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19422566New York: The Union News Company 1942. Cards. Illustrated cards. Very good. 28 x 18 cm. Illustrated in red white and blue - this coffee shop located in the RCA building/Rockefeller Center showed their patriotic colors by featuring them on the cover of the menu. Luncheon menu includes appetizers and soups specials sandwiches salads fountain drinks desserts and beverages. Light chipping to front corner old tape marks on back of menu. <br /> The Union News Company books
18942491Cleveland: The Standard Lighting Co. 1894. Hardcover. White oilcloth boards. Very good. 249 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Late 1800's cookbook/trade catalogue putting forth the favorable qualities of the "vapor stove" made by The Standard Lighting Co. Vapor stoves burned multiple fuels stove gasoline kerosene or distillate with the advantage of quicker cooking times and less heat then coal or wood. The disadvantage of these stoves were the tendency to explode into giant fireballs of ignited gasoline vapor that could and would incinerate the entire house. 20 pages of illustrations accompanied by a cookbook teeming with recipes. Interior pages toned but clean. Boards stained and rubbed. <br /> The Standard Lighting Co. hardcover books
19462561Boston: The Somerset Hotel 1946. Cards. Green illustrated cards with yellow string tassel. Near fine. Unpaginated 4 pages. 30.5 x 21.5 Dinner dancing and music at this 1940's Boston social event hosted by the who's who of Boston's upper class - including Miss Katherine Winthrop a top-ranked American tennis player. Full page listing the Girls' Clubs of Boston's Board of Directors Dinner Dance Committee and office holders - all filled out by the wives of privileged class. Music by Ranny Weeks and his Orchestra. Menu highlights a choice of Lobster Newburg or broiled tenderloin. Last page describes the Island of Bali highlights religious customs government and various facts or most likely fiction. Clean crisp copy. <br /> The Somerset Hotel books
18951846Pittsburgh: Murdoch Kerr & Co. c. 1895. Hardcover. White oil cloth covered boards. Very good. 128 pages. 19 x 14 cm. 22 pages local advertisements. An array of dishes with some surprises such as a recipe for "Hot Tamales" from a contributor Helen E. Pelletreau who had traveled to Corpus Christi. Chapters include: Soup Fish & Oysters Meats and Entrees and Meat Sauces Vegetables Eggs & Omelets Salads and Salad Dressing Relishes Yeast & Bread Breakfast and Tea Cakes Pies and puddings Desserts Cakes Small Cakes Drinks and Ices Invalid's Tray Fruits Pickles Candy Nice Things to Know and Miscellaneous. Numerous local advertisements illustrated. <br /> <br />Helen Pelletreau was the third president of the Pennsylvania College For Women and the first woman to hold the office. Pelletreau was chosen as Acting President after the prior person to hold the office resigned and while trustees searched for a replacement. The committee citing her exceptional business insight then elected Miss Pelletreau as President a title she kept for 14 years until her retirement in 1894. Pages lightly toned. <br/><br/> Murdoch, Kerr & Co. hardcover books
19502546Madras 1950. Third Edition. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards. Very good. 332 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. First published in 1933 by the Friends In Need Society assisting the aged infirm and destitute European and Anglo-Indian Christians this Anglo-Indian cookbook was written for British women in India who wanted to recreate their home environs while living in the colony. Written in two languages - English and Urdu side by side. Last 12 pages filled with local ads. Some pencil annotations covers rubbed. <br /> hardcover books
20181672Tokyo: Tuttle 2018. Paperback. Color illustrated paperback. 128 pages. 25.5 x 19 cm. Charming illustrated guide to Japanese Cooking. Three young foodies Alexis Aldeguer Maiko-San and Ilaria Mauro give their own personal take on Japanese food in a way that is fun and always delicious. Packed with personal anecdotes and information on Japanese culture this book is adapted from handbound copies distributed by the authors among their friends in Barcelona. <br/><br/> Tuttle paperback 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
19312309Beverly Hills CA: Beverly Hills Woman's Club 1931. Third Edition. Hardcover. White illustrated cloth covered boards. Very good. 239 pages. 20.5 x 16 cm. Recipe attributed to members of the community with a humorous preface by Will Rogers. Established in 1916 by the collaborative efforts of Beverly Hills society women the Beverly Hills Women's Club was formed to strengthen and explore intellectual ideas literature the arts and philanthropic efforts. Signed on front free end paper "Best Wishes - Clark Gable." We believe this signature is not Clark Gable's although his wife Carol Lombard was a member of the Club and furnished two recipes soup to this book. Other notable celebrities who provided recipes: Barbara Stanwyck Norma Shearer Buster Keaton Fanny Brice Mary Pickford and many more. Numerous local advertisements included. Interior clean cover stained. <br/><br/> Beverly Hills Woman's Club hardcover books
18951323Chicago: The American Cereal Co. 1895. Staplebound. Color illustrated wraps. Very good. 15 pages. 14 x 9 cm. Early American Cereal Co. more commonly known as Quaker Oats advertising pamphlet featuring a peculiar circus act performed by grasshoppers. Charming color illustrations throughout. Small closed tear to front cover otherwise crisp and clean. <br/><br/> The American Cereal Co. paperback books
19372449New Kensington PA: The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company c. 1937. Staplebound. Silver illustrated wraps. Very good. 11 pages. Advertising booklet features care tips for the “Wear-Ever” branded aluminum cookware as well as recipes using the same. Includes cooking charts for various fruits and vegetables with preparation instructions and cook times. Margaret Mitchell pictured in pamphlet director of the test kitchen at Wear-Ever Cooking Utensil Company worked to develop utensils suitable for the electric range. Homemakers were troubled by their electric bills after installing their new electric ranges - Mitchell studied the sizes shapes and capacities of the utensils being used in households and deduced from her investigation that utensils for electric ranges should have straight sides and perfectly flat bottoms. Illustrated throughout featuring vivid silver colored paper. Covers lightly rubbed and lightly folded. <br/><br/> The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company paperback books
19292452New Kensington Pennsylvania: The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company 1929. Wraps. Color illustrated wraps. Near fine. 48 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Advertising booklet features care tips for the “Wear-Ever” branded aluminum cookware as well as recipes using the same. Concept based on the pitch of a new cooking method designed to eliminate flavor loss while cooking fresh fruits and vegetables. Elegant color illustrations. Light toning to cover interior pristine. <br/><br/> The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company paperback books
19052354Boston: H.M. Caldwell 1905. Hardcover. Illustrated cloth covered boards printed paper title. Very good. 128 pages. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. Filled to the brim with rib-tickling wordplay regarding booze while lampooning the temperance movement. Covers rubbed at corners. <br/><br/> H.M. Caldwell hardcover books
19742506San Francisco: Westwinds Books 1974. First Edition. Quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards. Fine. 38 pages. 19.5 x 13. 5 cm. Limited edition of 950 copies - two-color frontispiece portrait of author. With an intriguing introductory by author Brian McGinty - giving the reader a glimpse into the years Stevenson lived in this northern California area. A fascinating survey of Napa Valley in the late 1880's. Copies printed at Cranium Press San Franciso. Decorative papers by Brian Day. Pristine copy. Westwinds Books hardcover books
19882400Baton Rouge: Louisiana Strate University Press 1988. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 185 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. At the beginning of the eighteenth century sugar in France was still a luxury commodity imported in small quantities and consumed only by the very rich. By the time of the revolution sugar was so popular that riots occurred when its price rose unreasonably. In spite of its importance the sugar business has been largely ignored by historians. This comprehensive study covers all aspects of the sugar business from the procurement of African slaves who were forced to work the sugar plantations through the process of growing sugar and refining distribution and consumption. Pristine copy. <br/><br/> Louisiana Strate University Press hardcover books
1992SKU1025588Innovative Cooking Enterprises 1992-06-01. Hardcover. Good. 0962983136 Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Modest wear. Innovative Cooking Enterprises hardcover books
20131865New York: All Day Press 2013. First Edition. Sewn binding. Illustrated wraps. Fine. 48 pages. 19 x 11 cm. Signed by author on title page. Strawberry season is upon us! Susan Spungen is a cookbook author culinary consultant and food stylist for both print and film. Short Stack is a small-format publication created by the culinary world's brightest talents. Colophon notes this edition was hand sewn with baker's twine by participants of YAI a network of agencies that helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities find work opportunities and receive job training. <br/><br/> All Day Press paperback books
200224982Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0813120829 . Third printing. Near fine in a very good a few small spots of light soiling dust jacket. . University Press of Kentucky hardcover books
18571313London: G. Routledge & Co. 1857. Hardcover. Rebound embossed red boards illustration in gilt. Good. 597 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Rebound. Book plate on front free end paper - "Margaret Allen Hall Memorial - The Finer Arts of Home Making Battle Creek College Presented by: Lenna F. Cooper". <br /> <br />Alexis Soyer was a chef and entrepreneur originally from France whose life was filled with some pretty extraordinary twists and turns. Soyer cooked in the French noble kitchens on the eve of the uprising then found his way to England cooked and designed kitchens and kitchen appliances wrote cookbooks and reorganized the cooking facilities in Crimea during the Crimean War; this book being the culmination of those endeavors. <br /> <br />Jump to America in the early 1900's and we find Lenna F. Cooper a dietitian who worked under Ella Kellogg at Battle Creek's Sanitarium was the dean of home economics at Battle Creek College and in 1930 became the food service director of Michigan State University also becoming the chief dietitian at Montefiore Hospital in New York City. Cooper wrote the book The New Cookery with her fellow Battle Creek Sanitarium dietitian Margaret Allen Hall. Inscription on verso of front cover in pen - "Presented by Lenna F. Cooper." <br/><br/> G. Routledge & Co. hardcover books
2221570<p>FINEST COPY EXTANT </p><p>Second edition so stated. Octavo. Original gilt and blind stamped green cloth pictorial spine with stag head seated woman with trout; yellow coated endpapers. Small ticket of book binder Josiah Westley London. Few small spots to cloth but an exceptionally tight clean fresh copy. Frontispiece portrait and illustrated title page; a few small vignettes in text. No dust jacket. Very good. 441 pages 14 pages of ads.</p><p>Printed by Savill and Edwards 4 Chandos Street Covent Garden.</p><p>Cagle 1004.</p><p>Oxford page 180.</p><p>Bitting page 443.</p> Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. hardcover books
19761381St. Louis: Southern Comfort Corporation 1976. Pamphlet. Orig. color illustrated wraps. Unpaginated 8 pages. Color illustrated drink pamphlet featuring frolicking young singles. "How to be the COOLEST MIXER in your crowd!" Light toning to pages. <br/><br/> Southern Comfort Corporation paperback books
20192389Lanham Maryland: Roman & Littlefield 2019. Hardcover. Illustrated boards. Fine. 225 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Julia Skinner explores the development of the afternoon tea meal - a meal that came of age during the British Empire's most aggressive expansion afternoon tea was transported to new continents with colonial forces. Skinner describes how this movement took place and uncovers the different ways tea and colonialism intersect in both the colonial and the postcolonial worlds. Pristine condition. <br/><br/> Roman & Littlefield hardcover 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
20182370San Francisco: CHRONICLE BOOKS 2018. Hardcover. Color illustrated and embossed foil cover. Fine. Gao Alice. 176 pages. For every baker who loves food history. Filled with modern versions of some of our favorite classics along with dazzling photography. A delightful baking pamphlet bound in along with an embossed foil cover and more than 50 recipes. Pristine. <br/><br/> CHRONICLE BOOKS hardcover books
1992878Baltimore: Bacchus Press nd 1992. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Full Burgundy bonded leather gilt. Fine. xv 540 24 index pages. Octavo. One of 500 copies. A very attractively bound facsimile edition of the 1864 second edition expanded and considerably revised from the 1863 first edition printed on acid-free paper and retaining the folding plates that appeared in the original. Shaw was a Scottish wine merchant who was almost single-handedly credited with bringing about a reduction in the tax on wine coming into Great Britain and Ireland. Andre Simon called this title "one of the most interesting books we have on the subject." A must have for any serious wine collector. GABLER G38330 - referring to the second edition. <br/><br/> Bacchus Press hardcover books
19472447Evansville Indiana: Servel Inc. 1947. Staplebound. Black illustrated wraps. Very good. 47 pages. 22 x 13.5 cm. The Servel Company formerly Servel-Electrolux was an American producers of heating and cooling appliances founded in 1922 by Colonel William McCurdy. This recipe book includes various dishes made possible by electric cooling and advertises for ServelÂ’s Electrolux home refrigerator. Black and white illustrations and food photographs mixed with recipes throughout. This edition also includes information about nutrition and creating well-balanced meals as well as guides on how to identify healthy foods. Small water stain on cover interior clean and crisp. <br/><br/> Servel, Inc. paperback books
