LeRoy, N.Y. Genesee Pure Food Co., 1909. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (18.5 x 13.4 cm.), 20 pages. Printed in duotone and chromolithograph throughout. Illustrations attributed to Rose O'Neill (1874-1944), per U. of Michigan online exhibit: "Jello, America's Most Famous Dessert". FIRST EDITION. One of the more complex of the many Jell-o promotional booklets. Desserts of the World" depicts desserts in various cultures with imagined Western ideas of mealtime; illustrations of.....

New-York: A.L. Scovill & Company, Gothic Hall, No. 316 Broadway, 1854. Booklet, cord-sewn in wrappers (19.3 x 11.5 cm.), 24 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Wrapper title: Annual Family Receipt Book and useful medical adviser; Every body's book; Family receipt book. FIRST EDITION, THUS. An annual patent medicine receipt book was the third and final annual issues of three, each with a slightly variant title. "Amon L. Scovill entered the proprietary medicine.....

Reading: Geo. Fowler, Lee & Co., Ltd., [1949]. Small octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), viii, 108 pages. Jubilee Edition, based on the revised edition of the same year; originally published 1899. A guide to preserving a wide range of items, from the "Suppliers of fruit preserving appliances to H.M. King George VI." Some light foxing to text block; in publisher's red cloth, titled in blue on the front panel; a......

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., [1955]. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), xi, 250 pages. Illustrations by Fabres. FIRST EDITION. A dining guide to the five cities listed in the title, with an interesting connection to the development of of Diners' Club, the earliest general purpose charge card, founded in 1950. The authors were the owners of the firm Simmons Associates, the public relations consultants to Diners' Club and the editors of.....

New York: Military Publishing Co., 42 Broadway; War Department, 1916. War Department, Document no. 564. Duodecimo (14.7 x 11.5 cm.), 270 pages. Illustrated, including one folding plate. FIRST EDITION. An instructional guide for Army cooks. Beyond the recipes, the guide includes material on building ovens in the field, kitchen sanitation, provisioning and more. Fascinating and well-illustrated. A bit of offsetting to endpapers. In publisher's blue cloth, gilt-titled on the front.....

Elgin, Ill. Published by S.L. Taylor, 1880. Small octavo (16.5 x 12.4 cm.), 160 pages. Table of contents. Second printing, originally issued in 1877. A cookbook offered as a promotional item from The Chicago Daily Tribune. Recipes are in narrative format, attributed and often including contributors' locations. There is a wide array of recipes and household hints including eleven recipes for making coffee and a remedy for exterminating lice on.....

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1963. Small octavo (20.5 x 12.5 cm.), viii, [2], 373 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The followup to the author's Blueberry Hill Cookbook, published in 1959. Includes advice for the use of leftovers within each section. Fine in publisher’s decorated paper over mustard-colored cloth. Unclipped dust jacket with a few small stains, but otherwise fine. Inscribed by the author on the half-title in the year.....

Paris: Jacques Grancher, Editeur, 1991. Squarish octavo (23 x 18 cm.), 249, [6] pages. Index. Text in French. Illustrations by Jacques Bellanger; color photos by Daniel Czap. List of Lebanese restaurants. Later printing; originally published in 1980. Some light underlining to a few early pages, otherwise very good in publisher’s color photo-illustrated boards.

New York: The MacMillan Co., 1902. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), xxiii, 461 pages. Index. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and with line drawings. Title page printed in black and green. FIRST EDITION. A delightful survey of the history of the sundial, and especially its use as a garden ornament. From the author of Old Time Gardens. Original publisher’s decorated binding, gilt-titled and with decorated in in black.....

New York: W.S. Gottsberger, 1883. Small octavo (16.5 x 12 cm.), 326, [12] pages. Index. Publisher’s advertisements at rear. Stated “Seventh Edition”, but also the FIRST U.S. EDITION. The book was originally issued in London and Edinburgh in 1869, and went through many editions. Samuel Reynolds Hole (1819 - 1904) was Dean of Rochester Cathedral and an imminent Victorian Rosarian. He was an avid sportsman, spending much of his college.....

McLean, VA: EPM Publications, 1983. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), 279 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A gem of a book from the Alaska-born and Virginia-based old ways practitioner, Grace Firth. She discusses the stillroom, and its place in the home and in the lives of women, before surveying its products: cheese, breads, beverages, vinaigres bons, cured meats, fish and fowl, dry staples, etc. Some light sunning to spine, otherwise.....

Philadelphia: [by the author]; Arnold and Company, Library Street; [George H. Buchanan and Company, 420 Library Street, 1888]. Small octavo (19.4 x 13 cm.), [2], 104, [8] pages. Index. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Recipes for when hot weather "seems to suspend the inventive faculty of even the best housekeepers", from the well-known cookbook author and founder of the Philadelphia Cooking School. Some spotting to edges of text block, otherwise clean. In.....

New York: Charles L. Webster & Co.; [Press of Jenkins & McCowan], 1892. Octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), 294, [10] pages. Publisher's advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION. Copyright 1891 but first published 1892. A classic cocktail recipe book, by the self-styled "Only William", a German immigrant who opened the Bridge Saloon at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1884. An endlessly creative bartender who created drinks on a whim.....