Carmel-by-the-Sea: More-Curtis - Printed at the Carmel Pine Cone Press. (10 1/2" x 5 3/4"). Folding stiff grey printed & illustrated softcover. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu printed inside and on rear cover. Paperclipped is 2 printed sheets with additional menu items. Light foxing and spotting on front cover; a...... More
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1938 - 1940. First Edition. Oblong 12mo. 55; 52; 63 pp. Woodcuts by Mallette Dean; Drawings by Lena Peters. Stiff paper covered illustrated boards with cloth backing in fine condition; housed in publisher's box with title label on front in near fine condition (split to..... More
Chicago: P. F. Volland and Company, (1913). First Edition. 4 1/4 x 5 1/2". Includes original pencil. Pages are clean and unused. Small Christmas gift label affixed to ffep. Gray cloth with blue decoration and lettering. "This book is for the housekeeper and homemaker who must answer the daily question..... More
Beverly Hills, CA: Beverly Hills Woman's Club, 1929. 1st. Cloth. 8vo. 189pp. Illustrated with woodcut title headpieces and black & white full-page advertisements. Black & grey illustrated cream cloth. Introduction by Will Rogers. Compiled by the Book Section Beverly Hills Womans Club. Cover design and illustrations Vivian V. Robeson. Recipes..... More
London: Dulau & Company, Ltd., 1929. First Edition Limited to one thousand copies, each signed by the author (this is no. 618). Octavo; vii, (1) 134pp; frontis woodcut of fruit. A near fine copy in publisher's green beveled cloth, top edge gilt, spine lettered in gold, lacking the dust jacket..... More
San Francisco: Published by Sunset Magazine in cooperation with Hotel del Monte, 1940. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. 62pp. Index. Illustrated by Sinclair Ross. Gilt illustrated cream boards in color printed dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (light wear to extremities; creasing along edges; short closed tear). Contains recipes contributed by..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. SIGNED by Julia Child. Madhur Jaffrey, Charlie Trotter, Alfred Portale, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, and Dean Fearing. 4to. 302 pp. Appendix; Index. A fine copy in fine dustjacket, as new. Julia Childs invites 26 great cooks from across the country into her own..... More
Paris: Librairie Economique, 1809. First Edition. 12mo; iv, 175pp. A Very Good copy in brown boards, spine with floral device stamped in gold and leather spine label (with loss). Bookplate of famous Paris restaurateur Robert Viel to front pastedown. '... , ons mots, Plaisanteries, Maximes et Reflexions Gastronomiques, precede d'une..... More
Edinburgh: The author, 1826. First Edition. Octavo; 366pp. Contemporary 3/4 leather and brown paper-covered boards, which are detached (lacking rear board). Gordon of Ardmealie armorial bookplate (with 'John' and 'Avochie' added by hand) to ffep. Otherwise a Fair to Good copy with several manuscript recipes to the endpapers and marginal..... More
New York: Redfield, 1855. First Edition. Octavo; 489pp plus 11pp catalog at rear. A Near Fine copy (foxing to ffep) in original brown cloth, boards ruled in blind; spine lettered in gold. Laid in is a 1972 receipt from Elisabeth Woodburn, Booknoll Farm. More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. 1st. Paperback. INSCRIBED by the author. First Edition Thus. 8vo. 213 pp. Index for recipes. Color printed wrappers in fine condion. A series of essays arranged in a whimsical way that reveals the breadth and depth of the author's passion for food. From A...... More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983. First edition thus. INSCRIBED by the author. 8vo. 306pp. Stiff white wrappers in photo-illustrated dust jacket. A series of remembrances of "Friends" from Ms. Fisher's past; they range from the hobos who could count on food at the family's back door to the businessmen..... More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. 1st. Paperback. INSCRIBED by the author. First Edition Thus. 8vo. 323 pp. Index. Color printed wrappers in near fine condition (minor wear to extremities). A collection of excerpts-sentences, and paragraphs, and even pages-concerned with man's fundamental need to celebrate the high points of his..... More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982. 1st. Paperback. INSCRIBED "All best ---/MFKFisher/1987." First edition thus. 8vo. 256pp. Original softcover in color printed dust jacket. A fine copy. Ms. Fisher's only novel traces the subtleties and nuances of a woman's mind. More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982. 1st. Original wrappers. INSCRIBED by the author. First edition thus. 8vo. 256pp. Stiff white wrappers in color printed dust jacket. Ms. Fisher's only novel traces the subtleties and nuances of a woman's mind. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1984. 1st. Paperback. INSCRIBED :----/My best wishes/MFKFisher/Glen Ellen/1987." First edition thus.8vo. 243 pp. Color printed wraps in very good condition (tears at spine tail; cover starting to pull away from text block inside lower hinge; hinge cracked at pg. 67; light soiling). In these fifteen remarkable..... More
New York: Jas. E. Pepper & Company, 1933. First Edition. 12mo (6" x 4"). 63 pp. Line illustrations by Herbert F. Roese. Stiff tan softcover. Paper label for early Carmel, CA liquor business, 'Leidig's', affixed to front cover. Minor wear & agetoning; else a near fine copy. With this Merry..... More
Glasgow: Dunn & Wright, 1885. First Edition. 8vo. 207; [3, advertisements]; [2, blank]; [3], 4-16 advertisements. Illustrations. Red cloth with black decorative stamping & ruling to front cover; gilt lettering to spine; floral endpapers. Light wear to extremities; small dark spot to lower page edges; pencil notations to rfep; front..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on bookplate. Additionally, INSCRIBED "To Gloria, happy cooking! Marcella Hazan". 8vo. 349 pp. Index. Color plates. Laid in are 5 color Poloraid photographs of Ms. Hazan cooking dinner (for a class?) and 4 pages of notes taken and..... More
London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1864. First Edition thus. 12mo; [4], iii, 87, [1]pp including 9 illustrations. A Fair lending library copy with bookplate to front pastedown and ink stamps in text in 3/4 black calf and marbled boards, spine gilt-ruled and lettered. Complete, but with title page mostly detached..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited, 1896. 8vo. 99, [1] pp. Folding frontispiece plate, numerous full page plates, and in-text illustrations, all in blue tint; 3 color plates. [3 pp] offering circular laid in. Red cloth with gilt decoration and letter; grey endpapers. Inner hinges strengthened; slight fading to..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1953. Second Edition. Octavo; 264pp, 16 photographic plates. A Very Good copy in brown cloth with spine lettered in gold in somewhat cipped and worn pictorial dust jacket. Nut recipes, References (bibliography), Index. More
San Jose, CA: Published by the author, 1977. First Edition. Small 8vo. 60 pp. Yellow staple-bound wrappers with red lettering and black illustration of a cooking pot on front cover. Minor wear to extremities; light marking to rear cover; faint creasing lengthwise of front cover & first few pages else..... More
Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 229pp. Glossary; Index. Ful-page color plates. INSCRIBED "For ***/A little taste from/Fleur de Lys! Et avec/plein de bons souvenirs!/Sincere Amitie/Hubert Keller/Oct 96." Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Classically trained in..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1920. First Edition. Octavo; xii, 210pp; Bibliography; Index. Extensively illustrated. Offsetting to endpapers, very light foxing to page edges, else a Fine copy in publisher's pale blue cloth lettered in gold with 'beans' and 'cup of chocolate' devices to boards; the dust jacket has extremity wear..... More