San Bernardino: Sun Printing and Publishing House, 1928. Octavo (23 x 15 cm.), [viii], 57 pages. Index. Illustrated frontispiece. Place of publication and publisher confirmed from U.S. copyright registry (February 16, 1928). FIRST EDITION. Attractive anthology cookbook of two hundred twenty recipes in several formats, many with ingredients lists. Singular in its presentation is a recipe reported from a newspaper editorial (in the Portland Telegram) which turns out to be.....

San Francisco: [The Church; Printed by] Bacon & Company Printers, 1879. Small octavo (17 x 11.75 cm.), [ii], 82 pages. Advertisements. Stated revised (thus second) edition. A fair-related fundraiser that was subsequently revised as a church cookbook; one of the earliest but less widely known among California cookbooks. With approximately two hundred brief recipes, unattributed, but tested by the compiler “in my own home.” A preponderance of baked-good entries not.....

[Los Angeles]: The District; Printed by the Printing Department, Frank Wiggins Trade School, 1934. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), 217 pages. Table of contents. Portrait of District president on title page verso. Names of Committee members and printer from wrapper. First edition. A capacious anthology, containing approximately fifteen hundred attributed recipes. Recipes include no fewer than eight versions of Persimmon Pudding and four of Carrot Pudding; nine variations on Bread.....

[San Francisco: The Association, 1901]. Fruits of the Golden State. Issued by the California Fruit Canners Association for Distribution at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y., 1901. [San Francisco: The Association, 1901.] [California Fruit Canners’ Association (San Francisco, Calif.)]. Small pamphlet (16 x 13 cm.), [16] pages. Printed in black and green throughout, illustrated with ornamental borders. Title, author, and date of publication from front panel of wrappers. ~ Evident.....

Los Angeles: Carqué Pure Food Co., 1926. Octavo, 356, [4] pages. Illustrated. Second edition; the first was issued a year earlier. Born in Germany, Otto Carqué (1867-1935), settled in Los Angeles in 1905 to market dried fruit grown in California. His company, Carqué Pure Food Co., was the first to use the term “natural foods”. He opened his first health food store in 1922. Photograph of the Natural Foods Building.....

Oakland, Cal. Pacific Press Publishing Company, 1899. Small octavo (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), 126, iv, [ii] pages. Advertisements. Title continues: Together with plain directions on healthful cookery; how to can fruit; a week’s menu; proper food combinations; rules for dyspeptics; food for infants; simple dishes for the sick; wholesome drinks; useful tables on nutritive values of foods, time required to digest food, weights and measures for the Kitchen, etc. Illustrated.....

San Francisco: Rincon Publishing Company, 1910. Octavo, [6], 19-249, [13] pages. Ads. First edition, likely second printing. This printing lacks the initial 13 pages of ads, but the pagination begins at "19" leading us to believe that this issue followed that with ads in the front. A collection of attributed recipes written in narrative format, assembled to raise funds for a club house. Includes household tips and a section on.....

San Francisco: Matthews, 1910. Octavo (20.5 x 15.5 cm.), 165 pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). “Table of contents” is actually an index. Subtitle on cover: Containing 600 Recipes Tried and Proved. Illustration of the Church on the title page. ~ Evident first edition. A compact but generous church cookbook with six hundred attributed recipes, entirely addressed to an anglophone readership expecting fritters and puddings. Potential stand-outs among them: Cream of Onion.....

Berkeley, California: [The Church; Printed by the]Press of Standard Publishing Company, 1903. Octavo (23.25 x 14 cm.), [iv], 171, [i] pages. Advertisements. Index. Evident first edition (but subsequent to an 1884 publication with different subtitle, author statement, and publisher). A generous church cookbook with seven hundred recipes; noteworthy among them: Squash Muffins, Celery Root and Hearts of Artichoke, Mussel Bordelaise, Clam Patties, Spanish Meat Pie, Coffee Fruit Cake, Lemon Cocoanut.....

Salinas, California: [The Church; Printed by] E. H. Green, Printer, 1902. Octavo (23 x 15 cm.), 382, [x] pages. “Index” is actually a table of contents. Advertisements. Cover title: 20th Century Cook Book. Evident first edition. A church cookbook with approximately four hundred recipes, from a region famous for its root and vine vegetables, its farm produce, as well as its long-established Mexican and Asian communities. Among items of note.....

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1961. Small octavo (18 x 10.5 cm.), 178 pages. FIRST EDITION. A compilation of medical folklore, based on Fisher's lifelong collection of remedies, medicinals, herbs, cures, etc. In publisher's red, patterned paper over blue-green cloth Generally dusty, and with light soil to edges. In a lightly soiled, edge chipped, and price-clpped dust jacket, and with a small chip to the spine panel, not effecting text.....

New York: Viking Press, 1946. Octavo, 491 pages. First edition of this anthology of literary and historical excerpts, along with the author's own writings. A near fine copy in like dust jacket.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942. Octavo (22 x 16 cm.), 261 pages. FIRST EDITION. Fisher's second book, following Serve it Forth. A touch of wear at the head of the spine, otherwise very good in publisher's gray cloth. In an edgeworn, and price-clipped dust jacket. Overall, near very good.