New York: Doubleday, 1992. Small octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 246 pages. Advanced Reader's Copy (ARC) of the FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION of the author’s first book, Como Agua Para Chocolate. The basis of the fine film by the same title for which Esquivel also wrote the screenplay. A fine copy in a color-printed wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title.
Chicago; Lunenberg, Vermont: [by the author; printed at the Stinehour Press], 2004. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), 145 pages. FIRST EDITION. Privately printed cookbook. Fine copy in gilt-stamped red cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Scarce. [OCLC locates no copies].
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 215 pages. FIRST EDITION. The first work in Trillin's classic "Tummy Trilogy" and the first volume of his food writing in book form. Fine in publisher's red over blue cloth; in a near fine dust jacket. Surprisingly scarce.
London: Geo. Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street, 1855. Small octavo (16 x 10.5 cm.), x, 190, 22, [1] pages. Index. Advertisements. Illustrated with a wood engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (here present at the rear of the book), and additional illustrations in the text. Publisher's advertisements to front endpapers and preliminaries, with additional ad for a new series of handbooks tipped-in. Styled "thirtieth thousand". The illustrations appear within the.....
Boston/New York: Lee & Shepard/Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875. Large octavo (22.5 x 18), 568 pages. Author information from the copyright page. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes, drawn from various sources, including French, German and English cookbooks, as well as "written receipt-books of families famous both at the North and South for their savory cooking." The compiler, Elizabeth S. Miller, hails from Geneva, New York, and dedicates the book.....
London; Norwich: Marshall's School of Cookery; Robert Hayes, Ld. Rosebery House, Bream's Buildings; [Printed by Jarrold and Sons, Limited], [circa 1905]. Octavo (18.5 x 13 cm.), 664, [1] pages. Index. Illustrated. Advertisements. Styled "Revised Edition", and "Seventy-fifth thousand". Originally published in 1887 (though Bitting and Cagle state 1888) and now enlarged by about fifty percent. Light foxing throughout, hinges shaken, but text block sound. Adhesions to rear paste-down. Some light.....
London: Duckworth, 3 Henrietta Street W.C. 2, 1927. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 160 pages. FIRST EDITION. A fine work on the acquisition of the best ingredients for fine dining, from the Director of the London Zoological Society's Aquarium. A good deal of emphasis is placed on the adventure experienced while pursuing quality ingredients. Four of the book's eight chapters are given over to fare of the sea, and the.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1956. Small octavo, 223 pages. Later printing of the classic Italian dessert book, originally published in 1952. Contains "over 250 recipes for delectable desserts, confections, liqueurs, and other specialties..." Some age toning and light foxing to text block, otherwise very good in gray cloth, with a slightly dusty, unclipped dust jacket with a small smudge to the center of the front panel. Still.....
Woodstock, VT. The Lilliputter Press, 1960. (6 x 4.3 cm.), 89 pages. FIRST EDITION, limited to 2000 unnumbered copies. The first miniature from the press of Frank H. Teagle, Jr. With a preface on miniature books and a selection of cookie recipes, including Sugar Cookies, Corn Flake Macaroons, Pecan Puffs, Springerle and more. The authors hoped the tiny book would be carried in apron pockets, mimicking the entreaties of 19th.....
London: S.O. Beeton, 248, Strand, W.C.; Cox & Wyman, Printers, 1861. Thick, small octavo (17.5 x 11 cm.), xxxix, 1112 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and engraved title, and with additional twelve color plates and engravings in the text. FIRST EDITION, first issue in book form (with "18 Bouverie St." on the illustrated title page). Preceded by the very rare issue in twenty-four monthly parts, issued November 1859-1861. Perhaps.....
Kuala Lumpur: Published by the Y.W.C.A. of Malaya & Singapore; Printed by Caxton Press, Ltd. (KL), 1951. Octavo (22.5 x 14 cm.), (x), 251 pages. Index. Advertisements. Illustrated with some text-figures and head-pieces; index & index to advertisers. Cover designed by Cherrie Williams. Stated sixth edition. An expatriot cookbook, containing many more"local" recipes than is normally found. There is indeed a preponderance of comforting recipes from the U.K., including Chile.....
New York: A. J. White, 54 Warren Street, [1882]. Stapled booklet (20 x 15 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated throughout. The third of the A.J. White Shaker almanacs. These promotional booklets – advertising the "Shaker Extract of Root" – were manufactured by the Mount Lebanon, New York United Society of Believers Community, but based on the recipes of Andrew Judson White, who contracted the Shakers to supply the tonic. Shaker Almanacs.....
New York: Privately Printed; [printed by Rogers & Company], 1924. Octavo (20.5 x 14.5 cm.), 68, [2] pages. Illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION of this cub annual. Number 475 of 800 copies printed. The annual year book of the famous Dutch Treat Club, founded in 1905, and still active today. The original club was founded by a group of Art Directors and Editors who worked for the earlier Life Magazine, who.....
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street W.C.; [printed by] Butler & Tanner Ltd., [1932]. Small octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 137, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of thoughts – not quite idle thoughts – "gastronomical, literary, and political (though heedless of ephemeral policies)" from the preface. Welby was an interesting character, born and raised in India by parents who forbade him from speaking English until the age.....
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.....
St. Louis, MO: Wrought Iron Range Company, [1927]. Octavo (22 x 16 cm.), 211, [4] pages. Later edition of this combined cookbook and trade catalogue, which changed slightly with each change in stove models. The Model "AC" is the most recent stove depicted, here in a two page color spread (pages [12]-13), and thus the date of [1927]. Includes recipes for breakfast, beverages, bread, dinner, salads, puddings, and household hints.....
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, Manor Farm, 1984. Imperial 16mo. (19.5 x 14 cm.), [44] pages. Text set in 12-point Bell. Printed in black (the illustrations in reddish-brown) on Zerkall Silurian paper. Bound by Smith Settle. FIRST EDITION, one of 250 unnumbered copies. There was also a deluxe edition of thirty copies with the illustrations colored by hand, and enclosed in a black clamshell box. One of the most charming of.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Myers, Publishers, 1876. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), vi, 403, [1] pages. Illustrated with numerous engravings in the text and on plates; decorated initials begin each section. Index divided by section. FIRST EDITION. Issued on the occasion of the American centennial, and containing both a cookbook and a guide to Philadelphia's sites for visitors to the events. Contents include cookery, medical recipes, child care, farming, and household recipes.....
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, 1934. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 102 pages. Index. Photographically illustrated. FIRST EDITION. William Heinemann issued the book in England the same year. A work on dining and entertaining from one of the most prominent American socialites of the early 20th century, immortalized in the lyrics of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. She's been credited, though not entirely accurately, with having invented the profession of.....
Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley, 48 N. Fourth Street; [electrotyped by George Charles, 9 Sansom Street], 1860. Small octavo (17.5 x 12 cm.), 160 pages. Index. Stated "fourth edition, revised and enlarged". Originally published Philadelphia, 1856 with the title What I Know, or Hints on the Daily Duties of a Housekeeper. One of a number of Quaker cookbooks to appear in the 1850s. The first section "The Economical Cook Book" (roughly two.....
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, Manor Farm, 1984. Imperial 16mo. (19.5 x 14 cm.), [44] pages. Text set in 12-point Bell. Printed in black (the illustrations in reddish-brown) on Zerkall Silurian paper. FIRST EDITION, deluxe issue. Number 27/30 deluxe copies signed by Rosalind Randle and Judith Verity and hand-coloured by the artist. Judith Verity obtained material for the lino by pulling up part of the floor of the village school nearby.....
London: Printed for the author and sold by T. Rodd, 2, Great Newport Street, Long Acre, and J. Wacey, 4, Old Broad Street, Royal Exchange, 1835. Duodecimo, (16 x 10.5 cm.), ii, 208 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. New editions published in 1839, 1843, & 1850. One of a number of handbook for the manufacture of various wines and spirits to emerge in the first half of the 19th century focused.....
New London: Published by Bowles & Williams, Main Street, 1848. Duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.), 108 pages. Engraved, illustrated frontispiece. Index. 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 that the medicinal section has been expanded. The elaborate, typographically bordered frontispiece depicts two women working in a new England kitchen: one kneading dough.....
[Paris]: Corrêa, [1941; ©1940]. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), 190, [2] pages. Later edition, stated “57th edition”. Édouard de Pomiane, professor at the Institute Scientifique d'Hygiène Alimentaire, sets out here to give the home cook the tools – including recipes – to think beyond commercial marketing with some basic knowledge of the scientific basis of nutrition. His concern here is the moment when the aesthetic concerns of gastronomy must take.....
[Paris]: Corrêa, 1940; ©1940. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), 190, [2] pages. FIRST EDITION. Édouard de Pomiane, professor at the Institute Scientifique d'Hygiène Alimentaire, sets out here to give the home cook the tools – including recipes – to think beyond commercial marketing with some basic knowledge of the scientific basis of nutrition. His concern here is the moment when the aesthetic concerns of gastronomy must take a back seat.....