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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Cream cloth covered boards. Very good, in good dust wrapper. 223 pages. 22 x 20 cm. The author, Joyce Chen (1917-1994), was recognized by the American public as popularizing authentic Chinese cuisine, patenting and marketing the flat bottom wok with a handle to the U.S. market, and introducing Chinese Dumplings at her first restaurant, the "Joyce Chen Restaurant". All the recipes in this book can be prepared successfully. Chen guides the reader on the correct way to make Chinese tea, prepare rice, use chopsticks, and learn about the three great regional schools of cooking within China: Cantonese, Mandarin,and Szechwan. Illustrated throughout. Previous owner's signature on front free end paper. Price clipped. Interior and boards clean and crisp. Dust wrapper rubbed and chipped. Covered in protective mylar.

Printed in Germany, c. 1960. Cards. Color illustrated shaped card. Near fine. 11.5 x 10 cm. Color illustrated, shaped pop-up card with envelope featuring a family gathering around a table under a trellis covered in greens. When closed, the words A Happy New Year is printed in English and Hebrew. Clean and crisp.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper. 460 pages. An avid entertainer, James Beard shares his favorite fish recipes dividing his subjects into sea-water fish, freshwater fish, shellfish and such assorted rare delicacies as Russian caviar, snails, turtles and terrapin. With every fish he briefly sketches its haunts and habits and goes on to give an expert's instructions for grilling, frying, baking, poaching or otherwise preparing it for the table. Previous owner's signature on front free end paper. Clean, crisp copy. Dust wrapper lightly toned with rubbed at the spine.

Jamestown, VA, 1901. Staplebound. Orange typeset on beige paper. Good.. 15 pages. 16.5 x 12 cm. A brief history of the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, the first town to be settled by to-be American colonists in the United States of America. Describes the colonists’ arrival, some of the structures built, and other significant events that had occurred there between 1607 and 1901. Some light creasing, lightly toned.

Le Roy, NY: The Genesee Pure Food Company, 1922. Staplebound. Cream/Navy printed wraps, Fine. 14 pages, 15.5 x 11 cm. The Jell-O: At Home Everywhere collection intersperses Jell-O recipes categorized by heading and scenic paintings featuring Jell-O dishes and their consumers at home. Recipes also have the name of the contributor and the region of the nation in which they live printed under them. An insert about Jell-O ice cream powder is tied into the booklet by a string in the top left corner of the pages. Clean and crisp

Le Roy, NY: The Genesee Pure Food Company, 1922. Staplebound. Cream/Navy printed wraps, Very good. 14 pages, 15.5 x 11 cm. The Jell-O: At Home Everywhere collection intersperses Jell-O recipes categorized by heading and scenic paintings featuring Jell-O dishes and their consumers at home. Recipes also have the name of the contributor and the region of the nation in which they live printed under them. Some staining on cover.

Le Roy, NY: The Genesee Pure Food Company, 1920. staplebound. White illustrated wraps, Fine. 14 pages, 10.5 x 15.5 cm. The recipe booklet Jell-O, America's Most Famous Dessert, features a young and nicely dressed woman in an apron on the cover sitting at her table, checking through an account book, with boxes of Jell-O sitting nearby. This is a large part of the Jell-O marketing at the time, presenting it as economical way to bring beautiful desserts to the masses. There is a short folded collection of recipes tied into the middle of this book for ice creams made with the Jell-O Ice Cream Powder with vivid illustrations.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Yellow illustrated boards, green cloth spine. Very good, in good dust wrapper. 210 pages. 22 x 13 cm. The author brings to gardening a rare combination of style, imagination and good sense. Focusing on the well-grounded tradition in the architecture of plants. Includes suggestions for rockwalls and terraces, for borders, watercourses and kitchen gardens. Interior and boards clean, dust wrapper rubbed and chipped.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Large format paperback. 248 pages. 27 x 21.5 cm. In collaboration with E.S. Yntema. Photographs by James Scherer. Like its predecessor and companion, Julia Child & Co., this is a menu cook book filled with photo illustrations, marketing tips, and leftover suggestions. Detailed recipes for everything she demonstrates on her second cooking-for-company television series. Interior crisp and clean, Covers sunned at spine.

Dallas, Texas: R.C. Dyer & Company, c.1929. Second Edition. Hardcover. Light green oil cloth boards. Good. 264 [10 pp.] pages. Early edition of the Junior League of Dallas Cook Book. Before the Great Depression, this League focused their attention on the operation of the Junior League Home for Convalescent Children - with the proceeds of this book going towards the care of undernourished and convalescent children. Recipes attributed to members of the community. Twelve pages of handwritten recipes by the owner, Mabelle D. Mallory - a Bradford, Pa. resident who made a trip to Dallas in Nov. 1929. Interior clean, spine cracked but holding, boards heavily rubbed.