Dayton, OH: Frigidaire Corporation, General Motors Corporation, 1932. Reprint. staplebound. 47 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm. With the company's formal crest emblazoned across the front cover, this corporate cookbook ushers you quickly back a time when your refridgerator was as much of a status symbol as your diamond earrings. The..... More
Hardcover. Unpaginated. 22.5 x 17 cm. Classic homemaker's binder including index tabs, ruled paper, and envelopes to store loose recipes, unfilled. Toning to paper, otherwise pristine. More
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c. 1830's - 1860's. Cloth. Handmade, embroidered and beaded men's linen wallet decorated with colored beads with an embroidered image of a Masonic church. Light staining. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Hardcover. 292 pages. Part biography, part history, part literary criticism, this lively and insightful book celebrates America's first generation of women intellectuals. The thirty years before the Civil War - when Romanticism crossed continents and worked its way into the pervasive American philosophy and..... More
New York: Viking, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. 413 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Published after David's passing in 1992 - David's final book, which was in the works for many years. A full history of ice and ices including sixteenth-century Italy and the splendor of the Medici banquets, snow..... More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 212 Pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. A collection of Introductions, by our first lady of food writing, M.F.K. Fisher - to both her own books and books by other authors. Light spot on one page, otherwise crisp and clean. Owner's inscription..... More
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Over 30 invoices portraying the life of the white upper class in New York City and Newport, RI. A thought-provoking look at a life of privilege through the procurement of objects. Irene Muriel Austusta Sherman was an American-born socialite, notable for her connections to prominent families in the early 20th..... More
New York: DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, 1981. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 256 pages. During the Victorian era, travel offered a freedom that few women enjoyed at home. These first-person narratives give us a glimpse into some of the adventures that were pursued. Boards, interior, and dust wrapper crisp..... More
New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1992. First American Edition. Hardcover. 246 pages. 24 x 16 cm. "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are," French gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared. This world tour of food culture shows how food relates to sex, to the culinary enigmas of..... More
New York: STEIN AND DAY, 1972. Hardcover. 258 pages. Elaine Morgan takes to task the Book of Genisis along with Darwin's The Descent of Man by questioning the evolution of the human race. Morgan's reasoned reinterpretation of evolution of the human species leaves few myths unquestioned: Did men become Mighty..... More
New York: Beaufort Books, Inc., 1981. Hardcover. 192 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. The author highlights the transformative role of agriculture, showing the shift from hunting-gathering to farming allowed human societies to settle and grow. The Silk Road introduced the spread of spices, sugar and other exotic foods that significantly..... More
New York, NY: Royal Baking Powder Company, 1927. Folded. Unpaginated, 6.5 x 7.5 cm. This "Royal Cherry Gelatin" foldable is illustrated with bright, colorful images of recipes made with the product and a drawing of three women enjoying a classy tea with their gelatin dessert with the caption "A Friendly..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 403 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Presentation copy - inscribed to Joe McGrath, a friend and longtime secretary to Prescott Townsend, a well known Boston Brahmin, also featured in this book. The author explores the nature and expression of sexual identity..... More
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Beverly Hills, California: 1964. Spiral bound wraps. Unpaginated. This tribute to Cobina Wright Sr. begins with a letter from Mary Pickford thanking Cobina Wright for her "humanitarian nature and interest in science by supporting her favorite project, the Beaudette Foundation for Marine Biology Research." Filled with full page "Ads" from..... More
Albany: Joel Munsell, 1876. Hardcover. 377 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Presentation copy from Joel Munsell to Professor Jonathan Pearson."Prof. Jonathan Pearson with the Sincear Reagards of J Munsell." Munsell, a printer in Albany, NY, published and edited numerous magazines, papers, and books. His personal collection of works on the..... More
Montreal, Canada: Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co. Inc, [1927]. Staplebound. unpaginated (11 pages), 8.5 x 6 cm. The Knox Dainty Dishes booklet is a dual-language collection of recipes using the Knox products. They are listed first in English, then again in French. The titles and information on the brand on..... More
![Item #4347 [MENU] [PROGRAM] THE WORLD FAMOUS COTTON CLUB; THE COTTON CLUB Presents Dan Healy's...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4347.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721683324)
New York: 1936. Wraps. 2 pages. 33 X 26 cm. After the Harlem Riot of 1935, the Cotton Club was forced to close. It later reopened in Midtown at Broadway and 48th Street. Ironically, the club began to admit Black customers at the new location. Before the move to 48th..... More
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Hennegan, Cincinnati: c. 1950. Cards. 6.5 x 9 cm. Egg shaped tri-folding pop-up ephemera. NEW ENGLAND'S BIG NEW FAIR - EXHIBITS: Horses, Poultry, Fruits, Vegetables, Tobacco, Flowers and Plants, Grange Booths, School Children Exhibits. THE PLACE TO ENJOY TWO BIG DAYS, Aerial Acrobatics - Trained Animals, Exciting Races, Band Concerts..... More
Boston: The Somerset Club, 1963. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 113 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition - one of 3,000 copies printed at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont, for the Somerset Club. A cookbook containing recipes for the food of the Somerset Club in the 1960’s. The recipes are..... More
Boston: The Somerset Club, 1963. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 113 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition - one of 3,000 copies printed at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont, for the Somerset Club. A cookbook containing recipes for the food of the Somerset Club in the 1960’s. The recipes are..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1930. Hardcover. 201 pages. 20.5 x 14 cm. A detailed look into the art of good living, described as "giving daily the same amount of time and thought to our daily food and drink that we give daily to the question of dress". This..... More
London: CONSTABLE & CO LTD, 1929. Special Edition. Hardcover. 201 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited editon #66 or 300 copies. Signed by Simon. Color frontispiece after Bouchot with 11 black and white plates with tissue guards. Forward by Maurice Healy. A detailed look into the art of good living..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. Hardcover. 1112 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Over one hundred years after the first edition of Beeton's Book of Household Management was first published, this first facsimile copy brought this classic cookbook back into American homes. Mrs. Beeton's advice to 'the Mistress', for..... More
Bernard Geis Associates, 1969. Stated First Edition. 405 pages. 24 x 16 cm. From the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan comes a saucy cookbook that shows its swagger with chapter titles such as Come fry with me, You love you (food to take to bed), He's mad for sports (and for..... More
Netherlands: Valiz, 2013. First Edition. Wraps. 232 pages. 23 x 17 cm. Farming the City project began in November 2010, as an initiative of the Amersterdam-based organization CITIES, bringing city dwellers and urban farmers together to explore inspirational ways of producing, storing, cooking, preserving, distributing and sharing food. Since then..... More