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19181005Brooklyn: Latham Lith. & Ptg. Co. 1918. Early Printing. Very good /none as issued. George Illion. Beautiful chromolithograph poster from WWI by George Illion. 21 x 28 inches tall. "Cardinal Mercier has appealed to the Food Administration for more food for starving millions. Eat less wheat - meat - fats and sugar. Ship more to the war-stricken people of France - Belgium - Italy. Latham Lith. & Ptg. Co. unknown books
1668Devonport England. Staplebound. Tan illustrated lettered wraps. Very good. c. 1900. 24 pages. 22 x 14 cm. A hark back to the golden days of shipbuilding this fully illustrated pamphlet includes prices and dimensions of their entire inventory. J Gould & Son were one of the many industries/workshops located in the Royal Navy Yard specializing in supplying both small crafts yachts and steamships. The business was most likely situated in what was known as the Quadrangle housing foundries forges pattern shops boilermakers and all manner of specialized workshops. Covers toned. Interior lightly toned but crisp and clear. Staples holding nicely. <br/><br/> paperback books
19161689Battle Creek Michigan: Good Health Publishing Co 1916. Wraps. Original tan wraps. Good. 71 pages. 16 x 10.5 cm. Originally named Western Health Reform Institute John Harvey and his brother W.K. Kellogg built an new structure and took the word "sanatorium" and changed two letters transforming and adding a new word to the English language. 11 paper label/addenda are stapled to the front cover. Chipped creased and rubbed. <br/><br/> Good Health Publishing, Co paperback books
18892086Washington DC: The Brodix Publishing Co. 1889. Wraps. Oversized pink paper wrappers staple bound. Very good. 12 pages. 42 x 28 cm. This charming periodical features six sheets of cooking instructions detailing: Fish-Soup; Meat; Sauces-salads; Vegetables; Pastry; Sweets and Preserves; and How to Make Bread. The binding style and large type set likely indicates that this publication was meant for display in the kitchen. The inside cover purports the benefits of a healthy diet especially focused on wheat and grain's positive effects on the brain. The following pages outline recipes and instructions for proper food preparation taking care to mention the repercussions of poorly tended food ranging from indigestion from unchopped capers to dangers of under or overcooked vegetables. The final page includes helpful hints for food shopping health and safety suggestions as well as a treatise on the proper diet for invalids. <br />The Home Magazine a monthly illustrated periodical ran from 1888 to 1908 serving as a guide to social domestic and business life. Mrs. John A Logan served as editor for the Home Magazine following the death of her husband a Civil War general and statesman John A. Logan. Born Mary Simmerson Cunningham an educated woman from Missouri she played an active role in her husband's political life accompanying him on campaigns and organizing volunteers. Mary became a prominent figure in Washington society in her own right often meeting with Adele Douglas wife of Senator Stephen A. Douglas and Julia Dent Grant wife of Ulysses S. Grant to discuss political happenings and social issues. Mary was a celebrated American writer and editor authoring two books and contributing to several publications including William Randolph Hearst's monthly syndicate Cosmopolitan. She was committed to social causes dedicating herself to the women's suffrage movement and was an early supporter of the American Red Cross. Weak fold across cover wear to edges and small paper loss to inside pages not effecting text. <br/><br/> The Brodix Publishing Co. paperback books
19321822New Orleans: Mary Moore Bremer 1932. Wraps. Orange illustrated cardboard wraps. Near fine. 86 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Early edition chock full of recipes such as Chicken Pilau Oysters Jambalaya Bouilla-Baisse and many more. Bremer adds lively prose and pleasing black and white woodblock illustrations throughout. Light scuff at rear interior crisp and clean. <br /> Mary Moore Bremer paperback books
18932222091<p>First edition second printing Octavo. Illustrated with twenty-four halftone portraits; woodcuts in the text by May Root-Kern Mellie Ingels Julian Louis Braunhold George Wharton Edwards. Original yellow-orange pictorial cloth stamped in white and gilt designed by "G"; t.e.g. No dust jacket. Good some light soiling; a few small spots. 221 pages.</p><p>According to the colophon there was a limited "author's edition bound in silk."</p><p>Bookplate of Rockwell Dennis Hunt designed by Anthony Euwer.</p><p>Cagle 699.</p><p>Bitting 433.</p><p>Brown 563.</p><p>Axford page 146.</p> R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. hardcover books
19252134Boston: L. C. Page & Company 1925. Hardcover. Red cloth boards embossed glass decoration on front cover with gilt title to spine and front cover. Good. 80 pages. 17 x 11 cm. New Revised edition First Impression May 1925. A scarce look into the unique world of cocktails in the early 1900's. This book was not compiled as a bartender's guide but as a recipe book for private use. A comprehensive account featuring over 150 recipes some familiar and others mysterious. Text block cracked but holding. Interior clean and crisp. Top edge gilt. <br/><br/> L. C. Page & Company hardcover books
19162560Providence R.I. 1916. Cards. Illustrated cream cards. Very good. 13.5 x 19 cm. Illustrated menu tendered by the Providence Friars at the Pomham Club in Providence R.I. on Thursday June 8 1916. The menu commences with a Martini Cocktail followed by Clam Broth Clam Chowder Baked Clams Clam Cakes Baked Lobster Broiled Mackerel - along with Rhode Island Johnny Cakes Champagne Beer Cigars & Cigarettes. Speakers include Rhode Island politicians John J. Fitzgerald 1871-1926 State representative & Democratic Mayor Mayor Joseph H. Gainer Artist Hezekiah Anthony Dyer Commissioner Benjamin P. Moultan and Henry A. Carpenter. <br /><br />The "Providence Friars" seems to be a bit of a leg-pull as they all are known entertainers. We know "Abbott" George M. Cohan was no other than the famous vaudeville song-and-dance man playwright director producer comic actor and popular songwriter George M. Cohan. Born in Providence Rhode Island this may have been a welcome homecoming for Cohan. Light toning to cards. <br /> books
19591376Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Yellow illustrated boards. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 285 pages. To help the young cook find his way down the menu the authors include a glossary of cooking terms practical tips and a great section on snacks and sandwiches. "Many men like to cook and are plenty good at it too so we weren't surprised to find out that the same goes for the boys we know. That made us decide that it was about time a cook book was written not for boys and girls but just for boys - and just for fun. If you've ever wondered what to feed a hungry crowd.or how to survive when mom goes out to dinner.or what to do with fish after you've caught them.or how to plan a barbecue without the eternal hot dogs and hamburgers - then you'll find answers here for these and many other cooking problems." Jan Longone Wine & food library label. Priced clipped dust wrapper otherwise pristine. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Company hardcover books
199944738Beijing: Foreign Languages Press 1999-2000. First Edition. Eight volumes; small oblong quartos 19.5x21cm.; uniformly bound in glossy photo-illustrated spiral-bound boards; color illus. throughout. All in Fine condition. Nearly complete set of the series lacking only the "Family Banquet" volume. Bilingual text in Chinese and English. Foreign Languages Press unknown books
1912636Boston: Little Brown & Co. 1912. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/missing. A very good early edition from 1912 of what is now known as "The Fannie Farmer Cookbook." Tan boards with brown title stamping. Binding is sturdy and square. Toning to page edges. This copy has been well-cared for with no stains no spills no leaning. Front hinge cracking at end paper mull intact. Previous owner's name first free endpaper and on rear pastedown. 648 pp. including index followed by 30 pp. contemporary advertisements. Little, Brown & Co. hardcover books
19532379New York: Farrar Straus & Young 1953. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Rose boards gilt illustrations. Near fine in good dust wrapper. 282 pages. 26 x 19 cm. An elegant informative composition devoted to the history and practice of drinking in America. Chapters include: Taverns Tankards and Tallow; The Best-Cellar Book on Wines; A Quicker Liquor Curriculum on Spirits and Beer; The Complete Bartender and The 100 Greatest American Drinks; Now Your Cooking with Liquor. Illustrated throughout. Interior and boards clean and crisp dust wrapper rubbed. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus & Young hardcover books
1924811Gann Valley South Dakota: Gann Valley S. D. First Congregational Church 1924. First Edition. Cardboard covers. Orig. brown card stock. Very good. 272 pages. 88 pp. History 184 pp. Cook Book 22 x 14.5 cm. An exceptional combination of sketches of pioneer life in Buffalo County South Dakota by a variety of settlers with "Book of Tried Recipes" attributed to various Lady Helpers of the First Congregational Church. Contains local advertisements extra pages for handwritten recipes two used. One full page color advertisement for Swans Down Cake Flour and pasted in on pg. 67 a advertisement for female doctor. Cover lightly rubbed interior crisp and clean. <br/><br/> Gann Valley, S. D., First Congregational Church unknown books
19822500Le Havre France: Jobin et. Co. 1982. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards title in gilt. Very good in very good slip case. 463 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. Technical but informative presented in list format with 36 color photographs. Bilingual in both English and French. Publishers letter laid in. Interior clean and crisp spine sunned. <br /> Jobin et. Co. hardcover books
18785956New York: Royal Baking Powder Co 1878. Stapled octavo-sized booklet 23.5 x 15cm. 32 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Front wrapper verso with product reviews dated 1878. Includes a wood engraving showing twenty figures of diverse pans used in baking. "The recipes in this book are new and formulated by one of the most experienced Professors in the art of scientific and practical cookery especially adapted for the use of "Royal" Baking Powder and "Royal" flavoring Extracts. These preparations are incomparable in strength and purity. Substituting other articles will only end in disappointment." front wrapper blurb. Included are three hundred seventy seven recipes ranging from Bread & Rolls to Pies to Puddings to Fritters & Pancakes to Meat Pies to Icings. "The Royal Baking Powder Company was one of the largest producers of baking powder in the US. It was started by both Joseph Christoffel Hoagland & William Ziegler in 1866." Wiki. General wear & soiling to wrappers; foxing throughout; a bit musty. Good or a bit better in printed gray-green wrappers. OCLC locates four copies; Axford page 352; Bitting page 410 both for the 1882 and later editions; not in Cagle. Royal Baking Powder Co unknown books
19332222096<p>First edition thus. Octavo. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in silver. Forward by Eleanor Roosevelt. Preface by Mrs. Clarence C. Dill. Introduction by Mrs. Ross A. Collins. No dust jacket. Very good. 834 pages; plus 16 blank "Memoranda" pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Printed by the Kingsport Press Inc.</p><p>Pages 171-175 "Cocktails and Fruit Cups."</p> The Congressional Club hardcover books
19402221991<p>Second revised edition. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait. 20 b/w illustrations of bottles of various alcoholics drinks with a double page illustrations of cocktail glasses. Pages 117-212 with recipes for various cocktails. Tipped in at end is an eight page folding booklet of additional cocktails. Original gold cloth over black boards edges rubbed with gilt name of William Clarence Tackett on front cover. No dust jacket. Very good tear to frontispiece; small chips to title page. 224 pages.</p><p>William Clarence Tackett was a Chicago Construction Executive 1897-1958 who died in Palm Springs.</p> The Marco Importing Company hardcover books
19392221980<p>First edition. 4to. Title in red. Illustrated with drawings by Elise printed in red and black. Black cloth stamped in red. Dust jacket price clipped; small chips; small stains. Endpapers by Carlos Dyer. Very good. 258 pages plus a page listing other Armitage works.</p><p>Illustrated with four b/w halftone photographs of four vegetables by Edward Weston.</p><p>Laid in loose in this copy are four extra copies of the halftones by Weston. And an extra Weston description page.</p> Duell, Sloan and Pearce hardcover books
19182222093<p>First edition. Octavo. Original brown cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Very good. 106 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Bitting page 330. Each recipe headed with a literary quotation. Page 19 quoting Lewis Carroll on oysters.</p><p>Cagle #540.</p><p>Axford Page 51.</p><p>Brown 2782.</p> Duffield & Company hardcover books
19401931Connecticut/California 1940's-1960's. Cards. Decorated covers green yarn binding. Good. 21 pages. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Handcrafted recipes book made up of decorated envelopes. Each envelope is decorated with pasted-on photos of food items which are labeled and filled with recipes. Both handwritten recipes and recipes cut from magazine periodicals and food packaging. Some envelopes empty. Front cover decorated with a photo of a 1950's dining room. Laid in: a page from The Lassez-Faire what appears to be a mock newspaper for humorous purposes; a pink tissue paper party hat; a black and white photo of a house circa 1940's and an invitation to a wedding - Nancy Jane Franklin Hopper. Recipes from both California periodicals and Connecticut periodicals. One envelope is detached. <br/><br/> unknown books
18872437Gloucester Massachusetts 1887. Cards. Cream card stock. Very good. 15 x 12.5 cm. Decorative folding menu with an elaborate array of dishes served on Sunday August 21 1887. Faux tortoise shell embellishment held to cover with wooden toothpick. Foxing to areas around embellishment. <br/><br/> unknown books
18872221849<p>First edition. Octavo. Original grey pictorial cloth with three designs in gold and red; pictorial spine in gilt and red. Dust jacket. Very good light wear; short tears at rear joint. 122 pages 8 pages of publisher's ads. No signatures or bookplates. Uncommon.</p><p>Not located in Cagle or Bitting.</p><p>Contents include: An Arab Dinner Party; A Japanese Dinner; Easter at Jerusalem; The Moqui Snake-Dance; A Coptic Wedding; A Siamese Hair-Cutting."</p> D Lothrop Company hardcover books
18852222094<p>First edition Octavo. B/W illustrations by Charles Keene. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black red white with design of a waiter in white apron; maroon coated endpapers. No dust jacket. Very good few small stains. 144 pages. Small bookseller rubber stamp.</p><p>Inscribed on title page: "Thos. F. Rigler Esq. with the author's kindest regards. Aug 8/88."</p><p>Includes chapters on Greenwich Wanstead Park Hyde Park Crystal Palace.</p> Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. hardcover books
18272378London: G. Virtue nd c.1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Half Bound leather with marbled boards. Good. 838 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Engraved frontispiece title-page and ten plates illustrating trussing carving and bills of fare. Heavily foxed front hinges cracked but holding. Boards rubbed. Owner's signature on front free end paper. CAGLE 632. <br /> G. Virtue hardcover books
19742539Wilton Connecticut: Lyceum Books 1974. Tan cloth covered boards. Very good in good dust wrapper. 191 pages. 28.5 x 22 cm. "Although there are observations from many others this is Fernand Point's Book. Here are his wise witty and often provocative views on food wine and life - in his case the three were synonymous. But most important here are al this remarkably inventive recipes over 200 of them carefully compiled from his handwritten notes and now in English for the first time." Special Drawings by André Dunoyer de Sogonzac. Clean crisp copy. Dust wrapper rubbed and sunned. <br /> Lyceum Books hardcover books
