TEA COSY VICTORIAN BEAD WORK. Light blue back ground, no damage. original red colored lining- cotton.  very pretty. 

 

THE PICAYUNE CREOLE COOK BOOK.  New Orleans: The Picayune, 1901, second edition (stated) dark colored pebbled cloth covered boards, faded title on spine, slight cocking, light bumping to corners, toned pages, tight and clean inside. Previous owners name and date on FEP Mary Louise Trumbull Cogswell, New Orleans May 24, 1906. 

unrivaled Creole cookery.  see  picture at the end of this page. 

 

Hannah More. STRICTURES ON THE MODERN SYSTEM OF FEMALE EDUCATION WITH A VIEW OF THE PRINCIPLES AND CONDUCT PREVALENT AMONG WOMEN OF RANK AND FORTUNE. Hartford: O. D. & I Cooke, 1801. in two volumes. (though 2 volumes are contained in the one book) covering education, French governesses, history and geography, religion, female character, ill directed sensibility, public amusements, Christian character & etc. More was an influential presence in 18th century England, as a playwright, a poet and philanthropist. 288 pages. in original calf. title on spine. 

 

LESSONS IN ELOCUTION: OR A SELECTION OF PIECES, IN PROSE AND VERSE, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH IN READING & SPEAKING. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED ELEMENTS OF GESTURE ILLUSTRATED BY FOUR PLATES; AND RULES FOR EXPRESSING, WITH PROPRIETY, THE VARIOUS PASSIONS, &c. OF THE MIND. Boston: Isiaiah Thomas, 1811. third edition. 407 pages. an anthology of selected essays & passages that express the serious, the tragic, the humorous, for thought and discussion, to be read aloud by the student; with four hand colored plates illustrating gestures. a previous owners ex libris in large decorative script pasted on the fep, dated 1814.  

 

Mrs. Sale Barker. KATE GREENAWAY’S BIRTHDAY BOOK. London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., n.d. A tiny, slightly used copy, yet very clean and with the tiny dust jacket. 

 

Janet Ross. LEAVES FROM OUR TUSCAN KITCHEN. London: J. M. Dent, 1927. a bright clean copy with tissue guard. bright stamped titles on the smooth, shiny linen covered boards.  

 

THE ART OF EATING. Cleveland & NY: The World Publishing Company, 1954. Jacket photo by Man Ray. a vg/vg copy. bright and clean. 

---THE ART OF EATING. NY: MacMillan, 1979.    

 

Alexie Gordon and Trudy Bliss. COME INTO THE KITCHEN.  A COOKERY BOOK FOR BOYS & GIRLS.  London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1947.  Drawings by Nancy Innes.  CHARMING, CHARMING, CHARMING. Clean and bright. With grown up  recipes and no mixes here.

 

One of England’s most captivating and eloquent food writer was Elizabeth David. Writing about Mediterranean, French Country or Italian food, about Ice Cream or Bread, she was knowledgable and formidable to more than a few. She was inspirational and still is inspirational to many.
A group of postcards addressed to Elizabeth David. Liza, Liz, Mrs.David, Mrs. Elizabeth David, Mrs. Anthony David. 1 from 1948, the others from the 50’s and 60’s. one is addressed to National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, the others to her house at 24 Halsey Street London. 

 

Ambrose Heath. GOOD PUDDINGS AND PIES. London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1947. 94 pages. in a tatty jacket.  

 

Geraldene Holt. CAKE STALL. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. “The world is divided into those who, when asked to think of a cake, think of creamy, rich chocolate gateau, and those who conjure up a succulent, aromatic fruitcake. Fruit cakes don't stay uneaten at any time of the year, but they can help a lot when one has to keep going through a cold winter”. A lovely baking book, with personal stories attached, but don't expect pictures with her recipes. A scarce baking title from the U.K. 240 pages with a dust jacket both in vg ++ condition. 

 

FIRST PRINTING

Alex Maccabeus. THE RASTA COOK BOOK. Sold through Naturo Products in Vancouver. 1979. cover price of $2. indicating a first printing. A very different edition than the second printing ($2.50) that I had in the shop.  The first is 24 pages + the flexible covers. vegetarian recipes.  a collage of recipes & illustrations of homeland Jamaican images, famous personalities and heavy advertising. Rare Rastafarian recipes.

 

Elizabeth Hawes. FASHION IS SPINACH. NY: Random House, 1938, 6th printing. a young woman in the fashion business -- ups and downs and hard work. DJ. 

 

Wm. A. Alcott. THE YOUNG HOUSE-KEEPER OR THOUGHTS ON FOOD AND COOKERY. Boston: George W. Light, 1838. third stereotype edition. essays on the keeping the home, the dignity of that role, food and recipes. simplicity in diet and food preparation and avoidance of meat. with essays about fruits and vegetables and recipes. Lowenstein (1954) 173 1st, 2nd & 3rd stereotype edition published the same year. 424 pages + advertising by publisher. decorative blind stamped fabric, spine sunned, title on spine, make do thin cord book marks. a tight copy seeing a bit of light foxing. 

 

A Friend To Mankind. THE PHILOSOPHICAL MONITOR; BEING AN INVESTIGATION OF THE CAUSES, WHICH DIMINISH THE MORAL AND PHYSICAL PERFECTION OF HUMAN SOCIETY: IN WHICH MANY HERIDITARY POPULAR CUSTOMS, GENERALLY SUPPOSED INNOCENT, ARE SHEWN TO BE PRODUCTIVE OF INDIGENCE, DISEASE, AND PREMATURE TERMINATION OF LIFE. Published in the United States, 1818. small 16 mo, 34 pages, in a good binding, paper over thin wooden boards, worn at edges, foxed. advocating abstaining from fermented breads, meats, sugar, spiritous liquors, coffee, tobacco. Together with essays condemning corsets (yes, corsets) ostentatious dress, tight shoes-- promoting abolition of slaves and shaving. a scarce title. 

 

R. T. Trall, M.D. THE HYGEIAN HOME COOK-BOOK ON, HEALTHFUL AND PALATABLE FOOD WITHOUT CONDIMENTS. New York: Fowler & Wells, Publishers, 1884. paper. 72 pages of recipes + Advertising+ index. ex libris. J.H. Kellogg. 

 

Gipsy Petulengro. ROMANY REMEDIES AND RECIPES. London: Methuen & Co., 1935. Second printing. Covering herbal, household, medicinal formulae. 47 pages. Small cloth covered hardcover with a dust jacket. 

 

ROMAGNA IN BOCCA. Palermo: Il Vespro, 1978. VG++  

 

Beppe Mallo. CALABRIA E LUCANIA IN BOCCA. Milano: Il Vespro, 1978. Uniform to the series.

Harwood & Callahan. SOUL FOOD. Concord: Nitty Gritty Press, 1969. in VG. oblong shaped paperback.  

 

Henry Vizetelly. A HISTORY OF CHAMPAGNE WITH NOTES ON THE OTHER SPARKLING WINES OF FRANCE. London: Vizetelly and Company, 1882. 

Gabler G40330. green cloth with elaborate gilt decoratoins front cover (small stain and a 1 1/2” blister) and spine, gilt edging 3 sides. tissue guard in place— all in all a very good copy. profusely illustrated, no foxing. neat pencil underlining on page 40, a recipe by Dom Perignon from 1718 to impart a dainty and delicate flavor to his wine. folding plates & advertizing in the last few pages. 

 

Lieutenant Colonel Newnham-Davis and Algernon Bastard. GOURMET’S GUIDE TO EUROPE. London: Grant Richards, 1903. What he saw and what he ate when he was there. The author of several books of the gastronomical experience. A great tease of the senses by this ‘batchelor man Colonel’ who wrote with such passion and hunger. A bright tight copy, with an index.  

 

William Hunt. HEALTHFUL COOKING ETC. GOOD BREAD. HOW TO MAKE IT LIGHT, WITHOUT YEAST OR POWDERS. Boston: Published by the author, 1858. third edition. 32 pp. + 2 fep with a hand written recipe for washing.  32mo. 3 x 4.75”  blind stamped design with gilt stamped title. baking breads, puddings, plain cooking with healthful living  advice. not in Bitting; Lowenstein 447 (1954).  

 

William N. White. GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH; OR THE KITCHEN AND FRUIT GARDEN: WITH THE BEST METHODS FOR THEIR CULTIVATION TOGETHER WITH HINTS UPON LANDSCAPE AND FLOWER GARDEN. NY: A. O. Moore & Co., 1859. The author was from Athens, Georgia. Covering improvements of the soil, kitchen gardens, fruit trees, medicinal herbs. 402 pages + publishers advertising. A well worn copy with impressive and creative book repairs.  

 

ITALIAN FOOD. London: MacDonald, 1955. third impression. (this copy was sold to me by a UK dealer who had gleaned it from the remains of Edward Ardizzone’s house. Front FEP Inscription to Ardizzone from D.) a special copy of this title. 

 

Edith M Thomas.MARY AT THE FARM. AND BOOK OF RECIPES. COMPILED DURING HER VISIT AMONG THE “PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS”. Norristown: John Hartenstine, 1915. first edition. 440 pages. brown cloth with gilt stamped title on front cover and spine. stories of eastern Pennsylvania life- late 19th life – lots of Penn German recipes, illustrations of decorative arts particular to   that region. a very good copy- tight and clean.  Bitting 459. 

 

Stumpf and Polites. DESIGN QUARTERLY 104. Walker Art Center ( Minneapolis), 1977. Photographs by Dick Swift. 40 pages + subscription reply page + folded poster. + kitchen history commentary and thoughts about the Cambridge kitchen, now a permanent exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum- A treasure. 

 

Simone ‘Simca’ Beck. SIMCA’S CUISINE. NY: Alfred  A. Knopf, 1972. first edition, as new. menus for all seasons and occasions. a beautiful signed copy.

 

Alice Waters. CHEZ PANISSE MENU COOKBOOK. NY: Random House signed copy. 

 

Alice Waters. CHEZ PANISSE PASTA PIZZA  & CALZONE. New York: Random House,  in a bright excellent DJ over a fine copy. 

 

Vita Sackville-West. SOME FLOWERS. London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1937. 63 pages. printed paper boards, full page black and white photographs of garden flowers --a lovely collectors copy.

 

THE ART OF CONFECTIONERY. PRESERVING FRUITS AND FRUIT JUICES; THE PREPARATION OF JAMS AND JELLIES; FRUIT AND OTHER SYRUPS; SUMMER BEVERAGES, AND DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING DESSERT CAKES. ALSO DIFFERENT METHODS OF MAKING ICE CREAM, SHERBET, ETC. Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company, 1866, c. 1865. 346 pages. cloth with decorative stamped decorations and spine. Bitting 518. see description in Cagle 48. hinge cracked at title page with stitches showing but holding. solid, clean. 

 

Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd. PLATS DU JOUR. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957. the pink paperback with Illustrations by David Gentleman. a little faded and a bit yellowed but a first printing and a good solid copy of this title. a very well written book of foreign food: Italian and French mostly, not the usual chapter titles. Pots, Pans and Stoves, The Store Cupboard, Aromatics, Applying the Heat, Cuts and Joints, Vins Ordinaires, a few more. A book for reading about food and then cooking. 

 

 

Enid Blyton. LET’S GARDEN. London: Latimer House Limited, 1948. thus. c.1935.  a very charming, beautifully illustrated, gardening book by the very prolific children’s author, with a bright jacket. light edge wear to the jacket. unused book just some old age spots on the edges. decorated end pages too. 

 

Waverley Root. THE FOOD OF ITALY. New York: Atheneum, 1971. first edition stated. near fine. 

 

2 tea towels, blue  and white   16” x  28”    $75.  

 

Daniel Spoerri. MYTHOLOGY AND MEATBALLS. Berkeley: Aris Books, 1982. hardcover edition with DJ. 

 

Isak Dinesen. OUT OF AFRICA. Random House: New York, 1938. third printing. Listed here for the incredible annotations of underruling, tipped in (dated) newspaper clippings and references to- by Olivia B. Abbott, the owner as stated on the front paste down, July 21, 1939. As a 'gift' from Mrs. Sibley Sherman Morrill, nee Mary W. McKellar. Concord, New Hampshire.  Culinary art, 37- as noted on the FEP.  A delightful copy. references in Wikipedia. 

Patience Gray.  HONEY FOM A WEED. FASTING AND FEASTING IN CATALONIA, THE CYCLADES AND APUGLIA. NY: Harper & Row, 1987. first U.S. edition. 374 pages. VG/VG copy. 

 

Lucia T. de Madrigal.  MIS RECETAS DE COCINA. Mexico: Edicion de Academia Hogar, 1960. First edition. a bright clean unused copy. Paper toning. 494 pages.

 

M.C. Cooke. A PLAIN AND EASY ACCOUNT OF BRITISH FUNGI. DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ESCULENT AND POISONOUS SPECIES, DETAILS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION, AND A TABULAR ARRANGEMENT OF ORDERS AND GENERA.  London: Robert Hardwicke, 1862. 24 coloured plates. Some foxing and showing some wear but nice gilt titles and mushroom decoration on the front cover.

 

Jane Grigson. THE MUSHROOM FEAST. New York: Knopf, 1975. First American edition. 305 + xx pages. as new book in a slightly worn jacket. 

 

THE FRENCH CHEF COOKBOOK. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First edition stated. in an exceptionally clean jacket- unused copy. 

 

Emily Post. ETIQUETTE “THE BLUE BOOK OF SOCIAL USAGE”. NY: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1941. Third printing. Covering all rules. 893 pages, an excellent copy in a bright jacket. 

 

MARZIPAN. Surrey: John F. Renshaw & Co., Ltd. N.d. 72 pages. a manufacturers publication but with recipes. 

 

Mary J. Lincoln. THE BOSTON COOK BOOK. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1923. c. 1904. Revised edition, containing over 250 additional recipes. an incredibly clean, unused copy, repaired split rear hinge, binding cloth showing. with an un-clipped ($2.25), with chips, in a protective sleeve, dust jacket. 

 

Child, Beck, Bertholle. MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. c.1961. ninth printing,  blue end pages, bright dust jacket, a few small nicks at the edges. 

--- 1977. twenty-eighth printing. a bright cover, with a few nicks and nibbles. 

 

J. Berjane. FRENCH DISHES FOR ENGLISH TABLES. London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1931. a very good selection of recipes: For I know one place where my little book will find at least a friendly shelter- somewhere in sunny Devon, that blessed land of cream, cider and cheese, where old fashioned kitchen gardens, full of savoury  breathe out the herb  fragrance of their rustic scent. in a dust jacket, barely used, some toning and light foxing. 

 

 

Alan Davidson. NORTH ATLANTIC SEAFOOD. London: Macmillan Ltd.512 pages., 1979. 1st edition.   a dictionary of fish varieties, with remarks, references with 19th century drawing illustrations from historical sources; recipes beginning with Arroz de Polvo from Portugal traveling northward and into the seas, circumventing Greenland rounding Eastern Canada continuing southward to Georgia, USA.

512 pages. incorporating history, anecdotes, quotes, bibliographies and notes. Davidson was a much revered author and publisher. This copy is in VG/VG, well preserved, with a bookmark (ca early 1980's) as found, from the very famous bookshop owned by Heidi Lascelles, Books for Cooks, Notting Hill, London. 

 

William Jeanes. GUNTER’S MODERN CONFECTIONER. A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE LATEST AND MOST IMPROVED METHODS FOR MAKING THE VARIOUS KINDS OF CONFECTIONERY, INCLUDING ICES; ADAPTED FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES OR LARGE ESTABLISHMENTS. London: Dean & Sons, Publishers and Factors, nd.[1873] third edition, stated, frontis of Summer Dessert for 28 persons246 pages + advertising. Pages 136,6,7,8 in facsimile. 

 

Margaret Bates. TALKING ABOUT CAKES. Middlesex: Penguin, 1974. 219 pages. paperback. Good Scone Recipes, Flavoured With Ginger, A chapter on Biscuits, Dreaming Bread, Sweet Nonsense, many other chapters. 

 

Mabel I. Rivers. TIPS FOR TEA. PLAIN AND FANCY BREAD, SCONES,BUNS, BISCUITS,UN-ICED CAKES, ICED CAKES, FILLINGS FOR LAYER CAKES, ICINGS, SANDWICHES, etc., etc. London: Secretarial Bureau, 1907. Flexible cloth covers, a bit soiled. The author was a staff teacher at the National School of Cookery, Buckingham Palace Road. 75 pages + advertising. 

 

Mrs. Alfred Praga. EASY FRENCH SWEETS FOR ENGLISH COOKS. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901. Some mould desserts included. Beautiful serving dishes and dessert plates are a must. Green cloth with a decorative cover.199 pages.

 

HARVEST OF THE COLD MONTHS. NY: Viking, 1995. David’s last written and researched book on the subject of the social history of ice and ice cream. dust jacket and book are in perfect condition- unclipped price and no remainder mark as is common with this title. and extensive BIBLIOGRAPHY as usual. 
 

Henry Williams. WINDOW GARDENING. DEVOTED SPECIALLY TO THE CULTURE OF FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS, FOR IN DOOR USE AND PARLOR DECORATION. New York: Henry T. Williams, Publ., 1875.c.1872. 300 pages + advertising. Arrangements, simple and elaborate, flowers and ferns, parlor and windows. Due for a fad come back ! Profusely illustrated. 

 

Karl Capek. THE GARDENER’S YEAR. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1931. First published in Prague 1929. “labours, joys and mediations” of setting up a garden. 160 pages. in a DJ over an excellent copy. Illustrated by Josef Capek.

 

Hugh Lofting. GUB GUB'S BOOK. London: Jonathan Cape, 1932. 1st British. with DUST JACKET. yellow cloth with blue stamped title on front cover and spine. bright and cleanwith a slight cock—“ Food Map Showing the two hemispheres where the most delectable eatables are to be found.” a gastronomy of food from the viewpoint of a piggy, Prof Gub Gub D.S.D. ( Doctor of Salad Dressing) humorous of course by the creator of Dr. Doolittle”. Xmas inscription dated 1932 to Peter from Mummie & Daddy with a book plate. 

 

Menu. LE VERT GALANT. AU COEUR DE PARIS SUR LA SEINE. inserted pink colored mimeographed menu from 1950. silk screened  on card paper signed  A J C 49. 42 Quai des Orfevres, Paris, 1st er. mentioned in PARIS CUISINE, Beard & Watt, 1952.
 

Emma and William McKinney. AUNT CAROLINE’S DIXIELAND RECIPES. Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1922. 148 pages. Recipes from the State of Virginia compiled for the chef, Aunt Caroline Pickett, by Wm. McKinney. pleasing bright, plaid fabric covers, some dog earred pages, a few pencil notations, **page 121,2 in facsimile. 

 

THE ALICE B. TOKLAS COOK BOOK. London: Michael Joseph, 1954. with the famous recipe for Haschich Fudge, in the Desserts, Cold section, contributed by Brian Gysin, more famousl absent from the American editions. But this edition has the corrections of the errata from first American printing of 1954. As a cookbook. recipes reminiscent of their garden or the local foods or lack of them because of the war.. This British edition has the illustrations of Sir Francis Rose, and the dust jacket illustration is a drawing after the photograph of Alice by Carl Van Vechten, while living in Bilingin.  

 

Ch. Cocks & Ed. Feret. BORDEAUX ET SES VINS. CLASSES PAR ORDRE DE MERITE. Paris: Libraires Associes, 1898. first published iin 1850, still in print, an authoritative reference with maps and  illustrations. coupon on p. xix is cut out. otherwise a beautiful tight, clean copy. all maps present, no smells or marks. bright cover, small amount of wear to upper spine cover. sold

 

Alexandre Dumaine. MA CUISINE. Paris: Pensee Moderne, 1972. 215 pages.  French chef and restauranteur  Dumaine also known as Le Magnifique, Le  Roi des Cuisiniers and Le Cuisinier des Roi, menus and recipes. Color glossy pictures. A coveted title and a VG copy in a VG jacket. 

 

D. H. Lawrence. TWILIGHT IN ITALY. New York: W. Huebsch, 1916. a collection of essays including one entitled ‘The Lemon Gardens.’ Lake Garda famous for the terraced gardens to the west of the lake. A travelogue of a particular, and some might say peculiar person. 

 

CONSIDER THE OYSTER. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. 117pages.   An essay  with recipes. First edition, clean, bright,  jacket with a touch of wear at the edges. 

 

Arnold Palmer. MOVABLE FEASTS. A RECONNAISSANCE OF THE ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF FLUCTUATIONS IN MEAL-TIMES WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE INTRODUCTION OF LUNCHEON AND AFTERNOON TEA. London: Oxford University Press, 1952. 18-20th centuries with notes. DJ. 

 

COLD SAVOURY MEALS CONTAINING MENUS AND RECIPES FOR 67 MEALS & ADDITIONAL SANDWICH RECIPES. London: George Routledge, n.d. 87 pages. a very good copy in a very bright dust jacket. 

 

Georgiana Hill. HOW TO COOK APPLES SHOWN IN A HUNDRED DIFFERENT WAYS OF DRESSING THAT FRUIT. London & New York: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1864. 113 recipes, using Ribston Pippins, Kentish Pippins, Newtown pippins, Dutch Pippins, Normandy Pippins, Reinettes, beaufins, Russets, Golden Mondays, wonderful use of descriptive adverbs. 64 pages. flexible polished cotton cover with penned  ownership on front cover. sewn binding in a fragile state. 

 

Nancy Shaw. FOOD FOR THE GREEDY. Chesterfield, Florian Press, Ltd, 1951, c.1936. British cookery at its best. A slim volume, 93 pages. + pages for notes. From the library of Robert Carrier, his signature on the FEP. 

 

Marion H. Neil. CANDIES AND BONBONS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM. Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 1913. From the cookery editor of The Ladies Home Journal, lessons for chocolate, marzipan, caramels, taffies, many more sweets. Illustrations. 287 pages. dj an unused copy. Pages lightly toned. 

 

Peter Henderson. PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE A GUIDE TO THE SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION OF FLORIST'S PLANTS FOR THE AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL FLORIST. New York: Orange Judd, 1892. new and enlarged edition. flower bed designs, floral displays and green house plant cultivation.  

 

J. George Frederick & Jean Joyce. LONG ISLAND SEAFOOD COOK BOOK.  NY: The Business Bourse, Publishers, 1939.  324 pages. 85% Book is clean and perhaps unused in a complete dust jacket, bright but a bit worn. Celebrating Long Island regional cooking. Chowders, oysters, clams, flounder, mussels, eel, crab, shrimp, scallop, recipes from Rockaway, Great South Bay, Little Neck, Montauk, Sea Island, Block Island, Belle Harbor, many, many, many more towns. collectible. 

 

BETTER AND HOMES AND GARDENS JUNIOR COOK BOOK. FOR THE HOSTESS & HOST OF TOMORROW.  Iowa: Meredith Publishing Company, 1955. First edition.  3 ring binding, photographs and drawings and color blocks of designs.   Clean and bright copy. 

 

JOHN FOTHERGILL’S COOKERY BOOK. London: Chatto & Windus, 1943. Who also wrote about his experiences as an Innkeeper & who hosted literary luminaries. Interesting for the jacket and the pub food recipes- in print. Rare as a first, with a jacket. 

 

Elizabeth David. FRENCH COUNTRY COOKING. London: MacDonald, 1958, c.1951. with revisions. with DJ.

 

Irma S. Rombauer. THE JOY OF COOKING. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946. dj in pieces— parts missing. many handwritten recipe inserts--typewritten page with recipes from Hilda Goldberger from Santiago, Chile, in German. see Wiki Germans in Chile, n.d.ca 1940-50's; a recipe written on an envelope with an Indianapolis, Indiana address. some marginalia.  Well used copy, repaired. stains. sold

                   

 

ERBUARIO SICILIANO.   Il Vespro, 1977. as new copy.

 

 

 

 

Mrs. D.R. Barfield, ed. OUR GIRLS' COOK BOOK. Evansville, 1910. Published by the Working Girls' Association. 107 pages + several blanks at the end of the book 18 pages of those blanks with hand written recipes. In worn, used condition, pages are stained. That being said, the binding is tight. 

The Working Girls Association was a 19th century charitable development started to help the many girls and young women who might migrate from one state to another to find work. It was a charitable association providing shelter and security for them. In Brown, 1006.

 

 

A. Pollard & F. W. Beech. CIDER MAKING. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.  $65.

 

An Anglo-Indian. INDIAN COOKERY “LOCAL’ FOR YOUNG HOUSE-KEEPERS. Bombay: The Imperial Press, 1887. second edition. 128 +14 pages. a very scarce copy, in worn condition. card covers, cloth covering over spine - very worn, vg and unmarked inside- though all is in a fragile state— intact. FEP torn, back cover has a corner missing. excellent recipes. in English. 

 

Harriet Lawrance. “COOKERY FOR THE MILLION” BEING 333 PRACTICAL, ECONOMICAL RECIPES IN INDIAN COOKERY. Madras: Higginbotham & Co., 1904. 333 recipes, 187 pages, iv index,  a very good copy with additional owner notes and clippings. printed board covers, cloth tape spine.

 

W. S. Burke. EVERY-DAY MENUS FOR INDIAN HOUSE-KEEPERS WITH A KITCHEN DICTIONARY AND SOME EASILY MADE CUPS AND COCKTAILS. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1923. fourth edition. 163 pages. 84 suggested menus, hotweather menus, recipes. A well used copy with a loose binding. Menus for breakfast, tiffin and dinner, combining traditional British foods with traditional  Indian foods. menus, recipes and kitchen vocabulary ‘The Hindustani phonetically spelt; the verbs in Imperative Mood.’  with a split, loose binding, taped spine, bumped edges and scuffed boards. scarce title. 

Martha Stewart. HOMEKEEPING HANDBOOK. NY: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2006. first edition stated. 744 pages. from the basics of hanging laundry on a clothesline to patching a hole in a shirt. Endless information. SIGNED. 

 

 

Giuseppe Prezzolini. MACCHERONI & C. Milano: Longanesi, 1957. a rare copy of the maccheroni essays. Gli Spaghetti, Il Conditore, C'E Chi Vuol, Lasagne e Ravioli, many more. 262 pages +8. with a dust jacket. in Italian, illustrated. color frontis. 

 

Stumpf and Polites. DESIGN QUARTERLY 104. Walker Art Center ( Minneapolis), 1977. Photographs by Dick Swift. 40 pages + subscription reply page + folded poster. + kitchen history commentary and thoughts about the Cambridge kitchen, now a permanent exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum. A treasure. chipping to poster extremities. 

 

Clarice Cliff TEAPOT. Charlotte Royal Staffordsshire dinnerware, Barslow, England. stamped Clarice Cliff. transfer pattern design, certainly not like the Bizarre ware for which she is famous. a small pot, square in design. in perfect condition. 3 3/4 x 3 3/4". 

 

Joel Barlow. THE HASTY-PUDDING, A POEM IN THREE CANTOS. TOGETHER WITH THE RULING PASSION. Hallowell: Ezekiel Goodale, 1815. c.1796. the most famous of the author's writings a humorous poem of a favorite food.......oh how I miss my corn meal mush with molasses, by the American diplomat, author, real estate agent, publisher. read the rest. a later printing, in wraps, 32 pages. stitched binding.

 

6 BENNINGTON TEA MUGS. early modern. CO-OP 'hand' signature on the base of the cup, delicate, multi colored glaze, brown lip, teal blue. a beautiful set

 

Joseph Mitchell. OLD MR. FLOOD. NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. 3 essays that appeared in the New Yorker. There is this old guy named Hugh Flood who spends his days in the Hartford House a SRO. Old New York City history-- there were lots of these guys around when I first came to NY-- living their days out telling stories, reading mysteries and westerns, smelling of cigarettes that you could smoke at the bars-- when bars were bars ! Another century ago. Clams and beer and the waterfront. 

An excellent copy in an vg bright jacket. $95.

 

Mrs. C.F. Leyel. PUDDINGS BAKED BOILED FRIED STEAMED ICED. LONDON: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. a chipped jacket, though bright. 85 pages. part of the Lure of Cookery series. not in Bitting. scarce in a dust jacket.

 

(Victoria Lily Ponsonby nee Kennard.) LADY SYSONBY’S COOK BOOK. London: Putnam, 1948. c. 1935. family recipes from Marlborough Gate. illustrated with the delightful decorations of Oliver Messel. with a dust jacket. a very nice copy! 

--another copy. 1948.  both sold