Cambridge: Printed Privately at the Riverside Press, 1926. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), x, [3], 2-63 pages. FIRST EDITION. An interesting manual of home wine production, published during prohibition. Beyond the practical concerns of a manual, the book also puts the making and consumption of wine into a context of the rhythms of human health and happiness and of nature. ~ Some light soiling to endpapers; Tan, cloth-backed, paper covered.....

[Kodiak, Alaska]: The Club, [between 1955 and 1959]. Octavo-size (21 x 14 cm.), [vi], 249, v, [1] pages, with (unnumbered) chapter heads interleaved. Photo-reproduction of manuscript. Illustrations within text throughout and on chapter heads. Index. Date of publication from external evidence. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook undertaken in support of the nursery operated on behalf of families stationed at the Seventeenth Naval District, on Kodiak Island in the.....

New Orleans: Scott & Jones, Publishers; American Printing Co., Ltd., 1937. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), ix, 108, [4] pages. Table of contents. ~ Stated fourth edition (early within the sequence of editions bearing the names of both authors). An attractive and comprehensive anthology, well-known since its first edition of 1933 (subsequent editions would appear under the name of Jones as sole author, after the death of Scott in 1957).....

Waukesha, Wisconsin: Published by Clysmic Spring Co., [1912]. Booklet, cord-tied in wrappers (18 x 13 cm.), [2], 32, [2] pages. Illustrated. Title and publication information from wrapper. Date from external evidence (1912 issue of Life Magazine announcing the publication). Evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional bar manual consisting of cocktail recipes made with Clysmic water. Most of the recipes are followed by quoted toasts. At the bottom of each page is.....

Rome: FAO, 1953. Quarto, typed and mimeographed papers in an Accopress metal strip binder (30 x 24 cm.), 25, [18], 7, [16], [74], 12, [ii], [52], 18, [18], 27, [27], 20, [22], xiv, 73, [10] pages. Approximately 110 illustrations, including some photographic documentation, but largely architectural drawings of various vessels. Indices and bibliographies present in some papers. Seven papers presented at the 1953 International Fishing Boat Congress, a production of.....

Provincetown, Massachusetts: The Modern Pilgrim Press; [copyright by Paul Smith; Advocate Press], 1941. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (22 x 15 cm.) 55 pages. Index. Evident FIRST EDITION. An interesting collection of classic Cape Cod, New England seafood dishes, accompanied by lengthy historical commentary. A bit of wear to edges of red and blue printed decorated wrapper, otherwise near fine. Scarce.

Pueblo, Colo: The Mesa Workers; the Franklin Press Co., [1907]. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), [vi], 106 pages. Index. Publication date and edition statement derived from the foreword (page [v]). Stated second, enlarged edition. An ambitious church cookbook, with nearly five hundred recipes, intended “to raise funds for missions.” Most entries are credited, though some to monikers such as “Ormie”, “Fancy Cook”, or “A Friend.” In some cases an aspiration.....

New York: Greenberg, 1951. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 332 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes drawn from across Boulestin's many cookbooks. X. Marcel Boulestin (1878-1943) had an outsized role in bringing French food to England between the wars. He wrote numerous cookbooks, was praised by Elizabeth David for his work, and opened Restaurant Boulestin, said to be the most expensive restaurant in London in 1927. Maurice Firuski.....

New Orleans: Published by Dorothea Thompson, [1961]. Octavo-size (21 x 14.5 cm.), [ii], 86, [iv] pages. Illustrated. Table of contents. Index. Title and author from cover. Date of publication from edition statement on preliminary page [ii]. Photo-reproduced engravings depicting historic buildings throughout. ~ Stated nineteenth edition. A later entry in the sequence of editions of an admired cookbook, first published in Waveland, Mississippi in 1932 (under the author’s imprint), and.....

Burlington, Vt. Leader Evaporator Co., [circa 1934]. Octavo-sized booklet stapled in wrappers (22. x 15.5 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Date from testimonial on page 32. A trade catalogue from a manufacturer of maple sugar making equipment and supplies, including evaporators, gathering tanks, sap buckets, sap spouts, tapping bits, gathering pails, hydrometers, thermometers, filters, syrup cans, pails, and cartons. Instructions for sugaring, and testimonials from satisfied customers are included. The Leader.....

Boston: Ginn & Co.; Athenaeum Press, 1898. Octavo (19 x 14 cm.), iv, [2], 53, [3] pages. Illustrated, with line drawings and half-tones in the text, and a frontispiece. Publishers advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION. A charming small work on the subject of seed dispersal, largely by wind, by birds, and by hooks (burrs and the like). The frontispiece, credited to James Hall, depicts “Winged Travellers of the Milkweed”. Very.....

Camden N.J. Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1968. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 160 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. FIRST EDITION. Information collected by the author after the publication of his Bitters Bottles, together, the standard reference on the field. Endpapers with green page copies from Vinegar Bitters Almanac for 1874 and 1889. Maroon cloth, gilt-titled to spine. Dust jacket, unclipped, with some rubbing, but near very good. Small ownership label to.....

New York: Published by the author Bernard Winfield, 1934. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), [vi], 50, [1] pages. Illustrated in the text, and with a folding chart laid-in. Advertisement for author’s firm. FIRST EDITION. This work was published just weeks before Winfield supplied criticisms on this subject to Senate Hearings (February 24 -April 5, 1934) on the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The laid-in.....