Chiquita Banana's Recipe Book
Pier 3, North River, New York: Home Economics Department, United Fruit Company, 1950. Staplebound. 8vo; 25 pp; color illustrated wrappers; light soiling to wrappers; very good. More
Cookery
Colburn’s Condiment Recipes
Philadelphia: The A. Colburn Co., No date [c. 1900]. Stiff wraps. 4 3/16” x 5 7/8” oblong; 24pp; red glazed paper wrapper with company trade mark to front, illustrations of their products to rear; 2 staple binding; text with b&w illustrations; near fine. No library holdings located in WorldCat. Description..... More
Electric Cooking with Your Hotpoint Automatic Range
Chicago: Hotpoint, Inc., No date [c. 1945]. Staplebound. 8vo; 64 pp; color illustrated wrapper with title on front; two staple binding; light scuffing to wrapper, crease to front bottom edge, split of binding to first staple; very good. More
Fabulous Feasts with Maine Seafoods
[Augusta] Maine: Maine Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries with the cooperation of the National Marine Fisheries Service, and funds provided by P.L. 88-309, No date [1967]. First Edition. Stiff wraps. First edition. 8vo; 32pp; color pictorial stiff glazed wrapper, 2 staple binding; color drawings and photographic illustrations throughout with..... More
French's Cream Salad Mustard, Makes Salads, Salad Dressings, Sandwiches, Savories
Rochester, N.Y. The R.T. French Company, Mustard Street, 1925. Wraps. [COOKERY] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. Cover title: Made Dishes Salads and Savories with French’s Cream Salad Mustard 16mo (6 ½” x 4 ½”); 28pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring a table set with dishes and a salad on the front, pictorial rear wrapper..... More
Frigidaire Recipes, Prepared especially for Frigidaire Automatic Refrigerators equipped with the Frigidaire "Cold Control", Second Edition
Dayton, Ohio: Frigidaire Corporation, 1929. Second Edition. Cloth. 8vo; 96pp; tan cloth over board with decorative cartouche and title on front cover; brown paper dust jacker with design and title in black printed on front cover; illustrated in color and black and white; soiling and tanning of cover, light soiling..... More
How to Choose and How to Use an Ice Refrigerator
Chicago: The Household Refrigeration Bureau National Association of Ice Industries, 1937. Staplebound. 8vo; 15 pp; illustrated wrapper in navy and white; light bumping to corners and head and tail of spine; very good. Tips of food storage, economic advantages, description of use and its mechanics, and a few culinary instructions..... More
Joan of Arc and Pride of Illinois Fine Foods
Hoopeston, Illinois: The lllinois Canning Co., No date [c. 1930s]. Staplebound. 12mo; 64pp; glazed illustrated wrapper with Joan of Arc on a white horse on front; red background; color illustrated back wrapper with woman and cartouche announcing "Pride of Illinois"; 2 staple binding; light soiling to wrappers; very good. Scarce..... More
Miss Fluffy’s Rice Cook Book, Add a Bright Change to Your Menus with Rice!
New York: Riviana Foods Inc., No date [c. 1970]. Staplebound. 8vo; 32 [2]pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring an anthropomorphic spoon with rice as hair; 2 staple binding; color printing and photographic illustrations; light scuffing to wrapper edges; near fine. Published as a promotional for Water Maid Rice and Mahatma Rice..... More
The Old Vanity Fair Tea Room Recipes Gathered From Far and Near
[Los Angeles]: [Carl A. Bundy Quill & Press], 1927. Boards. [HOME ARTS] [WOMEN’S HISTORY]. Caro F. Chamberlain, copyright. 12mo; [1-10], 11-160pp; black silhouette-style pictorial of a signpost over a cobbled street on marbled tan boards; quarter-bound navy cloth, blue printed silver label on spine; b&w pictorial title page; text printed..... More
The P.D. & Co. Keystone Cook Book
[Philadelphia]: [Paine, Diehl & Co.], No date [c.1888]. Cloth. 16mo; 84pp; pebbled cloth over board; fraying of head and tail of spine, bumping to cover corners with some loss; paper cracked on front seam, light age toning to paper; bookplate on front pastedown to The American Antiquarian Society from Waldo..... More
A Parade of Brazil Nut Recipes
No publisher listed [presumable the Brazil Nut Association], No date [c. 1930-40s]. Staplebound. 12mo; [30pp]; illustrated wrapper with drawings and photographs; illustrated pages; light finger smudges to back wrapper; near fine. Scarce, 6 listed in WorldCat libraries with slightly different descriptions. More
Priest’s Cook Book, Selected List of Recipes From Famous Cooks
Bangor, Maine: Priest Drug Company, 98-100-102 Exchange Street, No date [c. 1920]. Wraps. 8vo; 39pp; cream colored wrapper printed with the title in a black frame-style border; 2 staple binding; light creasing to some upper corners; near fine. In 2 WorldCat libraries, both in Maine. Established in 1914, Priest’s logo..... More
Reliable Recipes, 24th Edition
Chicago: Calumet Baking Powder Co., No date [c. 1921]. Wraps. [COOKERY] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. Wrapper title: Reliable Recipes 8vo (8 9/16” x 5 ¼”); 80, [4]pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper, a woman mixing on the front with a Kewpie-esque boy running with a can of Calumet baking powder on the front..... More
The Swans Down Cake Manual, A Handbook of Cake Making
New York: Consumer Service Department, General Foods Corporation, 1933. Wraps. [BAKING] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. Second edition, 3rd printing. 8vo (8 ¾” x 5 ¾”); 48pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring a vignette of two cakes on the front, and a slice of cake on the rear with an inset of a Swans..... More
The Best in Cooking in Portland
Portland, Maine: Afternoon Guild of State Street Congregational Church, 1954. Comb-style plastic wraps. 8vo; 41 [8]pp; glazed pictorial wrapper; black plastic comb-style binding; illustrated; community ads; light wear to wrappers; very good. Community style cookbook from Portland, Maine containing advertising from local merchants. More
CONSUMER SERVICE DEPARTMENT
New York: General Food Corporation, 1933. Second Edition. Cloth. Second edition. 8vo; 144pp; plaid cloth over board with title and contents stamped on ribbon onlay to front cover; illustrated with both black and white and color photographs; light soiling to cover; very good. More
Mainely Good Eatin’
Memphis, TN: Wimmer Brothers Books, No date [c. 1980]. Elizabeth BAILEY. Stiff wraps. 8vo; 206pp; stiff glazed color pictorial wrapper, lobster boat to front and waterfall to rear; blue plastic comb binding with title stamped in white; text printed in blue with small vignette of a lobster boat; light shelf-wear..... More
Little Mother's Cook Book
The Pixie Press, 1952. Jack O'HARA. Boards. In presentation box. 4to; [30pp] + illustration on recto rear free endpaper; color pictorial paper over board; illustrated endpapers; color illustrations throughout text; small chip to front bottom board and scruff to spine tail, light spotting to rear board; in original color pictorial..... More
The American Home Cook Book, with Several Hundred Excellent Recipes, Selected and Tried with Great Care, and with a View to be Used by Those who Regard Economy, and Containing Important Information on the Arrangement and Well Ordering of the Kitchen. The Whole Based on Many Years of Experience
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers, 1854. First Edition. Paper over Board. First edition thus. 12mo; [ii ads], 133pp + [14pp ads]; relief printed in black on pale orange paper over board, kitchen pictorial to front, rear an advertisement for “Good Books”; brown cloth spine; small b&w illustrations in text;..... More
The ABC of Salads
Mt. Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1958. Ruth McCREA. Boards. First edition. 12mo; 62pp; illustrated paper over board with title and publisher in front cover cartouche, title on spine; illustrated throughout text in black and green; clipped dust jacket; light soiling to dj, light bumping to cover corners; very..... More
The Candy Calendar, Being a collection of 150 pure candy recipes for home cookery arranged by months
Chicago: Woman's World Magazine Co., Inc., 1923. First Edition. Stiff wraps. First edition. 4to; 46pp; stiff black illustrated wrappers with color printed title and picture of two girls baking; illustrated; original loop for hanging attached; light crease to bottom corner front cover, light age toning of paper; near fine. This..... More
Fleischmann & Co.'s Jingles, Series No. 2
No place [possibly New York City]: Fleischmann & Co., No date [c. 1900]. Wraps. 12mo; [14pp]; chromolithographed illustrated glazed wrappers with a chick on the front and a bid flying over a wheat farm on the rear wrapper; illustrated throughout in dark green ink; fine. Scarce, located in 3 WorldCat..... More
How to Cook and How to Carve. Giving Plain and Easily Understood Directions for Preparing, Cooking and Serving, with the Greatest Economy, Every Kind of Dish, From the Simplest to the Most Difficult. Also, How to Carve All Kinds of Meat, Poultry, Game and Fish
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, No date [c. 1869]. First Edition. Boards. First edition, thus. 12mo; [iv pp ads], 130pp + [4pp ads]; relief printed decorative paper over boards, red, green & black; red cloth spine; front and rear pastedowns are ads; light foxing to edges and some pages; very..... More
What to Eat, How to Use the Science of Modern Dietetics for More Efficient Living. Published by the Review of Reviews Company Under the Auspices of the Life Extension Institute of New York
[New York]: Review of Reviews Company, 1917. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 48pp; brown mottled paper over board with printed title and seal of the Life Extension Institute Inc., New York to front cover; tan cloth spine; lightly bumped corners; black and white illustrations; double frontispiece and one other..... More