Stafford Springs: The Press Job Print, 1902. Duodecimo (15.5 x 13 cm.), 106 pages. Cover title: Grace Church Recipes. Advertisements interspersed. FIRST EDITION. A Connecticut church cookbook with one hundred fifty recipes, most of them attributed. There is an emphasis on meat and fish dishes somewhat unusual for the time; among them: Swedish Baked Fish, Potted Shad, Pressed Chicken, Beefsteak Pie, Stewed Liver, Glazed Sweetbreads. But not to despair: the.....

New York: Blackwell Publishers, 1985. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), xii, 380 pages. Plates. Index. FIRST EDITION. "Examines methods of cooking, the history of writing about food, and the history of the education of our palates" (jacket copy). Spotting to text black edges, otherwise clean in publisher's black cloth. Near very good in fine dust jacket.

London: Edward Stanford; [printed by Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd., 1904. Small quarto (22 x 15 cm.), xx, [folding map], 386 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A comprehensive study of the sea-fishing industry at the beginning of the 20th century, the last moment when most of the industry remained under sail. The book is not so much concerned with the practical side of catching fish, but forms a detailed analysis of.....

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, 1885. Duodecimo (14.25 x 11 cm), 104, [2] pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. More than three hundred short recipes, with a stark emphasis on meat, including game, and how to serve it. The Kitchen was foremost an advertising vehicle for Rand, McNally, showing off to those who kept books in their homes the utilitarian pleasures of modern engraving and electrotypography, available at an affordable price.....

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., [1956]. Ocatvo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), vi, 344 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography and index. FIRST EDITION. An early attempt to tell the lengthy history of American cookery. Some light foxing to endpapers and to jacket flaps. In patterned brown, paper-covered boards over brick red cloth. In dust jacket, chipped at head of spine and price-clipped, and somewhat sun-faded. Good.

Anacortes [Washington]: Concrete Herald, [circa 1975]. Tall, top-bound, stapled book (21 x 13 cm.), 91, [10] pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A scarce counter-culture cookbook of the Pacific Northwest. With a Anacortes [Washington] photographic image of another generation's "freegan", at work seeking sustenance in someone else's careless waste. Fine in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Scarce. [OCLC locates one copy (Seattle Public Library)].

London: Faber & Faber, 1974. Octavo (20.5 x 13.5 cm.), 164 pages. FIRST EDITION. A classic and now scarce work by Maite Manjon who, on her own and together with her husband the wine writer Jan Read, wrote a number of excellent cookbooks and guide books, most focused on Spain and Portugal. The book is intended both for the home cook and as a guide for those traveling to Portugal.....

Denver, Colorado: Published by Frank J. Wolf, Printer, 1932. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 22 pages. Illustrated with photographic frontispiece of the author. Closed tear to title page, some edgewear; in publisher's titled green cloth with some abrasion to the rear hinge. Good or a bit better.

[Santa Barbara ; Cambridge: 1981-2003]. A convolute of correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the relationship between American icon Julia Child, and Beverly Jackson, reporter, novelist, collector, and a legend of the social circles of Santa Barbara. The two were long time friends, and neighbors in Santa Barbara's Montecito. ~ Contents: Fifteen original notecards or postcards, typed or handwritten, signed by Julia Child; one TLS; one fax, and one TLS.....

New York: Random House, 1978. Large octavo (24.5 x 16.5 cm.), xx, 298, [1] pages. Illustrated with photographic portraits of the chefs. Index. FIRST EDITION. An important collection of personal portraits of, and recipes by, the African-American chefs of New Orleans. in the 1960s and 70s. Chefs portrayed include Nathaniel Burton (Broussard's), Raymond Thomas Sr. (French Market Seafood House), Leah Chase (Dooky Chase), Annie Laura Squalls (Caribbean Room at Hotel.....

Boston: Little, Brown, 1944. Thick octavo (19 x 12 cm.), viii,[3] 824 pages. Illustrated; index. Stated "Seventh edition, completely revised by Wilma Lord Perkins". Originally published in 1896, this landmark work had sold 2,216,000 copies as of this wartime, 1944 printing. In the preface to the original edition (reprinted here) Farmer states: "It is my wish that it may not only be looked upon as a compilation of tried and.....

London: Chancellor Press, 1983. Octavo, 287 pages. Illustrated throughout with color decorations by Gilbert Rumbold. Facsimile edition of the original 1930 iconic art-deco, prohibition-era cocktail book, compiled by ex-patriot bartender Harry Craddock of London's Savoy Hotel. Near fine in decorated boards. [Noling, Beverage Literature, page 118 (for the original)].

Rodez: Editions du Rouergue, 1991. Quarto ( x cm.), 315, [2] pages. Index. Illustrated from photographs by Willy Bplanalp (recipe photographs) & Alain Willaume (countryside photographs). FIRST EDITION. Michel Bras' iconic first cookbook, covering his cuisine of the Midi-Pyrenees, from his restaurant in Laguiole and with images of the surrounding countryside. There is a section on regional wines, as well as one on local edible plants, with color drawings illustrating.....