Brockton: Standard Printing Company, 1910. Octavo in wrappers (21 x 15 cm.), 239 pages. Advertisements. Blanks. Photograph of the Hospital by G. C. Holmes on title page. Cover title: Brockton Hospital Cook Book 1910. Presumed second edition, parallel wrappered issue. A sizable charitable cookbook of seven hundred fifty attributed recipes, over six hundred of which were "not in the 1906 edition", according to a note on the title page. Evidently.....

Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Co., 1909. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm.), 150, [16] pages. Interleaved with unpaginated blanks for the addition of handwritten recipes. Index and advertisements. Stated "Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged". Later edition of Hawaii's first cookbook, a community cookbook with recipes attributed. The much slimmer first edition - just forty-nine pages - was issued in 1879 by "The Ladies of the Fort Street Church" and printed by P.C......

Haverhill, Mass. [The Church; Printed by] Steam Press of Chase Bros. 1883. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), [viii], 136, [xvii] pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). Decorated chapter head- and tailpieces. Table of contents. List of corrections. Editor inferred from copyright statement on title-page verso. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION; while copyrighted the prior year, the author's preface is dated December 1882. A church cookbook likely issued in concert with the dedication of.....

West Medway, Mass. H. A. Bullard, Book and Job Printer, 1908. Octavo (21.5 x 14 cm.), 84 pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). "Index" is actually a table of contents. Photographic image of the church reproduced on the front panel of the wrappers. Evident FIRST EDITION. A charitable church cookbook from Norfolk County, to the southwest of Boston and some thirty kilometers north of Providence. With three hundred fifty recipes, the majority.....

San Francisco: Matthews, 1910. Octavo (20.5 x 15.5 cm.), 165 pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). “Table of contents” is actually an index. Subtitle on cover: Containing 600 Recipes Tried and Proved. Illustration of the Church on the title page. FIRST EDITION. A compact but generous church cookbook with six hundred attributed recipes, entirely addressed to an anglophone readership expecting fritters and puddings. Potential stand-outs among them: Cream of Onion Soup, Panned.....

Westfield, Mass. Press of The Valley Echo, 1900. Octavo (20 x 13.25 cm), 92 pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. An unreported church cookbook with three hundred recipes, the majority attributed. Fully of its era, emphasizing baked goods, sweets, and puddings – with five separate approaches to Walnut Cake, and five renditions also of Lemon Pie. Settlers from Northampton, in what is now the central western county of Hampshire, moved to.....

Boston: B. Wilkins & Co., Printers, 1889. Octavo (19.5 x 13.25 cm.), 64, [ii] pages. Advertisements. Title on cover: Housekeeper's Hand Book. Index is actually a table of contents. FIRST EDITION. A church recipe collection with two hundred brief entries, all attributed. A straightforward chapter of standards called Fancy Dishes claims center stage: Charlotte Russe, Strawberry Blanc-Mange, Orange Pudding, Lemon Creams, Jellied Peaches. Shortly after the organization of the first.....

Evansville, Ind. Journal Co., Printers and Binders, 1885. Evansville, Ind.: [The Church; Printed by] Journal Co., Printers and Binders, 1885. [St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Evansville, Ind.); Ladies of the Church]. Octavo (21.5 x 14.75 cm.), 81 pages. Illustrated head- and tailpieces. Advertisements. Index. Cover title: The Perfect Cook. ~ Evident second edition (by inference). An early church cookbook offered by a community nestled within a leafy corner of the largest.....

Lowell, Mass. First Baptist Church, [1899]. Squarish octavo (17.5 x 14 cm.), 184 pages. Includes 50 pages of advertisements. Publication date inferred from ads. Stated FIRST EDITION. A handsome community cookbook from Lowell, Mass. with short narrative recipes attributed. Divided into sections on Soups, Meat, Fish and Game, Eggs, Bread, Puddings and more. More than one quarter of the book is given over to advertisements for local businesses. Age-toned throughout.....

Susanville, Lassen County, California: [the club: Lassen Advocate, n.d., circa 1914]. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 100, [11] pages. Index. Advertisements at rear. Evident FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook produced by the Monticola Club, founded in 1912 by Philenda Spencer, apparently inspired by the passage of the bill that recognized the rights of California women to vote. The club was located in Susanville, on the banks of the Susan River.....

Spencer [Mass.]: Book and Job Office of the Spencer Sun, 1885. Duodecimo (17.5 x 12 cm.), xii, 110 pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, containing a collection of narrative format recipes arranged in twenty-one chapters, including Boiling, Roasting, Pickles, and House Plants. Spencer, Massachusetts was settled in 1717 and officially incorporated in 1753. In rubbed and lightly soiled brown wrappers. Some slight foxing and water stains to edges, otherwise.....

Chaumont, N.Y. Ladies' Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1897. Octavo-sized stapled booklet (23 x 15 cm.), 48 pages. Advertisements. Stated Second Edition (on wrappers only). An attractively designed church cookbook emanating from a hamlet in Jefferson County (near Lake Ontario), whose central district is now listed in The National Register of Historic Places. The Methodist Episcopal Society traces its presence in Chaumont to the earliest days of settlement.....

Soda Springs: The Church/[Hildreth Printing], 1930. Small octavo-sized stapled book (18.5 x 14 cm.), 72, [iii] pages. Advertisements. "Index" is a table of contents. Title from header running throughout; cover title: Cook Book. Statement of attribution from cover. FIRST EDITION. A previously undocumented church cookbook with a version of goulash described as "Danish" and an end-of-harvest green tomato sauce oddly identified as "Soy" – though the majority of the two.....