Rare and Antiquarian Books
Cooking
If you are looking for a copy of a long-lost family cookbook from your childhood, you should definitely take a look through the pages of the rare and collectible cook books section of the Biblio Rare Book Room. There is a large selection from which to choose, and many of the rare and antique books featured below are hard to find first editions of favorite and traditional cook books.

French Provincial Cooking
by David, Elizabeth
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller
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Reading, United Kingdom
- Item Price
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$767.16
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$767.16

NEW AMERICAN COOKERY, OR FEMALE COMPANION. CONTAINING FULL AND AMPLE DIRECTIONS FOR ROASTING, BROILING, STEWING, HASHING, BOILING, PRESERVING, PICKLING, POTTING, FRICASEES, SOUPS, PUFF-PASTES, PUDDINGS, CUSTARDS, PIES, TARTS, & C. ALSO, THE MAKING OF WINES AND CHEESE. PECULIARLY ADAPTED TO THE AMERICAN MODE OF COOKING
by [COOKERY]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Lacking the endpapers; small chip at the top of the spine. A clean, attractive, unsophisticated copy in original binding of a sc
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
- Item Price
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$21,875.00
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$21,875.00

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The Modern Art of Cookery Improved; or, Elegant, Cheap, and Easy Methods, of preparing most of the Dishes now in Vogue; in the Composition whereof Both Health and Pleasure have been consulted.
by Ann Shackleford [Mrs, of Winchester]
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller
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Birsay, Orkney
- Item Price
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$1,278.60
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$1,278.60

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Autograph Letter Signed ("Julia Child"), to Mrs. Fairbanks
by Child, Julia
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Seller
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Biddeford, Maine
- Item Price
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$3,500.00
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$3,500.00

The Way to Cook; Julia Child on Videotape !: Promotional Poster
by Child, Julia (SIGNED)
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Printing
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana
- Item Price
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$1,000.00
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$1,000.00

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Kitty Wells' Country Kitchen Cook Book
by Wells, Kitty
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Seller
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Spring Green, Wisconsin
- Item Price
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$110.00
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$110.00

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The Southern Cook Book of Fine Old Recipes
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller
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Athens, Greece
- Item Price
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$115.42
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$115.42

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The Complete Economical Cook and Frugal Housewife: An Entire New System of Domestic Cookery, Containing Approved Directions for Purchasing, Preserving, and Cooking.
by Mary Holland
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Twelfth edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Item Price
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$260.00
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$260.00

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Betty Crocker's Cookbook
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition, First Printing stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio
- Item Price
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$120.00
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$120.00

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Better Homes and Gardens Encyclopedia of Cooking
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First and second printings in 20 volume set
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio
- Item Price
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$100.00
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$100.00

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Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book: Every recipe triple-tested by our Tasting-Test Kitchens staff
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First edition, fifth printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio
- Item Price
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$125.00
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$125.00

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The Joy of Cooking. A compilation of reliable recipes with a casual culinary chat
by Rombauer, Irma S.
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller
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Biddeford, Maine
- Item Price
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$9,000.00
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$9,000.00

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The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book: illustrations by Sir Francis Rose
by Alice B. Toklas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller
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Berg en dal, Netherlands
- Item Price
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$522.12
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$522.12

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The Good Housekeeping Cookbook
by Dorothy B. Marsh, editor
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio
- Item Price
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$120.00
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$120.00

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Victory Binding of the American Women's Cook Book: Wartime Edition With Victory Substitutes and Economical Recipes for Delicious Wartime Meals
by Ruth Berolzheimer, editor
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- Wartime Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio
- Item Price
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$100.00
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$100.00