Cookery, Gastronomy & Domestic Arts

New York: Good Housekeeping , 1925.. Stated 10th edition. c.1922. pp. 253, [1] Ad. VG-/No jacket. Speckled dye loss to cover, toning. No ownership or marking.. more information

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Boston: (formerly and published by) The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, February, 1931.. Illustrated by period ads and photographs in bw. First edition. Original Yellow printed wraps. Super Royal 8vo (24,5cm). pp. 493-572. Near Fine. Light cover wear and toning, multi-contributor articles. Congressional Hash, Tri-Festal February Cake, Dried Fruit Production, Spanish Style House.. more information

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Boston: (formerly and published by) The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, June-July, 1931.. Illustrated by period ads and photographs in bw. First edition. Original Yellow printed wraps. Super Royal 8vo (24,5cm). pp. 80. Near Fine. Light cover stain and toning, multi-contributor articles. Ice cream layer cake, maple cream cake, stepping stone garden walks.. more information

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Boston: (formerly and published by) The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, March, 1931.. Illustrated by period ads and photographs in bw. First edition. Original Yellow printed wraps. Super Royal 8vo (24,5cm). pp. 573-652. Near Fine. Light cover wear and toning, multi-contributor articles. Waffle Wisdom, Creamed Chicken in Cornucopias, Wall Trellises for Exterior Decoration, choosing and using a gas range, roots in the diet.. more information

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Boston: (formerly and published by) The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, April, 1931.. Illustrated by period ads and photographs in bw. First edition. Original Yellow printed wraps. Super Royal 8vo (24,5cm). pp. 653-732. Near Fine. Light cover wear and toning, multi-contributor articles. Square pies, Kandy-Kakelets, bath and dressing room suggestions, spud.. more information

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Boston: (formerly and published by) The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, April, 1931.. Illustrated by period ads and photographs in bw. First edition. Original Yellow printed wraps. Super Royal 8vo (24,5cm). pp. 653-732. Near Fine. Light cover wear and toning, multi-contributor articles. Square pies, Kandy-Kakelets, bath and dressing room suggestions, spud.. more information

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Montgomery AL: Favorite Recipe Press, 1976.. Edited by Board of Advisory Editors. Illustrated by color and b/w photos, b/w line drawings with craft projects. Favorite Recipes of Home Economics Teachers. Spiral. 8vo. pp. 197, [3] Ads. Index. Near Fine. Only flaw is date and place purchased on inside cover. Projects (and recipes) on yarn and string, fabric, paper and wood, plastic, potpourri crafts, with recipes (quick and easy, low calorie, microwave, all-purpose.. more information

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Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, (1944).. Illustrated by Frank Lacano cover and drawings. First (NAP) edition. Pictorial stapled wraps. 8vo. pp. 77, [1] Blank, [1] About author. Near Fine. Traces of rubbing, internally fine. Scarce copy of the orginal 1944 series.. more information

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Atlanta GA: The Coca-Cola Co (Marshall Field & Co, Chicago), (1932).. Illustrated by [6] b/w plate photos with text vignettes and line drawings. First edition. Red boards, top printed emblem. 16mo. pp. 124. Index. VG. Cap and corner wear, one minor topboard scrape. Author collaboration in publishing with Coca-Cola after three years of broadcasts of the National Radio Home-Makers' Club. Invitations to party games a la Coca-Cola.. more information

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London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d.. Illustrated by Color frontis by C. Dickes, b/w letter illumination and several engraved vignettes. Fourteenth Thousand edition. Reprint from from the 19th Century "The Books For the Household" Series. Blind-stamped green cloth, gilt print spine and top, brown eps. 16mo. pp. [iv], 32; 3-32; 3-32; 3-32; 3-32, [iv] Ads. VG. Bumped and worn corners, several foxed spots. Five shorts: Home! Sweet Home, The Good Mother, Household Happiness, Sunday Excursions, and Kind Turns.. more information

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New York: Bader Corp., Las Vegas (Friedman/Fairfax), (1999).. Illustrated by several line drawings. First (N1) edition. Pictorial stiff wraps. 4to. pp. 384. Index. Near Fine. Traces of edgewear to cover, internally fine.. more information

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Adelaide, Australia: G. Gramps and Sons, 1987.. First edition. Glossy pictorial boards. Small 4to. pp. 79. Near Fine/In like jacket/No price in mylar.. more information

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Chicago: J. B. Lippincott, (1935).. First (NAP) edition. Blue board, spiral binding. 8vo. pp. 100. VG. Ink owner, light cover stains, foxing starting. Interesting pencil note on blank page of arrangement of ice box.. more information

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New York: Sterling, (1950).. Illustrated by Knickerbocker Mills. First edition. Five spice packets intact. Orange pictorial paper (matte) boards. Small 8vo. pp. 62. Index. VG. Nicks and rubs to boards, joints starting, internally NF (first page corner bumped). Recipes, celery, poppy and caraway seeds, marjoram and oregano front pastedown. Scarce with all packets intact.. more information

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New York: Stein & Day, (1983).. Illustrated by Color cover photos (Takayuki Ogawa from King and I, stage production), tail vignettes. First edition. Gold boards, quarter black cloth. Royal 8vo. pp. xvii, 202. Index. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Light cap crushing, traces interior scuffing to jacket. Faint stain on bottom fore-edges.. Celebrity. more information

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New York: Pulbifhed by Colonial Williamfburg and diftributed by Holt, Rinehart and Winfton, 1945.. Illustrated by text employed by William Parks (1742) and newly drawn illustrations by Elmo Jones. Facsimile edition. (c.1938, 10th printing). Peach pattern boards, quarter cloth, paper wrap around label printed black, watermark paper, speckled edges. 16mo. pp. [xxiv], 276. Books confulted in thif work, Index, a note to the Reader. Near Fine/VG/No price in mylar. ..."and also a Table of favorite Williamfburg Garden Herbs, to which is added, an account of Virginia Hofpitality; Treatifes on the various Branches of Cookery; an Account of Heath Drinking; fome confiderations on the Obfervation of Criftmas in Virginia, with traditional Recipes for the Seafon; with the Author's Explanation of the Methold of Collecting & Adapting thefe choice Recipes; and an alphabetical Index to the Whole." Some wear and shallow chipping to paper label.. more information

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New York: Gourmet, October 1966.. Translated by Narcissa Chamberlain from the French. Illustrated by b/w author drawings, photos and vignettes. First thus edition. c.1952-1963 (seven printings). Cream washable cloth, gilt print spine, red/blue emblem spine and top, yellow topstain. 4to. pp. xvi, 670. Indices. Very good/Lacks jacket. Light soil and wear, (ink owner). Produced from 1949 series of articles for Gourmet illustrating the beauty and fare of the French countryside, (with recipes in paragraph form). This new edition is enlarged over the 619 page first.. more information

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Boston: Ginn & Co, 1917.. Illustrated by b/w text drawings. Stated Second Revised edition. (c.1903). Olive cloth, dec & pr black. 12mo. pp. vi, 295. Appendix, Index. VG/No jacket. Half removed owner bookplate, some cap and corner wear. Includes chapter on mosquitoes and malaria.. more information

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New York: Self, ca.1964.. Illustrated by Geoffrey cover illustration. First edition. Stapled pamphlet. 8vo. pp. [16]. Near Fine.. more information

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New York: William Morrow, 1974.. Translated by June Guicharnaud from the French. First edition. Orange boards, white quarter cloth. 4to. pp. 282. VG/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Light edgewear, sunning, small closed tear to jacket.. more information

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New York: Living Language (Random House), (2001).. Illustrated by line drawings. Stated first (&N) edition. Pictorial stiff wraps. 8vo. pp. 312. Appendix. As New. Unread copy, no flaws. (ISBN 0609806572).. more information

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Garden City: Doubleday, 1968.. Illustrated by George Rizzo jacket painting. (Stated) First edition. Navy cloth. 8vo. pp. xiv, 367. Index. Near Fine/VG/Unclipped price in mylar. (ink owner), fold wear, head chipping.. more information

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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1971).. First edition. Green cloth. Royal 8vo. pp. [viii], 238. Index. Near Fine/VG+/Unclipped price in mylar. Lightly crushed caps in bright jacket with light rubbing to folds and some edges.. Celebrity. more information

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Mexico: Editorial Intercontinental, November 1956.. Illustrated by Jacques Dunham and Daniel Nunez. First Separate edition. (House Beautiful and Mexico This Month). Clay printed and decorated boards, half navy cloth with gilt crown emblem matching that of front pastedown. 12mo. pp. 166, [7] Notes, [1] colophon. VG/No jacket/In mylar protector. Bottom water stain to pastedown and ffep. and to corresponding fore-edge, faded spine gilt.. more information

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New York: Bantam , April 1990.. Illustrated by author. First American edition. (c.May 1989, Century Hutchinson Ltd.) Introduction by Jacques Pepin. Foreword by Egon Ronay. Cloth. 8vo. pp. 256 pp. As New/As New/Unclipped price in mylar. Not a cookbook but a personal dictionary of food tips from A-Z, by a master of mystery and suspense and his fourth title published on French cooking.. Cookery. more information

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Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, (1944).. Illustrated by Frank Lacano cover and drawings. First (NAP) edition. Pictorial stapled wraps. 8vo. pp. 63. About author. Near Fine. Faint cover stains, internally fine. Scarce copy of the orginal 1944 series.. more information

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Detroit: Ellsworth and Brey, 1890.. Illustrated by B/W frontis and 40 text illustrations. (c.1889). Brown decorated and embossed cloth, marbled edges. Foolscap 4to. pp. [iv], 737. Index. Good. Ink owner, worn covers, foxing to first several pages from removal of clippings, top edge page toning, orange stain pp. 445, several plates have dampstained top edges not affecting pages before and after. Two recipes in pencil on rear end papers and extra hand written recipes laid in. There are several spots of stain here and there, but no internal writing other than rear eps. Sold via Salesman's Dummy, the volume is a plethora of receipts for all manner of domestic arts, horticulture, ornithology and the care of aquaria presented in paragraph form.. more information

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Boston: CBI Publishing, (1983).. Illustrated by Mimi Turner. First Printing of first edition. Taupe cloth. 8vo. pp. x, 340. Utensils, Glossary, Index. VG/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Several top tears to jacket. Chapter on wines.. more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1953).. Illustrated by L.J. Allen. later edition. c.1949. black cloth, topboard illustration, burgundy topstain. Royal 8vo. pp. 288. Index. VG/No jacket. Spine and topedge dulled. Esquire cartoons and a plethora of entertaining tips and menus.. more information

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New York: Harper & Row, (1965).. Illustrated by Seymour Chwast. Book Club edition. c.1935. Black cloth, silver print and illustration. 8vo. pp. [vi], 314. Index. VG/In like jacket/No price in mylar. One scrape to topboard in jacket with chip at top fold. Starting as Handbook for hosts, reprints have contemporized party giving since 1935. A great series to collect.. more information

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London: Seeley Service & Co, 1948.. Illustrated by b/w plate sketches. First edition. Red boards. 8vo. pp. 143, [1]. Near Fine/VG/Unclipped price in mylar. Jacket soil and several shallow fold chips.. more information

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New York: Household Publishing, 1927.. Third Revised, second edition. (c. 1916). center stapled-wraps, blue cover printed black. 8vo. pp. 64. Index. Good/No jacket, as issued. The indispensable guide for kitchen, bedroom, laundry, removing stains, beauty helps, sick room and a host of charts including wedding anniversary gifts, facts about the Bible, the seven wonders of the world, wedding day superstitions, and birth stones and their language.. more information

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London: General Electric Co. Ltd. of England, April 1959.. Illustrated by color and b/w plates. Later edition. Yellow gloss boards printed blue, blue quarter cloth. 8vo. pp. 122. Appendix, Index. VG/No jacket. From installation of your appliance to mixing alcoholic beverages and soup to nuts in between.. Cookery/. more information

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: University of Rhode Island, 1974.. First thus edition. A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Food and Nutrition. 2 volumes. Red cloth, gilt print spine. Large Post 4to. pp. z, xviii, 309; xvi, 180. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Text recto. Though mostly technical, a plethora of information on seafood, mussel storage, canning and preparation.. more information

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: American Heritage Publishing (Doubleday & Co.), (1968).. Edited by Wendy Beuhr, Tatiana McKenna. Illustrated by color & b/w plates, text photos, reproductions and drawings. Assumed first edition. 2 volumes. Olive green cloth, eps and slip case. Super Royal 8vo. pp. [x], 11-383, [1]. Index; [v], 390-768. Index. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued/VG. Several tiny stains to covers and slight fading to volume I eps and pastedowns, internally fine in slipcase with edge and corner rub. Part I History, Part II Menus & Recipies.. more information

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New York: Athaneum, 1977.. Stated first edition. Pink cloth, t.e.pink. 8vo. pp. xii, 399. Index. VG/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Married to former British Ambassodor, staff of Vogue Magazine. No pictures (not for the visually oriented), rather relaxed, but creative philosophy of cooking.. more information

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Boston: Privately published, 1968.. Illustrated by b/w cartoons by Christy Blanck. First edition. Printed cards, white comb binding. 8vo. pp. 116, [1] patrons. VG. Toned covers internally clean. Committee: Lorraine Garibaldi, Caole, Clark, Abbie Jean Huber...what doctors ate in '68?.. New england. more information

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New York: Random House (H. Wolfe), (1937).. First edition. Only cookbook from novelist. Black washable cloth, topboard illustration in gold and white. Large Post 8vo. pp. x, 306. Index. VG/No jacket. Traces of wear to binding, toned edges starting.. more information

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New York: Times Books, 1983.. Illustrated by b/w line drawings & vignettes. First edition. Burgundy washable cloth. 8vo. pp. 368. Bibliography, Index. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Uncracked binding. 275 recipes.. more information

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New York: Atheneum, (1989).. Illustrated by pp. [8] section color photographs, line drawings. First (N1) edition. Washable blue cloth. Cr.4To. pp. 432. Index. As New/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. ISBN: 0689119690.. more information

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New York: J. and J. Harper, 1830.. Illustrated by 12 carving figures (text cuts). [7th Revised] as Harper's Stereotype edition. c.1817 London as Apicus Redivivus or the Cook's Oracle. Brown calf, gilt and black stamped dentelle border to both boards and to spine bands with gilt stamped title, blue eps. 16mo. pp. [ii], xii, [3], 16-432, [ii]. Index. About Very Good. Copy of Samuel R[awson] Gardiner (1829-1902) with pencil signature ffep. Rubbing and edgewear to binding, light foxing throughout, one section shaken, pages buckle shut.. more information

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New York: Stein and Day, 1974.. First edition. Yellow boards, green quarter cloth. Signed by author. 8vo. pp. 263. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar.. Signed First Edition. more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (November) 1966.. Illustrated by maps and head vignettes. 4th printing of 4th edition. c. May 21, 1951. Blue gilt decorated cloth. 8vo. pp. ix, [3], 382, xxvii (index), [7] about author. Near Fine/VG/Unclipped price in mylar. Several short (some creased) tears to bright jacket. Classic reference from wine mogul.. more information

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San Francisco, CA: North Point Press , 1989.. Illustrated by Jonathan Gibbs, wood engravings. First American edition. Publisher card laid in. Cloth, uncut. 8vo. pp. 142, [1] engraving. As New/As New/Unclipped price in mylar. Sixteen wondrous food essays of depth and humor.. more information

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London: Robin Clark, (1987).. Translated by author from the French. Illustrated by author and Elizabeth Lennard photos (chronological frontispieces to the eight Almanachs, 1803-13). First edition. Rust cloth, black print spine, color print eps (Musèes de la Ville de Paris). 8vo. pp. [vi], 242. Notes, Index. Near Fine/VG+/Unclipped price in mylar. Bumped cap and part of rear board, light jacket soil, one tiny chip to fold, unread copy.. France. more information

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New York: Ballantine Books, 1971.. Illustrated by numerous drawings and figures, b&w photographs. First thus edition. Pictorial wraps. Small 8vo. pp. 181. VG. Light edgewear, small stain front, slight ripple in pages.. more information

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Weston, MA: Font & Center Press, 1993.. Illustrated by Elayne Sayers. First thus edition. c.1986 as Italian Provincial Cooking. Stiff pictorial wraps. Signed by "Gogete molti fiorni deliziosi, Lotte Mendelsohn" on half title. 8vo. pp. 347, [3] blank notes. Index. Near Fine. Minor edgewear.. more information

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London: Winchmore (Chartwell), (1983).. Illustrated by color & b/w photos, Pierre Tilley maps. First UK edition. Burgundy cloth and eps. 4to. pp. 192. Index. Near Fine/In like jacket/No price in mylar. Traces of wear.. more information

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New York: Hobbs, Dorman & Co. Edited by Theodora Illenberger and Avaonne Eyre Keiler. Illustrated by b/w photos and cartoons. First edition. Yellow tweed paper boards. Super Royal 8vo. pp. [xii], [5], 189, [1] blank, [8] Index, [28] Of the Reader's Choosing (blank). VG/Good/Unclipped price in mylar. Caps crushed, slightly soiled boards in bright jacket with edge chips and tears, spine tear, darkened at spine and folds. Foreword by Stephen Becker, Introduction by James A. Beard. 45 cartoonists: bio, photo, toon and recipe(s).. more information

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New York: Parent's Institute, 1942.. Illustrated by b/w plates. Revised edition. (c.1933). 6 volumes. Blue cloth, gilt printed and decorated spines, blue pictorial eps, embossed child's head top. 16mo. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Wear to corners, light spine cap crushing, one volume has bubbling to top board. Multi-disciplines and -contributors on all phases and concerns of children of all ages. (Post as 6 books).. Reference. more information

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