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Holiday Giftbooks
Here is our selection of forty giftbooks, all discounted 22% (in honour of our 22nd
anniversary) through November and December. We have giftbooks about history, cooking,
literature, and many other areas of interest.
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Interiors, Exteriors, and Gardens:
Quentin Bell & Virginia Nicholson
Charleston A Bloomsbury House and Garden
Henry Holt
Cloth, $45.00
An incredible picture book about Charleston the house where Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant,
Vanessa's two children and friend David Garnett lived in beginning in 1916. This
wonderful literary/artistic memoir of the inhabitants and guests of Charleston adds a
fascinating chapter to the lives of the artists and writers who were known as the
Bloomsbury Group.
Chris Casson Madden
A Room of Her Own : Women's Personal Spaces
Potter
Cloth, $30.00
Busier that ever before, women long for their own personal spaces in which to relax and
regroup, indulging in their thoughts, talents, and daydreams. In A Room of Her Own,
Chris Casson Madden offers a beautiful collection of these spaces, defined and designed
for a woman's peace of mind.
Van Der Meer
The Architecture Pack
Random House
Cloth, $50.00
The Architecture Pack is a wonderful, interactive book that demonstrates the principles
of architecture using unique three-dimensional examples of some of the great buildings
of the world. This is a practical, interesting, and fun look at architecture and
architects.
T. Schachtman
The Most Beautiful Villages in New England
W.W.Norton & Co.
Cloth, $40.00
Great big gorgeous pictures of small gorgeous towns. The incredible atmosphere of New
England's most beautiful towns throughout the seasons is shown to full advantage in this
lavishly illustrated book.
D. Saeks
California Wine Country
Chronicle
Cloth, $40.00
The first book to celebrate Wine Country lifestyle and interiors, California Wine
Country offers an intimate tour of the ease and elegance that prospers amidst the
vineyards and lush hillsides of California's wine-growing regions. With more than 200
beautiful color photographs, California Wine Country brilliantly captures the spirit and
flavor of the Wine Country way of life.
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Literature:
Marc Chagall
Fables of La Fontaine
The New Press
Cloth, $30.00
Here are the timeless fables of La Fontaine with illustrations and textual treatment as
imagined by Marc Chagall. This book is a work of art, not just to be read, but
experienced. If the unusual appeals to you, this book is for you. (slipcased)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rose Window and Other Verse from New Poems
Little Brown
Cloth, $22.95
The beautiful poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke is well served by this handsome book.
Selected and illustrated by Ferris Cook, this bi-lingual edition deserves a place on any
poetry lovers shelf. As our poetry buyer Derrick says, "This is definately a
'gift-worthy' volume."
Rumi
The Illuminated Rumi
Broadway
Cloth, $30.00
Translated and with commentary by Coleman Barks, and with illuminations by Michael
Green, this stunning new edition of the timeless poetry of Rumi is a wonderful
introduction to those who have never experienced Rumi's writings before, or a delightful
treat for those who have.
Katharine Washburn and John S. Major
World Poetry
W.W.Norton
Cloth, $35.00
This long-awaited, indispensable volume contains more than 1600 poems drawn from dozens
of languages and cultures, and spans a period of more than 4000 years from ancient Sumer
and Egypt to the late twentieth century. This is no mere sampler: In choosing only
works of the highest intrinsic quality the editors have created a book that will
surprise knowledgeable readers and lead newcomers to an understanding of the glories of
world poetry that is our common heritage.
J.R.R.Tolkien
The Hobbit
Houghton Mifflin
Cloth, $35.00
The Hobbit is one of the classics of our time. Here it is in a beautiful gift edition
illustrated by Alan Lee. Wonderfully illustrated, good thick paper, an attractive
binding make this a wonderful edition to treasure forever.
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Food, Wine, and Entertaining:
Mollie Katzen
Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven
Little Brown
Cloth, $27.50
The author of the Moosewood books is back with a wonderful new cookbook! Mollie
Katzen's Vegetable Heaven presents over 200 irresistible and surprising recipes.
Sumptuously illustrated by the author, Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven will transport
anyone who loves good eating into the realm of culinary paradise.
J. & J. Davies
Sparkling Harvest The Seasons of the Vine
Abrams
Cloth, $45.00
While on his honeymoon in 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson traveled to the Napa Valley and
chanced upon Schramsberg Vineyards wher he tasted their California wines for the first
time. So impressed was Stevenson that the wrote about the experience in his book
Silverado Squatters, likening the wine to "bottle Poetry". Here, in evocative text and
glorious images, is Schramsberg's remarkable story and its role in the ongoing evolution
of California wines.
Sasha Judelson, Editor
East West Food
Soma
Cloth, $30.00
East West Food is an inspired look at the crossing over of food styles and ingredients
from around the world. Featuring ten innovative chefs from across the globe, it
examines the styles, influences, and techniques that are so dramatically changing the
way we look at food.
Rombauer and Becker
The Joy of Cooking, Revised Edition
Simon & Schuster
Cloth, $30.00
Completely revised and updated for today, The Joy of Cooking is as essential to the
well-stocked kitchen as ever. Wonderful low-fat recipes that reflect the greater
diversity of tastes and cooking styles that typify cooking today.
Caroline Conran, Terence Conran, and Simon Hopkinson
The Essential Cook Book
Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Cloth, $39.95
Whether you want to know:
what a passion fruit looks like
the recipe for the perfect birthday cake
how to use a clay pot
how to bone and stuff a duck for a special dinner, or
a soup-to-nuts menu for Thanksgiving
The Essential Cook Book is the only book you will need on your kitchen shelf! This huge
(and attractive) book tells you more than just add sugar.
J. Ellis
House Beautiful Entertaining
Morrow
Cloth, $30.00
Small occasions or large, House Beautiful Entertaining, has practical advice on how to
create a gracious and welcoming atmosphere. From recipes to table settings, invitations,
to decorations, this is a beautifully illustrated idea book for anyone who likes to
entertain. For the experienced hostess, to the neophyte, there is something for
everyone in House Beautiful Entertaining.
Diane Rossen Worthington
American Bistro
Chronicle
Cloth, $29.95
American Bistro is a modern interpretation of the best dishes of America's past : a
cuisine that's earthy, sophisticated, and multicultural all at once. The American
Bistro brings together the nations's traditional fanvorites and a growing interest in
fresh, local ingredients and ethnic flavors. It is a bold unpretentious cuisine that
has made its way onto the menus of grills in San Francisco, and cafes in New York,
bistros in Loas Angeles and trattorias in Chicago.
J. Elffers
Play With Your Food
Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
Cloth, $19.95
Our favorite book! If you've ever been struck by the odd shape of a vegetable, this is
the book for you! Funny cabbages, screaming leeks, shy turnips, and many other odd and
whimsical creatures are yours with this book and a small knife.
M. Chappellet
Romance of the California Vineyards
St. Martin's Press
Cloth, $19.95
Beautiful pictures and delightful quotes make this mini-tour of California's wine
country a great gift for anyone interested in viticulture and fine wines.
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Children's Books:
Lawrence Yep
The Dragon Prince
Harper Collins
Cloth, $14.95
In China long, long ago, there lived a farmer with seven daughters. The land was so
poor, it seemed he grew more rocks than rice. One afternoon when the farmer was coming
back from town, a huge dragon sprang from a nearby cave and seized the farmer in its
paw. "Give me one of your daughters for a wife, and I'll give you your life as her
bride price!" And so begins this beautiful picture book by acclaimed author Laurence
Yep and illustrator Kam Mak.
Stewart and Small
The Gardener
Farrar Strauss & Giroux
Cloth, $15.00
Lydia Grace Fince brings a suitcase full of seeds, plenty of stationary, and a passion
for gardening to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a
cantankerous baker. Colored by a Depression-era setting, The Gardener introduces
readers to a winsome and determined young heroine, whose generosity will reward all who
meet her.
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Photography & Art:
Helen Levitt
Mexico City
W. W. Norton
Cloth, $35.00
In 1941, the American photographer Helen Levitt spent several months in Mexico,
photographing the capital city and its inhabitants. With neither sentimentalism nor
romanticism and working almost exclusively in urban and semiurban areas of the city, she
confronted the conflicts and juxtapositions that announce Mexico's arrival into the
modern world, and she did so with compelling force and dry wit. For this book Helen
Levitt has reexamined old negatives and vintage prints and chosen sixty-seven pictures,
most of which have never been exhibited or published before.
Leni Riefenstahl
People of Kau
St.Martin's Press
Cloth, $40.00
Leni Riefenstahl presents an extraordianry collection of images and text of the now
extinct tribe of the Nuba of Kau. The Nuba of Kau were a wild an dpassionate people,
whose knife fights, dances of love, and elaborately painted bodies and faces are unique
and worthy of memory.
The Earl of Harewood
The New Kobbe's Opera Book
Putnam
Cloth, $60.00
The standard work on opera, revised and updated. If you are an opera aficionado, or
know someone who is, this book deserves a place on your shelves.
J. Livingston, Editor
The Art of Richard Diebenkorn
University of California Press
Paper, $39.95
The Art of Richard Diebenkorn
University of California Press
Cloth, $60.00
Recognized as a major figure in postwar American painting, Richard Diebenkornwas an
artist strongly identified with California but whose work is beloved through the United
States and the rest of the world. Exhaustivly researched, and stunningly illustrated
with 192 full-color reproduction, this book is an exhilarating testament to a
distinctive American artist.
M. Chapin
88 Keys : The making of a Steinway piano
Random House
Cloth, $25.00
Beloved by concert performers and amateur enthusiasts alike, the Steinway piano is the
most complicated piece of machinery made by hand in the world today. Meet the crafstmen
who build these pianos at the factory that has been home to Steinway for more than 125
years.
Bonnie Yochelson, Editor
Bernice Abbott : Changing New York
W.W.Norton
Cloth, $60.00
Photographs of New York by Bernice Abbot. Edited and with text by Bonnie Yochelson.
Ansel Adams
California With Selected Writings
Little Brown
Cloth, $50.00
A celebration of California by its most renowend photographer, this splendid book
features many rarely seen images and an intriguing selection of writings about the state
by classic and contemporary authors. Accompanying these beautiful photographs are
evocoative poems, essays, and passages about California by a wide range of notable
writers, including Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, John Muir, Robinson Jeffers, John
Steinbeck, John McPhee, Wallace Stegner, and Joan Didion.
Judith Dupre
Bridges
Black Dog
Cloth, $22.98
A big beautiful picture book of bridges.
Jeffrey Becom and Sally Jean Aberg
Maya Color : The Painted Villages of MesoAmerica
Abbeville
Cloth, $45.00
Color and the symbolic ways that the Maya of Mexico and Central America paint their
homes, places of worship, and dwellings for the dead are the focus of this beautiful,
poignant book. Through dazzling photographs, vivid travel tales, and the Maya's own
poetic voices, readers will come to know the modern Maya as remarkable survivors who
continue to sow their deified corn, commune with their gods, and paint life into their
color-drenched village walls.
R. Crumb
R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book
Little Brown
Cloth, $40.00
Crumb's whole career, from Shack to Chateau! The R.Crumb Coffee Table Book collects
fome of the finest work from throughout Crumb's career, ranging from some of his
earliest published comics in the mid-sixties to work completed in the nineties. His
best stories, illustrations, covers, and paintings are here, many of them appearing in
color for the first time. Brief commentaries by Crumb are interspered througout the
book, illuminating his early love of comics, his career, his obsessions with sex and old
music, and many other aspects of his life and work.
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Science, History, & Nature:
Smithsonian
Air and Space - National Air and Space Museum of Flight
Little Brown
Cloth, $45.00
This magnificent book brings us the dfinitive story of humanity's conquest of the skies.
From the first hot-air balloon to the Wright brothers, the Apollo landing, and beyond,
Air and Space captures the daring innovaters, brilliant discoveries, and breathtaking
excitement of aviation like no other book. Over 400 photographs and illustrations.
B. Zeller
The Civil War in Depth
Chronicle Books
Cloth, $24.95
A marvelous book comprised of 3D stereoscope images of the civil war. If you are
interested in the Civil war, this book has many images you may never have seen before.
It is a fscinating look at the first "photographed" war of our times. A small viewer is
included.
Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Lewis & Clark
Random
Cloth, $40.00
Here is the companion volume to Ken Burns' PBS documentary Lewis & Clark. Lavishly
illustrated, this well-written book is an excellent history of an intrepid band of
explorers.
B. Coburn
Everest - Mountain Without Mercy
Random House
Cloth, $35.00
A beautiful picture book of one of the wonders of the world. A glorious mountain that
is the target of glory seekers from around the world.
Galen Rowell
Bay Area Wild
Random House
Cloth, $37.50
The San Francisco Bay Area holds the most extensive system of wild greenbelts of any
major metropolitan area in the world. More than 200 parks, preserves, and other
protected areas can be found within forty miles of the city. Together they exceed
Yosemite National Park in size, biodiversity, and visitation. With stunning photography
and beautiful text, this book celebrates these separate national, state, regional,
county, local, and private entities as a whole for the first time.
Brian Moynahan
The British Century
Random House
Cloth, $65.00
A beautiful picture book that chronicles the incredible changes of Britain and its
Empire during the twentieth century. The distinguished historian Brian Moynahan has
contributed a trenchant and illuminating history of his own country, from the height of
Empire - when a quarter of humanity was British-ruled and four fifths of world trade was
carried in British ships - to 1940, when the British Empire alone defied Nazi Germany,
to the postwar emergence of Great Britain into the modern world.
Herb Caen
The World of Herb Caen, 1938 - 1997
Chronicle Books
Cloth, $35.00
Herb Caen was a San Francisco newspaperman for over half a century. He experienced the
changes that time has wrought to San Francisco, and known many of the powerful, and not
so powerful, people that have made San Francisco unique. Extensively illustrated with
photos of his life here in the city, The World of Herb Caen, 1938 - 1997 is a
fascinating chronicle of a man and his city.
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Joe Montana:
Joe Montana
Joe Montana : The Art & Magic of Quarterbacking
Holt
Cloth, $25.00
And here he is in a class by himself, Joe Montana writing about the thing he does best,
quarterbacking. This is a fascinating book for any football fan, here you can learn
about the special skills needed to be a good quarterback, how to judge plays, when to
take chances, on-field communications, all the factors that go into being not just a
football player, but a quarterback. One of the greatest quarterbacks of all time has
written a fascinating book about his craft, and it is destined to become one of the
classics in the field of sports writing.