[Carmel, Ca. the restaurant, circa 1937]. Menu (17.5 x 13.5 cm.), [4] pages on cream color laid paper. Wood block illustration to front panel. A breakfast menu from the dining room of the first hotel built in beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1889. The Pine Inn still operates at its original location, a few blocks from the Carmel Beach on Ocean Avenue, with the dining room now an outpost of the Il.....
![Handbill]: Comedy: Carol Roberts Comes Out as a FoodSexual. This Tuesday, August 11th, 9:30 & 11...](/pictures/medium/7755.jpg?v=1614666482)
[San Francisco, CA: the artist, 1981]. Handbill (21.5 x 13.5 cm.), one leaf, printed recto only. Illustrated. Date from ink stamp on verso “1981”. Handbill for a performance, perhaps the first in which Lesbian entertainer Carol Roberts “Comes out as a Foodsexual”. A photographic image of Roberts shows her engaging a large bag of M&Ms. Roberts operated at the nexus of comedian and performance artist. Records of her performances are.....
Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co., 121 Washington Street; [D.H. Ela, printer, no. 19 Washington Street], 1839. Octavo (18 x 11.5 cm.), viii, 167, [1] pages. Bibliographical references and publisher's advertisement at rear. Second edition, enlarged and improved; following the first of 1835. This second edition contains a lengthy new preface by the author, outlining the author's observations about improvements in the American silk industry since the book was first made.....
[German-American(?): circa 1850]. Blankbook, duodecimo (13 x 9 cm.), 144 pages. A manuscript recipe book, mostly in German in a neat Gothic script, and containing formulae for all kinds of fermented and distilled liquors. Included are recipes for more than one hundred seventy varieties of liqueurs, essences, bitters, rums, and aquavits. Specifically, Rosinenessenz, Kartoffelsprit Reinigung, Vanille Essenz, Arac Essenz, Rum Essenz, Duseldorfer Punsch-extract, Goo Essenz, Bischoff, Curasao-Aquavit, Grunewald-Aquavit, Forstrath Liqueur.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, [copyright 1885]; 1886. Octavo (21 x 12.5 cm.), viii, 640 pages. Table of contents. Index. Final fourteen mostly blank pages headed "Additional Receipts". Evident FIRST EDITION. Intended as a general household manual but containing one of the earliest cumulations of Creole recipes in their myriad variety – succeeding by perhaps only a few months the first two Creole summations, The Creole Cookery Book.....
London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1871. Tall octavo (23 x 15 cm.), viii, 333, [3] pages. Illustrated with 34 woodcuts in the text, and a frontispiece portrait of the chef. Index and Index to Woodcuts. FIRST BRITISH EDITION; originally published in France in 1869. A major work by Jules Gouffé, the famous chef of the Paris Jockey Club. Gouffé’s primary work, Le Livre de Cuisine, was translated as The.....
![The Juvenile Gleanings, or, Boys' and Girls' Bee Journal. [nine issues]. Periodicals –...](/pictures/medium/7738.jpg?v=1614701294)
Medina, Ohio: A.I. Root, 1882-1883. Volume I, nos. 1-4, 12; and volume II, nos. 1-4 (nine issues in all)[a complete set would be: Volume 1-2; April 1882 – December 1883 (twenty-four issues in all)]. Slim periodical, each issue bound on cord (25.5 x 17 cm.), 8-24 pages each issue. Illustrated. A juvenile supplement, or "Extra", to Gleanings in Bee Culture, the newsletter of the famous apiarist A.I Root. Contents include.....
Buffalo, NY: Larkin Co., 1910. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 71, [1] pages. Advertising. Illustrated, with seven, black & white plates, and with small promotional cuts in the text. Index. Stated fourth edition, revised. 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, contestants from all over the nation, together into.....
London: Printed by and for C. and R. Baldwin, New Bridge-Street, 1803. Octavo (22.5 x 14.3 cm.), x, 180, [2], 183-186. Index. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece, one engraved vignette to the text, woodcut finispiece. FIRST EDITION. Weston (1747-1830) was an antiquarian and classical scholar who wrote some fifty books, including various editions of Persian poetry, commentaries on Shakespeare, and several studies of classical architecture; notably he produced the first English.....
London: Aloes Books, 69 Lancaster Road, 1984. Stapled booklet in wrappers ( x cm.), [ii], 29, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A work of short fiction, published at about the halfway point of Acker’s too-short writing career. In publisher’s pink, illustrated wrappers. Fine.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 144 , [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A review of the career of philosophical art critic Rosalind Krauss, and an historical look at changes in art criticism in the period from Clement Greenberg's formalism, through Sturcturalism and Historicism, to Leo Steinberg's Post-modernism. In black cloth, gilt titled at spine and to front board. No dust jacket as issued. Fine Laid-in is a......
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992. Thick octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), xxi, 378 pages. FIRST EDITION. An engaging cooking memoir of sorts, with recipes for anyone that "want to go into the kitchen, lock the door, and have some fun", from the author of Simple Cooking. The series of short essays address the true pleasures of cooking and of living simply. Previous owner's name and inscription on free.....
Oneonta, N.Y. 1886. Broadsheet menu (21.5 x 14 cm.), one leaf, printed recto only. Illustrated with two small, engraved vignettes at head and foot of sheet. An attractively designed menu for a dinner of the Royal Arch Masons in the central New York State city of Oneonta. The menu items are interesting, with a strong representation of clams, oysters, lobsters, salmon, sardines, boiled ham, corned beef, pickled tongue, pickled tripe.....
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[Rochester, N.Y. H.H. Warner & Co., circa 1886]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (22.75 x 15 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Publication date from the latest testimonials. FIRST EDITION. A promotional book for patent medicine from H.H. Warner & Co., with the usual assortment of medicinal recommendations, glowing testimonials, household and culinary recipes, and advertisements. Also mentioned is Warner's Safe Cook-Book, "the most valuable family recipes ever published." Lightest discoloration to.....
[San Francisco: Gancel, 2474 California Street; Lanson & Gorfinkel, Printes & Bookbinders, 3954 Jackson Street, 1920, but circa 1926]. Duodecimo (15 x 10.5 cm.), 525, [1] pages. Illustrated. Index. Printer information from final page. Stated "Fifth edition, revised and augmented” of this cooking dictionary, from this hotel and catering chef... Publication date stated as 1920, but changes in the printer's full business name indicates 1926. A small, though not-quite-pocket encyclopedia.....
Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1961. Small octavo (18 x 10.5 cm.), 178 pages. FIRST EDITION. A compilation of medical folklore, based on Fisher's lifelong collection of remedies, medicinals, herbs, cures, etc. In publisher's red, patterned paper over blue-green cloth Generally dusty, and with light soil to edges. In a lightly soiled, edge chipped, and price-clipped dust jacket, and with a small chip to the spine panel, not effecting text.....
New York; London: Award Books; Tandem Books, 1970. Mass market paperback (17.5 x 11 cm.), 158, [2] pages. All edges yellow. FIRST EDITION (a paperback original). "Soul is everything that happens in the black experience. Soul food is part of that experience. It's unique, succulent, stick-to-the-ribs style of cooking that was created by slaves in the Old South – culinary genius sparked by necessity." Toni Tipton-Martin, in her marvelous work.....
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985. Octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), 175 pages. FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the Arion Press limited issue of 1975. The original was just the second book publication of the Arion Press, itself founded by Robert Grabhorn. This trade edition reproduces the Fournier borders and vignettes after wood engravings in Ecole des Cuisinieres. Small bit of discoloration at top edge of blue cloth. otherwise very good.....
Bull Shoals, Arkansas: The author, circa 1970. Octavo-size booklet (22.5 x 15.5 cm.), [vi], 42, [ii] pages. Illustrated. Photo-reproduction of typescript. “Index” is actually a table of contents. Title from cover. Compiler and place of publication from prefatory note on page [i]. Date of publication estimated from newspaper notices circulating in 1971. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A cookbook offering recipes that “yer Maw or Grannie used to whop up,” from.....
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San Francisco: [publisher not identified; James H. Barry, Printer, 429 Montgomery Street], November 1897. Octavo, stapled in limp cloth (19 x 13 cm.), 92 pages, additional blanks interleaved. Advertisements. Printer information from page facing Table of Contents. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. While the publisher is not identified, and advertisement for James H. Barry, Printer of Montgomery Street, appears prominently on the front paste down, facing the title page. Recipes attributed.....
Chicago, U.S.A. [the author]; The Hopewell Press, One Hundred Fifty Michigan Avenue, [1910]. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 94 pages. Printed in brown ink throughout. FIRST EDITION. An interesting privately printed collection of salad recipes, in either narrative or verse form. The author's introductory essay covers “Salad Lore” from Nebuchadnezzar through the Greeks, and the English to Dumas. Literary quotes related to salad and other gastronomic interests, appear at the.....
Takoma Park [Md.]: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1930. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 128 pages. Illustrated. Includes index. Advertisements inside wrappers. Evident FIRST EDITION. An important and attractively organized document of advocacy for Christian vegetarianism, by the chef of the Seventh Day Adventist New England Sanitarium. Two hundred recipes–including a number of accompanying black-and-white photographs–divided in to chapters introduced by an essay summarizing health benefits. Worthy of notice: Tampa.....
St. Louis, Mo.; New York: St. Louis Stamping Company; [chromolithography by Donaldson Brothers], [1887]. Small pamphlet, stapled wrappers (12.75 x 8.75 cm.), 64 pages. Wood engraved illustrations throughout, and chromo-lithographically illustrated wrappers. Publication date from front wrapper panel. FIRST EDITION. A small, but beautifully produced promotional cookbook, advertising the full line of iron ware kitchenware from the St. Louis Stamping Co. Includes testimonials, recipes, and lots of illustrations of the.....
New York: [printed by] A. Penfield, [circa 1865]. Unfolded booklet (13 x 22.5 cm.), [6] pages (if folded). John B. Barlett’s business was located at 69 Murray Street, New York, where he distributed the Squire’s Patent Fruit Jar. “The GREAT SECRET in preserving fruit lies in thoroughly expelling the oxygen, and safely sealing therefrom". The Squire’s Jars used a combination rubber band and cork to achieve this. The cover illustration.....
Berkeley, Calif. The Glozers, Booksellers, 1964. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), [ii], 30 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A collection of fifty seafood recipes highlighting animals associated with the coastal waters between Berkeley and Mendocino. Includes generic recipes (Cold Fish Mold, Sweet-Sour Fish, Fish In Harbor), as well as concoctions with more fixed requirements (Abalone Supreme, Broiled Eels Sole en Papilotte). A selection of sauce suggestions is appended. The collaborators.....