unions at the Frontier hotel and casino. The strike continued until 1998, and was ultimately successful. More

Cat.No: 208717

[Madison, WI-?]: n.d. 11x17 inch poster, neat fold crease and mild toning; asks the reader to bring $2 worth of canned food for the pantry at Charlotte's Web for the chance to see the Rod MacDonald Band, Ron and Ann Holm, Jodi Allis, Motherlode, and Lewis Koche. Poster design is..... More

Cat.No: 241872

Washington DC: US Department of Health & Human Services, [1990s]. Eight-panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, illustrations, information about food safety, very good on glossy stock. DHHS Publication no. (FDA) 92-2232. More

Cat.No: 251080

Sacramento, CA: Campeones del Cambio. Red para una California Saludable (Network for a Healthy California), 2011. 55p., spiralbound wraps, very good, text in Spanish. Colorfully illustrated. Lower-calorie Latino recipes, published as part of a campaign by the state government to improve the health of the community. More

Cat.No: 233860

Paris: KBO, 1921. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about 30p., coated alkaline paperstock with profuse b&w site photography (factory interiors and machines, close-ups of product), softbound, a pamphlet in 10x7 inch stapled grey wraps, cover decorated in green with embossed black lettering and rulings in blind. Front cover is quite clean, but the..... More

Cat.No: 250603

Sunnyvale, CA: Chi Am Circle, n.d. 90p., somewhat worn wraps with brown plastic comb binding. Printed for the organization by North American Press of Kansas City, a producer of fund-raising cookbooks. Recipes submitted by members were apparently insufficient, so many generic recipes for non-Chinese dishes have been added to bulk..... More

Cat.No: 194592

Honolulu: Institute of Advanced Projects, East-West Center, 1968. Paperback. 51p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, rubberstamp of the American Academy of Asian Studies. Edges foxed. Occasional papers of research translations, translation series no. 27. More

Cat.No: 127156