Search Results: Titles starting with J from Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

Staunton, Va: John D. Hounihan, 1877. Small octavo, (17 x 13.5 cm.), iv, [2], 363, [1] pages. Illustrated with woodcuts in the text, and with twenty-six full-page monochrome plates in blue, green, dark green, orange, and pink. Advertisement on final leaf. Spine title: The Art of Baking. FIRST EDITION. A baking and confectionery manual for the public, practical baker, and tradesman. Sections include: yeast, bread, cakes, pastry (which includes pies), ice cream, candy, and at the end, a number of interesting short sections: hotel baking, cracker recipes, "Canadian recipes" ("written by a gentleman who has worked for the largest Cracker Works in Canada") and extracts. The full-page color illustrations are designs for the tops of cakes. Text block somewhat shaken and age-toned, approaching brittle. Some creasing to pages, evidently a printer/binder error. Small edge chip to fore edge of title page. Publisher's dimpled gray cloth, blind-titled and decorated on the front panel, with gilt-titled and… Read More

[Hailsham, England], 1790. Bill of fare, (16.3 x 10 cm.), [1] page. Printed text enclosed within an ornamental oval. Expenses for a six-day trip through Sussex, as recorded on a printed billhead, with details completed in manuscript, undated [but 1790s]. "J. Cox and wife" were charged for transportation from Hailsham to Seaford (one day), then to Lewes (one day), and on to Horsham (four days), with board, for a total of 18 pounds, ten shillings, seven pence. Built in 1793, the Crown Inn still operates in the East Sussex town, though the original owner, J. Gibbs, declared bankruptcy in November of 1808. "Neat Post Chaise" refers to the method of transportation, a four-wheeled, closed carriage, containing one seat for two or three passengers, that was popular in 18th-century England. Some wear to edges; fold lines visible on verso, otherwise fine.

New York: James M. Thorburn & Co.; Sackett & Cobb, Steam Printers, 25 John Street, 1863. Octavo, cord-sewn (22.5 x 16 cm.), [3], 4-31, [1] pages. At head of title: "1863."; at foot of title: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by James M. Thorburn & Co." ~ An annual seed catalogue from this supplier based in New York City. Organized alphabetically, from Artichoke to Turnip, with an introductory "Rules for the Cultivation of Vegetables", and additional lists of grass seeds, seeds available by the bushel and the pound, books, and horticultural implements. The final page contains a list of all the kitchen garden seeds available from Thorburn at the time. Some light age-toning and some dog ears. No wrapper present but all catalogued copies we have located have the same pagination with no wrappers. Some light pencil marginalia to a few pages. [OCLC locates six copies].

Worcester, Mass: American Antiquarian Society, 1931. Octavo in wrappers (24.5 x 15.5 cm.), 54 pages. FIRST EDITION. Some light creasing to grayish-blue wrappers, otherwise fine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper panel, "For H[illeg.]..., With apologies for the invasion of Ireland, 8 July 1922"

LeRoy, New York: Gennesee Pure Food Co.; [printed by] J. Ottman Lith. Co.], 1913. Stapled booklet (16 x 12 cm.), 16 pages, including wrappers, with six additional semi-detached pages bound only with cord. Date from external evidence (see Schreiber, Jell-O: A Checklist). Twelve full-page chromolithographs including the cover and centerfold. The chromolithographs illustrate Coffee Jell-O, Orange Jell-O, Raspberry Jell-O, a collection of attractively plated Jell-O desserts (on the centerfold), Peach Jell-O (with a racist Mammy image of "Aunt Dinah" saying she "never made nothin' better'n dat", Lemon Jell-O, and Jell-O Ice Cream Powder. The rear panel of the wrapper depicts "The house that Jell-O built" - the Jell-O factory - encased in yellow gelatin on a cut-crystal serving platter. Many recipes included. Some light soiling to wrappers, otherwise fine. [Schreiber, Jell-O: A Checklist, (13) bk.12].

New York: The Viking Press, 1954. Octavo (22 x 14.7 cm.), 184 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A cookbook of the recipes of Jesse Willis Lewis, an African-American chef from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, as set down by his employers, the Ballard family of Bay St. Louis and later New Orleans. Specialties include the Creole dishes of New Orleans; the fish, meat, and game concoctions of the Deep South; oyster cutlets, Key lime pie. Also contains versions of everyday dishes for breakfast, lunch, and supper. Chapters include: Appetizers, Gumbo and soups, Fish and shellfish, Poultry, Meat and game, Vegetables, Salads, Biscuits, breads & pies, and Desserts & beverages. In publisher's green and brown cloth. In an unclipped dust jacket, designed by Bill English. Very slight fading to spine of the jacket, otherwise fine in a fine jacket. With the signature, bookplate, and ownership blind-stamp of Edith Bicknell Brown to front endpapers, with a note indicating the book was purchased at Macy's, San Francisco in August… Read More

London: Printed by Bernard Alsop, and are to be sold at his house in Grubstreet, near the Upper Pump, 1653. Duodecimo (15 x 10 cm.), [2], 251, [8] pages. Table of contents at rear. Printer's name from Wing. Stated Third Edition corrected, first published in 1669. A classic of seventeenth-century English food writing from the English courtier, diplomat, respected natural philosopher, and founding member of the Royal Society. He was a also a pirate and the lover of Marie de Medici, a man of such achievement he was described as the "Magazine of all Arts and Sciences, or (as one stiles him) the Ornament of this Nation" by the antiquary John Pointer in his Oxoniensis Academia (1749). The work was published posthumously, edited by a close servant, the work is considered an excellent source of recipes for beverages and for various forms of food preservation. What is considered the first printing of a recipe for bacon and eggs is present, as well as a recipe for capons fed on the flesh of vipers. ~… Read More

Garden Grove, Ca: Pholiota Press, Inc, 1985. Octavo (21.5 x 14 cm.), xix, 220 pages. Index. Illustrated. FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Originally published in French in 1929. A sensitive description and collection of recipes of the Jews of Poland. About one third of the book is description of the various groups of Jews in cities in Poland, and of their thoughts on food; the remainder and bulk of the book is dedicated to recipes, given in some detail. The compiler, Édouard de Pomiane (1875-1964), was the founder of "gastrotechnie", and professor at the Institute Scientifique d'Hygiène Alimentaire. In photo-illustrated wrappers. Fine.

New York: Random House Inc, 1958. Octavo (24 x 17 cm.), 128 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION THUS; originally issued by magazine publisher Maco. An early outdoor cooking book, featuring "200 great outdoor recipes" from James Beard (1903-1985). Attractively laid out, and illustrated with black and white photographs. Clean and sound, in publisher's black cloth-covered boards, over a green cloth spine. Some edge wear to unclipped dust jacket; one small chip to top edge. Generally very good. Surprisingly scarce.

Brooklyn: A. Johnson Machine Works, 1910. Octavo, 68 pages. Illustrations throughout. FIRST EDITION. Trade catalogue featuring machines for manufacturing of crown corks, crowning machines, machines for manufacturing of corks and cork discs, machines for screw caps, and special machines which include a friction capping machine, automatic rotary cap spinning machine, single head cap spinning machine, and an automatic rotary screw cap capping machine. Each item includes detailed rendering, as well as description, mechanical and output details. In brown wrappers secured with brads, quite bruised and worn. Text edges worn, with slight foxing throughout. Title page marked up, company address lined-out and amended in pen, also with pencil marks. Otherwise good. [OCLC locates just one copy, at the Smithsonian].

Omaha, NE: Joslyn Art Museum, 1976. Square octavo (20.5 x 20.5 cm.), 216 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. Schimmel was an Omaha born and raised youth when he left for Switzerland to study at Lausanne's Hotel School. He eventually returned home to become one of the Midwest's most celebrated chefs and innkeepers. Fine in publisher's illustrated cloth. A presentation copy, from the collection of American fashion and style icon Bill Blass, and boldly inscribed by the chef to Blass on the title page.

Manhattan, Kansas: Mercury Publishing House, Printers, 1885. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (21 x 14 cm.), 16 pages. FIRST EDITION of the first issue of the first American periodical dedicated to mycology. Includes a statement of purpose for the new journal, and reports of new-found fungi (in this case new fungi from Kansas and from Iowa. Also included is a separate article, "North American Geasters", and a review of new literature in the field. The Journal of Mycology was founded and edited by W.A. Kellerman, and was published through 1909 in fourteen volumes, at which point it merged with the newly founded Mycologia. Publisher's original printed yellow wrappers, with some small chips from corners. With the faint ex-libris stamp of Connecticut College Library. [OCLC locates sixteen copies (mostly of complete sets)].

St. Louis, MO: [the author]; A.C. Clayton Printing Co, 1931. Octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), [32], 395 pages. Illustrated with chapter silhouettes and with a dust jacket design by Marion Rombauer. FIRST EDITION, privately published by the author in an edition of 3000 copies, and illustrated by the author's daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker, who also designed the dust jacket depicting St. Martha of Bethany, the patron saint of cooking, who took up a mop to fend off the dragon Tarasque. Irma von Starkloff Rombauer, the daughter of Max von Starkloff, an affluent St. Louis doctor, studied art at Washington University, and enjoyed a brief romance with the writer Booth Tarkington before marrying Edgar Rombauer, a lawyer, in 1899. As she wrote in her introduction to The Joy of Cooking, "Will it encourage you to know that I was once as ignorant, helpless and awkward a bride as was ever foisted on an impecunious young lawyer? Together we placed many a burnt offering upon the altar of matrimony." After her husband… Read More

Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1946. Thick octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 884 pages. The "Post-War Edition" as this 1946 printing has sometimes been called, is a second printing of the revised and enlarged 1943 "War-Time Edition". The first trade printing of the The Joy of Cooking was issued by Bobbs Merrill in 1936, following the original edition, privately published by the author and printed by Clayton of St. Louis in 1931. As described by Anne Mendelson in her masterful biography of Rombauer, Stand Facing the Stove (New York, 1996, pp. 170-172), with each successive printing of Joy, incremental changes were made and the book progressed toward becoming a national bestseller and a standard household reference. Simultaneously, Rombauer's relationship with Bobbs Merrill deteriorated. But despite that The Joy of Cooking rose to the position it holds today, that of the most popular and best-selling cookbook in American history, with nearly eighteen million copies sold to-date. It is the only cookbook to… Read More

Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1941. Thick octavo (24 x 16.5 cm.), [10], 1-628 pages. Illustrated with silhouettes by the author's daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker; detailed Table of Contents and detailed Index. Second edition, stated sixth printing. The sixth printing of the first trade publication of the The Joy of Cooking, issued by Bobbs Merrill in 1936, following the original, privately published by the author and printed by Clayton of St. Louis in 1931. As described by Anne Mendelson in her masterful biography of Rombauer, Stand Facing the Stove (New York, 1996, pp. 170-172), with each successive printing of Joy, incremental changes were made and the book progressed toward becoming a national bestseller and a standard household reference. Simultaneously, Rombauer's relationship with Bobbs Merrill deteriorated. This new copyright registration in 1941 indicates not a new edition, but rather another incremental step more properly called a new printing, and an effort on… Read More

Cambridge, MA.; Chicago, Il: The Pomegranate Press; Third World Press, 1978. Octavo-sized booklet stapled in wrappers (20 x 14.5 cm.), 30, [2] pages. FIRST EDITION. Number 85 of an edition of 550 copies printed on Kilmorey Laid Chestnut with 12 pt. Bembo type. Ifeanyi Menkiti (1940-2019), the Bifran philosopher and poet taught philosophy at Wellesley College, co-edited A Companion to African Philosophy (2006), and published influential views on the African concept of personhood. He purchased the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in 2006 to save it from bankruptcy. Internally fine, in publisher's dark tan wrappers, printed in blue and brown. Wrapper sunned, and with some light soil. Inscribed on the title page verso, "for Daphne, with warm regards, Ifeanyi, Cambridge, December 1, 1978." [WITH:] Affirmations. Octavo-sized booklet in wrappers (21.5 x 14 cm.), 24 pages. FIRST EDITION. Some light soil to various leaves. Otherwise fine, in publisher's wrappers. Inscribed on the half-title, "for Daphne, with best… Read More

Jackson; London: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. Oblong quarto (26 x 28.5 cm.), 16 pages, 58 leaves, [3] pages. Illustrated with 58 color photographs. FIRST TRADE EDITION; there was also a deluxe issue of 126 copies. The first monograph from photographer Birney Imes (preceded by at least two exhibition catalogues. "Imes reveals a previously unexplored domain, the black juke joints of the Mississippi Delta country, and transforms this familiar phenomenon of Delta cultural life into something rich and strange. He has focused his camera on nearly empty rooms, yet these bluesy, almost peopleless photographs present black cafes, roadhouses, and taverns as folk art that resounds with energy and pulses with the joys and griefs of the clientele. The evocative place names in Imes's photographs sound as fascinating as the names of these juke joints which sprang up in the Delta landscape: the Pink Pony in Darling, Mississippi, the People's Choice Cafe in Leland, Monkey's Place in Merigold, the Evening… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Quarto, x, 243 pages. FIRST EDITION, first printing. The first of two books written to accompany Julia Child's second television series, following the French Chef. Some light edge wear and bumping to publisher's decorated white cloth. In a price-clipped and edge worn dust jacket. Small chip to head of spine. Near very good. Inscribed on the title page, "To Kelsie, Julia Child, Paul Child"

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Quarto ( x cm.), x, 243 pages. FIRST EDITION, first printing. The first of two books based on Julia Child's second television series, following the success of The French Chef. In publisher's decorated white cloth, clean and sound. Unclipped dust jacket, with only very light age-toning. Near fine. Signed by both Julia and her husband Paul on the half-title.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Quarto, viii, 248 pages. FIRST EDITION, first printing. The second of two books written to accompany Julia Child's second television series, following The French Chef. Small ink dot to free front end paper; in publisher's decorated white cloth. In publisher's dust jacket with small closed tear to bottom edge; not price clipped. Signed on the half-title, "Julia Child, Paul Child"