New York: George W. Harlan, 19 Park Place; J. Campbell, Printer, Vandewater Street, 1880. Square-back stapled book, (17 x 12.5 cm.), 128 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. Author's first book, preceding the series of single-subject books published by Frederick Stokes for which he is more recognized. Murrey was the caterer of New York's Astor House and Philadelphia's Continental Hotel. The book is an amalgam of recipes for familiar New York and.....

[Baltimore]: Records & Goldsborough, 1943. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 95 pages. Illustrated. Second printing, following the original issue of 1942. A promotional history of the Baltimore distillers, Records & Goldsborough, producers of a wide range of commercial whiskeys, gins, pre-mixed cocktails, cordials, and liqueurs. About one third of the book is given to cocktail recipes. In publisher’s royal blue cloth, with color printed title label inset to front.....

Boston: M. Barrows & Company; [Thomas Todd Company, Printers], [1932]. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 70 pages. Index to recipes at rear. FIRST EDITION. One of the most elusive titles from the cookbook author and chronicler of country life, Della Lutes. Some very light toning or soil to a few leaves. Pencil annotation in margin of one page. Publisher's black cloth with red paper title label pasted down on front.....

Philadelphia: C.W. Alexander, Publisher, 224 South Third Street, 1867. Octavo, sewn on cord (23 x 14.5 cm.), [2], 19-94 pages. Stated "New and Enlarged Edition" but we have been unable to locate a citation of an earlier printing. A household compendium, with recipes and formulas for cookery as well as for useful articles for the home, such as Leather Flowers. Includes recipes for "the following celebrated articles: Godfrey's Cordial, Carrot.....

Berkeley: Free University of Berkeley, [circa 1965-72]. Saddle-stapled booklet (21 x 13.5 cm.), [48] pages. Illustrated. Corrections list to inner panel of rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION. A small collection of works by poets of Berkeley, California, published by the Free University of Berkeley. The calligraphy by Alice Walters is likely her first non-periodical appearance in print. Therese Shere, the cover artist, was the young daughter of Lydia Shere, later pastry.....

Detroit; East Lansing: Mohawk Liqueur Corporation; Michigan Lithographing Co., 1935. Small, stapled booklet (11 x 7.5 cm.), 72 pages. Index. Illustrated throughout in chromolithography. FIRST EDITION. A cocktail recipe manual, with recipes tied to the products of Mohawk Liqueurs, each of which is illustrated. Some light soiling, and a number of tiny pinholes or abrasions. In color decorated yellow wrappers. Near fine. [OCLC locates four copies].

Philadelphia: Dr. D. Jayne & Sons, Inc., 1934. Octavo (13.5 x 11 cm.), 150 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The author was the publisher of Dr. Jayne's Medical Almanac and Guide to Health and producer of various patent medicines. The guide, published on the heels for repeal, includes a warning to bartender's a proprietors of other alcohol-serving businesses to follow the laws to 't', lest we "invite another fatal dose". The.....

New York: Charles Scribner, 145 Nassau Street, 1853. Octavo (20 x 13.5 cm.), xiii, [14]-343, [1], [4]. pages, Publisher's advertisements. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and nineteen wood-engraved plates. FIRST EDITION, with plates in state B (no priority, see BAL 8138). "This volume is composed for the most part of papers which have appeared... in... Graham's Magazine, under the running title, 'The Game of the Month'" (Preface). William Henry Herbert.....

New York: John Ireland, 1892. Oblong Octavo (15 x 22.5 cm.) 78 numbered leaves, printed rectos only; [4] blank pages for recipes. No advertising section, which is appears in some copies of this printing. Stated “fourth edition”, originally issued 1889. A promotional cookbook, though one of significantly more subtlety than is usually found; there is a single mention of the Agate Chafing Dish in the front matter. Recipes, for Bubble.....

North Montpelier, VT: The Driftwind Press, 1930. Octavo-sized, cord-sewn booklet in wrappers (22 x 14 cm.), vii, [1], 10. Illustrated with a full-sized abstract woodcut by Orton. FIRST EDITION; limited to 150 handset copies. "Driftwind Monograph Number Two, " reproducing a poem that first appeared in The Farmers' Museum, or Literary Gazette, in 1800. Vrest Orton was the founder of the Vermont Country Store and author of The American Cider.....

Montpelier: de l'Imprimerie de J.-G. Tournel, place Louis XVI, no 57, 1821. Octavo, 136, [3] pages. Advertisement; table of contents. Illustrated. Second edition, expanded, styled "Nouvelle Edition" with the addition of the letters of Neufchateau and of Chaptal. The first edition was issued in two Montpelier printings, both in 1820. ~ Elisabeth Gervais was the earliest woman known to have produced a technological innovation in winemaking (the first recorded winemaker.....

{Milwaukee: the company, [circa 1915-1925]. Trade catalogue bound with three brass fasteners (28 x 22.5 cm.), forty-two original color-printed cellophane or polyethylene food wrappers, mostly for meat (bacon or sausage) or candy products. Brand names and designs vary greatly. Some of the samples bare the Milprint Protecto-Pack or Millprint Econo-Wrap slug. "Milprint, Inc., was founded by the brothers Max T. ("Popsy") Heller and William ("Billy") Heller as the Milwaukee Printing.....

[New York]: [T.W. Marsden], 1866. Sewn booklet with wrapper (17 x 11 cm.), [32] pages. Evident FIRST EDITION of this promotional item for T.W. Marsden, makers of popular patent medicines such as Marsden's Pectoral Balm, and Marsden's Carminative Syrup. The content is a mixture of culinary, household, and medicinal recipes, with the latter employing a Marsden's product, of course. Also included are lists of the agents for various products across.....