Cooking from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown leatherette with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 142pp. Fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. This handsome, tight first edition of (to cite jacket front panel) "Righteous, Down-Home Barbeque Recipes" is authored by none other than the African-American activist, Black Panther Party co-founder and Chicago 8 defendant Seale (born… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards with red spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxvi, 372pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/fine. Just a book club edition, but perfect and pristine.

San Francisco: Hooper Publishing Company, 1957. Hardcover. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth with white spine lettering, dust jacket. ix, 150pp. Fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Superb, bright and tight eighth printing of this popular cookbook first published by Viking Press in 1944 -- inscribed and signed large and bold in black ink on front flyleaf: "To my friends /… Read more about this item

Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1992. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black and white cloth with color pictorial label. 80pp. Frontispiece, color illustrations. Near fine. First edition, tight and handsome. Entertaining history of Jack Daniel's whiskey, with illustrations of the variety of bottles used over the years.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and blue paper over boards with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 281pp. Fine/fine. Perfect and pristine first edition of this culinary tell-all from the superstar turned suicide.

Bostron: Filene's Restaurant, n.y.. Paperback. 48mo (3" X 4"). Stiff wrappers. (Ca. 50pp). Extensive full-page sepia-tone photographs. Very good. Tight and internally fine, with only minor wear to outer wrappers only. Attractive "Presentation Copy" of these images of famed New England scenes -- "which now adorn the walls of the famous Filene Restaurant in Boston...." Undated, but a faintly… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., n.y.. Paperback. 24mo. Stiff orange wrappers. 23pp. Illustratios, chart. Very good. Faintest of wear to outer wrappers only, else tight and internally fine. Probable sole edition of this bibliographically challenged pamphlet, undated but likely of 1920s vintage. Before you declare this concept for a recipe booklet bizarre and a sure recipe for dehydration rather than clear path… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1926. Paperback. Small 4to. Pictorial wrappers. 30pp. Numerous line drawings and floor plans. Very good. Faint edgewear only. First edition -- "Farmer's Bulletin No. 1513," a delightful survey of what the state-of-the-art rural kitchen might look like in the early 20th century, replete with retro-cool farmer's sinks.

Roquefort, France: Société Anonyme des Caves et des Producteurs Réunis de Roquefort, 1956. Paperback. Translation by Mary Mian. Illustrations by Yves Brayer. Engravings by Gerard Angiolini. Small 4to. Stiff buff wrappers with flaps, original glassine. Color frontispiece, full-page and smaller color plates. Near fine/very good. Faint glassine wear. Superb, tight copy of this cheese-based tale by the prolific French… Read more about this item

N.p.: Media Solution Services, 2003. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards with gilt lettering and decorative and pictorial giltstamping. 570pp. All edges gilt. Line drawings, full-page plates. Fine. Superbly tight and lovely facsimile reprint of the 1887 "New and Enlarged Edition," filled with "Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions,… Read more about this item

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992. Hardcover. Preface by Louis I. Szathmary II. Foreword by David E. Schoonover. Small 4to. Red cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 123pp. Illustrrations. Fine/fine. Small nonauthorial gift inscription on half-title verso. Superbly pristine and tight first edition of Algren's never-published WPA writings for an abandoned "America Eats" program --… Read more about this item

New York: Bramhall House, 1976. Hardcover. Engravings by F. Dwight Shundo. Small 4to. Dark blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 228pp. Frontispiece, line drawings. Near fine/very good. Text block ever-so-lightly age toned, as usual; faint jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive REPRINT EDITION often mistakenly identified by booksellers as a first edition -- the Drake Publishers… Read more about this item

New York: Golden Press, 1965. Hardcover. Illustrations by Gloria Kamen. Small 4to. Pictorial paper over boards with metal spiral binding. 156pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear along spine. A tight and nice first edition of this cookbook for kids.

New York: Liveright, 1971. Hardcover. Small 4to. White cloth with copper spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 296pp. Small graphics. Near fine/very good. Text block lightly age toned; jacket age toned, with lamination finely wrinkled. A tight, nice first edition recreating all of the favorite dishes prepared by him for his good friend Alice B. Toklas, though he was… Read more about this item

Stockholm: B. Wahlstroms Forlag, 1924. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering and blind embossing encircling front board color plate. 399pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Very good. mild edgewear; ripped-out leaf 111-112 neatly and archivally restored. Tenth edition, tight and nice, of this popular Swedish cookbook. Laid in (in mylar sleeve) is the perfect bookmark: a small 4to promotional… Read more about this item

New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1965. Hardcover. 4to. Pictorial cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xv, 224pp. Extensive color illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn and a bit rubbed. A tight and quite nice reprint edition of this fun and popular collection, superbly illustrated.

Springfield: Junior League of Springfield Publications, 1990. Hardcover. 4to. Glossy pictorial paper over boards. 222pp. Fine. Perfectly pristine second printing of this regional cookbook with a historical agenda.

New York: American Heritage Publishing Co, 1964. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, slipcase. 629pp, (11pp). Frontispieces, numerous illustrations (most color), pictorial endpapers. Fine/very good. Mild slipcase edgewear. A tight and attractive set, with the first volume containing chapters by the likes of Cleveland Amory, Lucius Beebe, Paul Engle and other notables and… Read more about this item

Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, 1956. Hardcover. Decorations by Ruth McCrea. 12mo. Blue and green decorated paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 61pp. Decorations. Near fine/near fine. Tight and handsome later printing.

Minneapolis: Pillsbury Mills, 1955. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 95pp, (3pp). Numerous illustrations (some color). Near fine. Tight and handsome first edition of this annual "best of" compilation.