Your Victory Garden Counts More Than Ever
by [Poster – War Food Administration; Hubert Morley (artist)]
[District of Columbia]: Government Printing Office, 1945. Poster, (48.3 x 53 cm.), folded as issued. Government Printing Office document 1945--O-629743. A government-issued poster encouraging Americans to grow victory gardens to support the war effort. The poster depicts an arrangement of various vegetables, including peas in the shell, cabbage, and carrots in the foreground. In the background is a view of a garden with a man and woman cultivating and weeding. In an official wartime activity begun two and a... Read More
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Carry Nation. [The Woman with the Hatchet (subtitle from half-title)]
by Asbury, Herbert
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm.), 307, vii, [1] pages. Illustrated. Index. Top edge yellow. FIRST & SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION. A biography of the radical temperance activist Carrie Nation, by the legendary journalist Herbert Asbury, author of Gangs of New York, The Great Illusion, and Barbary Coast. Carry Nation was published the year following Asbury's edition of Jerry Thomas' Bon Vivant's Companion. In publisher's bright green cloth, decorated and titled in yellow and... Read More
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The French Quarter: An informal history of the New Orleans underworld
by Asbury, Herbert
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. Octavo (22.5 x 16 cm.), 484 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A fascinating account of the evolution of the New Orleans' French Quarter underworld, with Prohibition tales and stories of gambling, prostitution, voodoo purveyors, and political corruption. One of a series of book-length explorations of the low life of various cities undertaken by the great Herbert Asbury, perhaps best known for his Gangs of New York, which served as the foundation for the film... Read More
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Fourth Boston Food Fair. Under the auspices and personal management of the Boston Retail Grocers' Association, Mechanics' Building, Huntington Ave., Boston, October 2 to October 28, 1899
by [Food Fairs]; Boston Retail Grocers' Association
Boston: F.M. Porter Co, 1899. Quarto, stapled in wrappers (24 x 17.5 cm.), 80 pages; 1 plate. Illustrated, black & white and chromolithograph plate. Advertising. FIRST EDITION. The "Official catalog, musical program, list of exhibitors" for this fourth congress of members of the Boston Retail Grocers Association. The association was founded in 1881, and held its first food fair that year. Photographic portraits of the senior members of the Association are included, as is a description of Miss Nellie... Read More
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The Ladies' Note-Book and Calendar: with select receipts and household information
by World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N.Y.: World's Dispensary Medical Association, 1882. Further title from cover: "Compliments of World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y., 1882. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1880, by the World's Dispensary Medical Association, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington". Machine-sewn booklet (15 x 9 cm.), 24 pages. Calendar. Illustrated. A promotional almanac, calendar, recipe book, for the World Dispensary Medical Association, manufacturers of Dr. Pierce's Standard Medicines. This is likely the second... Read More
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The Ladies' Note-Book and Calendar: with select receipts and household information
by [Almanac]; World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N.Y.: World's Dispensary Medical Association, 1887. Further title from cover: "Compliments of World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y., 1882. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1880, by the World's Dispensary Medical Association, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington". Machine-sewn booklet (15 x 9 cm.), 24 pages. Calendar. Illustrated. Later issue, with the first published in 1880 and carrying a calendar for 1881. A promotional almanac, calendar, and recipe book, for the... Read More
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Atlas P.L.M. Jura, Burgundy
by [Atlas – wine; Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway]
Paris: J. Barreau, Imp. Edit.; Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, No Date. Quarto-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (26.5 x 19 cm.), 19, [1] pages. Illustrated with two maps in black and red, and with two color plates, and many black and white illustrations in the text. The text is a review of towns and cities in the Jura and Burgundy, with small, inset photographic images of famous buildings in each. In illustrated beige wrappers, decorated and titled in dark... Read More
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Aunt Matilda's Selected Receipts and Useful Information
by ["Aunt Matilda"; I.L. Cragin & Co. (Philadelphia, Penn)]
Philadelphia, Penn: I. L. Cragin & Co, 1890. Cord-bound booklet, stapled in wrappers (11.5 x 7.8 cm.), 31, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook for Dobbins' electric soap, manufactured by I.L. Cragin & Co. The recipes alternate with testimonials for the laundry soap. The company used 'electric' in the title in order to capitalize on people's fascination with electricity at that time. The soap itself was formulated with a very alkaline base, which actually gave it a bit... Read More
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Aunt Matilda's Selected Receipts and Useful Information
by ["Aunt Matilda"; I.L. Cragin & Co. (Philadelphia, Penn)]
Philadelphia, Penn: I. L. Cragin & Co, 1890. Cord-bound booklet, stapled in wrappers (11.5 x 7.8 cm.), 31, [1] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook for Dobbins' electric soap, manufactured by I.L. Cragin & Co. The recipes alternate with testimonials for the laundry soap. The company used 'electric' in the title in order to capitalize on people's fascination with electricity at that time. The soap itself was formulated with a very alkaline base, which actually gave it a... Read More
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The Sultan's Pleasure: Turkish Cookbook
by Ayarslan, Soydan; Dona Bretherick (editors); Carèl Bertram Snyder (illustrator)
[Berkeley, California: Noh Directions Press; Turkish Educational Foundation, 1970. Comb-bound, octavo-sized book (21.5 x 15 cm.), viii, 126 pages [2]. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook to benefit the "Turkish Educational Foundation, Inc. to further the education of Turkish schoolchildren in need. A statement (page ii) indicates the "Project was initiated by Association of Turkish Students, University of California, Berkeley." Recipes are not attributed, but a list of Contributors is included (page ii). Recipe titles are provided in both... Read More
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Diners
by Baeder, John; Scully, Vincent (introduction); Trillin, Calvin
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1978. Oblong quarto (22 x 28.5 cm.), 144 pages. Illustrated in color and black and white. FIRST EDITION; only issued in wrappers. A collection of one hundred five paintings of Diners, the long obsession of artist John Baeder. Some very light soiling to text block edges, otherwise fine. Association copy, signed on the half title by both Calvin and Alice Trillin.
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The Management of Bees. With a description of the "Ladies Safety Hive", with forty illustrative wood engravings. Second edition
by Bagster, Samuel
London: Saunders and Otley, 1838. Small octavo (17.7 x 11 cm.), xvi, 240, [4] pages. Illustrated with a color engraving frontispiece, woodcut title page, and forty wood engravings in the text. Publisher's advertisements at end. Second Edition, originally issued by the author in 1834. Samuel Bagster Jr. (1800-1835) was the son of a publisher of Bibles and other religious works. The Management of Bees was Bagster's first work, and remained in print until 1865. His second work on bees,... Read More
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The Marigold Cook Book: A Practical and Useful Collection of Southern Recipes
by Baldwin, Mary; Hinds, Evelyn
New York; Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company; Country Life Press, 1938. Large, comb-bound octavo (23.5 x 17 cm.), [6], 126 pages. Thumb indexed. FIRST EDITION. The cookbook of The Marigold, a popular Niagara Falls restaurant, issued in the year the restaurant underwent its first expansion. Recipes range from Dixie Cake to Dixie Bread to Dumplings. Despite its Western New York State origins, this is a Southern recipe collection. While owned and managed by Mary Baldwin, a white woman,... Read More
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Die Neue Ernahrung, in Anleitung und Rezpten
by Balzli, Dr. med. H.
Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns Verlag; [Gedruckt... bei J.F. Steinkopf], 1933. Octavo (21 x 15 cm.), 78, [2] pages. Text in German. FIRST EDITION. An instruction book for the "New Diet", with a summary of recent nutritional science, "Rules of Thumb" for nutritional science, recipes and menus. It's notable that the author separates the European and American rules of thumb. The cover illustration features two women perhaps a generation apart, one plump and aproned holding a tray with a roast bird,... Read More
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Eleventh annual meeting: Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association. Boston, May 13, 14, 15, 1890. Reception Hotel Vendome May 15, 1890
by [Banquet program – Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association; Parker House; American House; Hotel Vendome (Boston, Mass.)]
[Boston: Robinson Engraving Co, 1890. Menu, in painted wooden boards, bound with cord (20 x 15.2 cm.), 10 gold-printed leaves, each a die-cut circle printed versos only. An elaborate program of events for the eleventh annual meeting of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, held in May, 1890 at Boston's great hotels, the Parker House, Hotel Vendome, and American House. The H.M.M.B.A. was founded in 1879 to offer hotel workers insurance plans; it was later to become the Bankers... Read More
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The Official Foodie Handbook. Be Modern- Worship Food
by Barr, Ann & Paul Levy
London: Ebury Press, 1984. Squarish octavo (21.3 x 18 cm.), 144 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Published just two years after the infamous Harper's & Queen article that brought the word "foodie" to the culinary conversation. Levy, edited by Barr, skewered an anonymous "foodie" for pretention and undeserved attention to a less-than-fully-important subject. Years later, Levy admitted he was himself the model for the anonymous foodie. The question of the first use of the word "foodie" remains in debate, as... Read More
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Directions for preserving fruit in Squire's Patent Fruit Jar
by [Handbill – preserving]; John B. Bartlett
New York: [printed by] A. Penfield, 1865. Unfolded booklet (13 x 22.5 cm.), [6] pages (if folded). John B. Barlett’s business was located at 69 Murray Street, New York, where he distributed the Squire’s Patent Fruit Jar. “The GREAT SECRET in preserving fruit lies in thoroughly expelling the oxygen, and safely sealing therefrom". The Squire’s Jars used a combination rubber band and cork to achieve this. The cover illustration depicts a young woman in the process of canning, with... Read More
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Tried and True Recipes. Third Book
by Bashinsky, Elizabeth Burford; [United Daughters of the Confederacy (Troy, Alabama)]
[Troy]: Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1937. Large octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 382 pages. Portrait illustration. Advertisements at rear. Index. Publication date from new preface. FIRST EDITION, of this third title in the series. This Third Book follows the 1922 and 1926 publications, but each is a self-contained cookbook. Recipe attributed with the name of the contributor. The portrait is of "Martha Dismukes, Helen's Mammy who represented the Black Mammy of the Old South." "Helen" was... Read More
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Fruits of the World in Danger
by Baxter, Glen
[New York]: Gotham Book Mart, 1974. Stapled, letter-sized booklet (8 x 11"), 14 pages, printed rectos only. Fully illustrated in black and white. Six pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. FIRST EDITION, ordinary issue (there was a signed and lettered issue of twenty-six copies). An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his pen and ink drawings at the Gotham Book Mart. Very light toning, otherwise near fine.
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Jim Beard's New Barbecue Cookbook
by Beard, Jim [James Beard]
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.
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The Casserole Cookbook
by Beard, Jim; [James Beard]
Indianapolis; New York: Bobbs-Merrill; Maco Magazine Company, Inc, 1955. Quarto (24.5 x 17 cm.), 144 pages. Profusely illustrated. Photographs by Josephine Von Miklos. FIRST EDITION. "Over 250 easy exciting recipes for 2 to 20 people." The design is notable, with small photos floated to the edge of the page. Very modern at the time. Blue cloth boards, titled in gray; a bit of fading to edges of cloth. In an unclipped dust jacket, with some light chipping and edgewear.... Read More
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Bee Venom Therapy. Bee Venom, Its Nature, and Its Effect on Arthritic and Rheumatoid Conditions
by Beck, Bodog F.
Osage, Iowa: L.A. Doyle, 1981. Octavo ( x cm.), 238 pages. Facsimile of the original 1935 edition, with the addition of a new foreword by Charles Mraz, owner of Champlain Valley Apiaries, world-renowned beekeeper, and founding member of the American Apitherapy Society. Fine in publisher's blue cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Inscribed by the author to New England beekeeper William Petch, with a typed letter, signed laid-in.
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Archive of British Beer Labels
by [Labels – beer]
[United Kingdom], 1950. Various sizes, (labels no larger than 9.5 x 8 cm.). A collection of over six hundred fifty unused full-color beer bottle labels from over fifty British breweries. There is some duplication, so not each label is unique within the collection. Labels are housed in forty-four Henri Wintermans’ Café Crème cigar tin boxes and arranged by brewer. Breweries represented in the collection include: Anvil, Charles Wells, Guinness, Holdens, J. Shipstone & Son, J.C. & R.H. Palmer, J.P.... Read More
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The Book of Household Management... also Sanitary, Medical, & Legal Memoranda; with a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all Things connected with Home Life and Comfort
by Beeton, Isabella Mary
London: S.O. Beeton, 248, Strand, W.C.; Cox & Wyman, Printers, 1861. One volume rebound in two; small octavos (17.2 x 10.8 cm.), xxxix, [1]-512; [513]-1112 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and engraved title, with twelve additional color plates, and with engravings in the text. FIRST EDITION, first impression in book form (with "18 Bouverie St." on the illustrated title page). Preceded by the very rare issue in twenty-four monthly parts, issued November 1859-1861. ~ Perhaps the most famous... Read More
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The Philosophy of Eating
by Bellows MD, Albert J.
New York: Published by Hurd & Houghton, 1868. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), viii, 344 pages. Alphabetical table of contents (index) at front. Stated Fourth Edition. The title and copyright page remain unchanged from the first edition, but a two page Appendix has been added at rear, containing revisions and expansions of four sections in the first edition. A new "Preface to the Second Edition", dated January 1868, follows title page. With the Table of Contents, this is the... Read More
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