[Luzarches, France]; London: [Imprimeries r*eunies de Senlis pour Daniel Morcrette]; Samuel Jallasson, 1978; 1728. FACSIMILE. Small octavo (17.5 x 11 cm.), 55 pages. One folding map. Text in French. FIRST EDITION THUS, no. 75 of 150 copies initialed by the publisher. A facsimile of the extremely rare original, published London 1728 by Samuel Jallasson (only six copies of the original are recorded by OCLC). Considered the earliest known work on.....

London: Ebury Press, 1984. Squarish octavo (21.3 x 18 cm.), 144 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Published just two years after the infamous Harper's & Queen article that brought the word "foodie" to the culinary conversation. Levy, edited by Barr, skewered an anonymous "foodie" for pretention and undeserved attention to a less-than-fully-important subject. Years later, Levy admitted he was himself the model for the anonymous foodie. The question of the first.....

Purchase; Rochester: Ear/Say; Visual Studies Workshop, 1984. Quarto (27.5 x 21 cm.), 104 pages. Three colors on acid-free Mohawk Superfine. Color separation by Phil Zimmermann. Subtitle from second title page following copyright page. ~ FIRST EDITION; number 470 of 700 signed and numbered copies, with the signature of Warren Lehrer. An artist’s book rightfully considered to be a masterpiece of offset color lithography. Described by Johanna Drucker in The Century.....

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1940. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), [8], 557 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The Continuation of Van Wyck Brooks' Flowering of New England, now focused on American literary figures post-Civil War through 1915. Red cloth boards over tan cloth; decorated in gilt and brown. Some light soiling to boards and very light wear to head and foot of spine. Very good in a very.....

Cambridge; Boston: Joyce Chen Associates; Designed and printed at The Nimrod Press, 1962. Square octavo (23 x cm.), 223, [4] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The original self-published cookbook that was to become an evergreen classic of Chinese-American cooking, a book which perhaps did more to introduce Chinese home cooking to Americans than any other before. Cambridge-based Joyce Chen (1917-1994) was a chef, author, television personality and enterpreneur. She had several.....

London: Published by the author... and Sold by James Gilbert, 1851. Small quarto (24 x 16 cm.), 63 pages. Illustrated with forty-two woodcuts in the text. Title printed within decorated woodcut border in red. FIRST EDITION. Thoms (1814-51) was a British book printer and sinologist living in Canton and Macau from 1814 to 1825. He is mainly known for the printing of Robert Morrison's Chinese Dictionary (1815-23). During his time.....

London; [New York]: Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd.; [Trow Directory, Printing, and Binding Company], 1905. Octavo (21 x 15 cm.), x, 294 pages. Illustrated with twenty plates with illustrations by F.C. Yohn, H.L. Brown and W.S. Rogers. Decorative publisher's binding designed by Margaret Armstrong. Top-edge-gilt. FIRST U.K. EDITION, following the original U.S. publication by Scribners in 1901. Both editions printed by Trow. Twelve stories and sketches, including adventure and sporting.....

Phoenicia, NY: Woodstock Editions, 2000. Two volumes, unpaginated, with black and white photographs. Quarto ( x cm.), 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.....

San Francisco: KQED Books, 1996. Quarto (24 x 20 cm.), 192 pages. Illustrated; index. FIRST EDITION. Foreword by Ed Bradley. A companion volume to the PBS series on the art of African-American cuisine with 110 recipes, accompanied by folklore and anecdotes that trace the history and contribution of African roots to American cookery. Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (1937-2016) was a culinary griot, writer, and longtime NPR food columnist, contributing hundreds of commentaries.....

Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Riverside Press, [1906]. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), 255 pages. FIRST EDITION. Three short stories, including the title entry, "The Clammer", first published in The Atlantic Monthly in August of 1905. Also included is the original appearance of "The Clammer" from the Atlantic Monthly, disbound from the magazine and sewn into green wraps, and a typed letter signed from Hopkins tipped-in, dated 1912. Clean.....

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.....

Rochester, NY: the photographer, 1972. Small folding box (14 x 15 cm.), with two folding sheets containing text by Robert Sobieszek, and ten black and white prints. FIRST EDITION, limited, numbered 1047/4000 copies and signed by the author on the second text leaf. Internally fine; publisher’s blue folding box, with photographically illustrated title pasted-down to top panel, rubbed and slightly split at corners. Still, generally very good. [Not in Roth.....

Rochester: Humpy Press / Light Impressions, 1979. Square duodecimo, unpaginated. Illustrated with twenty-eight black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. A photographic artist 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.