[Duluth, Minn. Western Fruit Jobbers' Association; Trade News Publishing Co., Printers, 1906]. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (23.5 x 16 cm.), 30 pages. Date from a three page TLS from the Association laid-in, transmitting the Resolutions of the Association; and also from pencil annotation on the rear wrapper, "Rcv'd 3/14/06". FIRST EDITION. "This is primarily a Bill to Eliminate Private Freight Cars, Correct Refrigerating Abuses, and Bring Express Companies Under the.....

London; New York: The Butterick Publishing Co., Limited, 1898. Metropolitan Pamphlet Series: vol. XI, no. 3. Large octavo-sized booklet (24 x 17 cm.), 56 pages. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Third Edition, following the first of 1891 (vol. 2, no 4.), and the second of 1892 (vol. 5, no. 2), both of 32 pages. A quirky book, likely because its contents were pulled from a variety of professional cookbooks in sections.....

Boston: Chas. E. Brown Publishing Company, [1905]. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 286, [20] pages. Illustrated in the text. Advertisements. Blank pages at rear "for additional recipes". Author information from front cover and spine texts. A promotional issue of this very popular work, featuring Locke Coal Co. of Malden Mass in numerous advertising preliminaries. The work was originally published in 1887 with the title Universal Cookery Book, Practical Recipes for.....

Fort Wayne, Indiana; [Milwaukee, Wisc.]: Wayne Company; [Printed by the Cramer-Krasselt Co.], 1928. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (19.5 x 12.5 cm.), 15, [1] pages. Illustrated. Printed throughout in three colors. Wrapper bears a die-cut panel revealing a photographic image from the title page beneath. A product cookbook, advertising "The Advantages of Electric Refrigeration". "All recipes have been tested by Mrs. Kander in her own home kitchen." The Settlement Cook Book.....

Aberdeen, Scotland: Aberdeen Rare Books, 1978. Two volumes published as one; octavo (22 x 14.4 cm.), 141, v, 187 pages. Illustrated. Index. FACSIMILE EDITION, number 227 of 500 numbered copies. Originally published in London by Crosby Lockwood in two separate volumes in 1947 and 1950. A narrative bibliographic description of British agriculture books; volume one dates from 1523 to 1730 and features about two hundred fifty titles while volume two.....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 446 pages. Illustrated throughout by the author. FIRST EDITION. The ultimate collection of the culinary writings of the great Ludwig Bemelmans, perhaps most famous for giving us the Madeleine books. The stories and essays here first appeared in the various publications, including Town & Country, Vogue, and The New Yorker. In publisher's pale blue, paper-covered boards, over white cloth.....

San Francisco, CA: 101 Productions, 1972. Square octavo (20.5 x 20.5 cm.), 192 pages. Illustrated. Printed on pink paper throughout. FIRST EDITION. Includes sections on Milk, Chutneys, Vegetables, Rice, Dals, Breads, and Sweets. Tiny bit of bumping to corners; small red rubber stamps of ant (the personal mark of a chef from the American Southwest). In wrappers, decorated in color. Near fine. Scarce in the first edition.

Paris: Laboratoires Guillaumin & Gérard; Editions Paul-Martial, [circa 1940]. Octavo in wrappers (22 x 16 cm.), 88, [8] pages. Illustrated cover and two-color illustrations. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. An excerpt from de Pomiane's Radio Cuisine. Édouard de Pomiane (1875-1964) was the great French founder of "gastrotechnie", and professor at the Institute Scientifique d'Hygiène Alimentaire. Fine and largely unopened, in publisher's decorated wrappers; slight rubbing to top edge of wrapper, otherwise fine.....

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1909. Duodecimo (18.5 x 12 cm.), 161, [4] pages. Index. Later printing; originally issued 1898, just two years after the very successful launch of the author's monumental Boston Cooking School Cook Book. In publisher's gilt-titled, dark red cloth, with a small water stain to the front board. Near fine. Includes a late, but neatly handwritten poem in green ink to the free front endpaper, a......

Washington D.C. U.S. Department of Agriculture; [Government Printing Office], 1929. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (23 x 15 cm.), 8 pages. Photographically illustrated, and with an attractive illustration on the front wrapper. FIRST EDITION. One of the more interesting of the series of USDA Leaflets. A Preface by the authors claims this is a response to the introduction of Reindeer to Alaska in the first decades of the 20th century, "to.....

New York: Mutual Life Insurance Company of New-York, [1875]. Octavo (18.5 x 13 cm.), 126 pages. Illustrated. Appendix. Index. Stated "Enlarged edition" and "one hundred twentieth thousand". Author name from OCLC records. While all recorded printings prior to this are dated 1875, the "one hundred tenth thousand" and other lower numbers contain the printers slug "S.W. Green, Printer". This work appeared in shorter form(64 pages) in 1874, credited to Alexis.....

East Hampton, Long Island, New York: Ladies' Village Improvement Society; East Hampton Star Press, 1939. Double Wire-O Binding (24 x 16 cm.), 90, [22] pages. Index really a Table of Contents. Advertisements. Section at rear for "My Own Recipes" to be added. FIRST EDITION. There was an earlier publication with the same name by the L.V.I.S. issued in 1924, but that was a separate work. A community cookbook, with attributed.....

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Octavo (21.3 x 14.5 cm.), 288 pages. Index. Errata slip tipped-in. Early printing of the American edition. Toklas' famous memoir in the form of a cookbook, outlining her life in Paris with Gertrude Stein. The first American edition did not include her famous recipe for 'Hashische Fudge' (contributed to the U.K. edition by her good friend Brion Gysin) which cemented her place in the.....