Ashland, Mass. [n.p., 1907]. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), 82, [1] pages. Index. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A collection of attributed recipes to benefit the St. Paul's Parish Church of Hopkinton, some twenty-five miles west of Boston in Massachusetts. St. Paul's Episcopal church was established in 1745, by Rev. Roger Price, Rector of King's Chapel, Boston. The recipes are in narrative form, and include some unusual offerings, including Eggs a'la Goldenrod.....

Chicago, [Il.]: F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher, 1893. Octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), 249 pages. Table of contents. Evident FIRST EDITION. An anthology saluting Kentucky fare, assembled under the guidance of a hostess transplanted from her native Covington to the District of Columbia, and issued just as the great Panic of 1893 paralyzed the American economy at the outset of Grover Cleveland’s second term. With one hundred twenty-five recipes (a few.....

Pittsfield, Mass. [The Church]; Chickering & Axtell, Steam Printers, 1877. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.), 87, [i] pages. Advertisements. Cover title: Cook Book. FIRST EDITION. An attractively printed church cookbook from the seat of Berkshire County in the westernmost region of Massachusetts, with some three hundred fifty unattributed recipes. Warranting notice: Black Bean Soup, Onion Pie, Vegetable Plum Pudding, (Baked) Raspberry Sandwich, Whortleberry Cake, Rice Meringue, Brandy Peaches, and Blackberry.....

London: Printed by Thomas Martin, No. 76 Wood-street, Cheapside, [circa 1790]. Duodecimo (15.5 x 9.5 cm.), 168 pages. Copper-engraved frontispiece of a woman in her kitchen, plating a dish in front of a roaring fire, with the legend: "Engraved for Mrs. Harrison's new cookery book, 1783". FIRST EDITION THUS. Despite bearing a title identical with that of a book by Mrs. Harrison, the book was neither new nor Mrs. Harrison's.....

Charleston, S.C. Carolina Rice Kitchen Association; Presses The Lucas-Richardson Co., 1901. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (lacking) (18.5 x 11.5 cm.), 91, [13] pages. Advertisements. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. Margaret Cook records this as the first South Carolina community cookbook. At least two other non-community cookbooks from the Palmetto State precede this book by some decades: The Carolina Receipt Book by a “Lady of Charleston” (1832) and Sarah Rutledge’s Carolina Housewife.....

[Martha's Vineyard: n.p., circa 1910]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (10 x 15 cm.), 8 pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A slight but interesting single author cookbook, with thirty short recipes in narrative form. About the author, Mrs. Ernest R. Norton, or her husband, we know little, though Norton is a name of great significance on the island of Martha's Vineyard, going all the way back to the original 16th century.....

New York: The Health-Culture Company, [1904]. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 246 pages. Stated Second Edition (from author's preface) of this early raw food cookbook. The authors' argument tends to be twofold: that early man ate raw foods and it was good enough for him; and that cooking saps food of its nutrients. Includes an interesting collection of recipes, primarily, though not entirely, vegetarian. Internally clean and sound. Publisher’s.....

Philadelphia: North Brothers Mfg. Co., 1895. Duodecimo-sized booklet, 104 pages. Later printing, originally issued 1890. Another of the many books of Sarah Tyson Rorer, Director of the Philadelphia Cooking School, and author of Mrs. Rorer's Cook Book. The book's publishers were the manufacturers of the Gem Freezer, and ice cream maker, and the recipes are for ice creams and ices. Also includes descriptions with illustrations, of a variety of kitchen.....