Cooking

London: John Ebers and Co., 1829. Book. Good. Hardback. Tenth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 485 pages. Rebound in green cloth with original title label to spine. A system of fashionable and economical cookery adapted to the use of English families. Tenth edition, corrected and enlarged, with an appendix of observations on the meals of the day - new method of giving fashionable suppers at routs and soirees, as practised by the author when with Lord Sefton. Frontispiece portrait of author..

Columbus, Ohio: Field Publications / McCall Publishing Company. Fine. 1983. First Edition. Soft Cover. 768 pages: 8 x 11 in.: 4.8: KB#010661: Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Each 32-Page Volume is in Fine Condition, with no holes punched, writing or tears, were published from 1983 to 1985, and contain full-color full-page photos of popular dishes. This Collection Set contains (many) fabulous recipes for: Breads * Breadspreads * Breakfasts * Cakes, Cookies * Candy * Chicken, Poultry * Dairy * Desserts * Doughnuts * Dressings * Eggs, Cheese * Fillings * Fish, Seafood * Frostings, Glazes * Fruits * Jellies * Low-Calorie Main Dishes * Main Dishes * Meats * Microwave * Pasta, Rice * Pickles, Relish * Pies, Pastry * Quick Breads * Salads * Sandwiches * Sauces * Snacks * Soups * Vegetables. : Photographs .

Beverly Hills: Beverly Hills Woman's Club. 1929. First edition / First printing. Black and gray illustrated cream cloth. Illustrated with woodcut title and headers. Very good with some soiling and light wear to the binding, and a few pages of the text. Recipes by Joan Bennett, Clara Bow, Fannie Brice, Jackie Cooper, Joan Crawford, Dolores Del Rio, Douglas Fairbanks, Janet Gaynor, Carole Lombard, Harold Lloyd, Ramon Navarro, Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, and many others.

Guadalajara, Mexico:: Impronta Casa Editora,, 2019.. Edition of 100. Sheet size 11 x 15"; 20 sheets. Text composition completed on an Intertype C-4 with Typeface Futura 14pts. Titles set on a Ludlow Typographic machine in Goudy 36 pts and Tempo 92 pts. Printed on a Chandler & Price 12 x 18 ca1882. Images printed on a Risograph RZ 390. Loose sheets laid in 11.5 x 15.5" portfolio of chipboard covers and red cloth spine with black ribbon tie closure. Numbered. Sandra Trujillo: " I received a grant to work in Mexico and the work culminated in an artists' book ... with the assistance of Impronta Casa Editora in Guadalajara, Mexico. Impronta Casa Editora specializes in small artistic productions using rare vintage 19th century intertype and letterpress printing processes. ... The printed graphics in the book are toned Risographs prints of paper collages ... with a cover aesthetic inspired by experiences and trends of printing in Mexico today and rare 19th century portfolios.… Read More

Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1937. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Approved recipes from the MIRRO Test Kitchen. 284 pp. Text with black and white photos is clean and unmarked with light tanning. No owner attribution. Very good copy of this scare early cooking title.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A., 1950. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Ninth Printing. 1st hardbound edition, bound red cloth boards with white Pennsylvania Dutch design in white. 463 pp. including index. Loose-leaf pages in 5 ring metal binder with heavy stock and metal text protectors front and back. Card stock yellow tabbed dividers (20) are crisp and unbent. Text is clean and in like new condition. Recipe note added in pen on page 189. No previous owner attribution. Brown end pastedowns with white decoration. Illustrations on almost every page, mainly line drawings, B&W photographs and several full color photographs. This is General Mills first hardcover cookbook, published in 1950, which quickly became a national best seller and is now a family heirloom for many. This book contains illustrations and unique tips to "dress up food for eye appeal" fitting for dinner parties of the 1950s. A First Edition in this condition is rare. Note: pictures… Read More

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. , New York, Toronto and London and General Mills, Minneapolis, 1950. The rare First edition, third printing is the first collaboration of General Mills with McGraw-Hill Book Company in printing this book. 463 pp including index. Text is glossy, clean and unmarked. Chapters separated with yellow paper. Color drawings, b/w photos and full color photographs illustrate this book. No owner attribution. Brown pastedown endpapers with white decoration. Dust Jacket is brightly colored on front. Light sunning to rear dust jacket with picture of Betty Crocker along with her biography. Dust jacket has small one-inch tear at top rear hinge. Otherwise, fully intact as protected by mylar cover. This book in Fine Condition, despite its age. The pictures attached to this posting are of the actual book and not stock images.

Melbourne: E W Cole Book Arcade, 1889. Second-hand hardcover. Payne, A G (ed). Cole's Popular Cookery. E W Cole, Book Arcade: Melbourne, Australia [ca.1889] 8vo (190x125mm) HC dec red cloth bds, gilt lettered [4],iv,[2],360,[10 adverts]pp.  PAYNE, A G [Arthur Gay (1840 - 1894)] (ed) Cole's Popular Cookery Melbourne : E W Cole Book Arcade, [1889].  Printed by Cassell & Co, Limited, La Belle Sauvage, London Octavo (190x125mm)  red cloth, black decorated with plates, bowls and a jug, and gilt lettered, boards, ii-v,[1],iv,[2],360,[10 publisher's catalogue - Cassell & Co]pp. Four colour plates, including the frontispiece. Light offset/age-toning to front and rear end-papers. Spine faintly sunned, some faint flecking to the boards; a small blemish and folded corner (not affecting the text) to p.315 (plum cake recipe). Else an uncommonly fine copy with no other signs of use. Although undated, the publisher's advertising is marked 8/89 and the printer's mark on p.360 "200/789" suggest a date of… Read More

Le Jas du Revest-Saint-Martin par Forcalquier: Robert Morel, 1964. Second-hand hardcover. Delteil, Joseph. La Cuisine Paleolithique. [FIRST EDITION] Robert Morel: Le Jas du Revest-Saint-Martin par Forcalquier, France 1964. 8vo (185x140mm) HC oatmeal cloth, red dec bds w/ ring, 108,[4]pp. (photography by Vera Cardot et Pierre Joly) (in French) DELTEIL, Joseph (1894-1978) La Cuisine Paléolithique Le Jas du Revest-Saint-Martin par Forcalquier: Robert Morel, 1964. First Edition. Photography by  Vera Cardot et Pierre Joly. Octavo (185x140mm) beige/oatmeal heavy cloth/canvas boards, green book cloth end-papers, red initials to cover, blue lettered spine, short ribbon marker with a brass ring, 108,[4]pp. In French. Four black and white photographs. Canvas boards a trifle soiled & worn; top edges dusty; faint age-toning to top edges of some pages. Delteil was a French writer and poet, associated with the early French surrealist movements of the 1920s.  After an illness he 'retired' to near… Read More

Guadalajara, Mexico:: Impronta Casa Editora,, 2021.. Edition of 100. Leaf size 11 x 15"; 25 leaves. Letterpress printed during September 2021 at Impronta Casa Editora in Guadalajara, Mexico with support from Georgia College. Text composition on an Intertype C-4 with typeface Futura 14 pts. Titles set on a Ludlow Typographic machine in Goudy 36 pts. and Tempo 92 pts. Printed on an Original Heidelberg Cylinder press, ca 1950. Images printed on a Risograph RZ 390. Laid in a 4438 x 4838" portfolio of chipboard covers with yellow cloth spine and black ribbon closure. Numbered. Artist statement: "Trujillo's second large format artist book, 'Trouble' (2021) is a continuation of stories and images that bring the Chicano perspective of culture, family, and food to the table.  "Sketched from memory, the stories about youth grab on to singular moments when adolescent skill sets are just enough to skirt trouble. Set in 1970's Vallejo, California, Trujillo interweaves… Read More

Limited to 3,000 copies. Black paper covered boards with matching dustjacket. Spanish text. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
9.5 x 11.25 in

Boston: Andre F. Graves. Poor with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn, hinges cracked, shaken, . many pages loose and stained, penciled owner name (Mary A. H. Hoyt) on . front flyleaf.. 1877. Second Edition. Hardcover. Original purple cloth binding. Several handwritten recipes and antique newspaper recipe clippings laid in, including Mrs. Standish' receipt for lemon cake and Tomato Mincemeat. The redoutable Maria Parloa's first book, named after the swanky Maine hotel where she worked as a cook. As outlined in her preface, part one of the book is for plain cooking, cooking everything that is within the reach of an ordinary family, while the second part contains directions for richer cooking. (Lobster is in the first part, which Parloa says must be boiled for one hour! Before cooling and then eating). Bitting, p. 356, Cagle 588. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 234 pages .

Inscribed and SIGNED by author on fly page.
Stated First Printing.
Book cover like new, slight shelf wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
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Robert Irvine is not a typical chef, so it stands to reason that his upcoming fourth cookbook is anything but typical. The man who became famous for cooking his way out of impossible challenges and turning around failing restaurants has taken aim at redefining family dinner. Family Table brings together more than 50 of his all-time favorite family-style recipes. With these delicious and easy-to-make meals come his reflections on how to create strong family bonds by coming together in the kitchen and at the dinner table. We live in an age where distractions are all around us. This book is my urgent call to refocus everyone on what is right in front of us, what is really… Read More

Minneapolis, MN: Pillsbury Flour Mills Company, 1933. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1933 First edition. Aluminum case containing ring binder with twelve sections and 224 individual recipes. Aluminum case is bright with minor wear. Recipe pages are clean, with minor staining on recipes # 180 and 181. Section dividers are very clean. This is a beautiful example of an unusual Depression-era cookbook.

Gallery Books, 2021-10-05. 1st Ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9x6x1. Signed. FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY STANLEY TUCCI! Authenticity guaranteed by publisher's statement on the signature page. Brand new gift worthy condition; simply a gorgeous book. Expedited shipping is welcome; signed by author.