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1942ref. 63580New York: Macmillan Co. 1942. 8vo. xx 2 147 1 pp. Blue publisher’s cloth red & white printed title label mounted front cover w/ d.j. minor scuffing front cover affecting a couple letters couple minor closed tears still a NF/G copy from the library of Margaret E. Love w/ ownership markings on ffep. First edition 1st printing stated of this concise and straightforward cookbook targeting housewives on the home front during World War II Wartime rationing. Winn-Smith 1892-1991 has adopted and translated rationing and “thrifty” recipe techniques from those used during the Revolutionary War Civil War and World War I. She advises cooks to use just one crust rather than double pie crusts for pies reuse rendered fat in a variety of different recipes or instead of mixing chocolate chips into the batter simply decorate on top with them substitute ingredients and more. She worked as a fashion designer of millinery and wedding trousseaus in Olympia & Seattle was interior decorator for Gump’s in Honolulu and later head of the Art & Picture Dept. at Meier & Frank Department store in Portland OR and later became a noted landscape painter while her husband Xenephon Smith was librarian at Arizona State the Library of Congress and the US Postal Service Chief Librarian. Macmillan Co., hardcover
1937ref. 63534Seattle WA: Carl W. Art Lloyd Building 1937. 12mo. 109 3 pp. Illustrated title text illustrations throughout. Quarter-green publisher’s cloth over Spruce wooden covers black decorative lettering on front cover very slight chipping to couple corners still a VG bright copy w/ bookseller’s label for Frederick & Nelson on front pastedown. First edition of this surprisingly scarce and inventive travel guide for motorists and travelers to Seattle Tacoma & Spokane as well as Vancouver and Victoria BC at the end of the Great Depression modeled off of the author’s very successful “Curious California Customs” 1935. Alongside such landmarks as the Frozen Fish Aquarium Meany Hotel Smith Tower & the Persian Dining Room Herrick 1894-1994 breezily details as well the famed Shell House at the University of Washington where George Pocock built racing shells for West Coast championship rowing teams; Maneki’s Japanese-American restaurant at 212 Sixth South or the several Chinese-American restaurants along King Street where the wait staff speak Oxonian English. Herrick Steake was married to Spokane WA realtor printer and publisher Arthur Steake her father H.A. Herrick was a prominent New York newspaperman and in the 1930’s she tried her hand on inventive guidebooks. This work includes illustrations created by students at the famed Cornish School in Seattle. Carl W. Art, Lloyd Building, hardcover
1917ref. 63583Portland: Crown Mills 1917. Tall 8vo. 32 pp. Photo-illust. title illust. upper borders throughout. Colour-illust. softcovers photo on rear of mill w/ bread trucks parked at loading dock minor shelfwear very minor soiling still VG- copy stapled as issued. First edition of this early product cook book using Crown flour known for its purity and quality. This catalogue for Crown Mills was issued just prior to the U.S. entering World War I at the end of the Progressive Era and following passage of a number of food purity and adulteration acts passed including the original Food and Drugs Act signed into law in June 1906 which prohibited the interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods drinks and drugs as well as regulations against colouring foods. Many of the most successful and largest flour milling operations in the US assembled and distributed sample cases such as these to demonstrate the purity of their products and that they carefully prepared edible products for consumers. Humphreys 1882-1941 appears to have been a partial pseudonym for Lucy L. Humphreys using her sister-in-law Lois A. Humphreys initials and was a longtime educator and administrator at the Woodstock School in Portland and advocate of improving food and nutrition for her students and their families. See: George Kramer Crown Mills Centennial Mills Historic American Engineering Record HAER OR-184 2016 p. 17. Crown Mills, paperback
1947ref. 63568Geneva Switzerland: Advertising and Graphic Art Publicite et Arts Graphiques 1947. 4to. 9.75 x 12.25 in. 184 pp. With 100s of illustrations photos tipped-in samples 1 leaf of printed brushed aluminum advertising cellophane packaging and more. Colour-illustrated softcovers striking cover art by Kurtz minor scuffing shelfwear slight rubbing still VG bright copy. First edition of this beautifully printed sample Special Issue from the noted “Review of Advertising and Graphic Arts in Switzerland.” Included are concept art and sample labels for wine bottles and winemakers; cigar and tobacco packaging with sample label; the development of cellophane and aluminum cans; the importance of commercial artists in packaging; extensive tips on window displays window display designs and sales marketing displays following World War II. Advertising and Graphic Art, Publicite et Arts Graphiques, paperback
1519ref. 63708Cincinnati OH: The Zanol Products Co. Oct. 15 1935. Folio. 64 pp. Red & black borders decorative printing throughout numerous photo illustrations diagrams. Orange textured softcovers brick-red coloured lettering & design on covers textblock slightly curved minor shelfwear dustsoiling still VG copy. First edition of this fantastic Zanol products direct sales catalogue including such products as perfumes fragrances creams lotions powders other cosmetics as well as cooking products and cleaning chemicals. The company’s most popular cosmetics product lines included the Faith Avery and La Bara lines. The La Bara cosmetics borrowed the femme fatale art deco image established by the actress Theda Bara in Cleopatra Salome and Manon Lescaut who began life as Theodosia Burr Goodman from Cincinnati OH. The perfume bottles lipstick compacts soaps were all produced with distinctive art deco packaging and remained popular through the 1930s. Of additional interest are their pioneering direct sales of packaged foods to shorten preparation time for housewives and home cooks as well as offer quick meals. Along with extracts for Root Beer and other soft drinks the Zanol line-up included Marshmallow Cream Lemonade Ezemade Biscuits Ice Cream Powder and a variety of boxed pasta and canned Italian style sauce for preparing meals within minutes. This catalogue includes an additional section with shaving creams cough syrups and other pharmaceutical products. See: Cosmetics by the American Products Company -- Zanol The Vamp and America’s Greatest Perfumer 2015; No copies located in Worldcat. The Zanol Products Co., paperback
1928ref. 63706Leeds: Geo. H. Harrison & Sons Statue Printing Works 1928. 4to. 76 leaves. Colour-illust. printed title 74 colour box top labels 11 w/ gold foil background. Textured & embossed softcovers Statue of Liberty cover art illustration on front cover minor curling to spine very minor soiling to fore-edges some shelfwear 1 box top label w/ partial lower fore-edge cropped still a VG- copy w/ price list tipped-in on verso of front cover. First edition of this exceedingly scarce and exceptional printer’s sample catalogue filled with box top labels for British Chocolates sold between the World Wars. Initially chocolates had been packed as unwrapped bars in the Victorian era with paper labels displayed on the counter. Later gold printing and metal foils repeated the luxury message of chocolate. Inspired by the innovations of Cadbury the designs for many British fancy chocolate boxes were prized by the British as special gifts to be used as trinket or button boxes and even cut out and saved in scrapbooks. Many of the images on the labels in the present catalogue include idyllic landscapes English Chocolate-box cottages vivid art deco art work and even images of King George V Queen Mary the Duke of York later Edward VIII and others. The artists represented here include Ernest Boye Uden 1911-1986 noted illustrated and watercolour painter best remembered for his pastoral landscapes of English villages; Henry R. Wilkinson 1884-1975 noted for his landscapes and images of Venice; and many beautiful portraits of women by Percy Bell Hickling 1876-1951 illustrator for Sherlock Holmes stories cartoonist and frequently illustrated many of the Cassell & Co. girls annuals and girls series books. The price list indicates that they could be purchased in 1000 count lots with all white backgrounds overlap sides Royalty Ribbons and All over designs and the most expensive were the Gold and grained backgrounds. No copies located in NUC. Geo. H. Harrison & Sons, Statue Printing Works, paperback
1935ref. 63707Cincinnati OH: The Zanol Products Co. Feb. 1 1935. Folio. 56 2 pp. Red & black borders decorative printing throughout numerous photo illustrations diagrams. Orange textured softcovers brick-red coloured lettering & design on covers textblock slightly curved minor shelfwear dustsoiling occasional pencil annotations still VG copy with the National Recovery Administration logo printed on front cover corner. First edition of this fantastic Zanol products direct sales catalogue including such products as perfumes fragrances creams lotions powders other cosmetics as well as cooking products and cleaning chemicals. The company’s most popular cosmetics product lines included the Faith Avery and La Bara lines. The La Bara cosmetics borrowed the femme fatale art deco image established by the actress Theda Bara in Cleopatra Salome and Manon Lescaut who began life as Theodosia Burr Goodman from Cincinnati OH. The perfume bottles lipstick compacts soaps were all produced with distinctive art deco packaging and remained popular through the 1930s. Of additional interest are their pioneering direct sales of packaged foods to shorten preparation time for housewives and home cooks as well as offer quick meals. Along with extracts for Root Beer and other soft drinks the Zanol line-up included Marshmallow Cream Lemonade Ezemade Biscuits Ice Cream Powder and a variety of boxed pasta and canned Italian style sauce for preparing meals within minutes. See: Cosmetics by the American Products Company -- Zanol The Vamp and America’s Greatest Perfumer 2015; Worldcat locates 1 copy Public Library of Cincinnati. The Zanol Products Co., paperback
1934ref. 63742Philadelphia PA: Dr. D. Jayne & Son Inc. 250 Delaware 1934. 12mo. 132 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. With text illustrations. Tan illustrated softcovers Art Deco lettering front cover yapp fore-edges minor shelfwear pulling to lower fore-edge of title at gutter margin slight creasing still a VG copy from the library of Samuel S. Berman 1906-1982 longtime San Francisco attorney patron of the arts. First edition of this popular cocktail guide issued by the Philadelphia patent quackery medicine supply house first founded by David Jayne before the Civil War intending to capitalize on the revival of cocktails following the repeal of Prohibition. Including sections on drinks cobblers brandies punches cocktails theatrical drinks fizzes syrups and even helpful hints this guidebook was intended to ensure that bars & taverns offered the purest and best cocktails & drinks to their customers. Along with the myriad of cocktails & mixed drinks featuring bitters absinthe and others the work includes an extensive section on wines. Of course Jayne & Son as evidenced by the ads at the rear did not overlook the opportunities to sell their “cures” for upset stomachs constipation hangovers erectile dysfunction and skin cleansers. Dr. D. Jayne & Son, Inc., 250 Delaware, paperback
1953ref. 63736London UK: Neville Spearman Ltd. 1953. 8vo. 143 1 pp. Illustrated title page numerous illustrations. Blue publisher’s cloth black lettering on spine slight shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Guy Nicholls minor chipping head of spine upper fore-edge partially affecting 1 letter couple closed tears still NF/G copy. First edition of this authoritative and humorous anthology of recipes honoring beer & ale in roasts fish sauces pickles jams cakes and sweets and an assortment of beer & ale cocktails. Harrison 1907-1991 was a mystery and science fiction/fantasy author who wrote mysteries as Quentin Downes from 1952-1954 and became a leading authority on Sherlock Holmes writing several pastiches. Neville Spearman, Ltd., hardcover
1962ref. 63752Seattle WA: Ivar’s Acres of Clams ca. 1962. 4to. 9 x 11.25 in. 4 pp unpaginated. printed in blue on thick gray paper stock die-cut in the shape of a clam self-printed illustrated softcovers edgewear scuffing remnants of glue & black scrapbook paper on back cover still G copy. First edition thus of this promotional souvenir menu for the famed and beloved seafood restaurant first founded in 1938 by Ivar Haglund 1905-1985 alongside his longtime Aquarium tourist attraction. Although undated this menu includes mention of his popular “Clam Digger Room” cocktail lounge as well as his short-lived “Sravi” gift store opened in 1961 just prior to the opening of the 1962 Century 21 Seattle World’s Fair. Specialties included the beloved clam chowder Dungeness Crab Louie whole cracked crabs and even Wente Bros. and B.V. California wines for purchase. No copies located in Worldcat U of W does locate an earlier version dated ca. 1950 as part of their Menu Collection. Ivar’s Acres of Clams, paperback
1943ref. 63912San Francisco CA: Monaco Theatre Restaurant 560 Pacific Ave. 1943. 8vo. 8 pp unpaginated. colour printed bi-fold which opens up into panoramic interior scene menu minor edgewear center creasing from folding slight scuffing still VG copy. First edition thus of this souvenir menu touting the Monaco Theatre Restaurant which anchored one end of Gavallo’s International Settlement Latin Quarter following the clean-up of the notorious Barbary Coast during the 1939-1940 Golden Gate International Exposition. The Monte Carlo-themed nightclub was authentically appointed filled with musicians singers and dancers in Spanish-revival costume and was instant hit serving De Luxe dinners for $2.50 initially $ 1.00 and featured Mixed Green Salad Minestrone Soup Raviolis or Spaghetti as well as Fresh Crab Bordelaise or Roast Duck. California Sparkling Wines including the Ambassador Red or Aristocrat White were very popular. The International Settlement thrived during the World’s Fair but really boomed after the U.S. entered World War II and armed forces swamped the city ironically returning Pacific Avenue back to its red-light roots with many of the Monaco’s neighbors offering burlesque shows honky-tonk and a smattering of prostitution. Worldcat locates 1 similar copy Bancroft; See: Woody LaBounty International Settlement Jackson Square Teh Exotic Restaurant Row San Francisco Story March 19 2025. Monaco Theatre Restaurant, 560 Pacific Ave., unknown
1930ref. 63763Battle Creek MI: Battle Creek Food Company ca. 1930. 12mo. 28 pp. With black & white and colour illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers wraparound Arts & Crafts cover art minor shelfwear still a NF copy w/ small rubber stamps for the “Oakland Health Food Store” on front cover. First edition of this surprisingly uncommon cookbook issued by the Battle Creek food Company Dietetic department encouraging and explaining Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s vegetarian food philosophy featuring tempting appetizers modern dinner menus entrees PEP building and more all featuring Kellogg’s pre-packaged products. Battle Creek Food Company, paperback
1953ref. 63789New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc. 1953. 8vo. viii 444 pp. Text illustrations diagrams tables. Blue publisher’s cloth dark blue & gilt lettering front cover & spine minor offset soiling from old brodart cover fore-edges w/ d.j. minor edgewear old tape repair to closed tear w/ offsetting still G/G copy. Third edition significantly revised & enlarged from the original first issued in 1937 and featuring a much expanded section on the use of frozen foods in large institutional menus and food service. All the recipes were standardized for 50 or more servings definitely applicable to cafeteria and food service settings in hospitals residence halls state institutions schools and more. Fowler was a longtime dietician and instructor in food service and management with St. Mary Hospital Kankakee Kansas State College Butler and later the U.S. Army & Navy. West was professor of Institutional Management at Kansas State as well as teaching at the Univ. of Washington Columbia and the Univ. of Hawaii through World War II. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., hardcover
1921ref. 63908Rochester NY: Co-Operative Foundry Company ca. 1921. Oblong 12mo. 6.75 x 4 in. 66 leaves unnumbered. all linen-backed silver gelatin photographs sized 5.5 x 3.75 in. mounted on white linen hinges at gutter margin w/ first photo providing a birds-eye view of the factory in Rochester NY and sign atop the factory announcing “Red Cross Stoves & Furnaces.” Flexible maroon-coloured cloth cover post-binder nickel-plated screwposts at gutter margin minor thumbing soiling minor curling to photo block still a VG exemplar. First edition thus of very scarce original salesman sample photo catalogue of the noted Co-Operative Foundry Co. line-up of gas combination ranges cabinet kitchen ranges with vent collars in front of the back guards as well as line-up of home and commercial building furnaces. These beautiful stoves could be purchased with enamel finish and as one oven cabinet ranges two oven cabinet ranges some with nickel-plated accents others with baked enamel as well as a few fitted with glass-fronted upper stoves and warming units. The nicely executed colour-tinted linen-backed photographs depict such Red Cross stove line-ups as Popular Welcome along with Empire & Prize commercial kitchen ranges. Also included are coal and wood stoves for heating including Bermuda Ajax as well as Genesee and Empire parlour stoves. Their company logo was the Maltese Red Cross and were one of the most successful employee-owned foundry operations in the United States. They were founded during the post-Civil War depression of 1867 when John K. French & Co. went under and the unemployed molders with the aid of Henry Cribben and encouragement of William Sylvis the molders union leader organized the Equitable Foundry Co. later the Co-Operative Foundry Co. and within 1 year were operating in Rochester Troy West Troy Albany and other locations with still more under consideration. The company remained in operation until the Great Depression. No similar copies located in Worldcat specifically Univ. of Rochester which holds a number of ephemeral catalogues trade cards and items. Co-Operative Foundry Company, hardcover
1955ref. 63056New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1955. 8vo. viii 6 274 pp. Publisher’s half-beige cloth over blue boards black lettering on spine slight toning to fore-edges minor shelfwear w/d.j. splendid wraparound pictorial map cover art depicting regional and local foods across the U.S. slight darkening to spine very minor edgewear still NF/VG copy inscribed by author on first dedication page “To Bessy Morris Eat & have fun.” First edition inscribed of this gastronomical memoir and guidebook by the esteemed authority on the best restaurants to be found while traveling the back roads of America in the first half of the 20th Century. Although Hines could barely cook he was a consummate traveling businessman whose adventures encouraged him to search for the best restaurants keeping notes and eventually writing his iconic guidebooks advising on restaurants and eateries wherever the tired motorist may stop. Prior to modern guidebooks ratings websites and other travel advisories Hines was an investigative epicurean who not only kept meticulous notes on the meals he ate but visited the kitchens and even the garbage outback to confirm cleanliness standards. He partnered in 1952 with Roy Park to form Hines-Park Co. in Ithaca NY and later began marketing everything from ice cream to cake mixes. Scarce in original dustjacket or signed. Thomas Y. Crowell Co., hardcover
1930ref. 63169Austin & Minneapolis MN: Minnesota Utilities Company; Northern States Power Company - Home Service Department Cooking School; Federal Public Service Corporation of Minnesota ca. 1930-1936. Eight parts. 4to. 46 pp assorted separate numbering. w/ most leaves printed on recto only but 2 printed on recto & verso in mimeograph typescript stapled at upper left corners separately 1 part w/ “Seasons Greetings” printed in red minor age toning edgewear still a VG group. A culturally significant group of mimeographed recipes instructions and promotional flyers for the Home Economics & Cooking School demonstrations put on by Naoma Rice for three different Minnesota utility and public utility companies through the depths of the Great Depression. Spearheaded by Rice 1899-1937 the demonstrations emphasized the use and advantages of electric ranges and refrigerators as their popularity and use slowly became more widespread in the 1930’s with an emphasis on local produce and fruits. The first group of recipes includes instructions for such confections as Cranberry Sponge Cake Cider Sherbet Macaroon Pie Spagetti sic Sauce and Bran Refrigerator Rolls. Mixed through the other recipes there are instructions for Crunchy Potato Chip Cookies Apple Cheese Cake Parmesan Veal Frozen Pumpkin Pie and Corn Flake Crust. Several of the recipes emphasize the use of popular Minnesota fruits including Apple Quince Grapes and others.The importance of refrigeration was also emphasized in the “Cooking School” and Model Kitchens with instructions on temperatures needed for home rangers and refrigerators for cooked foods meats butter opened jelly or preserves cheeses and more. Rice suffered through an unspecified childhood illness by by the early 1920’s had become a public school Home Economics Teacher and then by 1928 was listed in Austin MN street directories as a “Demonstrator” for home economics and cooking classes. The Minnesota Utilities Company had been created in 1917 from several smaller utilities and my the Great Depression had grown large enough that it became subject to both the TVA and the Rural Electrification Project as Roosevelt’s New Deal programs attempted to encourage increased use of electricity and electric appliances to boost the economy. The Northern States Power Co. was based out of Minneapolis MN and extended across Minnesota Michigan into the Dakotas and operated an extensive Home Service Dept. The Federal Public Service Corporation of Minnesota appears to have been one of the short-lived outgrowths of WPA and PWA-sponsored programs under the New Deal. This cataloguer could not locate any similar surviving documents for Naoma Rice cooking classes or the Minnesota-based utility companies. Minnesota Utilities Company; Northern States Power Company - Home Service Department, Cooking School; Federal Public Service Cor unknown
1843ref. 63219Boston: Joseph Dowe 22 Court St. 1843. 12mo. 62 pp. Tan-colour cloth w/ original printed covers mounted front & back covers minor chipping & soiling to fore-edges some scuffing light foxing to first & last leaves shaken still G- copy. Third edition revised & enlarged of this Antebellum period handbook on cookery health and household receipts first issued in 1842. The author & compiler has incorporated facts and recipes for coffee chocolate cocoa tea breads -- such as “Indian Flap Jacks” from corn meal Johnny Cakes Waffles and others. Also addressed are roasted fowl lamb cod haddock a variety of oyster dishes along with cakes & pastries. Of additional interest are the several recipes for treating and feeding ill patients along with pickling making ice cream treting sore eyes curing chilblains and even making black ink. See: Lowenstein Bilbiography of American Cookery Books 1742-1860 305. Joseph Dowe, 22 Court St., hardcover
1869ref. 63221London: Houlston & Sons Paternoster Square 1869. 12mo. xvi 368 pp. Embossed & decorated red publisher’s cloth gilt illust. front cover gilt lettering on spine advertising on endpapers minor dustsoiling darkening to spine slight shelfwear still a VG bright copy. Revised & expanded edition of this Victorian handbook which served as precursor to the modern-day search engine and offered concise quick researched facts about food cookery food science chemistry heating & ventilation cleanliness women’s medicine pediatrics and more. Philp 1819-1882 was an organizer and contributor to the Chartist Movement in the UK pushing for universal male suffrage secret ballots annual parliamentary elections and other reforms but is perhaps best remembered as the very successful publisher of his handbooks on practical everyday topics which originally launched in 1856 with “Enquire Within” and later in 1867 with the early version of this title. Houlston & Sons, Paternoster Square, hardcover
1894ref. 63280London: Charles Griffin & Co. Ltd. 1894. Thick 8vo. xvi 570 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s ads. With 144 text woodcut engraved illustrations diagrams. Maroon-coloured publisher’s cloth embossed borders on covers gilt lettering on spine minor sunning to spine edgewear dustsoiling to upper fore-edge slightly shaken still VG copy from the library of James Warne Chenhall d. 1914 perhaps best remembered as the engineer who oversaw the construction and fabrication of the Anaconda Smelting Works in the Montana Territory in 1883 in the U.S. w/ ownership stamp on verso of ffep. First edition of this noted and exhaustive work on preparation and manufacturing of a variety of oils fats butters and waxes from animals and vegetables including explanations of a myriad of uses for beeswax cooking oils soaps for health & hygiene a myriad of oils for uses in perfumes and cosmetics and more. Wright 1844-1894 was the founder of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and perhaps best remembered as the first to synthesize heroin in 1874. Charles Griffin & Co., Ltd., hardcover
1979ref. 63295La Mesa CA: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation 1979. Two works in one. 8vo. xxiv 4 431 1; 4 433-526 pp. Photo frontisp. over 150 photos illustrations plates x-rays. Blue cloth gilt lettering NF from the libraries of Betty Surprise and Eleanore Weinstock. First Heritage edition early printing of this scarce work on anthropology medicine diet and nutrition. The author examines in detail the diets and nutrition of primitive cultures including the Eskimos North American Indians Polynesians African Tribes New Zealand Maori Peruvian Indians and more and compares their results to that of modern urban countries. Continually pointing out that modern diet and eating when it supplants the native diet leads invariably to physical degeneration in the ethnic populations offering an object lesson to modern western civilization. Supplement includes sections on soil fertility dangers of pesticides fluoride chemicals and means by which to combat this. Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, hardcover
1933ref. 62385New York: Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. 1933. 8vo. 110 2 pp. Illust. title in red & black numerous text illustrations in red & black by Fred Breen. Colour-illustrated boards cover art by Breen minor scuffing edgewear minor wear to spine slight bumping to couple corners still VG copy signed by Rector on the Carte du Jour page from the libraries of Shirley Clemenson Daniel & Eleanore Weinstock w/ bookplate on ffep. First edition signed of this excellent collection of recipes on French cooking by Chef George Rector used by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. as a promotional book during the 1933 Century of Progress World’s Fair in Chicago. 1878-1947 was a restauranter and food authority who began his career with Parisian Restaurants son of Charles Rector who had opened the famed Oyster House in 1884 in Chicago and operated the Rector’s Marine Restaurant at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. George Rector published the year after this his “Dine at home with Rector” with subtitle “A Book on What Men Like Why They Like It and How to Cook It” and was columnist for A&P’s radio program as well as their radio program for CBS. Scarce to find in nice condition and signed. See: Jan Whitaker Anatomy of a Restaurateur: George Rector Restaurant-ing through History 2018. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., hardcover
1923ref. 62386Oceanside CA: Dirk Vandegeer 1923. Tall 8vo. 318 2 pp. Frontisp. numerous plates drawings text illustrations. Gray publisher’s cloth decorative blue & black lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight dustsoiling still VG copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock. First edition of this well-written and nicely illustrated cook book for bakers pastry and confectionery chefs in Southern California during the Roaring 20’s. Included are sections on puff pastries German Coffee Cakes dumplings tarts and elaborate fancy deserts with over 100 pages of cake and pastry designs for the pastry and candy shop. Included as well are recipes for everything from Mexican Sausage to Suckling Pig and applesauce as well as Green Turtle Soup and Horseradish Butter. Vandegeer 1867-1928 worked in hotels as baker and pastry chef in leading hotels of France Belgium and the Netherlands before finishing his career in Southern California near San Diego and eventual retirement by 1924. Dirk Vandegeer, hardcover
1878ref. 62378Boston: Graves Locke & Co. 1878. 12mo. 234 2 pp. plus 24 pp. of blank ruled paper intended for the cookbook user’s own notes & recipes. Dark plum-coloured publisher’s cloth embossed & lettered in black & gilt front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing edgewear very slight tear to ffep. still VG bright copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock. Second edition of Parloa’s famed cookbook filled with recipes intended for both young housekeepers and hotel restaurant commercial kitchens. She details many New England favorites and includes recipes for fish soups meats vegetables breads cakes puddings pies poultry venison dishes for the sick & invalid preserves pickles and more. Many of these recipes were favorites of the Appledore House Isle of Shoals restaurant as well as the Rockingham House in Portsmouth NH the Pavilion Hotel in Wolfborough NH and McMillan House North Conway NH. She does include health tips such as suggesting the use of butter rather than lard in pie crusts as it “is more healthful than lard. . . if you can afford it use it.” Parloa 1843-1909 was by 29 years old a longtime cook at the Appledore House in Kittery Maine and published the first edition of this cook book in 1872. By 1873 it appears she had moved to Mandarin Florida to teach for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s school and had finished rewriting this edition according to her prace in April 1877. By 1880 she was teaching cookery in Boston and living on Wayne St. and by 1900 had moved to New York. See: Patrick Tierney Wild The Mysterious Early Life of Maria Parloa The Bethel Grapevine 2024. Graves, Locke & Co., hardcover
1929ref. 62686Montreal Canada: Canadian Pacific Express 1929. Oblong 8vo. 4 pp unpaginated. text & borders printed in blue sepia & black. Self-printed softcovers vivid Art Deco cover art front cover of Canadian Pacific Express making delivery to airport by Charles James Greenwood 1893-1965 a NF copy. First edition thus of this wonderful menu issued at the end of the Roaring 20’s touting the lavish breakfasts available on Canadian Pacific streamliner service sleeping cars dining cars station restaurants and planes in 1929. Greenwood was a graphic designer who began creating posters for the Canadian Pacific in the 1920’s and was noted for his posters promoting cruises to Alaska. No copies in Worldcat. Canadian Pacific Express, paperback
1934ref. 62684West Bend WI: West Bend Aluminum Feb. 1934. 8vo. 15 1 pp. printed in green & black throughout. With photo & text illustrations throughout self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of lunch counter small tear back cover minor dustsoiling darkening to fore-edges VG- copy. First edition of this remarkably scarce collection of recipes targeting drug stores soda fountains and lunch counters designed by the West Bend Aluminum cookware Home Economics Department to aid in selling cookware and economical large serving recipes. The supplied recipes include those for chili Corn Chowder Griddle Cakes Spanish Steak hot sandwiches with beef made slow cooked in the Dutch Oven and more. Of particular interest are the directions on making drip coffee with West Bend drip coffee makers and even a one-cup coffee maker. No copies in Worldcat. West Bend Aluminum, paperback