Atlanta, Georgia: Atlanta Woman's Club, 1921. Octavo, white cloth with blue lettering, 253, [48] pp, several pages of illustrations of food. A rare cookbook by the Atlanta Woman's Club, published to raise funds for their new auditorium. The introduction notes that each recipe was vetted by the club's Home Economics.....
New Orleans, Louisiana: 1914. A rare community cookbook, published to raise funds for the construction of a new church in New Orleans. Includes four gumbo recipes, as well as recipes for crawfish bisque, shrimp jambalaya, cubion (a Cajun fish stew), daube, baked plantain, Turkish salad, Virginia blackberry cordial (an alcoholic.....
New Orleans, Louisiana: Louisiana State Rice Milling Co., Inc, 1919. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, 48 pp. Promotional cookbook by a Louisiana rice manufacturer. The first 28 pages are devoted to a discussion of the advantages of rice and of rice culture and cultivation. This section prints many illustrations from drawings, mostly.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Hardcover, grey cloth with red lettering, in original red dust jacket, [4], 314 pp. First American edition. "First American edition" stated on copyright page, $3.00 price intact. Toning to pages, small area of wear to cloth on rear cover, name excised from front.....
London: The Bodley Head, 1960. Octavo, green cloth, with original dust jacket, [10], 939 pp. First printing of the new edition entirely reset in 1960. An attractive copy with mild toning to pages and jacket, mild rubbing and a few tiny tears to jacket, which is price-clipped.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1941. Octavo, black cloth, xxii, 999 pp. This copy inscribed to front endpaper "Dec 2, 1941 To Dick and Dorothy Hertzberg with the best wishes of the author-editor 'Ellery Queen.'" Toning to pages, sunning to spine, wear to cloth at corners and edges, binding cracked.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Octavo, black cloth with gilt lettering, 626 pp, lacking the dust jacket. Second printing with "Reprinted November, 1929" to copyright page. This copy inscribed by Wolfe to front endpaper "For Dorothy With Hope That She Marries a Good Architect Thomas Wolfe Jan 17, 1930.".....
Anderson, South Carolina: Palmetto Publishing Co, No Date (Circa 1960). Octavo, red pictorial wrappers, spiral bound, [6], 130 pp, local ads throughout. Anderson, South Carolina community cookbook with a wide variety of recipes, including many southern favorites. Of interest is a section of children's recipes such as chocolate milk shake.....
Owensboro, Kentucky: O.T. Kendall, 1890. Octavo, marbled boards with brown cloth spine, 54, [34] pp, illustration of the church to verso of title page. An early Kentucky community cookbook by the Ladies Society of the First Presbyterian Church in Owensboro. According to the introduction, "It has not been the intention.....
Richmond, Virginia: The C.F. Sauer Company, No Date (Circa 1920). Large octavo, pictorial wrappers, [32] pp. A promotional cookbook by a Richmond based manufacturer of flavor extracts, including Sauer's Old Virginia Fruitti-Punch Extract and O-Rum-O, "The Extract With The Rum Flavor." The booklet contains recipes for savories and desserts that.....
Providence, Rhode Island: Rumford Chemical Works, No Date (Circa 1890s). Tenth Edition. 12mo, tan printed wrappers, 36 pp. A promotional cookbook by the makers of Horsford's Bread Preparation, featuring recipes for baked goods contributed by Virginia women, each identified by name: "The enviable reputation of Virginia for good cooking is.....
Greensboro, North Carolina: Privately Printed for the Alumnae Association of North Carolina College for Women, Greensboro, 1924. Octavo, beige cloth, 164 pp. According to the title page, this cookbook was “the result of the combined effort of the alumnae of the North Carolina College for Women," which is today UNC.....
Crowley, Louisiana: Wright Laboratory, 1963. Octavo, stapled wrappers, [36] pp. A cookbook produced by a family-owned rice enrichment company located in Crowley, Louisiana, the so-called "rice capital of the world." The recipes were all "tested with raw, long grain rice. No quick-cooking or pre-cooked type was used;" the testers were.....
Kannapolis, North Carolina: Kannapolis Publishing Company, 1948. Octavo, grey stapled wrappers, 80 pp. Cookbook issued by a local newspaper in North Carolina, printing recipes submitted by residents of Kannapolis and the surrounding areas, with the contributors named after each recipe. Each page of recipes is accompanied by a facing page.....
Raleigh: Published Jointly by the State Department of Conservation and Development and the Agricultural Extension Service, North Carolina State College, 1960. Octavo, stapled booklet, 50 pp. A cookbook featuring "seafood delicacies carefully selected from North Carolina's marine supermarket.” Includes recipes for mackerel, mullet, shad, shrimp, oysters, clams, scallops, turtle, and.....
Fort Smith, Arkansas: St. John's Chapter of St. Anna's Guild, [1922]. Second Edition. Octavo, 198, [2] pp, olive wrappers with cloth spine. Rare Arkansas community cook book, noted on the title page as a "Second edition published by groups no. 1 and no. 4 of the Women's Auxiliary of St.....
Saratoga, California: 1902 to 1913. A collection of three programs for the Blossom Festival, an annual event held in Saratoga, California to enjoy the flowering prune and apricot trees in the city, which, by 1900, had the largest prune and apricot orchards in the country. The event was founded in.....
Los Angeles: 1929. Quarto, single folded leaf with typed letter signed to recto and two pages of printed text within. A brief typed letter from Richmond P. Hobson, United States Navy rear admiral, politician, and anti-drug activist, to Mason Letteau of Los Angeles, on the letterhead of the International Narcotic.....
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Direct Advertising Company, 1938. Large quarto, green printed wrappers, 102, [2] pp, numerous photographic illustrations throughout. A 1938 yearbook for the Fresno District of the Civilian Conservation Corps, providing a rich visual record of the various companies at work in the Ninth Corps Area of central California.....
Los Angeles: 1958. 10 x 7", stapled pictorial wrappers, 32 pp. A scarce program for a Los Angeles swim meet that featured leading swimmers from Japan, the United States, and Australia, sponsored by the Southern California Swimming Association together with the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California. The meet.....
Los Angeles and Berkeley: California Corrugated Culvert Company, 1935. Beige ring binder measuring 10.75 x 8.5", titled in black lettering on spine, containing 15 illustrated booklets within. A bound collection of trade catalogs for equipment used in irrigation and for the construction of aqueducts, manufactured by the California Corrugated Culvert.....
Sacramento: Press of Jos. E. Anderson, 1905. Stapled pictorial wrappers, 8 x 6.5", [32] pp. A collection of poems by an anonymous inmate at San Quentin prison in California. The poems touch upon the experience of being in prison, for instance a poem titled "Paroled" and one titled "Justice", which.....
Monterey, California: 1851 and 1858. Quartos, two leaves of ruled blue paper, handwritten on both sides and signed by Rafael Sanchez (1807-65), one dated November 20, 1851, the other dated March 31, 1858. Sanchez was born in Mexico City and came to California in 1842 as secretary to Governor Manuel.....
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket, 217 pp. Near fine in a fine jacket.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1995. Softcover, 244 pp. Very good with hint of foxing.