[Québec province, s.n.]: 1948. Octavo in wrappers (22.5 x 15 cm.), 232 pages. Illustrated. Bibliographical references (pages 219-222); errata notice at rear. Second Edition, revised and enlarged; the first edition was issued in 1946. This French Canadian cookbook is focused on nutrition and ingredients, and is roughly divided into two parts, the first on foodstuffs, and the second on menus and cooking. The author, Marie de Sainte-Thérèse de Jésus, was.....

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.....

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.....

Liverpool: C. Tinling & Co., [1917]. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 15 pages. FIRST EDITION. In the midst of the First World War, Walker compiled excerpts from "a Blue Book dealing with the question of the Decrease of Native Population of the Colony of Fiji, published in 1896" to address the food crisis facing England. Fijian planter George Aloys Peat argues a deficiency of food led to a population decrease.....

London: Chapman and Hall, [circa 1856]. Small octavo (17 x 11 cm.), xvi, 135 pages. Illustrated. Stated "Seventh Edition, revised, with additions". "Memoirs of a Stomach, though seemingly spoofish, articulates issues of the relationship between imperial mind and digestive body in mid-nineteenth-century terms" (sf-encyclopedia.com). Sydney Whiting (1820/21-1875) was a UK barrister, poet, and author whose works often, though not here, exhibit themes of science fiction. Those works include Heliondé: or.....