The Gentleman's Companion by Charles H Baker Jr (38 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover which is leather bound, in overall good condition with light general wear. Please note that there is wear, mostly to extremities. along spine edge. See photos. Binding firm and square. clean throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Boards show signs of wear. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Clean and unmarked. Slipcase included. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.49.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Volume 1. (recipes, cookery, international) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Hardback bound in navy leather with round paste-on color illustration on front and gilt title. All edges gilt, marbled end pages. Volume has faded gilt title on spine. No other defects to note. Interior clean, tight and unmarked. 1992, Limited Edition of 2500. Volume I, 220 pages with list of recipes. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Clean pages except for a few small coffee droplet stains on final endpapers and head edges along with a ripple at the head edges of the last 15 leaves; no owners' marks; square, secure binding, the red cloth cover noticeably faded along spine and edges, the gilt darkened on front and spine, two small, pale spots at the lower front and one at the right rear, and spots of wear at corners including two small frayed spots at the spine head, otherwise sound. xix, 220pp.; b/w photo illus. New, revised edition (7 years after first). "INCLUDING: A Company of Hand-Picked Receipts, each one Beloved & Notable in its Place, collected faithfully on Three Voyages & a Quarter Million Miles around the World, & Other Journeys.".

Original Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Red cloth. Clean unmarked text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Black leather binding with gilt decoration, lettering and page edges. One of 2500 Limited Edition.Paste down circle illustration on front cover. 9.50x6.25 with 220 pp. Subtitle: Around the world with Knife, Fork and Spoon.

Hardcover in two volumes. Condition: Fair. Reprint of 1939 edition. slipcase is soiled and a bit dinged. Spines are seriously faded and there is some dampstaining on both volumes.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.37.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Matching volumes, both numbered "728" out of a run of 1,250, both hand-dated 6 Feb. 1950 ("Java Head, Coconut Grove, Fla."), both signed by the author in blue ink to the blank FFE following lengthy inscriptions to Fritz and Kitty Fenger, and both bearing the bookplates of Frederic Abildgaard Fenger. The top edges of volume II are partially stained from a spill that also marks the rear endpapers of that volume -- our guess is coffee -- though text pages are not affected. Photographic Christmas cards (1942, 1954) from the Bakers to the Fenger family also glued in, one bearing a lengthy inscription from Paulette Baker. Fenger, author of "Alone in the Caribbean" as well as "The Cruise of the Diablesse" is mentioned to pg. 4 of Volume II, and receives a more substantial treatment as "sailor, author, explorer, raconteur, naval architect & gourmet" where he's credited for his "Oyster Pan-Roast, Diablesse," at pg. 77 of Volume I. Fenger is also credited with several exotic drink recipes in Volume II, those references indexed in his typewritten note to the front pastedown. Author Baker (1895-1987) traveled the world during Prohibition in search of exotic food and drink recipes for magazines including Esquire, Gourmet, and Town & Country. An "unlikely hybrid of Indiana Jones and Jay Gatsby, . . . a Gilded Age bon vivant who almost singlehandedly imported 'exotic' foreign drinks onto menus across the United States long before mass market jet travel" ("Conde Nast Traveler," July 26, 2017), his writings are fondly regarded not only for his detailed recipes but also for his anecdotes recalling such drinking and dining companions as Faulkner, Hemingway, and Errol Flynn. His marriage to mining heiress Pauline Paulsen helped finance his travels as well as their estate, "Java Head," near Miami. Volume I grades very good; Volume II downgraded to "good" due to the aforementioned stain. NO slipcase; no jackets as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Overseas shipment of this heavy pair of books is likely to cost $75. In our experience, delivery to Italy or Western Australia is likely to take as much as 90 days. Reduced from $3,500. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.55.

2nd Printing Hardcover both books very good in red cloth boards, no jackets as issued, encased in publisher's original slipcase; minor fading to spines, gentle wear to spine ends, bookplate on front pastedown of each book else each a tight square unmarked copy; slipcase shows considerable wear to edges with some reinforcement via clear tape; 1946 reprint edition with some additional recipes included that had been laid in the books.

Condition: Poor. 2nd. 2nd edition, 1st printing. 6.5x9.5" octavo. Poor Condition. Boards faded but originally red with gold lettering on spine and gold logo on cover. Front board loose. Pages clean and tight. Spine worn from being pulled of a shelf. Corners bumped. Volume one of two. 207 pg. + appendices: appendix and index. We are a small indie bookstore in scenic Vermont, specializing in children's, YA, and science fiction. Please consider buying from us and supporting indie bookstores and our bookstore cat, Wesley!

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Thus. Both Volumes in publisher's plastic and box. Black/Navy leather binding with gilt decoration, lettering and page edges. One of 2500 Limited Edition. Paste down circle illustration on front cover. 9.50x6.25 with 220 pp. Subtitle Around the World with Jigger, Beaker & Glass.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited. This reprint has some light rubbing and edgewear. Text is clean and tight in binding, no ownership or other markings. This book is one of 2500 in a Limited Edition. Volume II only. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition. First edition. xiv, [ii], 224;xi, [i], 225pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine faded as usual, gift inscription on ffep, else fine xiv, [ii], 224;xi, [i], 225pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. BAKER, Charles H. Jr. [220] pp. The Derrydale Press 1992 9 5/8" x 6 5/8" This is one of 2500 in a Limited Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Crown Publishers, New York. 1946. 2 Volumes. 220 & 217 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Slipcased. Paper slipcase lightly shelfworn and chipped. Bound in red cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (faded along the spines). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Baker's two-volume set "The Gentleman's Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery and Drinking Book", was originally published in 1939 by The Derrydale Press. Volume One is concerned exclusively with food recipes. Volume Two, treats cocktails and other alcohol beverages. Charles Henry Baker, Jr. (1895-1987) was an American author best known for his culinary and cocktail writings. These books have become highly collectible among cocktail aficionados and culinary historians. Baker spent much of his life traveling the world and chronicling food and drink recipes for magazines like "Esquire", "Town & Country", and "Gourmet", for which he wrote a column during the 1940s called "Here's How". "Condé Nast" contributing writer St. John Frizell wrote, "It's his prose, not his recipes, that deserves a place in the canon of culinary literature . At times humorously grandiloquent, at times intimate and familiar, Baker fills his stories with colorful details about his environment and his drinking companions - Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner among them".; 2 Volumes; 9.8 X 6.6 X 2.0 inches; 437 pages.

Libro vintage. Argomento: Saggi. Autore: Baker Jr. Charles H. Editore: Crown Publishers. Luogo: New York. Anno: 1951. Formato: in-8°. Pagg: 224. Legatura: Cartonata in tela. Conservazione: buona. Titolo impresso sul dorso, piatto muto. Testo in lingua inglese. Macchia al taglio. Dorso usurato ed ingiallito.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Lyon, Mississippi: The Derrydale Press, Inc., 1992. xix, 220; xix, 216 pp. 24.5 x 17 cm. Dark blue leather covered boards with circular color plates mounted on front covers and gilt titling to spines; both issued in an edition of 2500 copies. Some light rubbing to spine ends and corners of boards. Interiors clean, crisp, and unmarked. Bindings firm, as books are unread. An excellent set of the Derrydale Press limited edition reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED2 Volumes, in slipcase, first edition, slightly musty, some wear to case and edges, sm4vo.

Leather Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. (22)220pp. Embossed padded mission leather binding by Bigelow & Brown, with small paper of explanation laid in. Pristine condition in the original lidded box, like a candy box. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. COOKING.

Condition: Good. New York 1946 Crown. Hardcover octavo. Orange cloth. 220p. ***Presentation copy signed by Baker (and by book owner Bryan Hastings. ) Good, binding secure; hinges not cracked; text clean; slight rippling in text throughout; top edge and corner of book bumped lightly; light staining on cover cloth; slight toning to spine but spine lettering still legible. no dj. This book is becoming quite hard-to-find.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. TWO VOLUMES. Hardcover. First Thus. Both Volumes in publisher's plastic and box. Black/Navy leather binding with gilt decoration, lettering and page edges. One of 2500 Limited Edition. Paste down circle illustration on front cover. 9.50x6.25 with 220 pp. Vol 1, Subtitle: Around the world with Knife, Fork and Spoon. Vol. 2, Subtitle Around the World with Jigger, Beaker & Glass. Additional shipping cost required for insurance, amount according to USPS and destination.

Numbered 496 in pen of 1250 copies. "including a company of hand-picked receipts, each one beloved & notable in its place, collected faithfully on three voyages & a quarter million miles around the world, & other journeys not forgetting: Certain valuable words to the wise, gleaned from divers chefs in many & strange places; & the home formulae for construction of such intriguing exotics as hell-fire bitters, Key West old lime sour, herb vinegars; to say nothing of various strange and delicious sauces & bastings for fish, flesh, fowl & the wilder games." xix, 10 chapters. appendix. index of recipes. 220 pages. Page foredges and bottom edges uncut and some pages unopened. 8vo 9 1/2" x 6 1/2". Two types of red cloth (faux leather on spine) stamped in gilt on spine. Tiny wear at corners. Tightly bound. Clean. Scarce. near Fine condition.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Two smart copies of cookery and drink recipe book sets from American author Charles H. Baker Jr. Four volumes. Written by Charles Henry Baker Jr., an American author best known for his culinary and cocktail writings. Baker spent much of his life traveling the world and chronicling food and drink recipes for magazines like Esquire, Town & Country, and Gourmet, for which he wrote a column during the 1940s called "Here's How". He collected many of those recipes and decided to publish them as a book in this set. This set contains: The Gentleman's Companion, 1946. New edition. With a frontispiece to each volume. Volume I: An Exotic Cookery Book or, Around the World with a Knife, Fork, and Spoon. Including hand-picked recipes and valuable tips from chefs across the world, from fish dishes and game of all sorts, to particular vegetables and desserts and fruits. Volume II: An Exotic Drinking Book or, Around the World with a Jigger, Beaker and Flask. Including a personally collected regiment of world-famous liquid masterpieces, with details on the proper service of beverages with and without food. The South American Gentleman's Companion, 1951. First edition. Volume I: An Exotic Cookery Book or, Up and Down the Andes with a Knife, Fork, and Spoon. Including hand-picked South American recipes collected on a journey involving over thirty thousand air-miles visiting and eating in every civilized section of that great continent. Volume II: An Exotic Drinking Book or, Up and Down the Andes with a Jigger, Beaker and Flask. A personally tested regiment of lively Latin liquid masterpieces from greater and lesser ports and cities of South America, as well as a famous few from the three Guianas. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with fading to the spines. With the original cloth covered slip case. Slips are sound with light wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Small cracks to the joins of The Gentleman's Companion resulting in minor loss to the extremities. Overall good. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Both volumes Very Good in a Good slipcase. Light staining on Vol. I side text block edge. Slipcase edges openly torn.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Charles H. Baker (illustrator). 2nd Edition. The 2nd edition after the rare and limited Derrydale press edition of 1939. However, this is still a limited edition profusely illustrated with photo frontis gravure of the author in the Life of Rily. Baker was a Bon Vivant and clever witty author The two volumes are about world Gourmet Cooking and World Gourmet drinking. The fact that this set is scarce, and when you find it, it's usually wrecked, tells you it doesn't sit on the shelf, it gets read and used. The author was a well-traveled gourmet, connoisseur of wine, spirits and ales, and world-class party animal, but most important, a beautiful writer. Here he dispenses advice, recipes and witty narrative in equal parts. Condition of these books: fine, extraordinary for this set. Fabulous recipes Note this is a special set being bound in Chicago by the Montastery Hill Bindery circa 1950 in fine 3/4 green gilt morocco and marbled boards, marbled endsheets, gilt raised bands, gilt spine compartments and a gilt Martini Glass on spine, very fine. the only superb bound set in existence of this title to our knowledge. The full title for volume one is The Gentleman's Companion. a Guide to Exotic Cookery. Volume Two is The Gentleman's Companion or a Guide to Exotic Drinking. A very fine set. Should see photos. By the Binder.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). A smart new edition copy of this cookery and drink recipe book set from American author Charles H. Baker Jr. Complete in two volumes. New edition. With a frontispiece to each volume. Baker spent much of his life traveling the world and chronicling food and drink recipes for magazines like Esquire, Town & Country, and Gourmet, for which he wrote a column during the 1940s called "Here's How". He collected many of those recipes and decided to publish them as a book in this set. Containing: Volume I: An Exotic Cookery Book or, Around the World with a Knife, Fork, and Spoon. Including hand-picked recipes and valuable tips from chefs across the world, from fish dishes and game of all sorts, to particular vegetables and desserts and fruits. Volume II: An Exotic Drinking Book or, Around the World with a Jigger, Beaker and Flask. Including a personally collected regiment of world-famous liquid masterpieces, with details on the proper service of beverages with and without food. Written by Charles Henry Baker Jr., an American author best known for his culinary and cocktail writings. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with fading to the spines. With the original cloth covered slip case. Slip is worn with the front panel detached from the top and bottom panels resulting in flapping. Wear to the extremities with tape residue to the edges. Overall good only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.