New York: Random House, 1958. Octavo (21 x 15 cm.), xiii, [3],[229 pages. Index. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Over three hundred recipes and menus for Jewish-style cooking, perfected for your enjoyment by the famed hostess of the Catskill resort. Grossinger and her husband Paul emigrated to the U.S. from Austria, and soon opened a small boarding house in the Catskill Mountains of New York State in 1914. The recipes are drawn.....

[Boston, Mass. Ben Burk Inc., 1934]. Folio, in post & staple-bound folder (31.5 x 24.5 cm.), [28] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A trade catalogue for the distilled products of Ben Burk Inc., the distillery more famous for their long-running Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide. The Guide first appeared with Repeal of Prohibition in 1934, though it was preceded by a number of printings of One Hundred Cocktails, Some Old --.....

Springfield, Ohio: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, [1894]; 1890. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (19 x 14 cm.), 320 pages. Illustrated throughout with engravings and decorative chapter heads. FIRST EDITION THUS; Special Subscriber Issue. A subtitle on the wrapper states, "Farm & Fireside Library, published monthly by Mast Crowell & Kirkpatrick. March 1894, Double Number 108. Subscription Price $3.00 per year". Originally copyrighted and issued in 1890. A cookbook issued by the.....

n.p.; [Brooklyn]: Ernest R. Gee; [Printed at the Press of August Becker], 1926. Small octavo (18.5 x 13.5 cm.), (3)-24 pages. Black and white engraved frontispiece and title cut. First edition thus; a reprinting – "Privately printed for Ernest R. Gee" – of the original London edition of 1848. Gee was a colleague of Eugene Connett, of Derrydale Press fame, and the two men influenced one another. Frazier M-6-a states.....

Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1962. Large square folio (28 x 28 cm.), [vi], 251, [2] pages. Photographically illustrated, with additional maps, plans, etc. Text in Japanese. FIRST EDITION. A major work by Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect, and "winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents (Wikipedia.com).....

Boston: Little, Brown & Company; [Press of Miles and Knight Company], 1899. Octavo (19 x 13.5 cm.), vii, 250, [9] pages. Halftone illustrations throughout, plus illustrated advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Recipes and menus appear in distinct categories, as laid out in the title: Salads, Sandwiches, and Chafing-dish Dainties. In the preface, the author explains that the introduction to the third section, an some of the section's recipes, first appeared in the.....

London: Elm Tree Books, 1984. Tall thin octavo ( x cm.), 160 pages. FIRST EDITION. The indispensable etiquette guide to social abusage, from the author of How to Lose Friends and Infuriate People. Fine in red cloth, in a fine dust jacket.

[Dennis, Mass.]: Salt-Works Press, [1974]. Chapbook, stapled in wrappers (13.75 x 10 cm.), [15], 6, [3] pages. FIRST EDITION, limited to 250 copies. An early work of the poet/printer Tom Bridwell. The poems are amongst very the best modern American works in the Georgical tradition. Bridwell ran Salt-Works Press with his then wife, Marilyn Kitchell, publishing Lyn Hejinian and Ted Enslin among others. Brown wrappers, lettered on the front panel.....

[San Pedro, California: Trade Winds Publishing Co. Inc.; Schindler Printing Company, Inc., 1948. Quarto, stapled in wrappers (26 x 20 cm.), [32] pages. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of author. FIRST EDITION. A guide to reading leaves in a tea cup. Illustrated with fifteen images of tea leaves, photographed from above, surrounded by text with the author's interpretation. Includes a glossary of images with interpretations. Some light soiling, and a light tideline.....

London: Royal Palace Hotel, [circa 1930]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (20.5 x 13 cm.), [10] pages. Illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION. A delightful short disquisition on a good dinner as a metaphor for a good life issued as a promotional item for the grand restaurant Lucullus in the Royal Palace Hotel. Described by Osbert Sitwell as the original "bright young thing", Beverley Nichols was a prolific author of poetry, novels, and.....

Cincinnati, Ohio: Lawlor & Co.; For sale by the R. Clarke Co., Hawley's and Union News Co., [1895]. Octavo (20 x 13.5 cm.), 169, [4], pages. Frontispiece. Copyright date from verso of dedication page. Advertisements. Very early edition. Not the "Revised Edition" which appeared slightly later. This issue is identical with the wrappered issue of the first edition through page 116, and concludes the recipe section with Tincture of Cinnamon.....

London: Penguin Books, 1948. Oblong octavo (18 x 22 cm.), 15 pages. Illustrated with 32 color and b&w reproductions. Series: The Penguin Modern Painters. FIRST EDITION. A small study of the British painter Ben Nicholson (1894-1982). Lacking the dust jacket, but otherwise near fine, in publisher’s brown paper-covered, stiff boards. Inscribed on the title page by the artist to James Johnson Sweeney, “L & J.J.S., B.N., July 48”. Sweeney was.....

New York: Parnassus, 30 East 12th Street, 1928. Booklet in wrappers, sewn on cord (18 x 12 cm.), 2 pages (on double leaves). Illustrated with linoleum cuts. FIRST EDITION. An ode to human-caused extinction. Lise Fulda (1895-1967) was a painter of diorama for the Museum of Natural History, and a Greenwich Village figure known to host salons and soirees. The booklet was printed by Lew Ney’s Parnassus Press. Ney was.....