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
Reading, PA: Culinary Arts Press, Inc., 1965. Hardcover. 64 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Iconic southern cooking from the Eastern shores of Maryland, South Carolina low country, Florida tidewater, Mississippi, and New Orleans. Illustrated throughout. Color illustrated wraps with color illustrated wraps. More about Fine Old Dixie Recipes; The Southern Cook Book of Fine Old Recipes
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: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 351 pages. 21 x 20 cm. Wolfert's first masterpiece. After living in Marrakesh, Wolfert published this comprehensive cookbook. Author's inscribed on front free end paper. Color photographs by Bill Bayer, Drawings by Sidonie Coryn. Clean copy, wrapper lightly rubbed at... More about Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco; Introduction by Gael Greene
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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Hardcover. 261 Pages. 22 x 15 cm. Book and interior crisp and clean, dust wrapper (illustrations by Judith Clancy) lightly toned and chipped at spine. Covered in protective mylar. More about As They Were
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
![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: 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
![HANDMADE] [MANUSCRIPT] [COOKING] Recipe Binder; with personal ephemera](/pictures/thumb/1931.jpg?v=1561587229)
Connecticut/California: 1940's-1960's. Cards. 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... More about HANDMADE] [MANUSCRIPT] [COOKING] Recipe Binder; with personal ephemera
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. 261 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Very attractive first edition. "How to Cook a Wolf will seem an inspired and yet wholly sensible book. It's written to be read, and designed to be used." Interior pages lightly toned, wrapper rubbed... More about How to Cook a Wolf
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. 24 x 18.5 cm. Inscribed on front free end paper, "To Linda, Buena Suerte en la Cocine, Diana Kennedy - I.V.80". Traveling extensively throughout Mexico, Kennedy draws on cooks from various regions for this companion volume to Cuisines... More about Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 378 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Inscribed on half title page, "To Linda, Diana Kennedy - I.V.80". Kennedy embraces the cuisines of the Spanish and the Indian as well as the highly distinctive fare of the separate regions. Drawings by... More about The Cuisines of Mexico; Forward by Craig Claiborne
New York: The Viking Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 491 pages. 22 x 15 cm. A fantastic treatise on feasts. A collection of excerpts, sentences, and paragraphs pertaining to "man's fundamental need to celebrate the high points of life by eating and drinking." Pages lightly toned, dust wrapper heavily chipped... More about Here Let Us Feast; A Book of Banquets
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1977. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 21.5 x 16 cm. Lewis celebrates the food from her small community of Freetown, Virginia - settled by freed slaves. With menus for the four seasons she shares the ways her family prepared and enjoyed food, savoring the delights of each... More about The Taste of Country Cooking
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Waller, Louisa Jones. First Edition. Hardcover. 323 pages. 21.5 x 16 cm. Following the seasons, Edna Lewis leads us through the chapters of this book, drawing on her childhood in Freetown, Virginia, a farming community founded by her grandfather and his friends after emancipation... More about In Pursuit of Flavor; with Mary Goodbody
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1976. Sir John Tenniel. First edition. Hardcover. 119 pages. 25 x 19 cm. A whimsical cookbook with recipes inspired by Carroll's "Alice". Try the 'Eat Me' Cakes, 'Drink Me' Soup, or one of the over 30 recipes along with excerpts from earlier Lewis Carroll's writing... More about The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook; A Culinary Diversion
Madison, Wisconsin: Freedom From Religion Foundation, 1998. First Edition. Spiral bound wraps. 165 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Recipes contributed by members (Freedom From Religion Foundation) from Maine to California, with a sprinkling of offerings from other countries. Recipes include some favorites: Heathen Honey Crinkles, Chicken Salad with No Religious... More about The World Famous Atheist Cookbook
![GELATIN] Dainty Dishes Made of Knox Gelatine. Charles B. Knox Company](/pictures/thumb/1908.jpg?v=1560029259)
Charles B. Knox Company, 1910. Staplebound. 10 pages. 6.03 x 8.26 cm. This tiny cookbook, from the Charles B. Knox company itself, is brimming with recipes for "solid, yet not tough" jellies suited for the Busy Housekeeper. Colored illustrations of gelatin sherbets, molds, and cakes throughout. Toned pages, with closed... More about GELATIN] Dainty Dishes Made of Knox Gelatine