Rabelais Inc.

[Junior League of Los Angeles]. [Charlotte Moody]

The Junior League Recipe Book. [Compiled by Members of the Junior League of Los Angeles; Selection of Recipes by Charlotte Moody.]

Los Angeles: [The League]; Privately Printed, 1930. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), [viii], 215, [i] pages. Illustrated chapter heads. Advertisements. Cover title: Los Angeles Junior League Recipes. Editorial attribution from page [3]. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. One of the earliest documented Junior League community cookbooks in a tradition that would not be firmly established until two decades later. Unusual in the context of charitable books, too, in that an outside.....

Price: $1,600.00

Lawlor, C.F

The Mixicologist or, How to mix all kinds of fancy drinks : containing clear and reliable directions for mixing all the different beverages used in the United States, embracing juleps, cobblers, cocktails, punches, durkees, "rickys," etc., etc., in endless variety, with some recipes on cooking, and other general information, an up-to-date recipe book.

Cincinnati, Ohio: Lawlor & Co.; For sale by the R. Clarke Co., Hawley's and Union News Co., [1895]. Octavo (20 x 13.5 cm.), 169, [4], pages. Frontispiece. Copyright date from verso of dedication page. Advertisements. Very early edition. Not the "Revised Edition" which appeared slightly later. This issue is identical with the wrappered issue of the first edition through page 116, and concludes the recipe section with Tincture of Cinnamon.....

Price: $3,000.00

[Lucca (Los Angeles & San Francisco)]

[Convolute of materials related to the Italian restaurant Lucca, with branches in San Francisco & California].

[Los Angeles; San Francisco, California: Lucca, circa 1938]. Six items in all: 1. Photo album, “Photographs”, bound with cord (18 x 26 cm.), [8] pages. Nine original black & white photographs, mounted to album leaves. The photographs depict the exterior of the San Francisco Lucca’s decked out in its grand opening finery; the bakery with staff; the dining room with full from to house staff (and perhaps the owners?); wedding.....

Price: $500.00

Reveyron, J.B

Manuscript Notebook of a San Francisco Cellarman.

[San Francisco]: 1892-1901. Duodecimo, about 50 pages. Manuscript in pencil and ink. Small, blank account book for a dry goods store, repurposed as a cellar book for A J. B. Reveyron, who is identified by Crocker-Langley's San Francisco Business Directory (1899), as a "cellarman" located at 135 Perry Street in San Francisco. The book, written in both French and English, records personal expenses, amounts of wine and spirits moving in.....

Price: $1,200.00

[Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (Santa Barbara, Calif.)]

Good Things from Good Cooks. Compiled by the managers and sold for the benefit of the Cottage Hospital.

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.....

Price: $500.00

[Simpson M.E. Church (Los Angeles, Calif.); Ladies' Social Circle]

How We Cook in Los Angeles: a practical cook-book containing six hundred or more recipes selected and tested by over one hundred well known hostesses including a French, German and Spanish department with menus, suggestions for artistic table decorations, and souvenirs, by the Ladies Social Circle, Simpson M.E. Church.

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.....

Price: $2,000.00

Smith, Kizzie Everhart

What Does Your Cup Reveal?

[San Pedro, California: Trade Winds Publishing Co. Inc.; Schindler Printing Company, Inc., 1948. Quarto, stapled in wrappers (26 x 20 cm.), [32] pages. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of author. FIRST EDITION. A guide to reading leaves in a tea cup. Illustrated with fifteen images of tea leaves, photographed from above, surrounded by text with the author's interpretation. Includes a glossary of images with interpretations. Some light soiling, and a light tideline.....

Price: $120.00

Williamson, Sarah M. (compiler); [Lionel Josaphare (illustrator)]

A California Cook Book.

San Francisco: Published by Town Talk Press, 88 First Street, 1916 copyright January 1, 1917. Tall octavo (28.5 x 18 cm.), 47, [3] pages. Illustrated wrappers with envelope fold. Includes the cancel leaf tipped-in at the rear, "Some War Recipes and Others". FIRST EDITION. An early and attractively produced San Francisco cookbook, issued as the city was finally putting the Great Earthquake behind it, but the nation was on the.....

Price: $1,500.00