New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1973). First edition. The prolific actress and singer's third book. Anecdotes and approximately 100 recipes from her own kitchen and those of family and friends, including a smattering of celebrities. Stamped "GIFT FROM/ PEARL BAILEY" on front endpaper and INSCRIBED BY BAILEY on half-title, "To..... Item #50646 More
(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1942). First edition. One of 750 copies. Issued to raise funds for WWII relief efforts. Includes recipes from Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, Cecil B. De Mille, Lillian Gish, Fannie Hurst, Robinson Jeffers, Rockwell Kent, Christopher Morley, Cole Porter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Booth Tarkington, et al. 4to metal..... Item #72111 More
New York: Beaufort Books, (1984). First U.S. edition. INSCRIBED, "For Marian, With all good wishes, Michael Bond." Bond wrote books for children, most notably his series featuring "Paddington Bear." This is one is for adults -- a gastronomic mystery in his series featuring Monsieur Pamplemousse and his faithful bloodhound, Pommes..... Item #54653 More
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1934. First edition of this book of recipes "all of which owe their final excellence to the skillful use of wine in their preparation" by the family of the prolific avant-garde writer Robert Carlton Brown, who presaged the advent of the e-reader in a 1930..... Item #53295 More
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Del Monte, CA: Hotel Del Monte, (1936). First edition. Recipes compiled by Cerwin; illustrations by Whitman. Recipes includes "Poetic License" from Jeffers (onions baked in cream of mushroom soup); "Something to Remember" from Sherwood Anderson (cured ham simmered in milk); "Tortilla Flat" from Steinbeck (vinegar soaked beef in tomato sauce..... Item #55583 More
Paul Child. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First edition. Photographs and drawings by Paul Child with additional photographs by Albie Walton. Very good to near fine with light rubbing to spine corners and crease to head of spine where bumped. Pages clear and bright with the exception of pencil..... Item #53276 More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. First edition. Portrait frontispiece. Off-white cloth boards with green titles, and green page edges. Good-only with covers uniformly soiled, small chips to endpapers, pages aged, and pages 203-206 missing from center of book (appear to have been fish recipes between Fried Codfish-tongues..... Item #52547 More
New York: William Morrow & Co., (1976). First U.S. edition. "The Cuisine of Slimness" by the "inventor of the revolutionary way to cook beautiful French food without the calories" -- from the dust jacket. Translated from the French by Narcisse Chamberlain & Fanny Brennan. Slight sunning to board edges, still..... Item #53300 More
(Wateringbury, Kent): Bridge Books / Kent Editions, (1970). First edition thus: first separate edition of extracts from THE COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL with introduction by Medway Fitzmoran and postscript by John Blest. Number 53 of 300 numbered copies. Slender 12mo brown stylized paper boards, gilt-stamped spine;..... Item #71721 More