Vienna; Bratislava. 1881-1891. Collection of thirty-one menus, mounted in a contemporary scrapbook. The menus hail mostly from Vienna, in large part from the Metropole Hotel and Frohner's Hotel Imperial, but there are also four from the Palugyay Palace in Bratislava. Although the menus come from only a few hotel restaurants, there is great stylistic variety, with some of the menus printed, and other handwritten on printed card. A few contain.....

[Boston: Winter, 1896]. A bound volume of autograph letters with the invitation and autograph menu. Octavo (22.5 x 15 x 8 cm.), bound volume of letters mounted on stubs. A superb record of the social grace of an era long gone. Mrs. Francis Blake, wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame (see DAB), gave a small ‘dancing’ party for the society ‘A’ list of Boston. Participants were to.....

Paris: [1953]. One and one half page pen and ink letter (26.5 x 21.5 cm.) on single sheet of pale blue Paul Cushing Child stationery, with ink date stamp ("May 18 1953"), addressed, "USIS. 5 Place de Rome, Marseille (B du Rh)". ~ An early letter from Julia Child, written while she was living in Paris with her husband Paul and working on her first book, the seminal Mastering the.....

[Santa Barbara ; Cambridge: 1981-2003]. A convolute of correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the relationship between American icon Julia Child, and Beverly Jackson, reporter, novelist, collector, and a legend of the social circles of Santa Barbara. The two were long time friends, and neighbors in Santa Barbara's Montecito. ~ Contents: Fifteen original notecards or postcards, typed or handwritten, signed by Julia Child; one TLS; one fax, and one TLS.....

New York: Something Else Press, 1968. Squarish octavo, unpaginated. First edition of this engaging exploration of Cunningham's work through his working notebooks, revealing works in progress, and accompanied by the author's speculations about the problems he was attempting to solve. With photographic illustrations of performances throughout. One of the scarcest and most sought after publications of Dick Higgins' Something Else Press. A fine copy in white cloth, with publisher's printed.....

Boston: Elmer Chickering, [circa 1889-1893]. Albumen print photograph, (19 x 24 cm. plus margins). Photographer’s imprint and manuscript inscriptions on verso, identifying the women pictured and their hometowns. This rare photo, taken by Boston photographer Elmer Chickering, shows Fannie Merritt Farmer (1857–1915) seated at front left surrounded by the students. Most are holding cooking utensils while one holds a cookbook and another kneads dough. Farmer graduated Mrs. Lincoln’s Boston Cooking.....

Kassel: Fotoforum Kassel, 1983. Oblong octavo ( x cm.), unpaginated. FIRST EDITION, one of 1200 unnumbered copies. A photographic artist book about the work of Robert Heinecken, conceptualized and realized by Suzanne Pastor, who took on the subjects of food, sex and tv. Included are images from the series of documentary photograms of Heinecken's breakfast or dinner (1971). Near fine in photo-illustrated wrappers.

Phoenicia, NY: Woodstock Editions, 2000. Two volumes, unpaginated, with black and white photographs. Quarto, boards covered in butcher paper, boxed. Text in French and English. FIRST EDITION, limited to 2000 numbered copies signed by Gissinger. An exchange in words and images between photographer Hans Gissinger and chef Marc Meneau, this book provides a sharp contrast to what is usually considered "food photography". The black and white images reveal the grisly.....

Toronto: Arterial Books, 1976. Oblong quarto, 73 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. First edition of this artist book about - well, zucchini. The book group out of a pair of performance exhibitions given in Toronto in 1973 and 1974, and contains a brief history of the prolific squash, along with recipes for a 30 course zucchini meal, and a series of fun photos of the vegetable as hood.....

Rochester: Humpy Press / Light Impressions, 1979. Square duodecimo, unpaginated. Illustrated with twenty-eight black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. An artist's book from Les Krims, in which the artist's mother demonstrates the step-by-step method for preparing her chicken soup. The book also includes Mrs. Krims' recipes for kreplach and matzo balls. Fine in photographically illustrated wrappers. A scarce photographic artist’s book and doubly so in that it is signed and.....

[Los Angeles; San Francisco, California: Lucca, circa 1938]. Six items in all: 1. Photo album, “Photographs”, bound with cord (18 x 26 cm.), [8] pages. Nine original black & white photographs, mounted to album leaves. The photographs depict the exterior of the San Francisco Lucca’s decked out in its grand opening finery; the bakery with staff; the dining room with full from to house staff (and perhaps the owners?); wedding.....

[circa 1873]. Narrow octavo, 56 pages, plus unpaginated memoranda section. Pages 1-25 of the Commercial Index are pasted over with clippings that include recipes for cakes, preserves, puddings, cookies, pies, and other household hints. Pages 26-55 remain intact with indices of business houses of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh with maps showing locations. Interspersed are advertisements. Page 56-finis are forty-nine handwritten recipes, ranging from fly-paper and taffy to sausages.....

[Tuxedo Park, N.Y. November 15, 1915 – January 27, 1917]. Manuscript menus in a lined notebook (21 x 17 cm.), [110] pages. Menus, one per page, throughout in a neat hand. A chef’s collection of daily menus for meals at the Tuxedo Club, the private clubhouse and dining room for the community of the Tuxedo Park Association (now the village of Tuxedo Park). The Club, like many of the original.....