Cambridge: Printed Privately at the Riverside Press, 1926. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), x, [3], 2-63 pages. FIRST EDITION. An interesting manual of home wine production, published during prohibition. Beyond the practical concerns of a manual, the book also puts the making and consumption of wine into a context of the rhythms of human health and happiness and of nature. ~ Some light soiling to endpapers; Tan, cloth-backed, paper covered.....

San Francisco: Sunset Magazine; Lane Publishing Co., 1940. Quarto-sized wire-bound [spiral] book (23.5 x 18.5 cm.), 223 pages. Illustrated throughout. Index. Fourth printing, originally issued 1938. A compilation of the popular "Kitchen Cabinet" columns which had run in Sunset Magazine since 1929. Some light soiling throughout. Some edgewear and de-lamination to the illustrated stiff wrappers. Good only.

[St. Francisville: The Church, circa 1950]. Octavo-size booklet (22.75 x 15.25 cm.), 21, [ii] pages. Index. Title and author from cover. Additional title on page [1]: Feliciana Recipes. Date of publication estimated from external evidence. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook offering selected “receipts of cookery from the day books of the great-grandmothers of West Feliciana Parish” (page [1]). A self-conscious glance, then, at days gone by, whose culinary.....

Bombay: American Woman's Club of Bombay; [printed by F. Borton and G. Claridge & Co., Ltd., 1952]. Oblong duodecimo (12 x 18.5 cm.), 134 pages. Printed throughout in black and green. Subtitle from cover. Stated second printing, same year as the first. An ex-pat recipe collection, from the American Woman's Club of Bombay. The recipes, with attributions, are printed one to a page, many are accompanied by a suggested menu.....

Waukesha, Wisconsin: Published by Clysmic Spring Co., [1912]. Booklet, cord-tied in wrappers (18 x 13 cm.), [2], 32, [2] pages. Illustrated. Title and publication information from wrapper. Date from external evidence (1912 issue of Life Magazine announcing the publication). Evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional bar manual consisting of cocktail recipes made with Clysmic water. Most of the recipes are followed by quoted toasts. At the bottom of each page is.....

Cambridge: Printed Privately at the Riverside Press, 1926. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), x, [3], 2-63 pages. FIRST EDITION. An interesting manual of home wine production, published during prohibition. Beyond the practical concerns of a manual, the book also puts the making and consumption of wine into a context of the rhythms of human health and happiness and of nature. ~ Some light soiling to endpapers; Tan, cloth-backed, paper covered.....

London: Pyramid Books, 1990. Quarto (28.5 x 22 cm.), 256 pages. Color illustrations. Index. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, of this Glenfiddich Award-winning cookbook, published in London the same year by Pyramid. Pierre Koffmann was the chef of the London Michelin two-star La Tante Claire. "Memories of Gascony centres on the Oratoire, the farmhouse of Pierre Koffmann's grandparents Marcel and Camille Cadeillan, situated in the village of Saint Puy in the heart.....

Pueblo, Colo: The Mesa Workers; the Franklin Press Co., [1907]. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), [vi], 106 pages. Index. Publication date and edition statement derived from the foreword (page [v]). Stated second, enlarged edition. An ambitious church cookbook, with nearly five hundred recipes, intended “to raise funds for missions.” Most entries are credited, though some to monikers such as “Ormie”, “Fancy Cook”, or “A Friend.” In some cases an aspiration.....

New York: Greenberg, 1951. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 332 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes drawn from across Boulestin's many cookbooks. X. Marcel Boulestin (1878-1943) had an outsized role in bringing French food to England between the wars. He wrote numerous cookbooks, was praised by Elizabeth David for his work, and opened Restaurant Boulestin, said to be the most expensive restaurant in London in 1927. Maurice Firuski.....

New Orleans: Published by Dorothea Thompson, [1961]. Octavo-size (21 x 14.5 cm.), [ii], 86, [iv] pages. Illustrated. Table of contents. Index. Title and author from cover. Date of publication from edition statement on preliminary page [ii]. Photo-reproduced engravings depicting historic buildings throughout. ~ Stated nineteenth edition. A later entry in the sequence of editions of an admired cookbook, first published in Waveland, Mississippi in 1932 (under the author’s imprint), and.....

Burlington, Vt. Leader Evaporator Co., [circa 1934]. Octavo-sized booklet stapled in wrappers (22. x 15.5 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Date from testimonial on page 32. A trade catalogue from a manufacturer of maple sugar making equipment and supplies, including evaporators, gathering tanks, sap buckets, sap spouts, tapping bits, gathering pails, hydrometers, thermometers, filters, syrup cans, pails, and cartons. Instructions for sugaring, and testimonials from satisfied customers are included. The Leader.....

London: Bailliere, Tindall, & Cox, 1881. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 95, 31, [1] pages. Bibliography. Publisher’s advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION. An early English language history of salt, indeed a review in The Lancet of 1881 declared this the first work on the history of salt. Unfortunately, the same article declares, “We cannot but regret that the portion of the work on which the author should speak with most.....

Buffalo, NY: Larkin Co., [1906]. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 69, [1] pages. Illustrated with seven black & white plates, and with small promotional cuts in the text. Index. Advertisments. Stated FIRST EDITION (a second printing was issued the same year). One of the earliest "bake-off" cookbooks, compiled from thousands of recipes submitted to contests created by Buffalo's Larkin Company. In effect, the Larkin Co., has brought the contestants from.....