San Francisco: Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, [circa 1900]. Stapled booklet (15 x 12.5 cm.), [16] pages. Illustrated, and printed in halftone throughout, in black, red, and gray. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes for chocolate ice cream, cookies, puddings, jumbles, kisses, and more. “Chocolate Bretzles” and “Chocolate Africans” are among the more interesting inclusions. Publisher’s stapled, illustrated and blind-embossed wrappers, with some light edgewear. Otherwise fine. Scarce. [OCLC locates five copies].....

[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 note cards or postcards, typed or handwritten, signed by Julia Child; one TLS; one fax, and one TLS in.....

[Berkeley, CA]: Privately printed [lithographed by David Brothers], 1960. Octavo (22 x14 cm.), ix, 43 pages. Illustrated with three unpaginated plates of facsimiles. Bibliography and index. FIRST EDITION. One of 500 copies. A necessary starting point for any collector of California cookbooks – a union listing of three hundred fifty-nine items published in California from Bartholomew White's Book of Domestic Recipes (Napa City, 1866) through 1930. Blue cloth, gilt-titled on.....

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1994. Folio, xxiii, 64 pages. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; one of 450 numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper printed at the Yolla Bolly Press. First published in Adelaide, Australia, in 1885. Edited and with an introduction by Thomas Pinney. Foreword by Robert Mondavi. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine publisher's slipcase.

New York: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1945. Octavo (21 x 15 cm.), 184 pages. Subtitle from the jacket, designed by Edgard Cirlin. FIRST EDITION. A classic novel of the professional chef, chronicling his education in various kitchen arts through a sequence of cooking jobs in the great (fictional) restaurants of the Continent. Of the many amusing anecdotes is "an account of a Pleistocene banquet, at which the guests ate musk-ox beef.....

Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Co., [1908]. Octavo, 105, [1] pages. The second printing, with the price of 35 cents on the printed cover. The second in a series of five collections of prize-winning recipes issued under the Los Angeles Times imprint between 1902 and 1917. According to Glozer, this volume was first published in 1908, although others indicate 1905 or '06. This collection offers, according to the front cover, "One Thousand.....

San Francisco: [circa 1870-1938]. Convolute of various ephemeral pieces produced by San Francisco's first French restaurant, originally opened in 1849. This small archive includes menus, postcards, wine lists, business cards, and labels for various proprietary wines and liquors. More than fifty different pieces in all. A few of the pieces are for Camille's Restaurant, which was run by Camille Mailhebau - one of the Poodle Dog's owners - after the.....

[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.....

North Berkeley, California: Cumbernauld Co., Publishers, 1896. Sextodecimo, 338 pages. FIRST EDITION. A notable contribution toward understanding the relationship between nutrition and the gastrointestinal tract, well before advances made during and after World War I in electrogastography and in managing bacterial pathogens. Having established a reputation for the treatment of seasickness, Dr. Herman Partsch (1849-1934), a physician in San Francisco, turned next to summarizing what he had encountered in the.....

Oakland, Cal. Enquirer Publishing Co., 1899. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.), 32 pages. Advertisements. Commissioning parties from cover, the words "S. Silliman, Successor to" applied by ink stamp. FIRST EDITION. Previously unrecorded advertising pamphlet containing "recipes devised by skilled cooks for practical use" (title page). Seventy unattributed entries, some of which merit notice for the detail of their directions, which–despite the context–in the aggregate give an impression of polish, if.....