Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. Octavo, xxvii, 237, [5], 16, [1] pages. Index. Evident FIRST EDITION. Not a cookbook per se, but rather an instruction manual "for the use of classes in public and industrial schools" based on the work being done by the Boston School Kitchen. The Boston School Kitchen was initiated and funded by Mrs. Mary Hemenway in summer of 1885, and was the introduction of cooking schools into.....

New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, 1890. Small octavo, 80, [1] ads. First edition. A guide for hosting a dinner and to the etiquette of attending. Attention is paid to various levels of dinner parties, from informal to formal, and to proper invitations. Behavior at the table, company dinners, setting the table and arranging a menu are all included. Some light foxing throughout, in gilt-stamped, green cloth. Tidemark to.....

Burlington, VT: Loren B. Lord, c. 1870. Small octavo, unpaginated, 24 pages. FIRST EDITION. A little product cookbook, with testimonials for Dr. N. C. White's Pulminary Elixir. A bit strange, in that no one thought it inappropriate to make recipes adjacent to each other, such as "Lemon Pie" preceded by "Children Having Worms". Edges a bit brittle, some soiling throughout, otherwise near very good. Scarce. [OCLC locates no copies].

Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Co., [1908]. Octavo, 105, [1] pages. The second printing, with the price of 35 cents on the printed cover. The second in a series of five collections of prize-winning recipes issued under the Los Angeles Times imprint between 1902 and 1917. According to Glozer, this volume was first published in 1908, although others indicate 1905 or '06. This collection offers, according to the front cover, "One Thousand.....

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872. Octavo (18 x 13 cm.), 123 pages. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Facing English and French texts. Third edition, an early facsimile of the original G.&C. Carwill edition of 1827. In 1829, Cargill issued a slightly expanded edition with some changes to the translation. Loubat was among the first to recognize the potential of American soil for quality wine grapes. He claims to.....

[circa 1873]. Narrow octavo, 56 pages, plus unpaginated memoranda section. Pages 1-25 of the Commercial Index are pasted over with clippings that include recipes for cakes, preserves, puddings, cookies, pies, and other household hints. Pages 26-55 remain intact with indices of business houses of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh with maps showing locations. Interspersed are advertisements. Page 56-finis are forty-nine handwritten recipes, ranging from fly-paper and taffy to sausages.....

St Louis. MO: [circa 1940]. One page autographed letter signed, from Irma Rombauer, author of The Joy of Cooking, and a major figure in the history of American cooking. Addressed to Louise [Diallo],The last name was supplied by the seller and is not indicated on the letter itself. In black ink on cream colored stationery printed in brown, "Mrs. Edgar Rombauer - 5712 Cabanne Avenue - St. Louis - Mo.....

New York: Robinson & Franklin, 1839. Duodecimo, 216 pages. With a folding table depicting a table setting, as well as two other engravings: one a butchering guide and the other James and Cornell's Improved Cooking Stove. Later American edition, substantially abridged. Originally published under the title A New System of Domestic Cookery, London 1806 or 1807. Handsomely rebound by St. Michael's Abbey in full brown calf, with red morocco spine.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), xxii, 230 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Full-page black-&-white reproductions of watercolors and illustrated chapter headings. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION, in a second state dust jacket, with "$3.00" on the flap. ~ Idiosyncratic, literary elucidation of cookery as described in the memoir of a “northern” transplant to a small community in a corner of Alachua County (in north-central Florida). Widely venerated.....

New York: International Magazine Company Inc., 1933. Small octavo, 254 pages. First edition of this popular Good Housekeeping cookbook. Light soiling to publisher's green and white printed cloth, otherwise very good. No dust jacket, as issued.

New Orleans: Published by Dorothea Thompson, 1952. [Mary Moore Bremer]. Octavo-size (21 x 14.5 cm.), [ii], 86, [iv] pages. Illustrated. Table of contents. Index. Title and author from cover. Date of publication from edition statement on preliminary page [ii]. Photoreproduced engravings depicting historic buildings throughout. ~ Stated fourteenth edition. A later entry in the sequence of editions of an admired cookbook, first published in Waveland, Mississippi in 1932 (under the.....

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1961. Octavo, 298 pages. First edition. A memoir by the author of the Blueberry Hill Cookbooks. From the jacket, "This girl Elsie is spunky. Vigorous. Devastatingly funny..." A near fine copy, in publisher's green paper-covered boards. In an edge chipped and lightly soiled, but near very good dust jacket.

Middletown, NY: McMonagle & Rogers, [circa 1880s]. Small octavo in wrappers, 44 pages plus advertisements. Later printing. Promotional pamphlet for McMonagle & Rogers Premium Fruit Flavors featuring over 150 recipes interspersed with testimonials pronouncing McMonagle & Rogers the best in market. Breads, cakes, candies, ices, pies, puddings, salads, and more are all featured in this booklet, with "the hope that it may prove acceptable in the homes of many time.....