Rabelais Inc.

[First Congregational Church (Ventura, Calif.).; Ladies' Aid Society]

As we were going to a feast. Cook Book issued by the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Congregational Church of Ventura, California.

Ventura, Cal: Free Press Book and Job Office, 1897. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 116, [20] pages. Detailed table of contents. Advertisements. Index of advertisers. Blanks at end. Cover title: Cook Book. Evident FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Most recipes attributed. A recipes,, arranged by standard sections, Soup, Salad, Vegetables, Meat, etc., but which also includes Spanish Recipes, with several dishes contributed by Mrs. A.G. de la Riva.....

Price: $2,500.00

Fisher, M.F.K

Spirits of the Valley.

New York: Targ Editions, 1985. Quarto (29 x 20 cm.), 21 pages. FIRST EDITION, limited to 250 copies signed by the author. The twenty-fifth work published by Targ Editions. A short memoir of Fisher's early California life. In paste paper-covered boards over tan cloth with paper spine label. Some rubbing to bottom edge of boards, otherwise fine, in original glassine.

Price: $250.00

García, José María

El Olivo.

México: Tipografia Mexicana, calle de Cadena num 3, 1870. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 34 pages. Illustrated. Text in Spanish. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Off-printed from the Boletín de la Sociedad de Geografía y Estadística (title page). The author of this survey of Mexican olive production, García, José María ( –1890) was editor of La Revista Universal. Chapters include: Clima, terreno y preparación para la siembra del olivo, Multiplicación, Cultivo durante.....

Price: $600.00

Houdlston, Thomas; [Huddleston, Thomas (fl. 1753)]

A New Method of Cookery or, Expert and ready way for the Dressing of all Sorts of Flesh, Foul, Fish, either Baked, Boiled, Roasted, Stewed, Fryed, Hashed Frigasied, Carbonaded Forced, Collared, Soused, &c. After the Best and Newest Way, with their several Sauces and Sallads. And making all sorts of Pickles. Also making Variety of pies, Pasties, Tarts, Cheese-Cakes, Custards, Creams, &c. With the Art of Preserving, Candying of Fruits and Flowers and the making of Conserves, Syrrups, Jellies, and Cordial Waters. Also making several sorts of English Wines, Cyder, Mead, Metheglin. Together with several Cosmetick of Beautifying Waters: and also several Sorts of Essences and Sweet Waters: by Persons of the highest Quality. By Thomas Houdlston, Cook, in Dumfries.

[Dumfries]: printed for the author, [circa 1760]. Small octavos in 4s (15 x 9 cm.), 186 pages. FIRST EDITION, though priority not firmly established. MacLean states “another ed. Edinburgh: printed for E. Wilson at Dumfries, [c.1760]” (though that edition is dated, “M.DCC.LX” at the foot of the title page); the Wilson issue has 136 pages. Cagle refers to the Wilson issue as “Second Edition”. Both editions display the misspelled author’s.....

Price: $10,000.00

[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. "Revised Edition" appears on the front board, but not internally. This issue is identical with the wrappered issue of the first edition through page 116, and concludes the recipe section with Tincture.....

Price: $3,000.00

[Liselotte F. Glozer]; [Ray Rice]; [Catherine Manfredi Yronwode].;[Barbara Moskowitz]

Fish & Feast: A Mendocino Coast Cookbook. By Liselotte F. Glozer. Drawings by Ray Rice. Cover by Barbara Moskowitz. Calligraphy by Cathy Manfredi.

Berkeley, Calif. The Glozers, Booksellers, 1964. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), [ii], 30 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A collection of fifty seafood recipes highlighting animals associated with the coastal waters between Berkeley and Mendocino. Includes generic recipes (Cold Fish Mold, Sweet-Sour Fish, Fish In Harbor), as well as concoctions with more fixed requirements (Abalone Supreme, Broiled Eels Sole en Papilotte). A selection of sauce suggestions is appended. The collaborators.....

Price: $35.00

[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

[Sierra Madre Woman’s Club (Sierra Madre, Calif.)]

Sierra Madre Souvenir and Book of Recipes. From Members and Friends of the Woman’s Club.

Sierra Madre, California: [The Club; Printed by Sierra Madre Press, Inc.], 1929. Ring-bound octavo-size leaves (21 x 15.5 cm.), [lvi], 1-90, [ii] pages (including 34 pages of plates). Advertisements. “Table of Contents” is actually an index. Text printed on yellow paper; plates printed on blue paper. Subtitle on cover: Sub-Tropical Fruits: Their Culture and Uses. Printer determined from acknowledgment (page [iii]) to “Messrs. [George] Morgridge and [Joe] Eastwood” – owners.....

Price: $200.00

[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