[Troy]: Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, [1937]. Large octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 382 pages. Portrait illustration. Advertisements at rear. Index. Publication date from new preface. FIRST EDITION, of this third title in the series. This Third Book follows the 1922 and 1926 publications, but each is a self-contained cookbook. Recipe attributed with the name of the contributor. The portrait is of "Martha Dismukes, Helen's Mammy who represented.....

Chicago, [Il.]: F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher, 1893. Octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), 249 pages. Table of contents. Evident FIRST EDITION. An anthology saluting Kentucky fare, assembled under the guidance of a hostess transplanted from her native Covington to the District of Columbia, and issued just as the great Panic of 1893 paralyzed the American economy at the outset of Grover Cleveland’s second term. With one hundred twenty-five recipes (a few.....

Lafayette, Ala. The Church, 1921. Octavo (22.5 x 15 cm.), 44, [xvi] pages. Advertisements. Title from cover. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook, with more than 250 recipes, many attributed. Most entries adhere to the reliable conventions promised by the title, but there are also such glimpses of the geography as Pecan Cake (requiring two and a quarter pounds of pecans), a custardy Burnt Almond Cream, Banana Fritters, and Squash.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1878]. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 713, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION, "Common Sense in the Household Series" issue; identical to the first regular issue but on cheaper paper stock, and lacking the six chromolithograph illustrations. Menus for every day of the year with recipes for each. Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune) attempts "To accomplish an agreeable variety in the family bill of.....

Coral Gables, Fla. Wake-Brook House, 1964. Large octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 224 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION, regular issue. There was also a "Sponsor's Edition" limited to 225 signed and numbered copies, with a list of sponsors, but otherwise similar. An interesting collection of recipes from South Florida, which contains an amalgam of dishes focused on the cuisines of the West Indies, especially those that use fruits and vegetables of.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. Small octavo (17.7 x 12 cm.), 112 pages. Later printing. The second cookbook, following The Little Dinner, from Christine Terhune Herrick, author of over thirty books on housekeeping and cooking, and the daughter of Marion Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune). Her first article was published in the very first issue of Good Housekeeping, in 1885. In this work, Herrick offers a brief history.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), xxii, 230 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Full-page black-&-white reproductions of watercolors and illustrated chapter headings. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. ~ Idiosyncratic, literary elucidation of cookery as described in the memoir of a “northern” transplant to a small community in a corner of Alachua County (in north-central Florida). Widely venerated as a trove of southern fare – Hush Puppies, Collard Greens.....

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.....

Highlands, NC: The Jargon Society, 1986. Issued as Jargon 101. Large spiral-bound octavo (23.5 x 19 cm.), 134, [6] pages. Blank pages at rear for additional recipes. FIRST EDITION. A cookbook often seen as satirical, but which is in fact a genuinely appreciative work of culinary Americana. One of the more unusual titles in Jargon's run and its only bestseller. Publisher Jonathan Williams, reveals how one might "explain what these.....

[New Orleans]; New York: [The Board of Trade; Printed by] H. R. Elliot & Co., Printers and Embossers, [circa 1910.]. Stapled booklet (10.25 x 15.25 cm.), [14] unnumbered leaves; printed text decorated with red borders, on rectos only. Cover title: Recipes for Cooking Rice. Author information inferred from external evidence. Printer from rear panel of wrappers. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional publication designed “to create a greater interest” in.....

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1930. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xii, 228 pages. FIRST EDITION. The author explains, "... more than two hundred of the receipts in this book have been given to me especially for it by people 'who keep good tables' and use only Southern cooking" (the Foreword). Mary Denson Pretlow (1876-1959) was born and raised on Marle Hill Plantation near Courtland in Southampton County.....

New Orleans, LA: by the author/printed by the Robt. H. True Co., 1929. Octavo, 61 pages. FIRST EDITION. A classic Louisiana cookbook. Natalie Vivian Scott (1890-1957) was a decorated war hero, celebrated journalist, award-winning playwright, historic preservationist, and author of several books on New Orleans regional cuisine and Mexican cooking. The cover art is by New Orleans painter and graphic artist Olive Leonhardt. Very light wear and soiling to the.....

[San Francisco; Chicago: Southern Pacific Railroad]; [Printed by] Poole Bros. 1900. Duodecimo-size booklet (14.75 x 8.5 cm.), 80 pages. Blue and brown ink on pink paper. Two photographic portraits (Monsieur and Madame Bégué). Illustrations. List of railway agents. Title from cover. In logo at head of title: Southern Pacific Sunset Route. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A souvenir anthology of writings, including sixty recipes from two landmark New Orleans restaurants, offered.....