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: 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
Place de la Couronne: 1865. Half Leather. 363 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Recipes by the author, Chef Durand. This manual was one of the first French Cookbooks to focus regional cuisine - including the North and the South, with guides for the best versions of a variety of foods..... More
Nashua, NH: FLETCHER, 1851. Second Edition. Hardcover. 128 pages. 17.5 x 12 cm. This miniature book, original copyright 1848, summons the reader to follow the advice of the author, Anna Ferguson (1778-1853), with advice for women entering society in the form of homilies and parables. Pencil notation on presentation page..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 227 pages. 19.5 x 12 cm. Illustrated by JOHN HELD, JR. Miss Manners, Emily Post, first published this book in serial form in Vanity Fair under the anonymous pen name Muriel. Early in her career, Miss Post had a...... More
Cooperstown: The Arthur H. Crist Co., 1915. Etiquette. Wraps. 240 pages. Vol. XXX, No. 4. Established in 1885, Table Talk, published monthly, was "The American Authority Upon Culinary Topics And Fashions Of The Table." Including Poems, an essay on the virtues of eating Fish, an article on Traveling Cooking Schools..... More
Cooperstown: The Arthur H. Crist Co., 1915. Etiquette. Wraps. 240 pages. Vol. XXX, No. 4. Established in 1885, Table Talk, published monthly, was "The American Authority Upon Culinary Topics And Fashions Of The Table." Including Poems, an essay on the virtues of eating Fish, an article on Traveling Cooking Schools..... More
New York: Fountainhead Publishers, Inc., 1961. Hardcover. 306 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Introduction by Charles Collingwood, an early member of Edward R. Murrow's group of foreign correspondents known as the "Murrow Boys". Presentation copy - signed on the half title page to Emanuel Green Berg, 1962. From one who..... More