Like a museum that has outgrown its storage area, I am forced to de-accession the overflow of my treasured collections. For more than forty years, wherever I traveled I sniffed out the best places to eat and never missed a flea market.

Just a corner of the collectibles table.

       
        "Why are you buying American jewelry in Rome?" an incredulous Steven once asked.

        "Because it's Josef of Hollywood and I've never seen it anywhere else," I said, borrowing a handful of big lira notes from him.

         I can't quite believe I am willing to part with these vintage cooking tools, the pewter platter,  the whimsical grocery store tins I simply had to have, or the vintage costume jewelry and the serious American folk art, a transfer painting, a rooster weathervane and a ship's figurehead of an Indian woman. But now that the Road Food Warrior and I have moved out of the house in Aspen and sold the little church on the hill outside Woodstock, there just isn't room.
                                                                                                                                                                                           Vintage rusted iron.
       
        What else am I selling: Stoneware crocks. Old grocery store tins. An apple peeler dated December 16, 1856 by Horatio Keyes Mfd. by Lockey & Howland, Leominster, Mass. A Diamond dye box I used to hold spice tins in my Woodstock home. A cherub-handled crochet hook. A Victorian silver glove stretcher. Yes, I had eclectic passions. A small needlepoint pillow that says “Screw Home Cooking.” That was a gift.

        Even the precious eight foot by eight foot Russian Amur Raccoon rug-bedcover backed with brown velvet has to go. Email me if you want to do some Christmas shopping or indulge your own insatiability in my storeroom.
 

This is the cover of New York Magazine #1. Alas, I don’t have it.                     

        I am also selling 151 vintage issues of New York Magazine beginning with February 16, 1970 "Love in the Age of Options" by Gail Sheehy, Gloria Steinem, Pete Hamill, et al.

        Other examples of the early golden days of New York:  September 27, 1971 "China Comes to NY" Tom Wolfe on Bok Choy. Underground Gourmet on Dim Sum, my "High Rent Chinese Restaurants."

       
        December 20, 1971 New York magazine introduces Ms - the first issue of MS inserts inside.

        September 25, 1972 "The Kitchen as Erogenous Zone," with George Lang kissing one of his wives on the cover.

        April 30, 1973 "The New York Bedroom Revealed," my "Perfect Breakfast in Bed."

        July 15, 1974 "Kissing Is Up on New York Streets" by William H. Whyte, Richard Reeves on the Impeachment Stall. "How Solid are the Banks?" by Andrew Tobias.

         I see back issues advertised at $22 each on the magazine's website. But I will sell them for $17 each or $15 plus shipping for a minimum of 10, or make me an offer for all of them. Email me.

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