First Edition. New York: Vantage Press, 1982. Stated First Edition. SIGNED by author Adele B. McQueen with brief inscription to a friend above Foreword. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"); xii, 91p. Illustrated dustjacket over green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Price-clipped dustjacket shows a small, clean tear at top front with... More about West African Cooking for Black American Families
Ann Arnold. First Edition. Hardcover. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. Stated First Edition. Inscribed and signed by Alice Waters on half title: "For Pam / Happy Birthday & Merry Christmas / Alice Waters." Quarto; 133pp. Pictorial dust jacket with original $23 price. Green leatherette binding on spine with lettering stamped... More about Fanny at Chez Panisse
New York: A.A. Wyn, Inc., 1949. Stated Second Printing. Octavo. 256 pages. In illustrated dust jacket with original $2.50 price intact. Brown and beige boards with spine stamped in brown. Rubbed along edges and more heavily worn at corners of jacket. Light shelfwear to boards and binding is... More about The Texas Cookbook
Hardcover. Chicago: Hotel Monthly Press / John Willy, Inc., [c 1904]. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Signature of Chef de Cuisine Paul A(?) Butler on title page. (10" x 7"); [ii], 186 +3p catalog. Textured red leatherette boards with white lettering. Covers bumped at corners and spine ends... More about The Culinary Handbook: The Most Complete and Serviceable Reference Book to Things Culinary Ever...
First Edition. London: Andre Deutsch, 1956. First Edition. Octavo. 375 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.50 price present. Yellow boards with spine stamped in green. Dust jacket is moderately worn along spine ends and at corners. Dampstain along top and fore edge of rear flap, and bleeds... More about The Scottish Cookery Book
First Edition. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931. First Edition. Octavo. 350 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with 8s. 6d. price present. Navy boards with spine in gilt. Dust jacket is edgeworn and one closed tear on top right corner of front panel. Boards are square in binding. A trifle... More about Vegetable Cookery
Fifth Impression. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. Fifth Impression. Signed by the author and his wife with inscription "To Dr. and Mrs. John Thompson Brown Ambler - With best wishes for many years in which to eat, drink and be merry in Maryland. Fred and Ruth Stieff, October sixth... More about Eat, Drink and Be Merry in Maryland
Limited Edition. San Diego: Copley / Union-Tribune Publishing Co., 1972. Special Edition numbered 434 of an unspecified print run, signed by both publisher Jim Copley and editor Richard Pourade. Unsigned presentation card from Copley and his wife Helen laid in. Quarto; ix, 142pp. Illustrated throughout. Oatmeal cloth-covered boards with gilt... More about From Fingers to Finger Bowls: A Sprightly History of California Cooking
First Edition. New York: M. Barrows & Company, 1944. Stated First Edition. Octavo; 196pp. Missing dust jacket. Green cloth with black lettering and decoration. Boards are square with bumping to corners and spine ends. Small bump at top corner of last 20 or so pages, not affecting text, else pages... More about Fowl and Game Cookery
First Edition. New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. Octavo. 184 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.50 price. In brown and green cloth with spine stamped in black. Dust jacket is worn along edges with some loss at corners. Spine somewhat faded. Slight roll to the... More about Jesse's Book of Creole and Deep South Recipes
Fourth Edition. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1868]. Stated Fourth Edition, Revised and Corrected. Small octavo; vi, 15-273pp +6pp ads. Diagrams and illustrations throughout. Blindstamped red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Covers edgeworn and bumped at corners and spine ends, with a scuff to cloth at front and... More about The French Wine and Liquor Manufacturer
First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Stated First Edition. Signed by Jacques Pepin without inscription on the front free endpaper. Quarto (11" x 9.5"); xii, 430pp. In unclipped dust jacket with original $40.00 price present; book in photo-mosaic paper-covered boards. Dust jacket is lightly creased along edges with... More about Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home
Vida Rouse. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. First Edition. Quarto. 248 pages. Signed by author on half title page to William and Helene Safire with inscription "For Helene and Bill Safire: / Without you there / would be no 'Guess Who's / in the Kitchen.'... More about Guess Who's in the Kitchen
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (9.25" x 6.5"); xciii, 397p. Original dustjacket with $27.95 price; book in green and blue boards with gilt lettering. Jacket is crisp with light shelfwear and toning... More about The Food of a Younger Land
First Edition. London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 247 pages. In dust jacket illustrated by film art designer Edward Carrick. Red and mustard boards with spine stamped in grey. Dust jacket is rubbed along edges and moderately worn at corners. Borzoi books colophon at base of spine. Boards... More about A Book of French Wines
First Edition. London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 185 pages followed by fourteen pages of a blank ledger for recording wine purchases and notes. In dust jacket illustrated by film art designer Edward Carrick, with Borzoi Books colophon to base of spine. Marbled paper boards in purple cloth... More about A Book of Other Wines -- Than French
First Edition. London: Cassell and Company LTD, 1956. First Edition with original decorated publisher's box. Octavo. 274 pages. Blue/Purple silk boards in glassine with spine and front board in gilt. White publisher's box printed with title page info on front and price of 31s 6d. net on back. Errata slip... More about Fine Bouche: A History of the Restaurant in France
First Edition. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. First Edition. Octavo. 127 pages. Lacks dust jacket. Limited Edition, numbered 228 of 500 copies printed on Batchelor's Hammer & Anvil handmade paper by the Fanfare Press. Includes eleven illustrations from artist Thomas Lowinsky. Brown and dark red cloth with spine in gilt... More about Lovely Food: A Cookery Notebook
First Edition. New York: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1913. First Edition. Octavo; 322pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Covers edgeworn with bumps to corners, tape reinforcement over spine, and some general smudging and soiling. Front free endpaper missing. Opens easily to between gatherings, but binding is sound. A number of pages dog-eared and... More about The Economy Administration Cook Book
First Printing. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1933. Stated First Printing. Small octavo; 112pp. Beige patterned cloth. Corners bumped, with chips and scrapes along fore-edge and at head of spine and some general smudging and soiling. Back hinge starting and book opens easily to between gatherings, but binding is... More about Quiet Drinking: A Book of Beer, Wines & Cocktails and What to Serve with Them
Hardcover. Owensboro, KY: Industrial Publishing co., [1895]. First Edition. Green cloth-covered boards; vi, 310p. Adverts at back. Covers scuffed and soiled with some superficial chewing and apparent dampstaining to cloth, along with some bumping to corners and spine ends. Stamp of W.A. Hardten in St. Mary's, Kansas with the date... More about Nineteenth Century Handbook on the Manufacture of Liquors, Wines and Cordials Without The Aid of...