New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1892. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), [iv], 505 pages. All edges green. Indices. Revised Edition, with supplements; originally published 1889. Cookbook associated with, but not exclusively drawn from, the great New York restaurant Delmonico. In a facsimile of a letter to Charles Delmonico, the author points out that he was employed by the restaurant for twenty-five years, although it is believed he worked.....

Kansas City, Missouri: Published by Unity School of Christianity, 1924. Octavo, 339, XXVI pages. Illustrated with photographs of the inn, its dining rooms, soda fountain, cafeteria, and pergola room. FIRST EDITION. An explicitly Christian vegetarian book, with an introduction on the "Relation Between Regeneration and Vegetarianism". The Inn, a project of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, opened in 1906. At first they offered a "pay what you will" option but found.....

Paris: Librarie Gallimard, 1932. Quarto, 180 pages. First edition, numbered and limited. One of 220 numbered hors commerce copies, stamped S.P. [service de la presse], from a total of 1589 copies. Printed in red and black and with text decorations throughout. Marie-Claude Finebouche is the pseudonym of Madame Jean Alabert, wife of the celebrated author and gourmand. Born in 1879, she published several cookbooks in the 1930s and 40s celebrating.....

Haverhill, Mass. [The Church; Printed by] Press of Chase Bros. 1888. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), [viii], 144, [x] pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). Title page printed in red and black. Decorated chapter head- and tailpieces. Table of contents. List of corrections. Editor inferred from copyright statement on title-page verso. Third Edition. A church cookbook likely issued in concert with the dedication of a new meetinghouse in 1882. With approximately five.....

Lafayette, Ala. The Church, 1921. Octavo (22.5 x 15 cm.), 44, [xvi] pages. Advertisements. Title from cover. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook, with more than 250 recipes, many attributed. Most entries adhere to the reliable conventions promised by the title, but there are also such glimpses of the geography as Pecan Cake (requiring two and a quarter pounds of pecans), a custardy Burnt Almond Cream, Banana Fritters, and Squash.....

[Newburyport]: Newburyport Commercial Press, 1927. Small octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 58, [i] pages. Advertisements interspersed. Title from cover. Additional title (page [1]): Tested, Tried, and True. "This book is issued for the benefit of the Ladies' Benevolent Society of the Oldtown Parish, First Church, Newbury"–page [1]. ~ FIRST EDITION. A church collection with nearly two hundred recipes, the majority attributed. The family of the pastor, Charles Sumner Holton (1866-1939).....

[Berkeley, California: James J. Gillick & Co., Publishers, 1923]. Octavo (20 x 13.5 cm.), [iv], 240 pages. Various tables at end. Blank leaves at end of each section (not used). Evident FIRST EDITION. The Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley had been founded in April of 1921, by our editor, Mrs. Joseph F. Furtado. A notice to that effect, with a list of officers appears on page.....

Marion, Massachusetts: Friends and Members, [n.d., circa 1960]. Mimeographed booklet, hole punched but not bound, (14 x 11.5 cm.), [16 pages (some vertical gatefolds)]. Cover illustrated with a linocut. Title partly from the wrappers. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook for Marion, Massachusett's First Congregational Church. All recipes are attributed, and each is given its own page, some of which are cut longer to fit a longer recipe. Some of the.....

Colorado Springs: [The church, between 1931 and 1933]. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 84 pages. Advertisements. "Index" is actually a table of contents. Cover title. Publication date surmised from advertisements for Swans Down Flour and Walter Baker Chocolate (both 1931) and Ball Brothers Jars (item depicted 1933). FIRST EDITION. A somewhat rustic memento of a trying time in El Paso County, from a congregation that was already forming before the.....

Salinas, California: [The Church; Printed by] E. H. Green, Printer, 1902. Octavo (23 x 15 cm.), 382, [x] pages. “Index” is actually a table of contents. Advertisements. Cover title: 20th Century Cook Book. Evident first edition. A church cookbook with approximately four hundred recipes, from a region famous for its root and vine vegetables, its farm produce, as well as its long-established Mexican and Asian communities. Among items of note.....

London: Kegan, Paul, Trench Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1946. Octavo, 354 pages. Illustrated, and with two folding plates. First edition. The great economic anthropologist examines in depth the social organization of the fishermen of the Malay Peninsula. The book includes an index of edible fishes caught, as well as a large folding map of the village layout, with gardens, orchards, and other elements of agriculture integrated into the fishermen's community.....

London: Sabine and Son, no. 81 Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, [circa 1800]. Octavo, 120 pages. Some woodcut illustrations in the text. Stated twentieth edition. One of the most popular of English eighteenth-century cookbooks. Lydia Fisher was "Late cook and House-keeper to the Duke of Newcastle, Marquis of Rickingham &c. upward of 50 years" (later, 24th edition). The dating of editions of this book is debated, with some early catalogue entries.....

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. Octavo, 212 pages. First edition. A collection gathered on the occasion of the author's 80th birthday, Dubious Honor features over 32 introductions (to her own books and those by others) on a wide range of subjects, from Japanese cooking to Robert Louis Stevenson. "Marvelously bright (and sometimes biting) ... and to further satisfy her legions of voracious fans, she has written new introductions to.....