c. 1920s - 1940s. Ring_bound. This Canadian homemade cookbook is filled with a potpourri of both handwritten, printed, and pasted recipes. The Canadian National Exhibition Cooking School's printed recipes are featured as well as Lake Simcoe Ice Refrigeration and Cooking School recipes. Our author uses anything and everything to write..... More

Oklahoma - Nebraska: c. 1950-1980. Ring_bound. This well-used black binder is chock-full of recipes that stood the test of time. Pasted on the interior of the front cover is the typed recipe for "NEIMAN MARCUS COOKIES". After that, our author uses every ounce of space to safeguard her go to..... More

c. 1930. Hardcover. 67 pages (written). 24 x 19 cm. Neatly written homemade cookbook with 206 recipes, 3 handwritten recipes laid in. Our author was fond of baking although there are some savory recipes included and a few remedies. A sampling of recipes include: Birthday Cake, Orange Filling, Boston Cookies..... More

Ontario, Canada: 1910's -1940's. Hardcover. Handwritten cookbook dating from c. 1910 until after 1940. Newspaper clippings reveal the location as Ontario, Canada and most likely handed down from mother to daughter or generation to generation. Truly a "Colossus" containing hundreds of recipes. With many handwritten recipes and remedies including methods..... More

Dresden: Max Fisher's Berlagsbuchhandlung, 1898. Hardcover. 333 pages. 18.5 x 14 cm. Translation: New Home Cookbook Recipes and remedies from Eastern Central Germany. Noted recipes for special occasions and holidays. Featuring a year-long menu, broken down by month. Home apothecary cures contain three to four different options for each ailment..... More

Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. and Brother, 1829. Hardcover. 456 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. If one wants to live off the grid, this is the book for you. This book literally has EVERYTHING under one cover, including, How to make any type of paint, paper hanging, dying, brewing, distillation, engraving..... 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

Boston: The Libbie Printing Co., c. 1919. Loose_leaf. 24 x 18.5 cm. Broadside calling for EQUAL SUFFRAGE FOR MEN AND WOMEN. Summoning those who might not see the need for Equality, this broadside states "BECAUSE" ten times, while providing various arguments and each time, ending with "They should vote equally..... 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

New York: R. M'Dermut & D.D. Arden, 1814. Hardcover. 316 pages. 18.5 x 11 cm. [9 plates]. An interesting copy of this first New York edition - it is one of those odd copies with some printing irregularities that make it just a little more appealing. Originally this copy SHOULD..... More

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Hardcover. 327 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. The author skillfully combines oral interviews and extensive archival records to show how waitresses adopted the basic tenets of male-dominated craft unions but rejected other aspects of male union culture. Dishing It Out contends that the..... More