Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press, 1959. McCrea, Ruth. First Edition. Hardcover. 60 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Remarkable period graphics. Crisp, clean interior, cover lightly soiled. More about Simple Italian Cookery; Decorations by Ruth McCrea
Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press, 1956. McCrea, Ruth. First Edition. Hardcover. 61 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Delightful alphabet recipe book, each letter illustrated and with verse. Remarkable period graphics. Crisp, clean copy. Owner's presentation on front free end paper. More about The ABC of Chafing Dish Cookery
![NUTRITION] Food and Nutrition. The American Red Cross](/pictures/thumb/1976.jpg?v=1564348385)
Washington DC: The American Red Cross, 1942. Staplebound. 87 pages. 22 x 15 cm. The simple story of what foods to eat, why we should eat them, and how best to provide them at a reasonable cost. Consolidation of broad research contributions in the fields of food and nutrition translated... More about NUTRITION] Food and Nutrition
![NUTRITION] [HERBS] Herbs for First-Aid and Minor Ailments; Drawing by Alison Ross. CERES](/pictures/thumb/1975.jpg?v=1564348383)
Northamptonshire: Thorsons Publishers Limited, 1972. Paperback. 64 pages. 17 x 11 cm. A brief history of herbs and their uses from the Dark Ages, through the Middle Ages, to modern times. Contains discourse on many individual herbs and their uses, including culinary and medicinal applications. Covers rubbed. More about NUTRITION] [HERBS] Herbs for First-Aid and Minor Ailments; Drawing by Alison Ross
![NUTRITION] [HEALTH] Diet Lists of the Presbyterian Hospital; New York City. NA](/pictures/thumb/1960.jpg?v=1564348342)
New York: 1919. Cloth. 87 pages. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Presbyterian Hospital's recommended diet plans for each of many specified diseases or conditions. Includes specific foods, portion sizes, and day-by-day menus, as applicable. Handwritten index as well as handwritten menu planning. Stamped "PROPERTY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL HOUSE STAFF" on... More about NUTRITION] [HEALTH] Diet Lists of the Presbyterian Hospital; New York City
London: Faber and Faber, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 244 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Heath's last word on vegetables; a comprehensive book with simple recipes listed in alphabetical order by vegetable, from artichokes to waxpod beans. There is also advice on vegetable hors d' oevres, mixed vegetables dishes and vegetable... More about Good Vegetables
London: Leslie Frewin, 1973. Second Edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 21.5 x 15 cm. A posthumous publication, Heath passed away while writing this book. A collection of menus with three courses and a wine pairing. For example, potted shrimps, Danish pork and cabbage, brandy chestnuts with Chianti. Brief recipes given for menu... More about A Menu for All Seasons; The last collection of menus by Ambrose Heath - doyen of English cookery...
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1920. Hardcover. 222 pages. 19 x 13 cm. "Three hundred recipes for every sort of candy that can be made in a home kitchen without special machinery". Bradley was a prolific cookbook writer and teacher/owner of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery. Clean copy, dust wrapper rubbed and chipped. More about The Candy Cook Book
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 355 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Signed, presentation by author on half title page. Prairie bounty translated into distinctive regional dishes. Warm and friendly notes from the author with helpful serving hints. More about The Best in Cookery in The Middle West; A Collection of Recipes as Sound as the U.S.A
Atlanta: Cullom & Ghertner, Co., 1948. Hardcover. 102 pages. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. Poems and recipes, some written in dialect. Author romanticized southern experience of African Americans. Illustrated throughout. More about The Kitchen and the Cotton Patch
New York: A Perigee Book, 2010. Hardcover. 296 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Acclaimed cocktail expert and historian David Wondrich takes readers on a raucous guided tour of all things Punch - a tour that starts with some very lonely British sailors and swells to include a cast of lords... More about PUNCH - The Delights (and Dangers) of the Flowing Bowl; An Anecdotal History of the Original...
New York: Avery, 2014. Paperback. 253 pages. 21 x 14 cm. In this lively and authoritative guide, Greene uses bright visuals, smart graphics, and a down-to-earth approach that both entertains and teaches readers to become their own whiskey experts. Including recipes for the delicious cocktails by some of today's most celebrated mixologists. Pristine. More about WHISK(E)Y DISTILLED; A Populist Guide to The Water of Life
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1975. First Edition. 158 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Inscribed by author on half title page. Kennedy shows the range of her imagination here with 80 recipes highlighting the Tortilla. Drawings by Sidonie Coryn. Bibliography included. Covered in protective mylar. Clean copy, wrappers price... More about The Tortilla Book
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 338 pages (plus index). 19 x 12 cm. Ellsworth suggests a lack of staff to run her household and being "utterly, crushingly bored" with shopping for food, inspired her to write this book. A fun read, with some classic recipes. The... More about Much Depends on Dinner
Oakland, CA: The Smithsonian Company, 1912. Hardcover. 175 pages. 24 x 17 cm. An adventurous book within a book. Young Mary Frances is enchanted by her friends, the Kitchen People, who explain the mysterious secrets of the kitchen. Lovely anthropomorphic kitchen utensils bring the reader along for this charming adventure... More about The Mary Frances Cook Book; Or Adventures Among The Kitchen People
New York: Hastings House, 1943. Stahlhut, Henry. First Edition. Hardcover. 228 pages. 21 x 14 .5 cm. Writer and graphic artist, Samuel Chamberlain, wrote the Clementine column for Gourmet Magazine under the name Phineas Back, a nom de plume he based on a French term for a gourmand, bec fin... More about Clementine in the Kitchen; Vignettes by Henry Stahlhut
Hollywood, California: Ada J. Alberty, 1939. Second Edition. Hardcover. 195 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. A self-published dietetic book based on the author's personal contact with clients. Records show Alberty had been sued by the government in the 1940's for misbranding of a drug and transporting over state lines. Interior... More about The Price We Pay for Dietetic Errors
![COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] Cook Book. The Woman's Guild - First Congregational Church](/pictures/thumb/1943.jpg?v=1561505637)
Abington, Massachusetts: Baker Printing Company, c. 1915. Staplebound. 48 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Recipes furnished and attributed by GUILD members. Filled with period local advertisements. Cover illustration of church. Pages toned, covers lightly soiled and chipped. More about COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] Cook Book
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1938. King, Ruth. Hardcover. 399 pages. 22.5 x 16 cm. Combination prose, recipes, as well as nutritional advice. Chapter titles tell the story: "If You Can Read, You Can Cook - Soda Fountain Specials - Coed Parties, etc. Illustrated throughout. Boards rubbed at corners... More about It's Fun to Cook
c. 1910's. Hardcover. 85 pages. 16 x 12.5 cm. Cookbook with full page illustrations of company's other products as well. (Fly Screen, Potato Masher, Press & Strainer, MacQueen's Patent Shower Bath). "Introducing the Keystone Beaters - Ten Machines in One: cake-beater, churn, egg-beater, ice cream freezer, fruit-whip, light dough-kneader, cream-whip... More about The P. D. & Co. Keystone Cook Book
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1910. 92 pages. 16.5 x 24.5 cm. Highly stylized Guest Book and journal, for use in recording guests, holidays, etc. organized by month. Unused, clean crisp copy. More about House-Book to the Hostess; Being a Journal of fêtes & occasions: Groups for a day or an hour
2019. ONE OF A KIND. Originally inspired by New York Chinatown shops selling modern takes on joss paper and hell money. Instead of more traditional currency for the afterlife, these took the form of cell phones and convertibles, etc. meant to be burned at a funeral, so as to pass... More about PAPER SCULPTURES; PROVISIONS FOR THE AFTERLIFE
2015. Limited edition 1 of 5. Seventy Two unbound, translucent pages feature images of pebbles and stones plucked from East Village streets lettered with nostalgia-inducing candy names. The title, (a conflation of Printed Actual Size and Existential Sugar Baby Questions) struggles to answer adult questions with childhood answers. Frustration ensues... More about ART] EXISTENTIAL. PRINTED. SUGAR. ACTUAL. BABY. SIZE. QUESTIONS.; A study in chewability
New York: Richard R. Smith Inc., 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. 287 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. A bright first American Edition highlighted by the iconic art deco era artwork by Gilbert Rumbold. Prohibition-dodging Americans flocked to London's classic Savoy bar for the perfect deliverance from the dry land. American... More about The Savoy Cocktail Book
![CLOTHING MANUFACTURING] [BUSINESS] [LAW] Shirt Collar Patent](/pictures/thumb/1933.jpg?v=1561586711)
Newark, NJ: 1917-1919. 13 pages. 4 pages from Delpark Inc., a NY-based clothing company seeking a patent to manufacture a new shirt collar. Contacting a solicitor to investigate the patents of its creator. Delpark seeks, in these documents, to purchase the collar's patent from the inventor, Edward J. Quigley, and... More about CLOTHING MANUFACTURING] [BUSINESS] [LAW] Shirt Collar Patent