New Orleans: Published by Dorothea Thompson, 1955. 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 sixteenth 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.....

Pueblo, Colo: 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 to fine dining.....

Hartford, Conn. The Smith-Linsley Company, 1907. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 47 pages. Table of contents. FIRST EDITION. A charitable cookbook; an efficient collection of two hundred forty recipes, none attributed, with concise instructions and separately listed ingredients. Abigail Phelps Rusks serves as inaugural sally, described as "over a hundred years old." Quenelles of Fish merits notice. Some local allegiance surfaces (among the bakers): Massacoe Spice Cake, Roxbury Cake, Simsbury's.....

[Boston, Mass. North Bennet Street Industrial School, 1936]. Wire-O metal coil binding (26 x 18.5 cm.), 57, [7] pages. Index is table of contents. Advertisements. Foreword printed on a separate sheet laid-in at front. Title, author, and publication data from cover. Date from information in second edition of 1937. FIRST EDITION. A community fundraising cookbook for the benefit of North Bennett Street Industrial School. There is no front matter (title.....

[Birmingham, Ala.]: [The Church; Printed by]; Printed by American Calendar & Novelty Co., 1942. Octavo-size booklet (22.5 x 15 cm.), 28 pages. Advertisements. Title from cover. Printer from rear panel of wrappers. Evident first edition. A church cookbook with menus, some attributed, supplemented with one hundred short, unattributed recipes. Includes entries for: Shrimp Cucumber Salad, Creole Pie, Casserole of Sweet Potatoes, Apples, and Sausage, Asparagus Timbale, Date Torte, Orange Raisin.....

Mountain View California: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1925. Octavo (19 x 14 cm.), 112 pages. Illustrated. Second edition, somewhat expanded from the first edition of 1917. A layman's introduction to nutrition and dietary health, from the publishing house of the Seventh Day Adventists. With various charts, graphs and menus for specific ailments. Very good in publisher's illustrated, stapled wrappers.

Santa Barbara: Press of Pacific Coast Publishing Co., 1909. Octavo (20.5 x 14.5 cm.), 256 pages. Index. Illustrated. Eight photographic plates precede the title-page. Evident FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, in service of the Cottage Hospital, with a preface in verse with four stanzas. The recipes are attributed, and begin with a section of "Spanish Receipts" led with Delfina de la Guerra's Albondigas de Pescado, made with barracuda or sea.....

[Stonington, Conn.]; New London, Conn. [The Church]; [Printed by] Bingham Paper Box Co., Printers, 1911. Small octavo (20 x 13.5 cm.), 90, [ii] pages. Advertisements. Photographic illustration of the Church on frontispiece. “Contents” is actually an index. Evident FIRST EDITION. An instance of a church cookbook undertaken on behalf of a local Christian Endeavor Society; with more than three hundred attributed recipes. Includes: Cream of Lima Bean Soup, Bon-Ton Oysters.....

Los Angeles, Calif. Commercial Printing House, 1894. Octavo (22.25 x 15 cm.), [14], 382 pages. Illustrated. Index. Advertisements. List of contributors. Evident FIRST EDITION. "One of the best and most extensive local cook books ever compiled. The contributors include the leading names of Southern California, to mention a few: Mrs. R. M. Widney, the Bixby's, Mrs. M. M. Bovard, Mrs. S. C. Poy, Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, Frank A. Miller.....

Bridgeport, Conn. The Joyce & Sherwood Co. Printers, Binders, and Publishers, 1906. Octavo (22.75 x 15.5 cm.), [ii], 104 pages. Advertisements. Cover title: Book of Choice Receipes [sic]. Place of publication from cover. Photograph of St. Vincent’s Hospital on title-page verso. Evident FIRST EDITION. A charitable anthology, assembled as a “souvenir cook book and program” in support of the Harvest Festival of October 1906. The Ladies of Charity Book of.....

Glen Gardner, NJ: Currant House, 1948. Octavo, 178 pages. Spiral bound. Title page illustrated by John Harnell; text illustrations by Flosette Bayne, Betty Burckmyer, Page Chapman, Tassie Treman and Winifred Woodward. First edition. This is an everyday cookbook, with a sprinkling of party recipes. It is replete with suggestions for using what is already on hand, with the greatest economy of time and materials compatible with pride in delicious results.....

Willimantic, Conn. [The Auxiliary; Printed by]; Chronicle Print, [circa 1925]. Octavo (25.5 x 17.25 cm.), 91 pages. Table of contents. Stated third edition. A hospital charity cookbook with four hundred fifty recipes, a majority of them attributed; with credits to compilers of each chapter. Entries warranting attention: Asparagus Soup, Chartreuse of Rice and Meat, Poor Man’s Loaf, Corned Beef Salad, Quaker Salad, Eggs and Mushrooms, Parsnip Cakes, Tomato Jelly, Stuffed.....

San Francisco, Calif. Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte, 1940. Large octavo, 62 pages. Index. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and pale brown. Second edition, originally published under the slightly different title, Famous Recipes of Famous People, and issued by the Hotel del Monte without Sunset Magazine in 1936. A compilation of celebrity recipes, with the recipes attributed to the famous including: Gertrude.....