Melbourne: J. Hill & Sons (Fish Salesmen) Pty. Ltd.; Flinders Press, 546 Flinders Street, [. Octavo, stapled in wrappers ( 21x 13.7 cm.), 16 pages. Index. Title and author information from wrapper. FIRST EDITION. An interesting Australian cookbook, promoting recipes for items presumably sold by J. Hill & Sons (Fish Salesmen), with retail branches in Melbourne and several Melbourne neighborhoods and suburbs, including: Balaclaca, Brighton, Camberwell, Elsternwick, Moonsee Ponds, and.....

New York: New American Library/Signet, 1969. Mass market paperback (18 x 10.5 cm.), [20], 21-248 pages. Index. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION, stated first printing; issued as a mass market paperback only. A cookbook from the chef and owner of one of Craig Claiborne's favorite "soul food spots", Princess Pamela's Little Kitchen. The author, Princess Pamela Strobel, is never identified by her full name, only as Princess Pamela, but the dedication, a......

New York: Jarmor Publishing Co.; [copyright by F.I. Brown], [1933]. Octavo (21 x 13.5 cm.), 170, [22] pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. "By a mixer with the collaboration of (the author) formerly of the Old Iroquois Bar, Plainfield, N.J., and one of the best mixers in the days when drinks were drinks." A neatly organized cocktail manual, with descriptions of various liquors and other ingredients. Publisher's black morocco titled on.....

Del Monte, California: Hotel Del Monte, 1933. Stapled, octavo-sized book (16.5 x 11.5 cm.), unpaginated [32] pages. Illustrated throughout by Jo Mora; printed on alternating green and yellow paper, and printed in black, red, and green ink. Second printing (styled "second edition"). Originally printed and distributed less than one week after the repeal of Prohibition, with this second printing just thirteen days later. This cocktail manual also preceded publication of.....

[Tokyo: Kadokawa Bunko, 1985]. Duodecimo-sized book (15 x 10.5 cm.), 221, [3] pages. Color illustrated. Text in Japanese only. FIRST EDITION. A collection of cocktail recipes from the iconic Bar Radio in Tokyo's Aoyama district. Koji Ozaka was head bartender there for over forty years. Clean and sound, in publisher's pink and orange wrapper. Additional color illustrated dust jacket has lightest abrasions at edges. With printed blue belly band. Overall.....

New York: The Vendome Press, 1979. Octavo (22 x 16.5 cm.), 155 pages. Illustrated with drawings by Nigel Paige. FIRST EDITION. A stylish yet odd bar book from British Vogue columnist Henry McNulty. A series of essays on individual wines and spirits, with recipes for various mixed drinks within the narrative. The narratives are delightful, ranging from reminiscence of the author's first encounters with alcohol to some herb-based medicinal drinks.....

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, no. 18 Ann Street, 1862. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 243, [8] pages; publisher's advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION, later printing, with no price stated on the front cover, and with the title How to Mix Drinks... on the title page. The title had been The Bar-Tender's Guide... for the earliest appearances of the book, and the earliest three printings had prices of $1.50.....

London: Ebury Press, 2008. Quarto (28.5 x 19 cm.), 288 pages. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Index. FIRST EDITION. The first of the nine cookbooks that made Yotam Ottolenghi's mouthful of a name into a household word, at least in households that like to cook. The book's inventive yet simple dishes are inspired by the childhoods of Sami and his business partner Sami Tamimi in West and East Jerusalem respectively, and.....

Boston: Parker House, 1885. Menu on silk (31 x 15 cm.), printed recto only, and with hand painted floral ornament. In thick blank card stock, bound with thick pale blue and white silk cord. A banquet menu presented to members of visiting Commercial Clubs of several Midwestern cities. Highlights of the menu include Penobscot Salmon a la Hollandaise, Philadelphia Squab, and a Pistachio Cream Meringue. The unprinted cardstock "boards" are.....

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1978. Oblong quarto (22 x 28.5 cm.), 144 pages. Illustrated in color and black and white. FIRST EDITION; only issued in wrappers. A collection of one hundred five paintings of Diners, the long obsession of artist John Baeder. Some very light soiling to text block edges, otherwise fine. Association copy, signed on the half title by both Calvin and Alice Trillin.

Cambridge; Boston: Joyce Chen Associates; Designed and printed at The Nimrod Press, 1962. Square octavo (23 x cm.), 223, [4] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The original self-published cookbook that was to become an evergreen classic of Chinese-American cooking, a book which perhaps did more to introduce Chinese home cooking to Americans than any other before. Cambridge-based Joyce Chen (1917-1994) was a chef, author, television personality and enterpreneur. She had several.....

Philadelphia: 1800-1807. Nineteen manuscript cargo manifests, from the Port of Philadelphia. Various sizes, (33 x 20 cm. and smaller). An interesting collection of handwritten inspection reports, mostly from the Port of Philadelphia, but at least one from the Port of New York. Most identify the ship, master, the port of origin, dates, cargo type, weights or sizes of cargo, and the recipient, as well as marks on the cargo. From.....

New Hastings; Fulham: circa 1825. Engraved, illustrated trade card (10 x 14 cm. image area, with full margins). A trade card advertisement for baths in New Hastings on the southeast coast of England. The fine view is that of an elegant two-story brick building with a few genteel couples strolling in the foreground. Prices are given for hot baths, cold baths, showers, and servants. The engraving is signed "J. Rouse.....