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ABAA membership is a privilege extended only to those booksellers who have demonstrated the highest levels of professionalism, ethics, and expertise in the trade. Our more than four hundred members hail from an impressively diverse array of backgrounds. Some have spent their entire careers in the book business, while others have been lighthouse keepers, poets, helicopter pilots, and professional musicians. Some members own brick-and-mortar shops, some operate internet-only businesses from their home or office, some fashion livelihoods from exhibiting at book fairs. Many combine these retail strategies, or add services such as appraising and collection development. A few earn additional income and professional prestige from research and writing. But all our members share an appreciation for the printed page and for the scholarly and ethical practices which exemplify professional bookselling. ...
Featured Member
Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Biddeford, MEhttps://www.rabelaisbooks.com/
Six centuries of printed and manuscript books on food and drink, including cookery, gastronomy, wine, spirits, mycology, farming and gardening. An extensive inventory of culinary ephemera includes menus, trade cards, photographs and more. We buy and sell fine and rare books on all fields related to food and drink, and work with clients worldwide to source rare books and develop private collections.
Selections from Member's stock
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Menu for Chanterelle, with original offset-printed artwork by Robert Rauschenbergby [Menu – Rauschenberg, Robert]; Chanterelle (New York City)
New York : American Menu Printing , 2004
offered by Rabelais: Thought for Food
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The Standard Family Cook-Book; A volume of valuable cooking receipts, carefully compiled from reliable sources, and published by Ladies of the Spencer Baptist Society for the benefit of their building fundFirst Editionby [Ladies of the Spencer Baptist Society (Spencer, Mass.)]
Spencer [Mass.] : Book and Job Office of the Spencer Sun , 1885
offered by Rabelais: Thought for Food
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![The May Day Cook Book. Published by [the] Ladies' Sewing Society of the Second Congregational Church, Attleboro, Mass](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/523/881/1676881523.0.m.jpg)
The May Day Cook Book. Published by [the] Ladies' Sewing Society of the Second Congregational Church, Attleboro, MassFirst Editionby [Second Congregational Church (Attleboro, Mass.);Ladies' Sewing Society]
Attleboro, Mass : The Daily Sun Electric Power Print , 1890
offered by Rabelais: Thought for Food
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Sa Majesté la Truffe. Livre d'or de la reine des festinsFirst Editionby Got, Armand
Bordeaux : Edition de la Truffereine , 1966
offered by Rabelais: Thought for Food
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Oxford Grange Cook Book. Consisting of Receipts Contributed by Ladies of the Grange. November, 1898. Price 25 centsFirst Editionby [Oxford Grange (Oxford, Mass.); Howe, M.F. & M. Wakefield (editors)]
[Oxford, Massachusetts : Geo. Chaffee, Printer] , 1898
offered by Rabelais: Thought for Food
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A Treatise on Adulteration of Food, and Culinary Poisons, exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy. And methods of detecting themby Accum, Frederick
London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; [Joseph Mallet, Printer] , 1820
offered by Rabelais: Thought for Food
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