Cookbooks & Food from Pages Past Used and Rare Books

Boston, New York, Chicago: Allyn and Bacon, 1915. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 431 pages, indexed. Hardcover in dark grey cloth. Binding has considerable wear, including damp marks, scuffing and rubbing. Corners are bumped and frayed. Headcap/foot are scuffed, frayed. Pencilled notations, including prior owner's name and a recipe from a Mrs. Tally in… Read more about this item

Charlotte, N.C.: The Dowd Press, 1977. Third Printing. Second Printing. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 328 pages, indexed. Soft cover bound in green and white wrappers. Spine has some vertical creasing and is a little cocked. Crease on the front cover as well. The text is generally… Read more about this item

High Point, North Carolina: Woman's Auxiliary High Point Friends, 1924. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 128 pages. Hardcover bound in grey cloth with cover designs in black. The binding is worn and is quite soiled from handling with several stains on the front cover. Front inner hinge is starting.… Read more about this item

Glasgow and London: Collins, 1977. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. 223 pages, indexed. Hardcover in white dust jacket. The jacket has heavy soiling, especially about the edges. Some staining to the fore-edge of the front flyleaf. The text itself is clean and sound.

North Carolina: N.p., 1962. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. [196] pages. Soft cover bound in red wrappers with a black plastic comb spine. The binding is worn and stained and shows spotting from damping. Soiling from handling. A sound copy. The… Read more about this item

Shawnee Mission, Kansas: Circulation Service, 1976. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Good. 8vo. 82, [12] pages. Soft cover bound in tan wrappers with a black plastic comb spine. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. The binding is sound, and the text is clean. Illustrated with a few drawings, but the recipes… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Naval Officers Wives Club, Washington, D.C.. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Fair. 8vo. 159 pages, indexed. Soft cover bound in white wrappers. The binding is rubbed and worn and shows soiling and smudging from handling. Early owner's red ink gift inscription on the Foreword. A sound copy with clean text. … Read more about this item

Virginia Beach, VA: Presto Printing Center, 1980. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Good. 8vo. 185, [7] pages, indexed. Soft cover bound in white wrappers with a blue plastic comb spine. The binding shows moderate wear with some bumping and rubbing. Lower corner of the front cover is a bit damped. There are some… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 338, (xxi) pages, indexed. Hardcover in orange dust jacket. The jacket is rubbed and worn with edge tears and chips. Jacket spine is browned. Some damping at foot of spine. Top of text block is spotted. Text… Read more about this item

London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd.. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 83 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in brown cloth. Light wear to the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges and sharp corners. Some foxing to the endpapers. The… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. Inc, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo. 240 pages, indexed. Hardcover in green cloth with white and green illustrated dust jacket. the jacket has a few stains, is toned. All edges of text block are foxed. INSCRIBED by the author on the front flyleaf which has a strip of… Read more about this item

Kansas City, MO / Huntington Township, New York: Circulation Service / The Viet Nam Tree Memorial Committee, 1976. Soft cover. Fair. 8vo. 152 pages, plus an index. Soft cover with a black plastic comb spine. The binding is worn and a bit soiled but generally sound. The text is clean. Early owner's 1977 inscription… Read more about this item

Springville, UT: Art City Publishing, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. 421, 16 pages indexed. Softcover comb bound in a colour illustrated wrappers. Binding is lightly scuffed. Small soil on rear cover. A handwritten recipe is written on two pieces of paper and placed loosely within the book. The text is clean.

Wisconsin: A. J. Lindemann & Hoverson Co.. Soft cover. Good. 8vo. 28 pages. Softcover with stapled peach wrappers. Spine is splitting at head and tail of spine. Some rubbing and small stains on cover, margins are lightly foxed. A clean copy.