Weather Bird Press ~ California
(Vance Gerry)

The Heart of a Bee
By Louise Seymour Jones
2004. Edition of 50.

4.75 x 7" 13 pages with appendix of Authors Mentioned in Text. Patterned papers over boards. Plain white dust wrapper with beehive illustration and titles in black on front.

An excerpt from "Put a Feather in Your Hat." Excursion into the bee and its place in history, with mention of many writers and scientists from ancient Greeks to Materlinck in the 20th century. A tantalizing introduction to the bee.
$50

Selected Shore Plants of Southern California
By Charles Leland Richardson
Illustrated by Vance Gerry
1992. Edition of 100.

8.5x11'" with 82 pp. Richardson describes common plants with botanical prose. Sixteen plants are captured via multi-colored linoleum cuts. In fine green patterned boards. 16 color illustrations. Heavy Arches paper bound in boards. Binding by Bela Blau.

Leland Richardson has written a description of sixteen native plants of Southern California which are visually depicted in beautiful multicolored illustrations by Vance Gerry.
$250

Herbs
By Diane S. Martin
2004. Edition of 50.

5.5 x 7.75" printed from type and bound in decorative paper boards with a gold-stamped cloth spine. In illustrated dust jacket.

Diane S. Martin is a long time herb and vegetable gardener. She has worked in both the Huntington Library and the Los Angeles County Arboretum her gardens as a teacher of gardening. Martin grows them close to her kitchen and uses them in her cooking. This volume has fifteen cuts with text on growing and culinary uses of herbs.
$75

Weather Bird Press Out of Print titles:
• A Message from Wanda Gag
• Aphorisms of Jan Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• Cooking with Wine
• The Epicurean
• Frugal Fare. Recipes from a Time Gone by
• Jazz Instruments.
• Jorrock’s Scanty Breakfast
• Lethe
• Madeline
• Mickey Mouse
• Old New England Recipes
• On the Illustrating of Books
• Song of Yesterday (1)
• Song of Yesterday (2)
• Song of Yesterday (3)
• Supplement to San Pasqual Press
• Tamales
• The Ties That Bind
• Tid Bits from Bohemian Life
• Food & Drink Series Pamphlets 1 -10
• L.A.Type
• Not to be Forgotten Items on a Picnic