Billerica, Mass. Published by the Author, 1880. Octavo (24.5 x 15.5 cm.), 202, [26] pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. Errata slip. FIRST EDITION. The first American book on silos and ensilage, from the owner of Winning Farm in Billerica, Mass, and Virginia Stock Farm in Sussex County, Virginia. Original burgundy cloth, blind-decorated and gilt-titled. Near fine.
New York: The Foundry Press; R.C. Rimington; [printed by the Marchbanks Press], 1930. Quarto (24.5 x 16.5 cms.) 91 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements created by Mr. Morley. Number 930 of 999 copies printed by the Marchbanks Press. The story of the resurrection of the Old Rialto Theatre in Hoboken, New Jersey to house a play by Mr. Morley. Also includes Mr. Morley's newspaper advertisements intended to lure Manhattan theatre-goers across the.....
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm.), 307, vii, [1] pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST & SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION. A biography of the radical temperance activist Carrie Nation, by the legendary journalist Herbert Asbury, author of Gangs of New York, The Great Illusion, and Barbary Coast. This was published the year following Asbury's edition of Jerry Thomas' Bon Vivant's Companion. In publisher's bright green cloth, decorated.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. Octavo (19.3 x 13.4 cm.), 125 pages. Illustrated. Index. Third Printing. A detailed guide to carving, from the Upper East Side caterer, author of Of Cabbages and Kings, and diner with Lucius Beebe, Edward Arnold, Ivar Keuger and others. Chapters include Carving and Its Utensils, Roasting and Pre-Carving Preparations, Beef, Lamb, Pork, Veal, Poultry & Game, and Fish. The descriptive illustrations are clear and.....
[London: Elizabeth David Ltd. Kitchen Utensils, 1969]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14.7 x 11.8 cm.), [2], 24 pages. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION; originally issued in Queen magazine on December 4, 1968. A small but authoritative pamphlet on English bread baking from Elizabeth David, (1913-1992), the author of the later English Bread and Yeast Cookery (1977). This is one in the series of eight little books by David, mostly issued from her.....
München: Hans Holzinger, 1963. Quarto (27.5 x 21 cm.), [~250] pages. Illustrated with eighty-two black & white and color images. Text in German. FIRST EDITION. A catalogue of works at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, by artists who comprised The Blue Rider group founded by Wassily Kandinsky. Fine in illustrated wrapper. With the bookplate of Hannah M. Adler, book collector, whose collection was donated to Skidmore College after her death in.....
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1888. Quarto (27 x 18.5 cm.), xi, 864 pages. Illustrated with four chromolithographic plates and one hundred eighty-two wood engravings after oil paintings and drawings by E. Ronjat. The chromolithographs were engraved by and printed by Regamy Chromolithography of Paris. Stated Seventh Edition. One of the great French illustrated cookbooks of the 19th century. When originally published in 1867, this was the first published work.....
New York: Random House Inc., 1958. Octavo (24 x 17 cm.), 128 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION THUS; originally issued by magazine publisher Maco in ???. An early outdoor cooking book, featuring "200 great outdoor recipes" from James Beard (1903-1985). Attractively laid out, and illustrated with black and white photographs. Clean and sound, in publisher's black cloth-covered boards, over a green cloth spine. Some edge wear to unclipped dust jacket; one.....
Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla-Secretariado de Publicacione, 1995. Cultura Viva no. 10. Large octavo ( 24 x 17 cm.), 348 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. Text in Spanish. FIRST EDITION. A significant scholarly comparative study of the eating habits of the rich and of the poor in 20th Century Andalusia. A very few small ink annotations (mostly in the bibliography); light bumping to corners, otherwise fine in illustrated stiff wrappers with flaps.....
Bologna: Edizioni Mida, 1989. Series: La Cucina Delle Regioni D'Italia. Thick octavo (25 x 18 cm.), 227, [22] pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Recipe text in Italian and English. Includes glossary and index. "Conversion table" laid-in. FIRST EDITION with this title, but really a new edition of the Umbria volume of the famous In Bocca series. Now issued with the shortened title and lacking the silkscreen cover illustrations.....
Ottawa: National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, 1978-1980. Four volumes (complete). Spiral bound, octavo sized, 184; 111; 212; 179 pages. Text illustrations from color photographs. Each volume with separate bibliography and index. First editions. Excellent and informative series of publications, with detailed instructions for foraging in the wild and interesting recipes for preparing the various foods. Contents: No. 1. Edible Garden Weeds of Canada; No. 2. Wild.....
Oneida, New York: The Burt Olney Canning Co., 1909. Booklet, stapled in wrappers ( 17.5 x 12.5 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Stated "third edition". A product cookbook selling the "Absolutely Pure" products of the Burt Olney Canning Co., and bearing the image of "Olney's Pure Food Boy" on the rear wrapper and on the first page. Includes recipes, menus, and some shopping hints. Light water stain on most leaves, otherwise.....
Glasgow: M'Naughtan & Sinclair, 29 Cadogan Street, 1907. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 248 pages. Illustrated. Index. Advertisements. Text in English. FIRST EDITION. A Scottish community cookbook from the Glasgow-based Comunn Gaidhealach. Recipes attributed to individual contributors. Interesting sections include Provisions in Season, Gaelic Recipes, and Ancient Cookery. Some light foxing to front and rear sections, otherwise clean and sound. One nick to the rear hinge. In publisher's blue cloth.....
New Haven: Printed for Members of The Bacchus Club; at the Sign of the Chorobates, 1930. Small quarto (26 x 19 cm.), 100 pages. Illustrated with five wood engravings by F.H. Fischer after designs by W.A. Dwiggins. Typeset by Carl Purington Rollins at the Sign of the Chorobates. FIRST EDITION. One of 515 copies, this no. 65. A guide to small scale winemaking with chapters on red, white and sparkling.....
Wilton, CT: Lyceum Press, 1974. Quarto (28 x 21.5 cm.), 191, [1] pages. Illustrated. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION & FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. A slim but nevertheless monumental work of 20th century gastronomy, from the father modern French cuisine. The posthumous work (Point died in 1955) is part memoir, part culinary guide and part cookbook. Assembled by Point's widow Mado and published in 1969, the book was published here in English.....
Wilton, CT: Lyceum Press, 1974. Quarto (28 x 21.5 cm.), 191, [1] pages. Illustrated. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION & FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. A slim but nevertheless monumental work of 20th century gastronomy, from the father modern French cuisine. The posthumous work (Point died in 1955) is part memoir, part culinary guide and part cookbook. Assembled by Point's widow Mado and published in 1969, the book was published here in English.....
[London: Elizabeth David Ltd. Kitchen Utensils, 1967]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14.7 x 11.8 cm.), [2], 20 pages. Index of recipes. FIRST EDITION. This is one in the series of eight little books by Elizabeth David (1913-1992), mostly issued from her shop in Pimlico, Elizabeth David Ltd., Kitchen Utensils. In addition to directions on using dried herbs as condiments, the author includes the recipe for her Tuscan Bean Soup. Fine.....
[London: Elizabeth David Ltd. Kitchen Utensils, 1969]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14.7 x 11.8 cm.), [2], 24 pages. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION; originally issued in Queen magazine on December 4, 1968. A small but authoritative pamphlet on English bread baking from Elizabeth David, (1913-1992), the author of the later English Bread and Yeast Cookery (1977). This is one in the series of eight little books by David, mostly issued from her.....
[London: Elizabeth David Ltd. Kitchen Utensils, 1969]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14.7 x 11.8 cm.), 20 pages. FIRST EDITION. In just twenty pages, David surveys the syllabub and fruit fool from Sir Kenelm Digby to Max Beerbohm. This is one in the series of eight little books by David, mostly issued from her shop in Pimlico, Elizabeth David Ltd., Kitchen Utensils. A tiny bit of age-toning to wrapper edges, otherwise.....
; [Brooklyn, N.Y.]: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers; [Press of Braunworth & Co., Bookbinders and Printers, [1903]. Thick octavo (21.5 x 14 cm.), xii, 780 pages. Illustrated with photographs; index. FIRST EDITION. A practical and exhaustive manual of cookery and housekeeping, with thousands of recipes (prepared for the housewife, not for the chef) and many chapters on the care and management of the home. Marion Harland was the pen name of.....
Baltimore: E.B. Read & Son, 1885. Octavo (20 x 13 cm.), 141, [3] pages, interleaved with blanks for notes, so really [246] pages. Advertising matter at rear. Index. FIRST EDITION. There was also a simultaneously issued 48-page extract in wrappers. While emphasizing perfume in the title, this collection of commercial and useful recipes, has sections that include: Tinctures, Extracts, Pomades, Sachets, Face Washes, Tooth Powders, Fancy Elixirs, Soda Syrups, Wines.....
New York: Orange Judd Publishing Co., Inc., 1928. Duodecimo (19 x 13 cm.), viii, 262 pages. Engraved illustrations in the stereotyped text. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Later edition, based on the Revised Edition of 1896. About sixty pages of this edition are devoted to the California wine industry, following the author's relocation from Missouri to the Napa Valley. Original black cloth, bordered and titled in orange. Fine, in a near.....
Boston: William D. Ticknor; Marden & Kimball, Printers, 1837. Octavo, sewn on cords (23.5 x 14.5 cm.), vii, [2 leaves], 210, 16 pages. Illustrated with several diagrams in the text. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; originally published London 1835. "Vines were cultivated in England at the time of this publication only against walls, upon roofs of buildings and under glass. Hoare's treatise on the cultivation of the grape vine in this manner.....
New York: C. M. Saxton, 1862. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xvi, [17]-375, 8 pages. Detailed table of contents. Five page bibliography of grape culture. Publisher's advertisements at end. FIRST EDITION. A classic of early American vineyard work and winemaking. Includes a section on the "manufacture of wine", as well as an appendix titled, "Examples of American Vineyard Practice, and a much longer appendix titled "The Thomery System of Grape.....
Baltimore: [the author; Printed by Lord Baltimore Press, 1951]. Octavo (22 x 16 cm.), [6], 178 pages. Second Edition; first published 1950. An interesting compilation of historical and literary “evidence” against the consumption of alcohol. Turnbull, a sculptor and historian of the ancient world, pulls quotes and snippets from figures including Plato, Chaucer, Franklin, Johnson, Poe and others, many of whom more than enjoyed a tipple. In a way this.....