Beer and brewing

Foglio volante (mm 385x255), stampato solo al recto. Rarissimo 'contrasto' tra il vino e la birra in dialetto veneziano, non privo di una connotazione risorgimentale.

(New York: Schaefer Brewing/ William E. Rudge's Sons, 1942). First edition. Commemorative book issued on the 100th anniversary of the founding of NYC's longest operating brewery by German brothers Frederick and Maximilian Scheafer. Oblong folio glossy red paper-covered boards with 2 gold embossed medallions on front; profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs and one-color plate; unpaginated. This copy still housed in the original tan-and-black box/shipping container with printed red label featuring picture of the 2-sides of the commemorative medal (as on the book's front cover) nestled in a bed of grains as well as space for personalization and/or address. The cardboard box is fair but mostly intact, missing only half of top end and with fragile outer layers of paper showing flaking and wear. Book is near fine. Would appear to be quite rare in the original box.

New York: The Brewers' Journal, 1890. First edition. Pocket-sized directory offered gratis to subscribers to "The Brewers' Journal," a trade paper printed in both English and German established in 1876 in New York by A. E. J. Tovey (perhaps in answer to England's own "Brewers' Journal"). 16mo gilt-stamped blue cloth boards; 88 pp. including 7 pp. ads at front and 15 pp. at rear (including on pastedowns, with rear pastedown being p.[89]). Prints information culled from "the Books of the Internal Revenue Department, Washington, D. C." Includes tables at the front showing total "Malt Liquors" sales in barrels for 1889 and 1890 by state and in principal cities as well as list of total sales to Great Britain and Ireland for the years 1882 - 1889; followed by 50 pages listing every brewery in the U.S. for the year ending May 1, 1890, by state and city, what types of beers they produced (e.g., "L"=Lager), and their total sales by barrel (by production "class," e.g., "4"= 600,000 to 650,000 whereas "40"=… Read More

Brewers Publications, 2013. Near Fine. Clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Minor shelf wear to cover. Photo is of the copy at Barbed Wire Books.