New York: Harper Collins, 1992. Illustrated by Ann Arnold. Quarto, 133 pages. FIRST EDITION. A simple and lovely book for young people told from the point of view of Alice Waters' daughter Fanny. Fanny observes the bustle of the Chez Panisse kitchen, but also the many farmers and others who supply the restaurant, and she considers the wider connectedness of her little microcosm to the bigger food world and to.....
Paris: Les Editions Nationales, 10 Rue Mayet; [Le Société...], 1935. Octavo (210 x 16.5 cm.), 38, [8] pages. Illustrated with color lithographs by Edy Legrand. FIRST ORDINARY EDITION, one of thirty-five thousand copies on velin d'alfa. A promotional item serving the producers of Roquefort cheese, with text by two of the greatest of French mid-century food writers, and illustrations by the great illustrator and painter Edy Legrand. Tiny bit of.....
Paris: Les Editions Nationales, 10 Rue Mayet; [Le Société...], 1935. Octavo (210 x 16.5 cm.), 38, [8] pages. Illustrated with color lithographs by Edy Legrand. FIRST ORDINARY EDITION, one of thirty-five thousand copies on velin d'alfa. A promotional item serving the producers of Roquefort cheese, with text by two of the greatest of French mid-century food writers, and illustrations by the great illustrator and painter Edy Legrand. Tiny bit of.....
New York: The Alliance Publishing Company, "Life Building" 1898. Small octavo (21.5 x 15.5 cm.), 178 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A vegetarian cookbook, with a distinctly reformist slant, featuring meat and fish substitutes, and recipes for other meatless dishes. Also included are miscellaneous recipes for tooth powder, bay rum, soap, and more. Some foxing to edges; a few pages with dog ears. Front endpapers with some soiling. In publisher's green.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1899. Octavo (18 x 14 cm.), 52, [2] pages. Advertisements. Later printing. A collection of specific instructions on carving and serving various cuts of meat, including tongue, calf's head, haunch of venison, veal neck, etc. Red cloth spine, with paper covered chromolithograph front and rear boards with beveled edges. Edges a bit rubbed; still, generally very good. With the bookplate of cookbook collector and founder of the.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1890. Octavo (19 x 13.5 cm.), xii, 214 pages. Advertisements. Illustrations in the text. FIRST EDITION. An interesting and often charming late nineteenth-century American gastronomy book. The book goes to great lengths to compare American and British cooking with French, unfavorably. The author holds up Whistler's Peacock Room for the Leyland house as an example of a properly decorated dining room, and includes.....
New York: Thomas J. Crowen, 699 Broadway, 1861. Octavo (18.5 x 13 cm.), x, 450 pages. Index and supplemental index of "Additional recipes in this edition". Illustrated with woodcut butchering and carving guides in the text. Testimonials. Later printing of a work originally published in 1847 as The American Lady's System of Cookery. The work came out with revisions under this new title in 1857; this was the also the.....
London: William Heinemann; [Richard Clay & Sons Ltd.], 1911. Thick quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), xvi, 880 pages. All edges green. Publisher's advertisements; index. Second printing of the stated, "New and Revised Edition"; an English version was first issued in 1907, with a second New and Revised edition issued in 1909. One of the most influential cookbooks of all time. This is an early printing of the first English language.....
New York; Cornwall: George W. Stewart, Publisher, Inc.; Cornwall Press, Inc., 1946. Octavo (21 x 16 cm.), [x], 81, [3] pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, representing the community of prisoners of war at the Bilibid, and collected by a prisoner at the camp, Colonel H.C. “Chick” Fowler. Many of the recipes are attributed to other prisoners, with additional recipes representing Chinese, Filipino, Mexican, Russian, and other cuisines, provided.....
New York; Cornwall: George W. Stewart, Publisher, Inc.; Cornwall Press, Inc., 1946. Octavo (21 x 16 cm.), [x], 81, [3] pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, representing the community of prisoners of war at the Bilibid, and collected by a prisoner at the camp, Colonel H.C. “Chick” Fowler. Many of the recipes are attributed to other prisoners, with additional recipes representing Chinese, Filipino, Mexican, Russian, and other cuisines, provided.....
Havana, Cuba: Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church; [printed by] Molina y Cia, 1947. Stapled booklet in wrappers (20 x 14 cm.), [4], 63, [3] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook of expat women living in Havana. The recipe attributions are indicated by numbers, with an index of the fifty contributors names in the back. Textured, tan wrappers, titled and decorated in green. Light soil to.....
New York: Stephen Daye, Inc., 1943. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 246 pages. FIRST EDITION. A plea to women to leave their kitchens to aid the war effort. It further urges women to stay out of the kitchen and in the workplace when the war would reach its end. A chapter is included on how women can use a modern scientific approach to meet their needs in the kitchen, and.....
Oakland, Cal. Pacific Press Publishing Company, 1899. Small octavo (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), 126, iv, [ii] pages. Advertisements. Title continues: Together with plain directions on healthful cookery; how to can fruit; a week’s menu; proper food combinations; rules for dyspeptics; food for infants; simple dishes for the sick; wholesome drinks; useful tables on nutritive values of foods, time required to digest food, weights and measures for the Kitchen, etc. Illustrated.....
New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, Publishers, 1885. Small octavo, 32 pages. FIRST EDITION. Includes remarks on salads, fifty recipes for salads, and two recipes for dressings. One in the series of single-subject "Cookery Books" published by Frederick Stokes. Murrey was the caterer of New York's Astor House and Philadelphia's Continental Hotel. In publisher's paper covered boards, front and back covers printed illustrated with a young girl preparing salad on.....
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[Iowa: 1952-1958]. Collection of sixty two vintage black and white or color gelatin silver photographs (individually approx. 9 x 12.5 cm.), most mounted on eight loose photo pages with handwritten dates to rectos and some with captions on the versos. Age-toning to the color photographs with a few items with corner chips from mounts. Several loose photos, and several spaces on the pages where photos appear to have been removed.....
Monte-Carlo: Imprimerie Nonegasque, 1936. Squarish octavo (21.6 x 16.5 cm.), 68, [3] pages. Illustrated throughout. Text printed in red and black. Two-page folding facsimile menu. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes along with advice for pleasurable entertaining, from a woman of stature, descendant of Roger Puleston of Emral, Worthenbury. She spent her later years in Monaco, and travelled in high circles there, in the book offering thanks to the Marches.....
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[Likely London: circa 1875-1922]. Tall quarto (32.5 x 20 cm.), 30 pages (all used). A letter book, repurposed as a recipe collection, with sixty-four handwritten recipes, and an additional thirty-four recipes on separate slips of paper pasted-, tipped-, or laid-in. Additional slips of paper with business information, "James Fulton & Co., Ham Curers and Provisioners" of Glasgow, "Laou-Kai-Fook Co., Silks, Satins, Crepes, Gauzes..." of Shanghai, or "Mrs. Field, Accordion Pleating".....
Williamsburg; Richmond, Virg. Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated; Printed on the Press of August Deitz & Son, 1939. Duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.) 276 pages. Stated "second edition". A modern cookbook styled after late eighteenth century works, with recipes drawn from historical English sources, predominantly William Parks' 1742 printing of E. Smith's Compleat Housewife, the first cookbook printed in America. In full ruled calf with raised bands and spine label titled in.....
Williamsburg; Richmond, Virg. Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated; Printed on the Press of August Deitz & Son, 1942. Duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.) 276 pages. Stated "fourth edition". A modern cookbook styled after late eighteenth century works, with recipes drawn from historical English sources, predominantly William Parks' 1742 printing of E. Smith's Compleat Housewife, the first cookbook printed in America. In full ruled calf with raised bands and spine label titled in.....
Kingston, Ja. [Jamaica]: Printed by Gleanor Co., 1946. Booklet, stapled in wrappers ( x cm.), 39, [3] pages. Advertisements. Stated “7th edition”. Originally published in 1926 as a charitable cookbook, and carrying the statement, “compiled by Mrs. F.S. Edmonds and sold for the benefit of child welfare in Jamaica.” Later editions did not credit the compiler. Recipes include Ox-tail Soup, Turtle Steak, Baked Cow Heel, Callalu and Eggs, Wild Cucumber.....
Boston: Peoples Publishing Company, 1877. Octavo (19.5 x 15 cm.), 156, [4] pages. Index. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A collection of household recipes, for "every department of the house beyond the kitchen", with helpful advice such as: "To Make a Walking Stick" and "How to Know if Wine is Coloured". Soiled internally and hinges starting. Darkening to edges of text block; some wear and rubbing to publisher's blind- and black-decorated blue.....
Richmond: Garrett & Massie Publishers, 1941. Octavo (23.5 x 18 cm.), [4], 111 pages. Second printing. A study of the culinary preferences of the first President. The recipes found here include some brought back to the states from France by Jefferson, as well as others from cookbook authors of the time. Craig Claiborne called this book, "The most comprehensive work yet compiled on Thomas Jefferson's gastronomic adventures." And from the.....
New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1880. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 352 pages. Index. Illustrated with woodcuts in the text. Later printing. "This volume has been prepared for a given purpose. The supreme end sought in it is usefulness. It is a book of practical knowledge. No space has been given to rhetoric. The greatest amount of information in the smallest space has been our ever-present ideal" (from the preface).....
Rochester: Humpy Press / Light Impressions, 1979. Square duodecimo, unpaginated. Illustrated with twenty-eight black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. A photographic artist book from Les Krims, in which the artist's mother demonstrates the step-by-step method for preparing her chicken soup. The book also includes Mrs. Krims' recipes for kreplach and matzo balls. Fine in photographically illustrated wrappers.
[Québec province, s.n.]: 1948. Octavo in wrappers (22.5 x 15 cm.), 232 pages. Illustrated. Bibliographical references (pages 219-222); errata notice at rear. Second edition, revised and enlarged; the first edition was issued in 1946. This French Canadian cookbook is focused on nutrition and ingredients, and is roughly divided into two parts, the first on foodstuffs, and the second on menus and cooking. The author, Marie de Sainte-Thérèse de Jésus, was.....