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1926-1942. Hardcover. Large cloth covered boards, embossed. Very good. 499 pages. 40 x 17 cm. A rather extensive accounting of a family in Connecticut during the early to mid 20th century. Alongside daily expenditures is the detailed description of land leases, car and truck purchases, family deaths, and divorce. Other odd events recorded - major news accounts including convicted prisoners sentences and their crimes, a two page list of movie actors (male & female) from 1932, Movie titles of 1932-33, famous and non-famous deaths and where they were buried - all in all a curious look into a "normal" household in semi-rural Connecticut. Book is fully used, about 3/4 of the pages used. Handwritten in ink, pencil, and colored pen. Boards heavily soiled.

Portland, ME: A. S. Hinds, 1907. Staplebound. Illustrated wraps. Very good. Unpaginated. [16 pp.] 15 x 8.5 cm. Hinds' Honey and Almond Cream was formulated in the late 1870's by Aurelius Stone Hinds in Portland Maine while working in a drugstore - it was a huge success and was bought out in 1907 by Lehn & Fink, makers of Lysol. Pamphlet concentrates on the new outdoor activities women were participating in. Illustrated throughout. Clean, crisp copy. Covers lightly soiled.

New York: BUYERS EXPORT AGENCY, 1919. Staplebound. Cream wraps. Good. 32 pages. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Rare guide for home brewing - pre prohibition. With 200 recipes for everything from beer, wine, syrups, cider, brandy, champagne, mead, and much more. Presumed first edition - two copies located Worldcat (6/22/23). Interior clean, covers heavily toned and soiled.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1965. Hardcover. Tan and blue boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper. 309 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. An early look at Mexican cooking. Featuring a guide to the art of Mexican cooking with Appetizers, Soups, Eggs and Cheese, Fish, Meats, Poultry, Barbecue, Sauces, Enchiladas, Tacos, Tamales, Tostadas, Empanadas, Beans & Rice, Vegetables, Salads, Breads, Cakes, Cookies, Desserts, Beverages, and Fiesta dishes. Lovely illustrated endpapers. Interior and boards clean. Dust wrapper lightly rubbed. Former owner's book plate. Covered in protective mylar.

Chicago: T. Adamowicz, c. 1910's. Cardboard framed black and white photo. Very good. 25 x 20 cm. Turn of the century photo of young women posing with "Indian" swinging clubs dressed in "sailor" style uniforms. Club swinging tradition began with the Persian Pahlavani tradition and spread throughout the Persian empire to adjacent countries. Picked up by the English stationed in India, it was mistakenly called "Indian Clubs" and redesigned into smaller versions where it became integrated into the system of physical education. Club swinging was introduced to America in the mid -1800's and was even an Olympic sport in 1904. Photography studio listed on cardboard frame: T. Adamowicz, Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. Cardboard frame rubbed and soiled.

New York: Miller Music Corporation, 1943. Sheet_music. Orange wraps, black and white photo illustrated. Good. 3 pages. 30.5 x 23 cm. Featuring Mischa Auer, Joan Davis, Marcy McGuire, Wally Brown, Alan Carney and Kay Kyer's Band. Cover lightly rubbed with some closed tears and a 1cm. loss to right edge.

New York: PHAIDON, 2011. Hardcover. White color illustrated boards. Near fine. 383 pages. From elBulli to your kitchen - The Family Meal. What is the family meal? the family meal is the dinner eaten every day by the 75 members of staff at elBulli restaurant. Working in restaurants, the staff becomes a family of sorts, and the family meal is an important moment when everyone sits down together to eat. This book is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in the fundamentals cooking. Illustrated throughout with color photography. Interior clean, boards lightly bumped at corners.

New York, 1908. Sewn binding. Cream stiff paper, title in gilt, white yarn binding. Very good. Unpaginated. Oversized catalogue. Sixteen illustrated pages, with description, each separated by tissue paper. Covers rubbed, chipped, with some water stains. Faint writing in pencil on cover. Interior clean.

San Francisco: Alaska Packers Association, 1907. Staplebound. Tan textured wraps. Fine. 36 pages. 14 x 9.5 cm. After 31 canneries banded together in 1891 to sell off surplus canned salmon, the Alaska Packers Association needed to educate the general public on how to make use of this protein packed can of fish. An aggressive campaign to introduce canned salmon was decided upon and this beautifully illustrated cookbook was the solution to the problem at hand. The first order of business was to illustrate "How to Open the Can" along with a two page essay entitled, "The Art of Canning Salmon, A Concise Statement of the Process as practiced at the Canneries of the Alaska Packers Association" - an attempt to counteract the impact of Upton Sinclair's recently published book, The Jungle, an expose of the dangerous and unhealthy meat processing practices in America. Next, the Association rounded up recipes using their product in dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner including: Salmon Omelet, Salmon… Read More

Paris: Louis Tenré/Patris et Cie, 1833, 1810. Fifth Edition/First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half-calf and decorated boards. Very good. 454 pages/116 pages. 21 x 13 cm. La Cuisinier: Covering all aspects of cooking during the post-revolutionary France. Includes engraved frontispiece titled "intérieur d'une cuisine bien ordonnée" and 3 plates depicting ovens and cooking utensils. Albert was former chef de cuisine for Cardinal Fesch, Napoléon's Uncle. L'art de Conserver: Appert's signature on verso of title page. One folding plate. Appert, a confectioner, chef, and distiller, developed the first method of preserving food by enclosing it in airtight, sealed containers. (Pasteur later admitted his pasteurization process was largely derived from Appert's earlier methods.) Appert was rewarded with a prize of 12,000 francs by the French Directory (Napoléon) who needed to supply the growing armies with stable sustenance. [CAGLE 28, 36]. Some foxing to interior. Covers rubbed at corners, otherwise… Read More

Hollywood, California: Ada J. Alberty, 1939. Second Edition. Hardcover. Blue boards. Very good, in poor dust wrapper. 195 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. A self-published dietetic book based on the author's personal contact with clients. Records show Alberty had been sued by the government in the 1940's for misbranding of a drug and transporting over state lines. Interior clean, dust wrapper heavily chipped with some loss to front panel. Owner's signature on front free end paper.

New York: DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, 1921. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards, decorated in gilt. Good. 149 pages. 25.5 x 19 cm. A comprehensive look at the timeless country inns in and around London and the English Countryside. Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white. 16 color tinted illustrations with captioned tissue guards, along with 12 full page black and white illustrations, accompanied by 32 smaller illustrations in black and white. Covers rubbed and lightly soiled. Interior pages lightly toned.

Taos, NM: Wendy Whiteman, 2020. Staplebound. Cream illustrated wraps. Fine. 29 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Written to honor the spirit of the sagebrush. Created in two parts: first - the physical uses in healing, second - ceremonial uses. Pristine copy.

Chicago: International Harvester Company of America, c. 1920. Loose_leaf. Color illustrated folding pamphlet. Near fine. 15.5 x 8.5 closed, 48 x 30 cm. open. Large folding trade catalog featuring a necessity for American farmers, especially small farms that serviced the local community with milk, cream, and all milk products. The producer uses illustrations and text to highlight this well crafted machine. This pamphlet was produced for M.V. Moran, Orlando, W. Va. Clean and crisp copy - 2 cm. tear to one fold, otherwise solid.

New York: Bellows & Company, 1946. Staplebound. Black wraps. Near fine. Unpaginated [12pp]. 11 x 5.5 cm. This scaled-down cocktail manual features the classics along with a page advertising the use of Bellows' Falernum; a sugar substitute, most likely created in the Barbados - key ingredients - lime zest, cloves, ginger, and almond extract.

London: Harvey & Co., 1864. Hardcover. Mauve blind-stamped cloth, gilt title on cover. Good. 48 pages, (4). 16.5 x 10.5 cm. "The Guide to Manly Vigour." A promotional treatise advocating a remedy for "the forms of Indigestion and Consumption in all their varieties, resulting from secret inadvertency in youth, or from sensual excesses." Readers were advised to send a urine sample for analysis and diagnosis. An early reprint of this promotional book; 1863 edition came a year earlier. Named after the "Prince of Surgery," Sir Astley Cooper who performed the first successful operation on the common carotid artery for aneurysm in 1808. Spine and board edges sunned and faded, front internal hinge split but holding.

Jerome H. Remick & Co. , 1910. Sheet_music. Color illustrated stitched wraps. Good. John Frew. 5 pages. 13 in. x 10.5 in. Stamp to inside page. Rubbing to cover.

Loose_leaf. Color illustrated pamphlet. Near fine. 14.5 x 7 cm. (closed). Color illustrated two-sided promotional pamphlet for Fluffo Shortening featuring recipes for Quick' n Saucy Apple Pie, Fluffo Chocolate Cake, Fried Chicken, and Biscuits. Clean crisp copy.

Oskaloosa, IA: SPRINGER & WILLARD , 1891. Loose_leaf. Cream illustrated letterhead and envelope. Very good. 1 page. 28 x 21 cm. Typed, signed, letter on illustrated letterhead, dated Feb. 3 17, 1891 from Springer & Willard to Jasper M. Clark, South Dakota, stating the prices for Draft Horses/German Coachers - Signed by Springer & Willard. Includes envelope, stamp missing.

Swift & Company, 1914. Staplebound. Blue illustrated wraps. Near fine. Unpaginated [13 pp.] 15.5 x 10.5 cm. A rare pamphlet featuring the graphic design known as Plakatstil ("poster style" in German) or Sachplaket ("object-poster" in German). This style originated in Germany in the early 1900's and soon spread to the US. The common characteristics of this style are bold eye-catching lettering with flat colors. Shapes and objects are simplified, and the composition focuses on a central object. The cover of this pamphlet incorporates this style with the female character placed dead center and the dark background using a similar color for her dress. Swift & Company was close to the pinnacle of its meat slaughtering and distribution business and found a way to use the surplus remnants of the process to make lard. Recipes include: Fried Oysters, French Fried Potatoes, Hominy Balls, Gingersnaps, Devil's Food Cake, Biscuits, Rolls, and many more. The pamphlet also incorporates two essays discussing the… Read More