Search Results: Cookery, Gastronomy & Domestic Arts from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

New York: Bantam , April 1990. Illustrated by author. First American edition. (c.May 1989, Century Hutchinson Ltd.) Introduction by Jacques Pepin. Foreword by Egon Ronay. Cloth. 8vo. pp. 256 pp. As New/As New/Unclipped price in mylar. Not a cookbook but a personal dictionary of food tips from A-Z, by a master of mystery and suspense and his fourth title published on French cooking..

Boston: (formerly and published by) The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, February, 1931. Illustrated by period ads and photographs in bw. First edition. Original Yellow printed wraps. Super Royal 8vo (24,5cm). pp. 493-572. Near Fine. Light cover wear and toning, multi-contributor articles. Congressional Hash, Tri-Festal February Cake, Dried Fruit Production, Spanish Style House..

Boston: (formerly and published by) The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, April, 1931. Illustrated by period ads and photographs in bw. First edition. Original Yellow printed wraps. Super Royal 8vo (24,5cm). pp. 653-732. Near Fine. Light cover wear and toning, multi-contributor articles. Square pies, Kandy-Kakelets, bath and dressing room suggestions, spud..

Boston: (formerly and published by) The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, June-July, 1931. Illustrated by period ads and photographs in bw. First edition. Original Yellow printed wraps. Super Royal 8vo (24,5cm). pp. 80. Near Fine. Light cover stain and toning, multi-contributor articles. Ice cream layer cake, maple cream cake, stepping stone garden walks..

Boston: (formerly and published by) The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, April, 1931. Illustrated by period ads and photographs in bw. First edition. Original Yellow printed wraps. Super Royal 8vo (24,5cm). pp. 653-732. Near Fine. Light cover wear and toning, multi-contributor articles. Square pies, Kandy-Kakelets, bath and dressing room suggestions, spud..

Boston: (formerly and published by) The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, March, 1931. Illustrated by period ads and photographs in bw. First edition. Original Yellow printed wraps. Super Royal 8vo (24,5cm). pp. 573-652. Near Fine. Light cover wear and toning, multi-contributor articles. Waffle Wisdom, Creamed Chicken in Cornucopias, Wall Trellises for Exterior Decoration, choosing and using a gas range, roots in the diet..

London: General Electric Co. Ltd. of England, April 1959. Illustrated by color and b/w plates. Later edition. Yellow gloss boards printed blue, blue quarter cloth. 8vo. pp. 122. Appendix, Index. VG/No jacket. From installation of your appliance to mixing alcoholic beverages and soup to nuts in between..

Boston: Ginn & Co, 1917. Illustrated by b/w text drawings. Stated Second Revised edition. (c.1903). Olive cloth, dec & pr black. 12mo. pp. vi, 295. Appendix, Index. VG/No jacket. Half removed owner bookplate, some cap and corner wear. Includes chapter on mosquitoes and malaria..

London: Max Parish, 1956. Translated by Clement Freud and Aidan Philip. Illustrated by David Walsh jacket. First English edition. (c.1956 as L'Adventure est Dans Votre Cuisine). Blue cloth. 12mo. pp. 248. Glossary, Index. Near Fine/VG/Unclipped price in mylar. One bumped corner, nearly unread copy in bright jacket with shallow edge chipping, some fold rubbing and thin foxed line to top..

Lincoln, NB: iUniverse, (2003). Illustrated by line drawings. First paper edition. Stiff wraps. 8vo. pp. 346. Endnotes, resources. Near Fine. Traces of cover wear..

New York: Stein and Day, 1974. First edition. Yellow boards, green quarter cloth. Signed by author. 8vo. pp. 263. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar..

London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d. Illustrated by Color frontis by C. Dickes, b/w letter illumination and several engraved vignettes. Fourteenth Thousand edition. Reprint from from the 19th Century "The Books For the Household" Series. Blind-stamped green cloth, gilt print spine and top, brown eps. 16mo. pp. [iv], 32; 3-32; 3-32; 3-32; 3-32, [iv] Ads. VG. Bumped and worn corners, several foxed spots. Five shorts: Home! Sweet Home, The Good Mother, Household Happiness, Sunday Excursions, and Kind Turns..

New York: Gourmet, October 1966. Translated by Narcissa Chamberlain from the French. Illustrated by b/w author drawings, photos and vignettes. First thus edition. c.1952-1963 (seven printings). Cream washable cloth, gilt print spine, red/blue emblem spine and top, yellow topstain. 4to. pp. xvi, 670. Indices. Very good/Lacks jacket. Light soil and wear, (ink owner). Produced from 1949 series of articles for Gourmet illustrating the beauty and fare of the French countryside, (with recipes in paragraph form). This new edition is enlarged over the 619 page first..

New York: Hobbs, Dorman & Co Edited by Theodora Illenberger and Avaonne Eyre Keiler. Illustrated by b/w photos and cartoons. First edition. Yellow tweed paper boards. Super Royal 8vo. pp. [xii], [5], 189, [1] blank, [8] Index, [28] Of the Reader's Choosing (blank). VG/Good/Unclipped price in mylar. Caps crushed, slightly soiled boards in bright jacket with edge chips and tears, spine tear, darkened at spine and folds. Foreword by Stephen Becker, Introduction by James A. Beard. 45 cartoonists: bio, photo, toon and recipe(s)..

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. Illustrated by 9 Color photographs by Percy Hennell, 2 maps and 55 decorations. First edition. A chapter on American Champagne written by Robert J. Misch. 4to. pp. 227. Near Fine/VG/Clipped price in mylar. Edgewear, small closed tears and slightly sunned spine to jacket..

: University of Rhode Island, 1974. First thus edition. A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Food and Nutrition. 2 volumes. Red cloth, gilt print spine. Large Post 4to. pp. z, xviii, 309; xvi, 180. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Text recto. Though mostly technical, a plethora of information on seafood, mussel storage, canning and preparation..

Hammonsport, NY: Taylor, ca.1950. Illustrated by color & b/w. 2 volumes. Folded pamphlets. 15.5cm. pp. 2; 2. Very Good. One old dampstain. Contains aperitif, red, white, dessert, sparkling wines. Post as one..

New York: J. and J. Harper, 1830. Illustrated by 12 carving figures (text cuts). [7th Revised] as Harper's Stereotype edition. c.1817 London as Apicus Redivivus or the Cook's Oracle. Brown calf, gilt and black stamped dentelle border to both boards and to spine bands with gilt stamped title, blue eps. 16mo. pp. [ii], xii, [3], 16-432, [ii]. Index. About Very Good. Copy of Samuel R[awson] Gardiner (1829-1902) with pencil signature ffep. Rubbing and edgewear to binding, light foxing throughout, one section shaken, pages buckle shut..

New York: MacMillan, (1994). Illustrated by Richard Truscott. First edition. First work of non-fiction. Tan boards, quarter gray cloth, t.e.red. 8vo. pp. ix, 326. Index. Fine/Near Fine/Unclipped price in mylar. One closed tear and faint rear dampstain to top edge. 75 original recipes and unusual food autobiography..

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1994. Illustrated by color and b&w photographs. First edition. Pictorial wraps. 8vo. pp. 96. Near Fine/No jacket. Very slight edgewear..