Paris: Albin Michel, Editeur, [1922]. 16mo. (18.5 x 12 cm.), 156 pages. ~ FIRST EDITION. A compilation of recipes for the proper preparation of game. The author, Paul Mégnin (1868-1952) wrote at least three books on game, this one focused on recipes, a second surveying the rare game breeds of France, and his first, an instruction manual for raising game, both animals and birds. He was perhaps best known for.....

Washington; Baltimore: Published by Thompson & Homans, Stereotyped by Lucas & Neal, 1831. Octavo (18 x 11 cm.), xii, [1], 4-180 pages. Table of Contents. Fifth edition, Washington printing. Stereotyped plates for this edition were made in 1831 and used for printings through 1860. The first edition was published in 1824. The first regional cookbook published in America. Karen Hess called this book "The most influential American cookbook of the.....

Chicago: Cameron, Amberg & Co., Printers; [and] Shober & Carqueville Lithographers, [circa mid-1860s-70s]. Trade card (13 x 7.5 cm.), printed both sides, the verso in chromolithography depicting the interior of a dining car with tables set in anticipation of the passengers’ meals. Text on the recto reads, “These Dining and Restaurant Cars run on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, between Chicago and Omaha, are, in all respects, the.....

N.p. by the author, 1924. Octavo, 36 pages. FIRST EDITION. A short but thorough introduction to Russian cuisine, written by an author apparently much beleaguered by frequent requests for her cooking. A truly fine copy, handsomely bound in leaf green cloth, with a leather spine label, and with the original wrappers bound in. Lovely. [OCLC locates five copies, just four in the US].

New York: Doubleday, 1992. Small octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 246 pages. Advanced Reader's Copy (ARC) of the FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION of the author’s first book, Como Agua Para Chocolate. The basis of the fine film by the same title for which Esquivel also wrote the screenplay. A fine copy in a color-printed wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title.

[Berkeley, California: James J. Gillick & Co., Publishers, 1923]. Octavo (20 x 13.5 cm.), [iv], 240 pages. Various tables at end. Blank leaves at end of each section (not used). Evident FIRST EDITION. The Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley had been founded in April of 1921, by our editor, Mrs. Joseph F. Furtado. A notice to that effect, with a list of officers appears on page.....

Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1985. Small quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), 391, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A volume in the series Les Recettes originales de..., edited by Claude Lebey. The entire series was issued between 1976 and 1992. Near fine in publisher's pictorial boards. No dust jacket, as issued.

Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1984. Small quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), 365, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A volume in the series Les Recettes originales de..., edited by Claude Lebey. The entire series was issued between 1976 and 1992. Very light soil, otherwise near fine in publisher's illustrated boards.

Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1984. Small quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), 337, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A volume in the series Les Recettes originales de..., edited by Claude Lebey. The entire series was issued between 1976 and 1992. Very light soiling, otherwise near fine in publisher's illustrated boards.

Southbridge (Mass.): O.E.R.R. Publications, 1970. Octavo-sized, comb-bound book (22 x 14 cm.), 139, [1] pages. Illustrated with color photographs and line drawings in the text. [Cover title: Witchery in the Kitchen; Out of this World Recipes, by Theodore Rabouin]. FIRST EDITION. A somewhat tongue-in-cheek cookbook from a practitioner of "white magic" and a minor celebrity of the 1960s and early 70s. Theodore Rabouin was more of a kinky herbalist with.....

New York: Greenberg, Publisher, [1945]. Octavo (24 x 16.5 cm.), 192 pages. DELUXE EDITION, one of 750 numbered copies (this #248), signed by the author on the colophon. A history of The Colony, one of New York's most storied restaurants and of its owner, Gene Cavallero, by Iles Brody, world traveler, contributor to both Esquire and Vogue, and author of On the Tip of My Tongue. In silver printed chartreuse.....

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 215 pages. FIRST EDITION. The first work in Trillin's classic "Tummy Trilogy" and the first volume of his food writing in book form. Fine in publisher's red over blue cloth; in a near fine dust jacket. Surprisingly scarce.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Thick octavo ( 24 x 16.5 cm.), xi, 621, [1] pages. Index. Illustrated with line drawings by Karl Stuecklen. FIRST EDITION. 1000 new recipes from the great American icon "at the pinnacle of his career" (jacket copy), a followup to his Theory & Practice of Good Cooking (1977). Slightest fading to edges of publisher's printed glossy boards. Dust jacket spine a tiny bit sun.....