New London, Conn. Copyrighted and Published by Jennie E. Underhill, 1910. Octavo (23 x 15), 173, [xx] pages. [Jennie E. Barnes Underhill]. Advertisements. Table of contents. Index. Evident FIRST EDITION. An independent venture with approximately three hundred recipes. Among those exhibiting promise: Rice and Onion Soup, Oyster Ramekins, Clam Pie, Baked Blue Fish, Mutton Stew, Dutch Casserole, Noodles with Chicken, Rissoles, Fried Whole Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes in Syrup, Melon Croquettes.....

Hartford, Conn. Press of Wiley, Waterman, & Eaton, 1887. Octavo (20 x 14.5 cm.), [18], 143, [15] pages. Advertisements. Index is actually a table of contents. FIRST EDITION. A charitable, church cookbook, with most recipes attributed. Recipes, presented in narrative form, include Saratoga Potatoes, Boston Brown Bread, Shakers' Pickles, plumb duff, and tri-colored cake. Lacking original wrappers; edges heavily worn, chipping. A reading copy only. Scarce. [OCLC locates one copy.....

Montvale, New Jersey: Heritage Kitchens, [1980]. Comb-bound book in stiff wrappers (21.5 x 19 cm.), [ii], 108, [3] pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. An early collection of recipes describing uses of bulgur wheat, with an historical introduction. "... 9000 thousand years are embodied in presenting a useful, tasty, and nutritious food in a variety of dishes" (from the Introduction). Some light soil and spots to the wrapper panels; internally clean. About.....

Niagara Falls; Buffalo: The Natural Food Company; The Matthews-Northrup Works, 1908. Duodecimo (20.5 x 15.5 cm.), 62, [2] pages. Illustrated with four pages of chromolithograph images of shredded wheat dishes, and with black and white photos. Index. FIRST EDITION. "Series no. 1" (rear wrapper panel). A product cookbook from the company that brought us Shredded Wheat. Almost every recipe, from Blueberry Shortcake to Welsh Rarebit, contains Shredded Wheat. The final.....

[Woodbridge, UK]: Antique Collectors' Club In Association With The Corning Museum Of Glass, [2001]. Quarto (28 x 22 cm.), 320 pages. With 512 illustrations, 80 in color. Index, bibliography. Second edition, following the first edition of 1996. Fine in publisher's black cloth; in a fine dust jacket.

New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. Octavo (24 x 19 cm.), 364 pages. Illustrated; index. FIRST EDITION. An exuberant and illustrated celebration of food and wine drawn from life at Domaine Tempier, a vineyard in a Provencal village owned by Lulu Peyraud and her husband, Lucien. Includes one hundred fifty-five recipes and forty photos. Fine in paper-covered boards; in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. With the neat ownership signature of.....

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1914. Duodecimo ( x cm.), 262 pages. Illustrated, with one folding black & white plate plus others in the text. FIRST EDITION THUS,"a revised edition of a manual for privates of infantry of the Organized Militia of the United States, compiled in 1909 in the Division of Militia Affairs." Includes sections on "The Ration" and on "Individual Cooking" including a handful of recipes. In original black.....

[Worcester, Mass.; Providence, R.I. H.D. Perky; Providence Albertype Company, Printers and Binder, 1897]. Quarto-sized, cord-tied booklet (25 x 20.5 cm.), 42 pages (pages 33-42 are printed on slightly smaller paper, and appear to have been typeset separately – likely a later edition to already-printed text pages). Illustrated with two leaves of chromolithograph depictions of dishes. Title from cover. Stated "Third edition of One Hundred Thousand Each." A promotional cookbook from.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Octavo, 322, xvi, [2] pages. Illustrated with the handsome drawings of Renato Guttoso. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of a modern English cookbook of significance. Italian Food is Elizabeth David’s third book, following A Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking, and along with these titles is responsible – in part – for revitalizing English cooking after the Second World War with better techniques and.....

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., [1949]. Octavo ( x cm.), viii, 184 pages. Illustrated with colored frontispiece, one colored plate, eighty-three sepia-toned plates on and eight illustrations in the text. Second Edition, following the original issue of 1947. "... an intimate picture of Tudor, Stuart, and Georgian ways and means..." "... an account of the architecture, lay-out, furnishing, interior decoration, and all-round planning and functioning of homes throughout three centuries." Some.....

London: Allan Wingate, 12 Beauchamp Place, S.W.1, [1951]. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 224 pages. Table of contents. FIRST EDITION. A collection of English farmhouse recipes, largely collected from the readers of the agricultural periodical, Farmer & Stockbreeder. The author indicates that Elizabeth Craig was the judge for at least some of the contest. The recipes are often attributed, and some include stories of the uses of the various dishes.....

Boston: M. Barrows & Company; [Thomas Todd Comapny, Printers], 1926. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 113 pages. Index. Second edition. A rather precise manual of cake baking, from the "instructor of Home Economics in Los Angeles City Schools". Clean and sound, in publisher's tan cloth, with printed title label to front panel. Some light rubbing to extremities, otherwise fine.

Luzarches: Daniel Morcrette, 4 Avenue Joffre, [1977]. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), , 443, [2] pages. Index. Top edge gilt. Facsimile edition, reprinted from the original Paris, 1928 issue. An important collection of regional French recipes, from the writer, musician, folklorist, and gastronome Austin de Croze, friend of Verlaine, Huysman, and collaborator with Maurice Ravel. His writings were varied, encompassing magic, ethnomusicology, eroticism, and (disappointingly) the "Yellow Peril", but he.....