Soft cover. 9.25" x 6". A wonderful vintage cookbook and piece of Berkeley history (undated, but circa 1934). With recipes supplied by the members of the Berkeley Women's City Club, beginning with a 'California Cocktail" containing artichokes, pimientos, green pepper, hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, chili sauce, lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. Provensen, Alice; Provensen, Martin. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED first edition of the classic cook book by James Beard, with Alice and Martin Provensen's illustrations. Evan Jones, Beard's biographer, described the Fireside Cook Book as "the most lavishly produced American cookbook to date." Minor wear.....
Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Thollander, Earl. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A lovely SIGNED copy of the cookbook. Stated eighth printing. The colors of the price-clipped jacket are bright, as are the orange cloth covers and the dark orange endpapers. There is crease to the front flap of.....
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1975. Child, Paul. Hardcover. Stated first edition, SIGNED by both Julia Child and her husband Paul, who provided the photographs. The jacket is price-clipped, with wear, darkening, and minor loss to the upper edge. Now protected in clear plastic. Front free endpaper is creased on.....
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A stated first edition, SIGNED by Julia Child and her husband Paul. As the jacket promises: "All the glorious dishes she cooks for company on her new television series. Detailed recipes for everything she demonstrates or even mentions, plus priceless information.....
Assouline, 2011. Hardcover. A richly illustrated history of the famous venue, including a selection of recipes. Red cloth cover. A previous owner has dog-eared a number of pages.
1940. Hardcover. 7.5"x5". The third impression of the cookbook compiled by Lady Maze and Mrs V.G. Bowen in Shanghai in 1940. From the preface: 'This collection of recipes has been compiled with the aim of benefiting British war funds. There is probably no more cosmopolitan city in the world than.....
HP Books, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An intimate chinese cookbook, celebrating the passing down of recipes through the generations. The dust jacket on this copy has a tear on the top left edge of the spine as well a tear on the back, upper left edge. The dust jacket is.....
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Fine copy in a fine jacket (now in protective plastic) of Michael R. Best's edition Gervase Markham's 1615 'The English Housewife'. From the jacket: 'Written with careful particularity, Markham's work offers an illuminating and intriguing look at the substance of women's work in the early.....
1951: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of The Presidential Cookbook. From the jacket: 'The Presidential Cookbook is not only an interesting, anecdotal account of the managing of what we, in its time, the most important household in the world, but also a sound cookbook.....
Phaidon Press, 2016. Hardcover. A bestselling Spanish cookbook with over 1000 recipes accompanied by illustration and photographs. Book is almost like new with clean and unmarked pages.
New York: Ives Washburn, 1938. Leonard, Robert L. Hardcover. 8.25'x5.25". From the dust jacket: 'A sound an scientifically endorsed system of diet which has won the enthusiastic support of smart women - and of men - from all parts of the country. Based on the world-famous Bircher-Benner diet in Zurich.....