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151952512New York: National Bottlers’ Gazette June 15 1921. Folio. 202 pp. 100s of text illustrations photo illustrations several colour-tinted advertising plates colour lithograph plates diagrams cartoons. Red-colour tinted softcovers yapp edges cover art advertisement for Cascade Ginger Ale in California minor edgewear rubbing dustsoiling slight chipping head & foot of spine still VG- copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce installment in the famed trade magazine which during prohibition was directed towards the manufacturers and purveyors of carbonated beverages mineral waters fruit juices and soft drinks. Of particular interest are the lavish number of advertisements for Graham Brothers bottlers’ trucks Old Faithful bottles Martin’s Concentrated Colas Belmont Label Co. labels Green River lime drink from Schoenhofen Co. in Chicago Hurty-Peck Orange Soda in Indianapolis IN the Coca-Cola Bottling Works and so much more. This trade magazine offers an invaluable history and reference work for the thriving bottling industry and equipment during Prohibition and reinforces just how much infrastructure there was available for bootleggers which accelerated the grown of Organized Crime in the United States. National Bottlers’ Gazette, paperback
193763534Seattle WA: Carl W. Art Lloyd Building 1937. 12mo. 109 3 pp. Illustrated title text illustrations throughout. Quarter-green publisher’s cloth over Spruce wooden covers black decorative lettering on front cover very slight chipping to couple corners still a VG bright copy w/ bookseller’s label for Frederick & Nelson on front pastedown. First edition of this surprisingly scarce and inventive travel guide for motorists and travelers to Seattle Tacoma & Spokane as well as Vancouver and Victoria BC at the end of the Great Depression modeled off of the author’s very successful “Curious California Customs†1935. Alongside such landmarks as the Frozen Fish Aquarium Meany Hotel Smith Tower & the Persian Dining Room Herrick 1894-1994 breezily details as well the famed Shell House at the University of Washington where George Pocock built racing shells for West Coast championship rowing teams; Maneki’s Japanese-American restaurant at 212 Sixth South or the several Chinese-American restaurants along King Street where the wait staff speak Oxonian English. Herrick Steake was married to Spokane WA realtor printer and publisher Arthur Steake her father H.A. Herrick was a prominent New York newspaperman and in the 1930’s she tried her hand on inventive guidebooks. This work includes illustrations created by students at the famed Cornish School in Seattle. Carl W. Art, Lloyd Building, hardcover
193558780Lowell MA & Boston MA: J.W. Greer Co. The Fellman Studio for Creative Photography 30 Huntington Ave.; Marion Photographers ca. 1935. Ten silver gelatin photographs sized 8 x 10 in. inserted through corner slots on Bainbridge Board sized 10.5 x 12 in. mimeograph typescript labels neatly mounted at lower fore-edge of all images some creasing to corners from having been inserted into slots many w/ pencil annotations nearly all w/ photographer’s imprints on versos minor scuffing & wear to boards some edgewear wear to corners still VG set. A scarce group of original sales photographs for Greer biscuit cracker & cookie making machinery which allowed automated production and packaging. The first image depicts the “Cutting Machine†which rolled the dough into sheets and cut out the individual crackers placing them onto conveyors to the ovens. The immense gas burning oven with valves and temperature mixers mounted alongside includes photos of both the discharge from the cutting machine onto the oven conveyor and the discharge onto the cooling conveyors. The final five photos focus on the filling and weighing machinery which would ensure the correct amounts per package and then pack them in rolls insert into cartons and tightly seal each carton. Greer 1876-1950 was a machinist and inventor who began producing some of the world’s first automated bakery and confectionery equipment before World War I founded J.W. Greer Co. in 1919 and would eventually grow to a company of over 650 employees. The company continued to expand through World War II and later became the Wire Belt Co. still operating today in Londonderry NH. Since half of these photographs were shot by a Lowell MA photographer these could possibly have been automated machines installed for use by the Lowell Cracker Co. beloved for their soda oyster crackers or the Johnson Educator Food Company best known for Crax crackers sprayed with butter oil. J.W. Greer Co., The Fellman Studio for Creative Photography, 30 Huntington Ave.; Marion Photographers, hardcover
189359948Chicago & Boston MA: North Packing & Provision Co. Alfred Mudge & Son Printers 24 Franklin St. Swift & Co. 1893. Small 4to. 64 pp. Photo-illustrated throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers birds-eye view of Packing House on Medford Street in Somerville colour labels of all the company’s meat products on the back cover minor creasing to spine age wear slight scuffing at fore-edge very small closed tear at upper fore-edge still a VG bright copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce promotional catalogue for the Swift & Co.’s newly opened subsidiary packing house in Boston MA featuring on the rear cover all the New England market specific product labels. The new packing house in Somerville MA included 6 acres of cold storage for dressed meats and packaged meats brought into the East from Chicago as well as maintaining local stockyards and slaughter house operations in and around Boston. Swift 1839-1903 had originally grown up and worked in West Sandwich Cape Cod MA and in the 1870’s moved to Chicago where he became a driving force in the meatpacking industry. He was the first to employ refrigerated cars over protests of other butchers and major railroads which rightly believed the refrigerated systems would threaten their lockhold on stock cars and animal pens. By the 1890’s Swift & Co. had established North Packing & Provision Co. and were transporting over 3000 carcasses a week into Boston forcing other firms such as Armour & Co. to copy their methods. The subsidiary also allowed him to overcome resistance from East Coast meat retailers who questioned safety of frozen meat and so vastly did he increase production the packing house was able to dominate the Eastern markets. No copies located in Worldcat. North Packing & Provision Co., Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 24 Franklin St., [Swift & Co.], paperback
197963295La Mesa CA: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation 1979. Two works in one. 8vo. xxiv 4 431 1; 4 433-526 pp. Photo frontisp. over 150 photos illustrations plates x-rays. Blue cloth gilt lettering NF from the libraries of Betty Surprise and Eleanore Weinstock. First Heritage edition early printing of this scarce work on anthropology medicine diet and nutrition. The author examines in detail the diets and nutrition of primitive cultures including the Eskimos North American Indians Polynesians African Tribes New Zealand Maori Peruvian Indians and more and compares their results to that of modern urban countries. Continually pointing out that modern diet and eating when it supplants the native diet leads invariably to physical degeneration in the ethnic populations offering an object lesson to modern western civilization. Supplement includes sections on soil fertility dangers of pesticides fluoride chemicals and means by which to combat this. Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, hardcover
195561665Salem OR: Oregon Fruit Products Co. 1955. Oblong 4to. Sales kit archive: 1st - Oblong 4to. 11 x 6.75 in. Two sales counter displays w/ 25 mylar louvered leaves for with nearly all featuring inserted labels catalogue and Real Photo Postcard of company products; 2nd - 31 separate can and fruit box labels sized from 4 x 5 in. up to 7 x 10.5 in. large 12 oz. can labels folded in half; 3rd - two circular mountable clips 5.25 in. round for removing fruit can lids w/ adhesive and instructions on verso still intact; 4th - 5 unused rolls of adhesive labels marking Oregon Fruit Products Co. items. Preserved in original Dubl-Frunt File Pocket printed label for Oregon Fruit Products at upper fore-ede expandable sized 9.5 x 11.5 in. minor edgewear couple minor closed tears in the folds still a VG exemplar. First edition of this exceedingly scarce original salesman sample kit for the Oregon Fruit Products Co. in the Mid-20th-Century featuring over 50 different labels used on fruit crates canned fruit and frozen fruit packages two promotional photo postcards showing off their new frozen product line as well as touting their latest offering of Sucaryl-packed fruit products for the dieter or diabetic. Their locally Pacific Northwest-sourced fruit offerings included BlackberriesBoysenberries Royal Anne Cherries dark Sweet Cherries Purple Plums Strawberries Gooseberries Loganberries Peaches and whole Apricots. A wide variety of packing options included water pack light syrup heavy syrup and frozen offerings which were packed into 10 oz. metal and paper fibre cans. Oregon Fruit Products was one of the many U.S. Companies to quickly expand their offerings with Abbot Laboratories notorious artificial sweetener Sucaryl Calcium Cyclamate which was marketed towards those dieters and customers with diabetes or other metabolic disorders wishing for sweet-tasting foods. However within 12 years after the “Oretetic†brand products were introduced in 1969 the FDA banned cyclamates due to two 1968 studies tracing links to bladder cancer. Gehlhar 1886-1969 originally purchased 10 acres in the West Side Fruit Farm district of Salem OR in 1910 and began farming and by 1920 was operating 160 acres producing cherries & prunes and later built the Gehlhar prune dryer in 1926. In 1931 he served as the first Oregon State Director of Agriculture and after a 1935 fire destroyed his fruit dryer the cannery remained and he chose to instead focus on canning and marketing canned fruit products for distribution in the Pacific Northwest. Although originally focused on canned fruits and then later frozen products by the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the company began diversifying their product line. In 2011 the Gehlhar family sold the company to Ed Maletis who have now expanded to a new location in Salem OR. No similar copies of this collection located in Worldcat 1 WWII-era fruit label located at Wolfsonian several 1950’s labels located at OHS in Portland. Oregon Fruit Products Co., unknown
197663553Seattle WA: Peanut Butter Partners Epicure 1976. 4to. 160 pp. printed on tan-tinted paper illustrations throughout 1 map. Colour-illustrated softcovers wraparound cover art photo birdseye view of Portland OR by Jan Jackson shot from Washington Park slight shelfwear very slight scuffing back cover NF copy. First edition thus of this installment in the noted Epicure menu guidebook for Portland OR purportedly issued biannually from 1976 through 1983 by the entrepreneurial Mort Cone partner with his brother Gerald Cone in Cone Company Printers and later editor and publisher for Epicure menu guides in Portland Seattle Sun Valley Aspen Vail St. Louis and even Hawaii. Featuring a blizzard of original restaurant menus in the Bicentennial Year with all their original cover art this guidebook covering Portland Vancouver and environs includes such noted local staples as Asparro’s Union Ave. Social Club the Dan & Louis Oyster Bar the Fish Grotto Henry Thiele’s London Grill Mr. C’s Hippopotamus Old Spaghetti Factory The Ringside Trader Vic’s and any others. Also included are a significant number of Asian and Hispanic ethnic restaurants including Casa Molina The Chili Pepper Hong’s Cantonese Pavilion Benihana of Tokyo Paco’s Sang’s Chinatown Zen and others. Worldcat locates 3 copies Multnomah Co. U of W State Lib. of OR. Peanut Butter Partners], Epicure, paperback
189063446Rochester NY: American Public Health Association 1890. 8vo. viii 188 pp. Plum-coloured publisher’s cloth embossed covers gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear rubbing j& scuffing minor sunning still a VG- copy inscribed by Henry Lomb 1828-1908 founder of Bausch & Lomb with John Jacob Bausch and later the Mechanics Institute of Rochester NY now RIT with a special focus on providing 8th-grade girl graduates in and around Rochester with free cooking courses at the Mechanics Institute as well as the sponsor of the Lomb Prize presented to Mary Helena Brayton 1848-1922 longtime cooking & public health instructor at the Mechanics Institute. Second printing of this excellent Progressive Era cookbook which became a standard reference for cooking schools and particularly focused on training poor girls often working in factories as child labor to learn not only employable skills but raise their health and standards of living by eating and cooking more nutritious foods at home. See: Mary Hinman Abel: A Revolutionary in Domestic Science Food for Thought 2025. American Public Health Association, hardcover
191156762New York: Octave Grillon 307 W. 24th St. 1911. 12mo. 191 1 pp. Numerous text illustrations photo plates. Burgundy-coloured ribbed cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine minor spotting edgewear slight scuffing back cover still VG copy. First edition of this very scarce candy making work detailing the processes for manufacturing the beloved French coated candies Dragee which many of us still eating a variation as M & M’s. Other forms included coated almonds decorative metallic balls Dragees with gum drop centers nougat centers and many others. Grillon b. 1865 was as an award-winning candy maker and foreman at a candy factory in New York who had immigrated from Beaugeney France in 1907 and winner of the Culinary Exhibition Gold Medal in 1899 at Toulouse. Worldcat locates 2 copies U of Chicago Nat. Lib. of Scotland; See: Publisher’s Weekly Nov. 4 1911 p. 1477. Octave Grillon, 307 W. 24th St., hardcover
190956759Hackney London & Montreal Canada: W.J. Bush & Co. Ltd. 1909. 8vo. 183 20 pp. plus 17 pp. illustrated publisher’s ads. With a couple text illustrations. Red publisher’s cloth gilt lettering advertising on front cover illustrated endpapers a.e.g. minor darkening & soiling to spine edgewear still VG- copy w/ TL laid-in from W.J. Bush & Co. to Drewrys Ltd. in Winnipeg with formula for making up Dry Ginger Ale w/ Bonsante Preservative and two Dept. of Customs & Excise circulars for manufacturing pharmaceutical preparations from library of Mabel R. Beley 1885-1979 whose husband was Ernest G. Beley 1883-1951 longtime manager for the Olympia Brewing Co. in Olympia WA and later managed the Seattle Brewing & Malting Co. w/ label on front pastedown. Ninth edition of this essential handbook of recipes for flavorings and essences for producing carbonated drinks as well as non-alcoholic and alcoholic cordials. The recipes encompass those for Hop bitters Colas Orangeade Root Beers Sarsparilla Ginger Ale Tennis Ale Dandelion Ale Cream Soda many different beers champagnes flavored syrups of all kinds and more. The company was founded in 1851 by William John Bush and was the first producer in Britain of flavourings and essences with locations in Canada as well. W.J. Bush & Co., Ltd., hardcover
192346736Chicago: Published by the Author 1923. Oblong 4to. 2 pp. 60 plates each with explanatory text of facing plate on verso most in colour some tinted photos 8 pp. plus 2 illustrated publisher’s ads. Embossed ribbed blue cloth gilt lettering octagon-shaped colour plate mounted front cover of decorative cake icing piece very minor bumping to corners front hinge starting edgewear still VG- copy w/ former ownership signature on title. First edition of this beautifully printed work on Jazz Age decorative cakes. There are cakes for New Years birth announcements Easter birthday cakes wedding cakes cakes with macaroons Marzipan decorated cakes caramel sugar baskets post card cakes very beautiful and many others. The recipes and ads at the end offer the instructions and equipment to produce these beautiful confections. Published by the Author, hardcover
192163908Rochester NY: Co-Operative Foundry Company ca. 1921. Oblong 12mo. 6.75 x 4 in. 66 leaves unnumbered. all linen-backed silver gelatin photographs sized 5.5 x 3.75 in. mounted on white linen hinges at gutter margin w/ first photo providing a birds-eye view of the factory in Rochester NY and sign atop the factory announcing “Red Cross Stoves & Furnaces.†Flexible maroon-coloured cloth cover post-binder nickel-plated screwposts at gutter margin minor thumbing soiling minor curling to photo block still a VG exemplar. First edition thus of very scarce original salesman sample photo catalogue of the noted Co-Operative Foundry Co. line-up of gas combination ranges cabinet kitchen ranges with vent collars in front of the back guards as well as line-up of home and commercial building furnaces. These beautiful stoves could be purchased with enamel finish and as one oven cabinet ranges two oven cabinet ranges some with nickel-plated accents others with baked enamel as well as a few fitted with glass-fronted upper stoves and warming units. The nicely executed colour-tinted linen-backed photographs depict such Red Cross stove line-ups as Popular Welcome along with Empire & Prize commercial kitchen ranges. Also included are coal and wood stoves for heating including Bermuda Ajax as well as Genesee and Empire parlour stoves. Their company logo was the Maltese Red Cross and were one of the most successful employee-owned foundry operations in the United States. They were founded during the post-Civil War depression of 1867 when John K. French & Co. went under and the unemployed molders with the aid of Henry Cribben and encouragement of William Sylvis the molders union leader organized the Equitable Foundry Co. later the Co-Operative Foundry Co. and within 1 year were operating in Rochester Troy West Troy Albany and other locations with still more under consideration. The company remained in operation until the Great Depression. No similar copies located in Worldcat specifically Univ. of Rochester which holds a number of ephemeral catalogues trade cards and items. Co-Operative Foundry Company, hardcover
192855137Shieldhall Govan Scotland: Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. 1928. Oblong 4to. 10 x 9.25 in. 9 leaves unnumbered. on thick brown paper stock title w/ gilt lettering & ornament. With 8 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs sized 5.25 x 7.5 in. 1 w/ minor scuffing from offsetting of removed guard sheet. Thick brown softcovers punch sewn at gutter margin w/ brown silk braid yapp edges embossed logo on front cover minor edgewear rubbing minor soiling to title still a VG- exemplar. First edition of this very scarce photographic souvenir of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Exhibition held in Glasgow for their grocery departments. The noted Co-op recreated several different exhibits in order to display sell and advertise their toffees candies tomato ketchups pickles marmalades and the workers who manned the booths. At the time the S.W.C.S. was supplying over 690000 families through 268 affiliated retail Co-op societies achieving £17.7 million in sales. The photographs show artfully created counter displays wonderful period product advertisements and all manned primarily by young rosy cheeked Scottish lasses and nearly all in uniforms. Of special interest is the large lighthouse display stretching nearly 20 feet above the exhibition floor and composed entirely of marmalade and jam jars. The S.C.W.S. was formed originally in 1868 for purchasing manufacturing goods and eventually set up an entire factory complex at Shieldhall Glasgow producing a wide range of foodstuffs furniture clothing and housewares for their affiliated Co-ops. No copies located in Worldcat; See: David Jeremiah Architecture and Design for the Family in Britain 1900-1970 pp. 61-62 228-229. Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd.], paperback
196064227Osaka & Tokyo Japan: Suntory Limited 1960. 12mo. 5 x 6.75 in. Triptych 6 pp unpaginated. w/ 20 pp unpaginated. colour-illustrated catalogue stapled in center self-printed illustrated softcovers in whisky-coloured and photo illustrated softcovers slight soiling back cover NF copy. First edition thus of this exceedingly scarce original Suntory Limited catalogue detailing the whiskies wines and liquers available from the storied Japanese distillery with the line-up introducing their Rare Old Whisky Suntory Royal 60 introduced in 1960 company founded in 1899 special label “Extra Special†Old Suntory Japanese Whisky only marketed for a couple years in the early 1960’s along with their standards. Other products included their Akadama wines Suntory Sparkling wines Green Tea Liquer Cherry Blossoms Liquer Creme de Cacao along with their brandy vermouth sloe gin vodka absinthe and sake brands. Alcohol content Net content weights and measures per carton and more are supplied within the tables. No copies in Worldcat. Suntory Limited, paperback
187862378Boston: Graves Locke & Co. 1878. 12mo. 234 2 pp. plus 24 pp. of blank ruled paper intended for the cookbook user’s own notes & recipes. Dark plum-coloured publisher’s cloth embossed & lettered in black & gilt front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing edgewear very slight tear to ffep. still VG bright copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock. Second edition of Parloa’s famed cookbook filled with recipes intended for both young housekeepers and hotel restaurant commercial kitchens. She details many New England favorites and includes recipes for fish soups meats vegetables breads cakes puddings pies poultry venison dishes for the sick & invalid preserves pickles and more. Many of these recipes were favorites of the Appledore House Isle of Shoals restaurant as well as the Rockingham House in Portsmouth NH the Pavilion Hotel in Wolfborough NH and McMillan House North Conway NH. She does include health tips such as suggesting the use of butter rather than lard in pie crusts as it “is more healthful than lard. . . if you can afford it use it.†Parloa 1843-1909 was by 29 years old a longtime cook at the Appledore House in Kittery Maine and published the first edition of this cook book in 1872. By 1873 it appears she had moved to Mandarin Florida to teach for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s school and had finished rewriting this edition according to her prace in April 1877. By 1880 she was teaching cookery in Boston and living on Wayne St. and by 1900 had moved to New York. See: Patrick Tierney Wild The Mysterious Early Life of Maria Parloa The Bethel Grapevine 2024. Graves, Locke & Co., hardcover
192362386Oceanside CA: Dirk Vandegeer 1923. Tall 8vo. 318 2 pp. Frontisp. numerous plates drawings text illustrations. Gray publisher’s cloth decorative blue & black lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight dustsoiling still VG copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock. First edition of this well-written and nicely illustrated cook book for bakers pastry and confectionery chefs in Southern California during the Roaring 20’s. Included are sections on puff pastries German Coffee Cakes dumplings tarts and elaborate fancy deserts with over 100 pages of cake and pastry designs for the pastry and candy shop. Included as well are recipes for everything from Mexican Sausage to Suckling Pig and applesauce as well as Green Turtle Soup and Horseradish Butter. Vandegeer 1867-1928 worked in hotels as baker and pastry chef in leading hotels of France Belgium and the Netherlands before finishing his career in Southern California near San Diego and eventual retirement by 1924. Dirk Vandegeer, hardcover
185756060New York: C.M. Saxton & Co. Agricultural Book Publishers No. 140 Fulton St. 1857. 8vo. 106 pp. plus 11 1 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. 1 text engraving. Original printed softcovers minor chipping head & foot of spine slight chipping couple lower corners dustsoiling still a VG bright copy. First edition of one of the earliest American studies on Chinese Sugarcane Sorghum and the possibilities that this was the sorghum plant that American farmers hoped would grow in the Northern United States and definitive work on growing harvesting and distilling sorghum. A variety of “Chinese Sugarcane†was imported by Father Du Halde from Sichuan China in 1851 where it was quickly adopted also under the name of “Northern Chinese or Shanghai Sugarcane†as a crop to provide sugars for alcoholic products filling the void left by the grape crop failure in the 1850s. Chinese Sugarcane seeds were first brought into United States by Jay Browne Esq. in 1854 and a few intrepid American nurseries began planting and determining if it could be planted and harvested profitably in the North. Hyde writes that in his test crop he was able to secure a dark sugar from the cane molasses and notes that it will be of tremendous value in producing alcohol and confectionaries and that the Sorghum remnants could be fed to livestock. Hyde 1825-1898 worked with his father James Hyde in developing the very successful nursery emphasizing fruit trees ornamental trees and cash crops. He was a pioneering environmentalist who founded the first improvement society in the United States the Newton Centre Tree Club whose purpose was to emphasize beautifying the roads and commons in Massachusetts. He was Newton MA first mayor after the city was incorporated in 1873 and was also successful in persuading the Boston & Albany RR to acquire the existing single-track line of the Charles River Railroad to aid his nursery business. Original editions of this work have become quite scarce in the trade. See: Deborah Jean Warner Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose pp. 252-253; Watts Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches 1869 Vol. V p. 354; Newton’s First Mayor: A Hard Act to Follow Historic Newton 2019; Walnut Grove Nursery The New England FarmerVol. IV 1852 p. 538 C.M. Saxton & Co., Agricultural Book Publishers, No. 140 Fulton St., paperback
188852768Bellows Falls VT: Vermont Farm Machine Co. 1888. 8vo. 16 pp. Numerous woodcut-engraved text illustrations. Yellow colour-tinted printed softcovers woodcut engraving cover art of industrial swing churn on front cover Eureka Butter Worker on back cover 1 leaf w/ small tear at upper margin affecting only a couple letters still an excellent bright copy. First edition of this scarce and fascinating dairy machinery catalogue which included butter presses different sizes and varieties of swing churns which enabled dairies to produce quality butter in larger quantities as well as insulated butter boxes for storing and carrying the produced butter. Of particular interest is the treadmill attachment which could be used with dog sheep or goat although one suspects small children often running it in order to more efficiently churn butter. The company was founded in 1868 as the Hartford Sorghum Machine Co. but by 1873 was incorporated as the Vermont Machine Company and within a few years became one of the largest dairy equipment manufacturers in New England. Vermont Farm Machine Co., paperback
193064180Boston MA: Little Brown and Co. 1930. 8vo. xii 173 1 pp. Frontisp. numerous plates. Illustrated mustard-coloured publisher’s cloth wine glass illustration front cover w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art by Herold of drunken revelers minor shelfwear darkening to spine still NF/NF copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock. First edition of this nicely illustrated and fascinating satirical examination of Prohibition Speakeasies Alcohol and the possible futures at the end of the Roaring 20’s as Americans invented a myriad of ways to keep drinking and socialize. Seldes has managed to inventively interweave a myriad of cocktail recipes into his observations along with a legion of cautionary and humorous tales. Little, Brown, and Co., hardcover
186963221London: Houlston & Sons Paternoster Square 1869. 12mo. xvi 368 pp. Embossed & decorated red publisher’s cloth gilt illust. front cover gilt lettering on spine advertising on endpapers minor dustsoiling darkening to spine slight shelfwear still a VG bright copy. Revised & expanded edition of this Victorian handbook which served as precursor to the modern-day search engine and offered concise quick researched facts about food cookery food science chemistry heating & ventilation cleanliness women’s medicine pediatrics and more. Philp 1819-1882 was an organizer and contributor to the Chartist Movement in the UK pushing for universal male suffrage secret ballots annual parliamentary elections and other reforms but is perhaps best remembered as the very successful publisher of his handbooks on practical everyday topics which originally launched in 1856 with “Enquire Within†and later in 1867 with the early version of this title. Houlston & Sons, Paternoster Square, hardcover
194263580New York: Macmillan Co. 1942. 8vo. xx 2 147 1 pp. Blue publisher’s cloth red & white printed title label mounted front cover w/ d.j. minor scuffing front cover affecting a couple letters couple minor closed tears still a NF/G copy from the library of Margaret E. Love w/ ownership markings on ffep. First edition 1st printing stated of this concise and straightforward cookbook targeting housewives on the home front during World War II Wartime rationing. Winn-Smith 1892-1991 has adopted and translated rationing and “thrifty†recipe techniques from those used during the Revolutionary War Civil War and World War I. She advises cooks to use just one crust rather than double pie crusts for pies reuse rendered fat in a variety of different recipes or instead of mixing chocolate chips into the batter simply decorate on top with them substitute ingredients and more. She worked as a fashion designer of millinery and wedding trousseaus in Olympia & Seattle was interior decorator for Gump’s in Honolulu and later head of the Art & Picture Dept. at Meier & Frank Department store in Portland OR and later became a noted landscape painter while her husband Xenephon Smith was librarian at Arizona State the Library of Congress and the US Postal Service Chief Librarian. Macmillan Co., hardcover
190345614New York: Lewis Scribner & Co 1903. Very Good. New York: Lewis Scribner & Co. 1903. First Edition. Octavo 19cm; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers; 2621416pp.; frontispiece and seventeen 17 halftone plates throughout extensive illustrated advertisements at beginning and end of the volume. Very light shelf wear textblock slightly starting to pull from binding else a fresh Very Good to Near Fine example.<br /> <br /> Brilliant example of this uncommon dime novel-format guide to dining out in turn-of-the-century New York City. The entries deal primarily with the hotels and major restaurants of Manhattan with just a couple forays into New Jersey or Brooklyn. Each entry is given two or three pages of description and frequently a photographic illustration of the dining room or the facade. <br /> <br /> Diners are reminded to visit the Waldorf Astoria during Horse Week while at the Pabst Grand Circle one can enjoy both "liquid and solid refreshments" while looking out over Central Park. At the Women's Lunch Club on West 23rd there is a strictly restricted membership limited to "fashionable shoppers" to keep the establishment from overcrowding. The many nationalities promised in the title appear to be limited to English American French and German. Lewis, Scribner & Co unknown
193063169Austin & Minneapolis MN: Minnesota Utilities Company; Northern States Power Company - Home Service Department Cooking School; Federal Public Service Corporation of Minnesota ca. 1930-1936. Eight parts. 4to. 46 pp assorted separate numbering. w/ most leaves printed on recto only but 2 printed on recto & verso in mimeograph typescript stapled at upper left corners separately 1 part w/ “Seasons Greetings†printed in red minor age toning edgewear still a VG group. A culturally significant group of mimeographed recipes instructions and promotional flyers for the Home Economics & Cooking School demonstrations put on by Naoma Rice for three different Minnesota utility and public utility companies through the depths of the Great Depression. Spearheaded by Rice 1899-1937 the demonstrations emphasized the use and advantages of electric ranges and refrigerators as their popularity and use slowly became more widespread in the 1930’s with an emphasis on local produce and fruits. The first group of recipes includes instructions for such confections as Cranberry Sponge Cake Cider Sherbet Macaroon Pie Spagetti sic Sauce and Bran Refrigerator Rolls. Mixed through the other recipes there are instructions for Crunchy Potato Chip Cookies Apple Cheese Cake Parmesan Veal Frozen Pumpkin Pie and Corn Flake Crust. Several of the recipes emphasize the use of popular Minnesota fruits including Apple Quince Grapes and others.The importance of refrigeration was also emphasized in the “Cooking School†and Model Kitchens with instructions on temperatures needed for home rangers and refrigerators for cooked foods meats butter opened jelly or preserves cheeses and more. Rice suffered through an unspecified childhood illness by by the early 1920’s had become a public school Home Economics Teacher and then by 1928 was listed in Austin MN street directories as a “Demonstrator†for home economics and cooking classes. The Minnesota Utilities Company had been created in 1917 from several smaller utilities and my the Great Depression had grown large enough that it became subject to both the TVA and the Rural Electrification Project as Roosevelt’s New Deal programs attempted to encourage increased use of electricity and electric appliances to boost the economy. The Northern States Power Co. was based out of Minneapolis MN and extended across Minnesota Michigan into the Dakotas and operated an extensive Home Service Dept. The Federal Public Service Corporation of Minnesota appears to have been one of the short-lived outgrowths of WPA and PWA-sponsored programs under the New Deal. This cataloguer could not locate any similar surviving documents for Naoma Rice cooking classes or the Minnesota-based utility companies. Minnesota Utilities Company; Northern States Power Company - Home Service Department, Cooking School; Federal Public Service Cor unknown
1936WB19100New York: Longmans Green & Co 1936. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to 235 x 145 mm bound in recent red half morocco over red cloth. Printed in England at the Curwen Press this is a deluxe bound copy of one of Andre Simon's classic titles. It is considered one of the best wine dictionaries in English and written by one of the great authorities on the subject. The work is comprehensive and sweeping in scope ranging from Aargau a minor wine-producing Swiss Canton to Zucco a Sicillian dessert wine. With a short introduction on how to buy wine how to preserve wine and how to serve wine. Uneven fading to spine internally fine. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> Longmans, Green, & Co hardcover
192411449Seattle: Seattle Fruit and Flower Mission 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Pp. 393 plus several pages of advertisements. Illustrated with black & white advertisements. Two handwritten recipes transcribed within. Bound in silver cloth with black lettering stamped on cover and spine and three-color illustration stamped on front board. Edges rubbed; light foxing and light stains throughout. Title on front board: "Fruit and Flower Mission." The first edition of this fine collection of recipes representing the cuisine of post-WWI Seattle; subsequently reprinted 1930. The superb ads suggest a return to a thriving Seattle economy. Seattle Fruit and Flower Mission hardcover