Books About Food

North Bay, Canada:: Transformer Press,, 2002.. Edition of 10. 10 x 7.5" with eight spreads. Accordion book with handmade paper pages and hard covers. The text is rubber-stamped and the images colour-copied. There are five very simple pop-ups. Tall tales and (possibly) true stories told to Lise Melhorn-Boe as a child are combined to create a fairy-tale version of her father's immigration to Canada, presented as a quest for food. The pages get more colourful and dimensional as the story progresses.  Lise Melhorn Boe: "My father grew up during World War I in Germany, the third youngest of nine. So he remembered not having enough to eat. He was a good storyteller, so I've just put together a number of his tales. The photos are all really of him and his family. It was very hand that my grandfather actually was a poor shoemaker with many children, considering that I was trying to make it like a fairy tale. When I was away from home at university My father would always ask… Read More

Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish Reference. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 2008. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 1,280 pages: 8.75 x 11.25 in.: 14.6: KB#007645: No Jacket As Issued. BRAND NEW. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except several volumes do have a bumped corner and Vol. 7 has a well-repaired tear at the bottom of the spine). Each volume is 8.75 x 11.25 in., with a total of 1,280 pages. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Content Volumes include: Vol. 1: Acid Indigestion to Calcium * Vol. 2: Calories to Energy Drinks * Vol. 3: Enzymes to Gout * Vol. 4: Grains to Legumes * Vol. 5: Lifespan, Human to Pesticides * Vol. 6: Phytonutrients to Soul Food * Vol. 7: Soup to Yogurt * Vol. 8: Indexes. "The 225 entries cover cooking and eating, cuisines, and foods and health, and are accompanied by sidebars, recipes, tables, and well-chosen and -captioned photographs. There are also entries on cultural and… Read More

Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish Reference. New with No Dust Jacket as issued. 2008. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 1,280 pages: 8.75 x 11.25 in.: 14.6: KB#007644: No Jacket As Issued. BRAND NEW. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Each volume is 8.75 x 11.25 in., with a total of 1,280 pages. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Content Volumes include: Vol. 1: Acid Indigestion to Calcium * Vol. 2: Calories to Energy Drinks * Vol. 3: Enzymes to Gout * Vol. 4: Grains to Legumes * Vol. 5: Lifespan, Human to Pesticides * Vol. 6: Phytonutrients to Soul Food * Vol. 7: Soup to Yogurt * Vol. 8: Indexes. "The 225 entries cover cooking and eating, cuisines, and foods and health, and are accompanied by sidebars, recipes, tables, and well-chosen and -captioned photographs. There are also entries on cultural and social aspects such as diet fads, fashion, and religion and food. Many entries relate to the production and business of… Read More

Milwaukee, WI: The Settlement Cook Book Co, 1941. Octavo, xlvi, 623 pages. Twenty-First Edition, revised and enlarged. A much later edition this influential and massively successful cookbook, originally published in 1901. The emphasis is American, with a smattering of hearty Jewish Eastern European fare. In earlier editions, the Jewish/Eastern European influence was more prevalent. This copy is extraordinary, in unused condition bright and fresh, with the original white, washable boards shiny and clean, the original publisher's green dust jacket, with white bland and red printed text and decoration is equally exceptional. Fine, and rare thus. [Axford, p. 363; DuSablon, America's Collectible Cookbooks, pages 65-67].

London: Condrup Ltd., 1926 Green illustrated covers, slight edge-wear, covers creased. Laid in typed letter w/ masthead. Sole Agents Stock Terms sheet No. 420 1926. A Combined Catalogue of Woodware, Hardware, & Fancy Stock Lines for which we are Sole Distributors, Cancels, Terms, Contents, ect. Indexies. iv. 70 pgs. engraved illustrations, prices, specs. Hestia, Reliance, Rotunda, Primus, Luther, Con-venient Lamp, Cambridge reading lamps, Luxor Mol-con Slicers, ect. Con est. 1888. Extremely Rare finds 0 copies, a 1956-7 edition is located in National Art Library Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.. Decorative Paper. Very Good.

London: Offices of the British Baker" Maclaren and Sons. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. N.d. [Ca. 1930]. Orig. green cloth lettered in white on upper front board with black titles on spine, viii, 183pp; viii, 183pp; 516pp; 200pp; 196pp. Illustrated. Light foxing with some markings on edges, a small loss to bottom corner of dedication page of the Genoese Glaces volume. Cloth rubbed and bumped at covers and spine, o/w very good. Harris was the founder of the British Confectioner's Association in 1905.

Half dark blue morocco over decorative boards; 5 dual raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Floral decorative endpapers; top edge gilt. Original wraps bound in. French text throughout. Spine sunned to brown; light wear to paper boards (see image). 1281 pp. 9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches.

Alice B. Toklas - The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book; illustrations by Sir Francis Rose - London, Michael Joseph, 1954 - First Edition - Hardcover - 288pp - 23x15cmCondition Good: Cover worn and faded. Throughout the book some signs of use: this book really has been used but all pages are clean, no names or writing, binding good. Alice Babette Toklas (1877-1967) was the life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein. They lived together as part of the Parisian avant-garde from the day they met in 1907 until Stein's death. Between the wars, their Paris home was a salon for the leading writers and artists of the day, including Ernest Hemingway, Alfred North Whitehead, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Picasso, Thornton Wilder, Sherwood Anderson, Matisse, Gris, Braque and Ford Maddox Ford. This book contains a melange of reminiscences and recipes, celebrating the food and kitchen aspects of Toklas' life with Gertrude Stein and contains the Surrealist artist Brion Gysin's infamous recipe for hashish fudge (expurgated… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Square quarto, xii, 146, [2] pages. Photographically illustrated. FIRST EDITION. "Julia Child introduces sixteen of America's talented chefs from different parts of the country and interprets their recipes for the home cook" (jacket copy). Her chefs include Charlie Palmer, Emeril Legasse, Andre Soltner, Jeremiah Tower, Lidia Bastianich, Michel Richard, and Nancy Silverton, among others. Very light foxing to endpapers, otherwise fine, in publisher's coated stock, decorated boards. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Laid-in is a Typed Postcard, signed by Child, to author Michael Coe, regarding fly-fishing, and with a "5x7" black and white press photo (uncredited) of Julia fly fishing on the Laerdal River in Norway.

Phaidon Press Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 2019. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. VG+/VG+ 1st ed 2019 Phaidon hardback, unclipped DJ, profusely illustrated substantial volume. Light corner rubbing wear to jacket and boards only, bright and unmarked. Size: 230\nx 330\nx 46mm. 704 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Food & Drink; ISBN: 1838660119. ISBN/EAN: 9781838660116. Dewey Code: 641.337303. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 086092.. 9781838660116

Genova: Pietro Giovanni Calenzani, 1659. Octavo, pp (4), 236, intermittent browning and light foxing, otherwise tight and sound internally, contemporary vellum, age-toned and a little marked. The front endpaper bears a label identifying this copy as from the cookery collection of John Hodgkin FLS. A scarce edition - an early note on the endpaper, possibly by Hodgkin, comments that it is not mentioned in the bibliographies of Drexel or Vicaire. [John Hodgkin FLS was born in Birmingham in 1857, the son of John Eliot Hodgkin and Sarah Ransome. In 1881, he was living with his parents in Richmond, Surrey and working as an analyst for a medical firm. In 1889 he married Grace Stock and they had three sons. Like his father, John Hodgkin had a keen interest in bibliography. He assembled a notable collection of books on the subject of cookery, some of which now form part of the Cookery Collection at Leeds University Library , along with his extensive notes on the bibliography of cookery and housekeeping,… Read More

Ave Maria Lane, London: Whittaker & Co., 1842. [1842 - {1846}]. Large thick quarto, 172 fine hand coloured plates each with at least one page of descriptive text (often more), two or three early pages with fox blotches, slightly affecting a few plates, plate 4 has been folded at the name to avoid losing any text when trimmed by the binder (see illustration), with plate 24 the red pigment has oxidised slightly and offset to the text, the later few plates and text are slightly age-toned at the margins; with the title page to the first volume but any others have been discarded by the binder, five contents pages are present, and then an owner has bound in a manuscript contents for the last 10 plates, the owner has numbered all the plates on the contents pages and also very faintly and neatly in pencil on each plate corner, the first two blank pages are creased, bound in one volume half calf, very rubbed but firm and sound, the remains of a shelf label on the spine. RARE. Published in four volumes,… Read More

[Seattle, Washington]:: [Lawton Press],, 2017.. Edition of 5. 8.75" x 6" x 1.75"; 74 pages including 38 photographs and 21 vellum additions. Accordion structure. Housed in clamshell box. Printing by A & A Printing. Book binding by Andrea Kohler. Bound in illustrated hard covers. Design and photography by Nancy Edelstein. Numbered. Artist statement: "Nancy Edelstein is a fine art photographer and book maker whose work explores memory and the objects that preserve it. Friday Night Dinners brings together visual and story telling components to reveal the power of forgotten memories held in her grandmother's porcelain dishes. This project is the culmination of her unique photographic process, resulting in fine art digital prints and a handmade artist book, honoring those layered images with personal stories of a lost family tradition. "'Contained within are printed translucent vellum pages, enhancing and obscuring the images beneath. As each vellum page is… Read More

THOMAS BARNES. A New Method of Propagating Fruit-trees and Flowering Shrubs: whereby the common kinds may be raised more expeditiously; and several curious exotics increased, which will not take root from cuttings or layers, confirmed by repeated and successful expeience. First edition, 1759. With two engraved folding plates (a bit foxed and slightly worn), octavo, pp 42, scattered foxing.[Blanche Henrey 434. It seems little known; the system must have been well received, as John Rutter mentions it in Modern Eden {1767} - "a very singular method of propagating fruit trees.....lately revived by the very excellent gardener Mr Barnes of Elsham"]. [bound with] A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. A New System of Agriculture; or A Plain and Easy and Demonstrative Method of Speedily Growing Rich: Proving, by undeniable Arguments, that Every Land-Owner, in England, may advance his Estate to a Double Value, in the Space of One Year's Time, together with several very curious instructions how to feed oxen,… Read More

Hereford: Jakeman & Carver, 1886. Illustrated with outline drawings of fruit sections, octavo, pp xii, 247, a little foxing to the rear blank pages and to the fore-edge, otherwise an exceptionally clean copy, green blind-stamped cloth with gilt medallion decoration, very slight signs of use and slight rubbing to the corners but a very bright copy. RARE. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.