New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Small quarto (24 x 16.5 cm.), xxi, 622, [2] pages. Book Club Edition. The second volume of Julia Child's classic work, published nine years after the first volume. For this second work, Julia was joined by Simone Beck only. BCE, and thus slightly smaller than the original. One leaf of the preface has a short tear and a crinkle at the top of the.....
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1954. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 287, [3] pages. FIRST EDITION. Wechsberg’s classic gastronomic autobiography, profiling some of the greatest culinary institutions in Europe in the Post-war period. Slight age-toning to text block; in publisher’s decorated blue paper-covered boards, over a black cloth spine. Dust jacket with some small chips to edges, and a bit of fading to spine panel. Still, near very good.
Boston; Cambridge: Little Brown and Company, 1901. Octavo, 578, [26] pages. Illustrated. Index & Table of Contents. Advertisements and blanks at rear. Second edition, second printing, styled "Revised edition, containing over 250 additional recipes". The milestone cookbook from Mary J. Lincoln (1844-1921) the first principal of the Boston Cooking School and a student of Maria Parloa. The work was "undertaken at the urgent request of the pupils of the Boston.....
Chicago: Donnelley, Loyd & Co., 1878. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrapper (21 x 15.6 cm.), 47, [1] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. In September of the same year, a second volume was issued by Donnelley, Gasette, & Loyd, "containing an entirely new collection of recipes for household use". The second volume carried the changed subtitle: a manual of recipes for cooking, pickling, and preserving, and other useful information for the.....
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London: Harvill Press, 1960. Quarto (27.5 x 18 cm.), 37 pages. FIRST EDITION. Preface by Evelyn Waugh. Belloc's condensed advice on wine, food and other matters, originally written as a wedding gift to Bridget Herbert, a family friend. In publisher's decorated paper-covered boards, with a bit of age-toning to the head of the spine; near fine. In an unclipped dust jacket, with some edgewear, and a bit of fading to.....
Paris: De Borée, 2008. Squarish quarto (25 x 20 cm.), 189, [3] pages. Index. Text in French. FIRST EDITION. A thoroughly illustrated survey of historical wares of the French kitchen. Short texts with lots of illustrations of objects including hearth and stove equipment, copper pots and pans, and specialized items for baking, butter making, etc. Molds, jars, serving and storage vessels and much more are all included. In photographically illustrated.....
New York; Chicago: Albert Bonnier; W.F. Hall Printing Co., 1936. Octavo (22.4 x 15 cm.), x, 315 pages. Illustrated. Index. Translated and edited by Gudrun Carlson. FIRST EDITION in ENGLISH. A collection of recipes from the famed Swedish cooking school attended by, among others, Princesses Margaret of Denmark, Martha of Norway and Astrid of Belgium. The translator tells us the book is an effort to introduce Swedish cooking to a......
London: Saunders and Otley, 1838. Small octavo (17.7 x 11 cm.), xvi, 240, [4] pages. Illustrated with a color engraving frontispiece, woodcut title page, and forty wood engravings in the text. Publisher's advertisements at end. Second edition, originally issued by the author in 1834. Samuel Bagster Jr. (1800-1835) was the son of a publisher of Bibles and other religious works. The Management of Bees was Bagster's first work, and remained.....
[Oswego New York]: Hall Publishing Company, 1944. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 223 pages. Illustrated with many black and white photos. Index; glossary. FIRST EDITION. A basic introduction to home cooking published at the height of World War II, and with a tone that is somewhat martial. "It is zero-hour for beginners in the kitchen" (jacket copy). The author, Marjorie Griffin Groll (1913-?), was a daily food columnist for the.....
Mountain View, California: Pacific Press Publishing Company, [April] 1904. Octavo (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), 266, [3] pages. Index (actually detailed table of contents). FIRST EDITION. Deposited with LOC for copyright April 18, 1904. A second edition was issued later the same year, expanded to 268 pages, and with an errata slip on pink paper explaining the index does not reflect the additional pages. An early American vegetarian cookbook, evidently inspired.....
Philadelphia: Published by T.K. Collins Jr., 1849. Octavo (19.2 x 12 cm.), x, 240 pages. Stated "Sixth Edition"; the original was issued by John T. Lange in 1849. A wide-ranging dive into the history of alcohol and temperance movements. Includes sections on non-alcohol stimulants (arrack, pulque, and coca), causes of intemperance (effort to drown present sorrow), and "The Life and Death of King Alcohol," a fifteen page poem which includes.....
New York: The Century Co., 1898. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 378 pages. FIRST EDITION. The author's only household guide, with sections on all aspects of domestic science, from laundry to lighting appliances. While the food section is more of an outline of the way food works than a collection of recipes, there is a separate section on the art of carving, and another on the proper way to shop.....
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[New York]: Huestis, corner of Ana and Nassau Streets, [circa 1845???]. Two works combined as one, 16mo. sewn on cords (11.5 x 7 cm.), 96, 32 pages. Illustrated. Each work with separate pagination and with frontispiece illustration at each title page. Cover title: Dream Book and Fortune Teller. FIRST EDITION. A palm-sized work with two works: the first on dream interpretation; the second on fortune-telling by dreams, by cards, by.....
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc.; The Murray Printing Company, 1953. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 128 pages. Illustrations by the author. Index. FIRST EDITION. A collection of over one hundred recipes for mushrooms. The author was headmaster of a Brooklyn school at the time of this compilation, but had roots in Lucania or Basilicata. His prior work, Italian Cooking for the American Kitchen, was very well received. The recipes cover.....
New York; Amsterdam: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. Octavo (21 x 14.7 cm.), xv, 231, [1] pages. Stated FIRST EDITION. Not a cookbook but a collection of tips and tricks, explaining in narrative form the building blocks of good cooking. Hibben was the "the first restaurant columnist for The New Yorker, consultant to Eleanor Roosevelt's White House kitchen and advisor to Rex Stout" (Molly O'Neil, American Food Writing). She also.....
[Hampstead, U.K.]: Tredolphin Press, [1968]. Small octavo (20 x 12.5 cm.), [iv], 105, [1] pages. Illustrated by Jean Papworth. Place and date of publication from author's preface. FIRST EDITION. With simple and clear descriptions, Simon's Turkish recipes work for experts and novices alike. The author originated the first cookery and domestic science classes in Cyprus, which in turn, brought forth this lovely book. Sections include hors d'oeuvres, dips & mezes.....
London: Alec Tiranti, 1964. Octavo ( x cm.), 88 pages. Illustrations with 483 black & white drawings by the author (not in the pagination). Index. Second Edition, a fascimile of this work originally issued by The Medici Society in 1927. "The first book written in English about those useful domestic implements that once formed so important a part of household equipment... The work is divided into six sections: the Hearth.....
West Chester, Penn. Chester County Historical Society, 1986. Quarto in wrappers (28 x 21.5 cm.), 160 pages. Profusely illustrated in black & white. FIRST EDITION. Exhibition catalog, describing and illustrating fifty-eight examples of the spice boxes of Pennsylvania. Very near fine, with just the slightest of rubbing to the photographically illustrated wrapper. Scarce. Inscribed by the curator on the title page, "To Nancy & Jimmy, Lee Ellen"
London: A. Brown and Sons, Limited, 1915. Folio. [ii], xlvi, 240, [iii], pages. Illustrated with two hundred seventy half-tone reproductions in sepia and ten full-page plates in color. Bibliography. List of subscribers. FIRST EDITION, first issue, stated "Subscriber's Edition" limited to 250 hand-numbered copies, of which this is 34. Printed on a thick laid paper with wide margins. Tipped-in at the front is the printed announcement "Her Majesty the Queen.....
New York: Oakley & Mason, 11 Murray Street, 1867. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xv, 228 pages. Index. Stated "New and Enlarged Edition". Originally published in 1849, Elizabeth Putnam's first cookbook, the Receipt Book, was enlarged in 1857, and this is a later printing of that enlarged edition. Some publisher's issued this together with a second part, titled, Second Part of Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book, as an Assistant, for.....
Boston: Waite, Peirce & Company, no. 1 Cornhill; [G.C. Rand, Printer, no. 3 Cornhill], 1846. Sextidecimo (18 x 11.5 cm.), 390 pages. Publisher's advertisements. Stated "Sixth Stereotype Edition"; originally published by George W. Light in 1838. Alcott was the first president of the American Vegetarian Society and founded of the American Physiological Society in 1837, the world's first physiological society. Much of this work is dedicated to vegetables, grains, and.....
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New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1978]. Octavo (24 x 17 cm.), 254 pages. Illustrated with color photographs by Didier Blanchat. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Issued the previous year in French by Robert Laffont. Recipient of the F&W Gold Medal. The first cookbook from the giants of nouvelle cuisine, owner's of their eponymous restaurant in Roanne, and one time students of the great Fernand Point. Some light age-toning to.....
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New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1954]. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 317 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. James Beard, "America's first foodie", as he is described by Mitchell Davis, founder of Kitchen Sense and formerly of the James Beard Foundation, and Sam Aaron, President of Sherry Wines (later Sherry Lehman), offer a guide to eating well on less money without cutting out the most delicious ingredients. The authors stay focused on taste and.....
New York: Antheneum, 1971. Tall octavo (22 x 13 cm.), 192, [3] pages. FIRST EDITION. A dictionary of dishes one might find on a French or Italian menu, as well as definitions of specific ingredients and of wine grapes and regions of the two nations. From "America's first foodie", as James Beard is described by Mitchell Davis, founder of Kitchen Sense, and formerly of the James Beard Foundation. Very light.....
London: Printed for T. Astley; and Sold by R. Baldwin, jun. at the Rose in Pater Noster Row, 1750. Octavo (20 x 12.3 cm.), [8], 332, [4] pages. Illustrated with vignettes and initials. Index. In four parts, each with its own title, but with register and pagination continuous. Stated “Sixth Edition, Corrected” on the book title and again on the title for Section III. The preface states the author has.....