Ipswich: Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1971. Oblong, ring-bound book (14 x 21.5 cm.), 97 pages. Illustrated. index. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes with wild ingredients foraged in the woods, rivers, and trails of Massachusetts' Ipswich Valley. Dedicated to Euell Gibbons. Categories include soups, salads, entrees, dressings, sweets, and beverages. The illustrations are intended for identification, but there are better sources of information for that. Includes a guide to the seasons.....

Tokyo: Nippon Times, [1955]. Octavo (21 x 15 cm.), 286, [1] pages. Index. Text in English and Japanese on facing pages. Japanese title from colophon. Date from colophon. Stated Third Edition, originally published in 1945. The "American Ryori" was dropped from the title with this edition. An "Americans abroad" in an occupation cookbook, which entails efforts to teach the local help, "Cook-san" how to prepare the food expected by the.....

Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1985. Small quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), 391, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. The second cookbook from the giants of nouvelle cuisine, owners of their eponymous restaurant in Roanne, and one-time students of the great Fernand Point. A volume in the series Les Recettes originales de..., edited by Claude Lebey. Volumes in the series were issued between 1976 and 1992. Fine in publisher's pictorial boards. No dust.....

Melbourne: J. Hill & Sons (Fish Salesmen) Pty. Ltd.; Flinders Press, 546 Flinders Street, [. Octavo, stapled in wrappers ( 21x 13.7 cm.), 16 pages. Index. Title and author information from wrapper. FIRST EDITION. An interesting Australian cookbook, promoting recipes for items presumably sold by J. Hill & Sons (Fish Salesmen), with retail branches in Melbourne and several Melbourne neighborhoods and suburbs, including: Balaclaca, Brighton, Camberwell, Elsternwick, Moonsee Ponds, and.....

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1930. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xii, 228 pages. FIRST EDITION. The author explains, "... more than two hundred of the receipts in this book have been given to me especially for it by people 'who keep good tables' and use only Southern cooking" (the Foreword). Mary Denson Pretlow (1876-1959) was born and raised on Marle Hill Plantation near Courtland in Southampton County.....

Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1930]. Small octavo (17 x 12 cm.), 96 pages. FIRST EDITION, simultaneous with a Montreal Printing by the American News Co. A handsomely designed bar manual. The identity of "Jimmy" remains elusive, but some have suggested he may be Jimmy Charters, of Deauville and Monte Carlo, but the trail runs cold quickly. Ciro's London, not to be confused with the Hollywood Ciro's, was one of London's.....

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1936. Octavo, 102, [2] pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A thorough and unusual collection of cocktail recipes, including some interesting ones including absinthe, such as 'Wax'. Previous owner's small ownership stamp to front matter and some small ink notes to rear blanks, a bit of internal light soiling, otherwise very good, in near fine publisher's blue cloth with just a bit of rubbing to head of spine.....

New York: Borden's Condensed Milk Co., 1904. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14 x 11 cm.), [16] pages, including wrapper. Illustrated; printed throughout in blue and gold. Title from cover; date of publication from inside rear wrapper panel. FIRST EDITION. A small but elegant product book, promoting Borden's Condensed Milk through recipes. The recipes are in narrative form. Internally clean and sound. Small closed tear and some light soiling to front.....

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, no. 18 Ann Street, 1862. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 243, [8] pages; publisher's advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION, later printing, with no price stated on the front cover, and with the title How to Mix Drinks... on the title page. The title had been The Bar-Tender's Guide... for the earliest appearances of the book, and the earliest three printings had prices of $1.50.....

London: Ebury Press, 2008. Quarto (28.5 x 19 cm.), 288 pages. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Index. FIRST EDITION. The first of the nine cookbooks that made Yotam Ottolenghi's mouthful of a name into a household word, at least in households that like to cook. The book's inventive yet simple dishes are inspired by the childhoods of Sami and his business partner Sami Tamimi in West and East Jerusalem respectively, and.....

Boston: Parker House, 1885. Menu on silk (31 x 15 cm.), printed recto only, and with hand painted floral ornament. In thick blank card stock, bound with thick pale blue and white silk cord. A banquet menu presented to members of visiting Commercial Clubs of several Midwestern cities. Highlights of the menu include Penobscot Salmon a la Hollandaise, Philadelphia Squab, and a Pistachio Cream Meringue. The unprinted cardstock "boards" are.....

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1978. Oblong quarto (22 x 28.5 cm.), 144 pages. Illustrated in color and black and white. FIRST EDITION; only issued in wrappers. A collection of one hundred five paintings of Diners, the long obsession of artist John Baeder. Some very light soiling to text block edges, otherwise fine. Association copy, signed on the half title by both Calvin and Alice Trillin.

Cambridge; Boston: Joyce Chen Associates; Designed and printed at The Nimrod Press, 1962. Square octavo (23 x cm.), 223, [4] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The original self-published cookbook that was to become an evergreen classic of Chinese-American cooking, a book which perhaps did more to introduce Chinese home cooking to Americans than any other before. Cambridge-based Joyce Chen (1917-1994) was a chef, author, television personality and enterpreneur. She had several.....