New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1878]. Octavo, 713 pages. With six chromolithograph plates tipped-in. FIRST EDITION. Menus for every day of the year with recipes for each. Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune) attempts "To accomplish an agreeable variety in the family bill of fare." Her list of goals is long, but includes: "to build fragments into a structure about which should linger no flavor or staleness or sameness; so.....
Baltimore, MD: I. & M. Ottenheimer, Publishers/Crawford & Co., 1907. Octavo, 156, [4] pages. Later, Baltimore printing. One of the many cookbooks from the prolific author who wrote under the pseudonym Marion Harland. Some flyspecking to rear end papers, otherwise very good, lightly edgeworn but presentable in an illustrated white oilcloth binding. [OCLC locates ten copies of this printing; not in Cagle].
Boston: Geo. B. Oakes & Company, 1869. Octavo, 292 pages. First edition. A medium-sized compendium of useful household recipes, some for cookery, but most not. Includes many recipes for tinctures, herbal essences, pickles, ketchups, other preserves, hair tonics, roof patches and more, my favorite being "To Make Artificial Volcanoes." Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good, in publisher's gilt-stamped light brown cloth, with some rubbing and corner bumps, but still.....
Chicago: by the author/printed at the Stinehour Press, 2004. Octavo, 145 pages. First edition. Privately printed cookbook. Fine copy in gilt-stamped red cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1975. Small octavo, 54 pages. First trade edition, wrappered issue, following the privately printed edition issued by the Beehive Press. Harwell's elegant volume provides a delightful foray into the ceremonial, traditional, and regional history of the Old South's favorite drink. Taking the reader through several oft-debated recipes for creating the perfect julep, Harwell unveils the elusive history behind the drink, from its highly contested origin.....
Savannah: The Beehive Press, 1975. Small octavo (21 x 13 cm.), 59, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION, limited to 300 copies, one hundred for the author and two hundred for the publisher. Harwell's elegant volume provides a delightful foray into the ceremonial, traditional, and regional history of the Old South's favorite drink. Taking the reader through several oft-debated recipes for creating the perfect julep, Harwell unveils the elusive history behind the.....
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1975. Small octavo, 54 pages. First trade edition, wrappered issue, following the privately printed edition issued by the Beehive Press. Harwell's elegant volume provides a delightful foray into the ceremonial, traditional, and regional history of the Old South's favorite drink. Taking the reader through several oft-debated recipes for creating the perfect julep, Harwell unveils the elusive history behind the drink, from its highly contested origin.....
New Haven: Healy & Bigelow Publishers, 1891. 17 x11.5 cm, 64 pages. First edition. Illustrated throughout. A promotional cookbook for Healy & Bigelow's Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company. Cooking advice and over one hundred recipes for beverages; breads, biscuits, etc.; cakes; candies; cheap breakfast; farmer's dinner; fish; food for the sick; pies and puddings; poultry; roasts; soups; vegetables; warm-over dishes; and miscellaneous dishes. Verso of each page has testimonials and information.....
Janesville, Wis. Recorded Print, 1890-1891. Octavo, 160 pages. Illustrated. Ads. Cover title. Stated eighth edition. The preface indicates that it has been twenty-two years since the first publication, which would then be 1868, but there is no evidence of a copy earlier than 1885. A promotional cookbook for the chemist, whose business is supplying medical, household, and art supplies. Culinary recipes are attributed. Pages quite brittle, binding shaken. In burgundy.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Octavo, 234, [4] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. The author's second book, following her popular Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving of 1877. Henderson and her husband John B. Henderson, Senator from Missouri, were wealthy land speculators and early real estate developers, first in St. Louis, and then in Washington D.C., where she was instrumental in creating the Meridian Hill neighborhood. While this book is not.....
New York: Published by Leavitt & Allen, no. 379 Broadway, [1857]. Octavo, 360, 61, xii, pages. Engraved title and frontispiece. Illustrated with two engraved plates. A later American edition of this work, originally titled The Housekeeper's Instructor (London 1791), including Hughson's improvements and the New Family Receipt Book, reprinted here with separate pagination. As Cagle reminds us, "this is an entirely different work from Elizabeth Hammond's Modern Domestic Cookery." Chapters.....
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. Octavo (18.5 x 13 cm.), 275, [2], 11, [1] pages. Publisher's advertisements. Index. Second printing. Christine Terhune Herrick was the author of several cookbooks and other works, as well as the daughter of Marion Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune). More than half of this work is given over to monthly menus for one week each. December is lacking, though a......
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1907. Octavo, 126 pages. FIRST EDITION. A nicely designed and charmingly written cookbook (except for the swipe at the New Englander's taste for brown bread and baked beans for supper). The recipes are in narrative paragraph form. printed in brown and black throughout. In patterned tan cloth, with illustrated paste-down, and printed text. Inscribed by the author on the half-title.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1930. Octavo, xii, 355 pages. Index. Illustrated throughout with half-tones. Later edition. Includes a selection of menus for special occasions. With the ownership inscription of Mrs. Arthur Pew Jr. of Springbrook Farm. Fine in publisher's dark green and white, decorated brown cloth.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1910. Octavo, 407 pages. Later printing, first issued in 1909. Photographically illustrated. Starts off with a basic scientific explanation of foods, the chemistry of cooking and biology of nutrition, as understood at the time. A thorough list of kitchen needs, equipment and staples, is next. And finally recipes, aimed at the newlywed and small household. Some light wear, otherwise very good in publisher's black and.....
Brooklyn, New York; [New York]: Hotel Clarendon; [the author]; [printed by Redfield Brothers Inc.], [1910]. Booklet sewn on cord (16.5 x 12 cm.), [22] pages. Illustrated. Printed throughout in dark brown and tan. FIRST EDITION. A series of eighteen single subject “talks” which, as the title tells us, “first appeared as newspaper advertisements”. Subjects include Eating, Cold Storage, Milk Cream, Butter, Eggs, Oysters, Guinea Chickens, Squabs, Ice Creams, Banquets, Healthy.....
[Minneapolis]: The Buzza Company, [1920-1929]. Tall, stapled and cord-sewn booklet (26 x 11 cm.), [48] pages, including blanks at the end for handwritten recipes. Illustrated with two color vignettes. Printed throughout in black and green. FIRST EDITION. Author and illustrator information from title page verso, "Compiled by Florence Hofflin, designs by L.V. Mero". An attractive publication from the Craftsman School-influenced novelty publisher, The Buzza Company. Topics include Beverages, Sandwiches, and.....
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880. Octavo, 432 pages. Illustrated. Later edition. A novel of manners by the American humorist Marietta Holley. "Designed as a beacon light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book." One page with abrasion, a bit shaken, otherwise very good. In publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth.....
Lowell, Mass: C.I. Hood, n.d. Small octavo, 32 pages +ads. A later reprint, still issued by the company. A small product book, with both recipes and remedies, from the makers of Hood' Saponaceous Tooth Powder and Hood's Sasparilla. Very near fine in publisher's printed wrappers.
Lowell, MA: C.I. Hood & Co., 1897. Duodecimo, 351 pages. First edition of this small Victorian guide for the home cook, issued by the makers of Hood's Sarsaparilla. Each chapter carries a decorated letter, and the book is well indexed. In publisher's grey-green printed boards, which are rubbed and soiled. Less than very good, but sound and complete. [Bitting 563; not in Cagle].
San Francisco: Putney Haight, Telegraph Press; Printed and Bound by the Hicks-Judd Company, 1910. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), [31], 67-307 pages. Advertisements. Illustration of the Hotel on page [3]. Portrait of the author in chef’s whites and smoking cap on page [6]. ~ Stated subscription issue (thus FIRST EDITION). One of the more important and influential early California professional cookbooks, marking San Francisco’s emergence as a world culinary center.....
San Francisco: Putney Haight, Telegraph Press; Printed and Bound by the Hicks-Judd Company, 1910. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), [31], 67-307 pages. Advertisements. Illustration of the Hotel on page [3]. Portrait of the author in chef’s whites and smoking cap on page [6]. ~ FIRST EDITION, stated subscription issue. One of the more important and influential early California professional cookbooks, marking San Francisco’s emergence as a world culinary center. Divided.....
Montpelier: E.P. Walton and Sons, 1845. Small octavo, 108 pages. Frontispiece. Index. Second, stereotyped, edition, following the Worcester, MA edition of 1844. A new preface for this second edition, indicates an additional fifty recipes have been added, and the medicinal section has been expanded. The elaborate frontispiece depicts two women working in a new England kitchen: one kneading dough and the other preparing poultry for cooking. Birds, a rabbit and.....
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker Press, 1925. Octavo, 283 pages. First edition. "No business is more intimate with human nature than the hotel business. And no record of a hotel more resplendent of contacts with human nature than this record of distinguished tradition - the Waldorf-Astoria." Fine in original royal blue cloth. In the scarce dust jacket, complete but rubbed and with a bit of edge chipping.
New York: Random House, 1985. Large quarto, 359 pages. Illustrated. First edition. The American cookbook from founder of the great American catering firm Glorious Food Inc. Fine in a fine dust jacket. From the collection of American fashion and style icon Bill Blass, and inscribed by the Idone to Blass on a bookplate pasted to the dedication page.