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2022. Gift certificates for Rabelais Books are valid for both in-store and online shopping. Online, we offer gift certificates for $50, $100, & $200, but you can have one in any amount, just send us an email and we will work it out. We can deliver the gift certificate to you OR directly to the recipient, either by mail or my email. Please put a note in your order indicating.....
2022. Gift certificates for Rabelais Books are valid for both in-store and online shopping. Online, we offer gift certificates for $50, $100, & $200, but you can have one in any amount, just send us an email and we will work it out. We can deliver the gift certificate to you OR directly to the recipient, either by mail or my email. Please put a note in your order indicating.....
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Toronto: [the hotel; Rolph, Smith & Co.], 1881. Bi-fold menu (15.5 x 10 cm.), [4] pages. A handsome menu for "Christmas Day, 1881" at the Queen's Hotel. With its roots in 1844, Toronto's Queen's Hotel (established 1862) was a fashionable and luxurious lodging place not far from the city's Union Station. Distinguished guests included the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII), Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, Jefferson.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. Octavo ( x cm.), 223 pages. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. index. FIRST EDITION. "Over two hundred succulent recipes from the best in Hungarian cooking, with notes on its tradition. This warm, flavorful cookbook is full of the zest for good food and wine that is so freely expressed in the folk songs and fiery csardas of the food-loving Magyars" (jacket copy).....
Ocala Florida: T.A. Orr & Co.; [no printer identified, undated; circa 1880s]. Broadside advertisement (45 x 30 cm.), [2] pages. On bright yellow paper. Handsome illustrated broadside, advertising Christmas shopping at T.A. Orr's drug and stationery shop in Ocala, Florida. The broadside is undated, but we place it in the 1880s, based on the paper, the design, and the boom in building and business that took place in Ocala and.....
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1910. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (23 x 15 cm.), 19 pages. Photographic illustrations in text (halftones). FIRST EDITION. An exposé, targeted to residents of rural districts, of narcotic agents in patent remedies and soft drinks, as well as the illicit trade in morphine and other drugs. Illustrations depict numerous commercially available (and perfectly legal) preparations containing morphine and coca-leaf extracts, Coca-Cola prominent among them (Coca.....
London: The Sylvan Press, [1948]. Small octavo (18 x 13 cm.), 139 pages. An interesting modern edition of an 18th century cookbook, William Verral's Complete System of Cookery (1759), which was reproduced from the copy owned by Thomas Gray, the English poet, letter-writter, and classical scholar, and includes reproductions of Gray's annotations. "It appeals to the revelation of ancient culinary mysteries while adding the attraction of the fact that the.....
New York: Random House, [1982]. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 312, [1] pages. Illustrated. Later printing. The first of the many cookbooks to find their origin in the Berkeley's legendary restaurant, Chez Panisse. Publisher's brown cloth, a bit creased at spine. Still clean and sound. In unclipped dust jacket, with tiniest spine fading and a small crease or two to the jacket flaps. Very good plus.
New York: M. Doolady, 1873. Octavo (23 x 15 cm.), 193 pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A complete set of all eight issues of this thoroughly enjoyable and very early American culinary periodical, bound in one volume. It lasted just eight issues (vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1873) – vol. 1, no. 8 (Aug. 1873), after which its editor assumed the same duties at the Philadelphia-based journal, The Caterer. Barry Gray.....
Battle Creek, Mich. Good Health Publishing Co., 1914. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 301, [12] pages. Illustrated. Advertising. Index. Stated "Second Edition - Revised". In later editions Cooper is joined by Margaret Allen Hall; both were dietitians at the Battle Creek Sanatorium. Includes sections on meat substitutes Protose, Vita-met and Nuttolene. Some soiling to edges of text block; hinges tender. In publisher's tan cloth, titled in dark brown. Soiled, but.....
Boston, Mass. Compiled and Published by Merchandisers Inc., 1929. Octavo (20 x 13 cm.), 383 pages. Illustrated with color plates. Index. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook more often seen with the imprint of an oil company or grocery chain. The recipes are gathered from chefs across the country, and the illustrations include a spread of portraits of the dozens of contributors. In publisher's blue, patterned cloth, titled and decorated in.....
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1901. Thick quarto (25 x 19 cm.), vi, 590, [ii] pages. Publisher's advertisements. Index. Illustrated with plates and line drawings in the text. Frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Ida Saxton McKinley. Later Edition, "New and Enlarged". Pages toned throughout but not as brittle or chipped as we usually see with this title. Some soiling and wear to the cloth at edges; hinges sound. Near very good.....
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1911. Octavo (19.5 x 13.25 cm.), 289, [24] pages. Advertisements. Photographically illustrated. Later Edition. Originally issued in 1904. While best known for The Boston Cooking School Cookbook, Fannie Farmer had more than a passing acquaintance with issues of health, convalescence and medicine. Farmer suffered a debilitating stroke following high school, and struggled for years to regain her mobility. After her studies at the Boston Cooking.....
Boston: Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, Inc., 1935. Small octavo (18 x 13 cm.), 91, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisement. FIRST EDITION. A small instruction work on meat, from the Principal of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, editor of The Woman's Home Companion, and author of more than ten cookbooks. Staple in binding oxidized and showing through at front hinge, otherwise internally clean and sound. In publisher's light brown, textured paper-covered.....
Chicago, Ill. Manning Publishing Company, [1931]. Quarto ( x cm.), 468 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and over eighty color and halftones. FIRST EDITION. A sizable cookbook from the publisher of Woman's World magazine. Introduction by the publisher himself, Walter W. Manning, dated February 1, 1931. There is another version of this book, also dated 1931, but with a Reilly & Lee imprint; we believe the.....
New York: International Magazine Company Inc., 1933. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 254 pages. FIRST EDITION of this popular cookbook from the Good Housekeeping Institute. he book was distributed to subscribers of Good Housekeeping Magazine. Light soiling to publisher's green and white printed cloth, otherwise very good. No dust jacket, as issued.
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., [1949]. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), viii, 184 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, one color plate, eighty-three sepia-toned plates on and eight illustrations in the text. Index. FIRST EDITION. "... an intimate picture of Tudor, Stuart, and Georgian ways and means..." "... an account of the architecture, lay-out, furnishing, interior decoration, and all-round planning and functioning of homes throughout three centuries." Top edge red. Publisher's.....
Paris: Jacques Grancher, Editeur, [1981]. Large octavo (23 x 18 cm.), 191 pages. Illustrated. Index. Lexicon. FIRST EDITION. An excellent introduction to the overlooked cuisine of Belgium. Some light spotting to edges of text block; cream colored cloth, titled in brown. Very good, in a near fine dust jacket. With the bookseller's ticket of John Lyle to front paste-down.
[New York]: M. Barrows and Company, Inc., [1949]. Octavo ( x cm.), 183 pages. Designed by Stefan Salter. Stated "Eighth Printing"; originally published in 1943. Interestingly, the introduction by Henrik Van der Loon which appears in the first few printings (and which was noted on the earlier dust jackets) is not included here. A classic and early casserole cookbook; James Beard's Casserole Cookbook was published in 1955 and Ambrose Heath's.....
Santa Cruz, CA: Planned Parenthood of Santa Cruz County, [1977, ©1974]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (21.5 x 14 cm.), 40 pages. Illustrated. Index. Price of $2.25 on rear wrapper panel. Stated "Revised and Enlarged" edition; the introduction indicates this is a revision of the 1973 first edition, though OCLC records indicate the original publication was 1970. The format continued to be used as a fundraiser for the organization, as another.....
London: Chapman and Hall, [circa 1856]. Small octavo (17 x 11 cm.), xvi, 135 pages. Illustrated. Stated "Seventh Edition, revised, with additions". "Memoirs of a Stomach, though seemingly spoofish, articulates issues of the relationship between imperial mind and digestive body in mid-nineteenth-century terms" (sf-encyclopedia.com). Sydney Whiting (1820/21-1875) was a UK barrister, poet, and author whose works often, though not here, exhibit themes of science fiction. Those works include Heliondé: or.....
New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1917. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 128, xiii, [6] pages. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION THUS. Really a new work, based on Murphy's "Lecture delivered by Charles J. Murphy ... before the National Agricultural Society of France, at the International Congress of Millers, held at Paris in August, 1889, on American Indian corn (maize) as a cheap, wholesome, and nutritious human food ... (Edinburgh, R. Grant.....
London: Neville Spearman Ltd., [1958]. Octavo (19.4 x 13 cm.), xi, 100 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. One of the many useful and charming cookbooks written by Ambrose Heath (1861-1961). Heath, born Francis Geoffrey Miller, was an English journalist and food writer who penned more than one hundred cookbooks starting in 1933 with Good Food. "A stew by any other name..." Small red ink stain to free front endpaper, and a......
Chicago: American Poultry Journal, 1885. Small octavo (18 x 12 cm.), 135, [32] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A guide to poultry production, but through the lens of industrial chicken production. Internally clean and sound. In publisher's orange cloth, titled and decorated in black and gilt. Cloth soiled and with corners bumped; good plus. Pencil ownership inscription to preliminary blank, "W.H. Bradley... Gertrude Kyrk", and with the blind-stamp of the.....