New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc.; The Murray Printing Company, 1953. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 128 pages. Illustrations by the author. Index. FIRST EDITION. A collection of over one hundred recipes for mushrooms. The author was headmaster of a Brooklyn school at the time of this compilation, but had roots in Lucania or Basilicata. His prior work, Italian Cooking for the American Kitchen, was very well received. The recipes cover.....

[Hampstead, U.K.]: Tredolphin Press, [1968]. Small octavo (20 x 12.5 cm.), [iv], 105, [1] pages. Illustrated by Jean Papworth. Place and date of publication from author's preface. FIRST EDITION. With simple and clear descriptions, Simon's Turkish recipes work for experts and novices alike. The author originated the first cookery and domestic science classes in Cyprus, which in turn, brought forth this lovely book. Sections include hors d'oeuvres, dips & mezes.....

London: Alec Tiranti, 1964. Octavo ( x cm.), 88 pages. Illustrations with 483 black & white drawings by the author (not in the pagination). Index. Second Edition, a fascimile of this work originally issued by The Medici Society in 1927. "The first book written in English about those useful domestic implements that once formed so important a part of household equipment... The work is divided into six sections: the Hearth.....

London: A. Brown and Sons, Limited, 1915. Folio. [ii], xlvi, 240, [iii], pages. Illustrated with two hundred seventy half-tone reproductions in sepia and ten full-page plates in color. Bibliography. List of subscribers. FIRST EDITION, first issue, stated "Subscriber's Edition" limited to 250 hand-numbered copies, of which this is 34. Printed on a thick laid paper with wide margins. Tipped-in at the front is the printed announcement "Her Majesty the Queen.....

Boston: Waite, Peirce & Company, no. 1 Cornhill; [G.C. Rand, Printer, no. 3 Cornhill], 1846. Sextidecimo (18 x 11.5 cm.), 390 pages. Publisher's advertisements. Stated "Sixth Stereotype Edition"; originally published by George W. Light in 1838. Alcott was the first president of the American Vegetarian Society and founded of the American Physiological Society in 1837, the world's first physiological society. Much of this work is dedicated to vegetables, grains, and.....

New York: M. Barrows and Company, [1940]. Octavo (21 x 14.3 cm.), 189 pages. Index. Photographic frontispiece and plates. Designed by Stefan Salter. FIRST EDITION. The first book of the great James Beard, "America's first foodie", as he is described by Mitchell Davis, founder of Kitchen Sense, and formerly of the James Beard Foundation. Hundreds of recipes for home entertaining. "In orderly array, the book clearly classifies and describes the.....

New York: Antheneum, 1971. Tall octavo (22 x 13 cm.), 192, [3] pages. FIRST EDITION. A dictionary of dishes one might find on a French or Italian menu, as well as definitions of specific ingredients and of wine grapes and regions of the two nations. From "America's first foodie", as James Beard is described by Mitchell Davis, founder of Kitchen Sense, and formerly of the James Beard Foundation. Very light.....

[Norwich(?): April 1st, 1845 – January 1st, 1855]. Small octavo (15.5.x 10.5 cm.), [74] pages with handwritten text (others blank). A neat household account book, labeled “Expenses Out for House”, covering a broad range of purchases over more than a decade. The first page, “For oysters” seems an outlier, not format in the manner of what follows. What follows is a detailed list of purchases, line after line listing “Cash.....

Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, [1912]. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), vxiv, [3], 12-252 pages. Illustrated with sixteen black & white photographic plates. Index. FIRST EDITION. A broad survey of the casserole dish, including some remarks on the origin of casseroles. "The old idea of a casserole was some preparation of chopped fish, flesh, or vegetables enveloped in a crust of rice, macaroni, or potato..."(page xii). Sections include recipes for soup.....

Santa Barbara, California: Woodbridge Press Publishing Company, 1976. Oblong duodecimo in wrappers (15 x 23 cm.), 160 pages. Index. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. While this work claims to be "the first book of insect cookery ever to be printed”, it is a successor to Ronald Taylor’s Butterflies in My Stomach and certainly doesn’t precede Vincent Holt’s Why Not Eat Insects? (1885). It is highly likely that it is the first work.....

London: George Routledge & Sons; [printed by] Wyman & Sons, [circa 1858 -1863]. Small octavo (17 x 10.5 cm.), [3], 114, [12] pages. Illustrated with frontispiece, “The Aviary”, and black & white illustrations in the text. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Both Harding and Richardson indicate that several issues of this “new edition” follows the stated second edition, and thus our date range. Later printings have various different paginations. "Rev. John.....

New York: Crown Publishers, 1946. Two volumes. Octavos (23 x 16 cm.), 216 & 220 pages. FIRST TRADE EDITION; the original limited edition was published by Derrydale Press in 1939. There were two Gentleman's Companions compiled by Charles Baker, the journalist, traveler and collector of food and drink lore. This is the first two volume set, a collection of "exotic" culinary and cocktail recipes. The second (later) set was focused.....

New York: George W. Stewart, 1940. Octavo (21 x 16 cm.), 94 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. Not a book about preparing a cup of coffee, but a collection of recipes for coking with coffee as an ingredient. At the time of publication, this book claimed to be the first work to deal exclusively with coffee cookery. I offers about one hundred recipes for desserts, sweets, sauces and beverages, each containing.....