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AN UNTHYMELY DEATH and Other Garden Mysteries.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Berkley, (2003). First edition - "A Treasury of Stories, Herbal Lore, Recipes and Crafts." Ten stories, including four written especially for this book, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs, featuring lawyer turned herbalist, China Bayles. SIGNED on the title page. Includes introductory notes, and boxed recipes, gardening tips and herbal lore scattered throughout. xiii, 254 pp. ISBN: 0-425190021.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87306More details Price: $21.50 -
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD: Memoir.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2015). First edition - A beautifully written and very moving account of the sudden death of her husband by this noted African American poet - and also a picture of a rich and loving marriage. Ficre Ghebreyesus, born in Eritrea and a refuge from the war there, was known both as a gifted artist and a creative chef, when he died at just 50. 209 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 63252More details Price: $21.50 -
DEATH DINES IN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology with "sixteen culinary capers" including all-new recipes and author interviews, with stories by Donna Andrews, Claudia Bishop, Rhys Bowen, Don Bruns, Meg Chittenden, Nick DiChario, Marcos Donnelly, Carole Nelson Douglas, Elizabeth Foxwell, Parnell Hall, Lyn Hamilton, Jeremiah Healy, Dean James, Mary Jane Maffini, William Moody, and Anne Perry. SIGNED by THREE authors at their stories: Rhys Bowen, Donna Andrews and Carol Nelson Douglas. Foreword by Claudia Bishop. xiv, 370 pp. ISBN: 0-425192628.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77702More details Price: $30.00 -
YUMMY YOGA: Playful Poses & Tasty Treats.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fun introduction to yoga and healthy foods, illustrated with colorful photographs by Bonnie Stevens. The photographs "feature a diverse group of kids demonstrating yoga poses. On the opposite sides of the spreads, imaginatively sculpted fruits and vegetables mirror the same poses! Lift the gatefold flaps to find simple, child-friendly recipes incorporating all of the healthy ingredients featured in each photo." SIGNED on the title page by Joy Bauer. Includes additional information on the poses. Unpaginated, square format. ISBN: 978-1419738241.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76962More details Price: $20.00 -
MAMAN'S HOMESICK PIE: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers boards (a new copy), no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 55566More details Price: $35.00 -
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HOLIDAY TRADITIONS: Celebrating With Passion, Style, and Grace.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Covers Christmas, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, New Year's, Mardi Gras as well as birthdays and family get-togethers, with contributions of memories or recipes from more than 50 African-American women, including Myrna Williams, Patricia Russell McCloud, Mrs. Denzel Washington, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Synthia Saint James and many others. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs. List of resources, bibliography and index. Square format. 244 pp. ISBN: 1-55972532X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 71884More details Price: $30.00 -
A BANQUET FOR HUNGRY GHOSTS: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 55059More details Price: $35.00 -
DEAD TO THE LAST DROP .
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifteenth book in the Coffeehouse Mystery series. "After the White House asks coffeehouse manager and master roaster Clare Cosi to consult on the coffee service for a Rose Garden Wedding, she discovers a historic pot was used as a CIA 'dead drop' decades before. Now long-simmering secrets boil over, scalding Clare and the people around her..." Includes a large selection of "Great American" recipes. 411 pp. ISBN: 978-0425276099.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83376More details Price: $16.50 -
THE MAIN CORPSE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Bantam, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover - The 6th culinary mystery, featuring caterer Goldy Schultz. SIGNED on the title page. Index to recipes. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-535-09999-x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 16211More details Price: $18.00 -
DOUBLE SHOT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - The 12th culinary mystery, featuring Aspen, Colorado caterer and amateur sleuth Goldy Schultz. SIGNED on the title page. Decorative borders on recipe pages. 308 pp. including 25 pp of recipes.
Condition: Very good overall (some wear to covers, curling to corners).
Book ID: 38386More details Price: $20.00 -
STICKS AND SCONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 10th culinary mystery, featuring Colorado caterer and amateur sleuth Goldy Schultz. SIGNED on the title page. Decorative borders on recipe pages by Jackie Aher/Donnell. 301 pp. plus Index to recipes. ISBN: 0-535-107240.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 36904More details Price: $21.50 -
SWEET REVENGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 14th culinary mystery, featuring Colorado caterer and amateur sleuth Goldy Schultz. SIGNED on the title page. Decorative borders on recipe pages. 359 pp. including recipes. ISBN: 9780060527334.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 50441More details Price: $21.50 -
TOUGH COOKIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 9th culinary mystery, featuring caterer and amateur sleuth Goldy Schultz. SIGNED on the title page. Decorative borders on recipe pages by Aher/Donnell. 291 pp. plus Index to recipes. ISBN: 0-535-107232.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 33982More details Price: $25.00 -
PRIME CUT.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Bantam, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The 8th culinary mystery, featuring caterer Goldy Schultz. SIGNED on the title page. Index to recipes. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-535-100017.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket.
Book ID: 19392More details Price: $18.00 -
THE GRILLING SEASON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 7th culinary mystery, featuring caterer and amateur sleuth Goldy Schultz. SIGNED on the title page. Decorative borders on recipe pages by Aher/Donnell. 322 pp. plus Index to recipes. ISBN: 0-535-100009.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33980More details Price: $30.00 -
KILLER PANCAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 5th culinary mystery, featuring caterer and amateur sleuth Goldy Schultz. SIGNED on the title page. Decorative borders on recipe pages by Aher/Donnell. 301 pp. plus Index to recipes. ISBN: 0-535-095889.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33981More details Price: $27.50 -
IAN FLEMING INTRODUCES JAMAICA.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Hawthorn Books, (1965.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Anthology of articles about Jamaica - 'history, its people, its politics, its religions and dialects, its natural history, its brids, its painters and writers, its archives, its stamps, and the delights of skin-diving it its waters and eating its food (including some recipes) - told from the Jamaican point of view, with preface & introduction by Ian Fleming, who spent part of every year at Goldeneye, his Jamaican house in which he wrote all the James Bond books. Illustrated with color photographs. appendices, bibliography. 240 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (light toning to the pages,several small chips to upper edge of dj, closed tear with associated creasing to bottom edge.)
Book ID: 54477More details Price: $30.00 -
CARROT CAKE MURDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Hannah Swenson mystery with recipes. Set in rural Minnesota where the author grew up.SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 324 pp plus an index to the recipes. ISBN: 9780758210203.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) Promotional carrot seed packet laid in.
Book ID: 59169More details Price: $30.00 -
A DIABETIC GUIDE: Written Primarily for the Doctor's Patient and with Suggestions to the Doctor for Assisting Him.
Edition: Third edition revised.
Condition: Good overall in burgundy cloth - some bleaching to the upper edge of the front board, but a sturdy copy.
Book ID: 87616More details Price: $30.00 -
CAKEWALK: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A funny and touching memoir of a crummy - and crumby - childhood in the 1960s and 70s. Each chapter includes a recipe. 350 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342988.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64930More details Price: $18.50 -
GLOW OF CANDLIGHT: The Story of Patricia Murphy.
Edition: Hardcover.
Condition: Near fine (over-opened before half title page) in a very good dust jacket with some small chips to ends of dj spine.
Book ID: 88294More details Price: $75.00 -
THE BODY IN THE BOG.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh mystery featuring Faith Fairchild, caterer and minister's wife, set in the fictitious town of Aleford, Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note, recipes. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-688145736.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74229More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BODY IN THE MOONLIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eleventh mystery in the award-winning series featuring Faith Fairchild, caterer and minister's wife, set in the fictitious town of Aleford, Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note, recipes. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-380-978423.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74230More details Price: $30.00 -
LIFE'S TOO SHORT TO FOLD FITTED SHEETS.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2010). SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A crash course in Slacker Chic 101. . Full of shortcuts and tricks for cleaning, decor, and entertaining,such as: the top 10 things you have to clean if you have company coming in 30 minutes; interior finishes that hide the most dirt; 17 meals made from a deli chicken; and much more" SIGNED by the author with "Enjoy! XOXO" opposite the title page. Index. 166 pp. ISBN: 978-0811869935.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards.
Book ID: 76109More details Price: $25.00 -
THE NANTUCKET DIET MURDERS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Delacorte, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - The third culinary mystery, featuring food-loving, crime-solving Mrs Potter (whose recipes appear on the endpapers.). ISBN: 0-385-293860.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 32185More details Price: $12.50 -
THE NANTUCKET DIET MURDERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - The third culinary mystery, featuring food-loving, crime-solving Mrs Potter (whose recipes appear on the endpapers.). ISBN: 0-385-293860.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (corners slightly bumped, some edgewear to the dj at the top of the spine)
Book ID: 58987More details Price: $18.00 -
IF I CAN COOK, YOU KNOW GOD CAN.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Beacon Press, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Vertamae Grosvenor. A combination of recipes and food-related reflections on her life and comments on historical events related to the African Diaspora. Notes. 113 pp. ISBN: 0-807072400.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71723More details Price: $18.00 -
THE DRUNKEN BOTANIST: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2013). SIGNED first edition - An exhaustive guide to "the herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries." Entertaining and informative at the same time, this also includes dozens of cocktail recipes .INSCRBED on the title page. Illustrated with small drawings. Recommended reading. 360 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers crease to lower corner of back cover).
Book ID: 71756More details Price: $25.00 -
RECIPES FROM THE DUMP.
Edition: First edition.
New York & London: Norton, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - a humorous and heart-warming story with recipes to fill your soul and warm your stomach, the story of a young single mother who lives next the dump in Leadbelly, Vermont.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 13441More details Price: $18.00 -
THE CORNBREAD KILLER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring chef and sometimes sleuth Heaven Lee, set in Kansas City, and complete with recipes. "When a big jazz festival rolls into Kansas City, big names and even bigger egos follow. Soul singer divas and renowned jazzmen take over the usually sleepy city, and Heaven Lee has to cook for them all. While Heaven is up to her elbows in hoppin' john and sweet potato pecan pie getting ready for the festivities, the events much despised organizer is murdered." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2001. 242 pp plus recipe index. ISBN: 0-312206054.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 70191More details Price: $25.00