San Francisco: Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, [circa 1900]. Stapled booklet (15 x 12.5 cm.), [16] pages. Illustrated, and printed in halftone throughout, in black, red, and gray. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes for chocolate ice cream, cookies, puddings, jumbles, kisses, and more. “Chocolate Bretzles” and “Chocolate Africans” are among the more interesting inclusions. Publisher’s stapled, illustrated and blind-embossed wrappers, with some light edgewear. Otherwise fine. Scarce. [OCLC locates five copies].....

Kingston, Ja. [Jamaica]: Printed by Gleanor Co., 1946. Booklet, stapled in wrappers ( x cm.), 39, [3] pages. Advertisements. Stated “7th edition”. Originally published in 1926 as a charitable cookbook, and carrying the statement, “compiled by Mrs. F.S. Edmonds and sold for the benefit of child welfare in Jamaica.” Later editions did not credit the compiler. Recipes include Ox-tail Soup, Turtle Steak, Baked Cow Heel, Callalu and Eggs, Wild Cucumber.....

Beirut: Dar Al Hayat, 1950. Large octavo, stapled in wrappers, 239, [17] pages.Advertisements. Parallel text in English and Arabic. First edition. The author states that this book is the product of her thirty years in the Middle East (preface). It seems she is trying to bring a sort of generalized Western cooking peppered with North African flavors to the ordinary young Lebanese housewife, and that the Arabic translation was intended.....

[Havana, Cuba: F. Diaz], [undated: circa 1940]. Small stapled booklet (9.5 x 6.5 cm.), [32] pages (including price list at center). Issued without the title page, otherwise found in other issues), and without the portraits or biography of the founders. ~ A later, apparently promotional issue of the famous cocktail manual, of which at least nine annual issues are known, all titled Sloppy Joe's Cocktails Manual, and most with the.....

New York: Royal Baking Powder Company; [lithography by] Schumacher & Ettlinger, 1887. Stapled booklet (21 x 13 cm.), 43, [1] pages. Illustrated. Later printing. Front wrapper verso with facsimile of a letter from Marion Harland dated 1887. Publication date from copyright statement on front wrapper panel. Includes a wood engraving showing twenty figures of diverse pans used in baking. “The recipes in this book are new, and formulated by one.....

Boston: Published by Charles Gaylord, 1831. Duodecimo (15 x 10.5 cm.), 102, 6 pages. Index. Author from bibliographic references (name appears on earlier edition). Later edition; first published with this title in 1830 by Concord, N.H.'s Fisk & Chase. Earlier editions were issued under the titles, Select Collection of Approved... (1820), and Thirty-one Real Genuine Receipts.., (1825), but were significantly shorter and lacked the section of culinary receipts. This popular.....

San Francisco: Published by Town Talk Press, 88 First Street, 1916 copyright January 1, 1917. Tall octavo (28.5 x 18 cm.), 47, [3] pages. Illustrated wrappers with envelope fold. Includes the cancel leaf tipped-in at the rear, "Some War Recipes and Others". FIRST EDITION. An early and attractively produced San Francisco cookbook, issued as the city was finally putting the Great Earthquake behind it, but the nation was on the.....