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1928Best.-Nr. 64506Los Angeles & Guasti CA: Italian Vineyard Co. Printed by Young & McCallister Inc. Nov. 1928. 16mo. 5 x 7 in. 31 1 pp. With numerous colour text illustrations panorama centerfold birds-eye view of Italian Vineyard Co. vineyards and winery. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art of Italian chef leaning over the housewife to encourage use of Guasti wines small closed tear at foot of spine very minor edgewear minor soiling back cover still a VG- copy. First edition of this very scarce cookbook issued by the then famous Guasti California Italian Vineyard Co. under the direction of founder Secondo Guasti whose company by 1920’s owned 8 square miles of desert land in San Bernardino County east of Los Angles with over 20000 acres of vineyards. Guasti Cooking Sherry which was salted was excellent for sauces meats fowl stews and gravies while the old claret was perfect for red meats poultry and game dishes. The Sweet Sherry flavoring Sweet Port Flavoring and the Sauterne combined Guasti wines with cane sugar. Now largely a ghost town between the 10 & 60 freeways in Rancho Cucamonga the church replicating a 17th-Century Italian Church in Guasti’s native village of Asti still remains. Worldcat locates 1 copy of the 1st edition UC Davis 2nd edition released later is more common. Italian Vineyard Co., [Printed by Young & McCallister, Inc.], paperback
1933Best.-Nr. 64704Chicago IL: Morton Salt Company 1933. 4to. 8.5 x 11 in. 32 pp. printed throughout in red blue & black. Photo illustrations text illustrations. Colour-illustrated lithograph softcovers cover art view of bib overall-dressed butcher stuffing sausages by hand w/ rear cover art touting the new Morton’s Seasoning for Sausage and Sugar-Curing Smoke-Salt slight shelfwear minor rubbing still a NF copy. First edition of this uncommon cooking & butchering brochure from the Morton Salt Company touting their newly introduced Sausage seasoning during the Great Depression. Morton Salt Co. offers here specific instructions on cutting trimming curing and how to properly use their sugar and wood smoke infused salt for meat curing along with specific recipes and instructions on making liver sausage bologna sausage blood sausage Frankfurters jerked beef and more. Worldcat locates 4 copies Hagley IA State Chicago Hist. Mus. VA Tech. Morton Salt Company, paperback
1911Best.-Nr. 64676Chicago IL: Jaques Manufacturing Co. 1911. 12mo. 63 1 pp. Decorated borders vignettes colour and black & white text illustrations throughout. Self-printed colour-lithographed sofcovers cover art of KC Baking Powder can front cover factory in Chicago on back cover minor edgewear 1 very small closed tear still a VG copy. First edition of this group of recipes designed by the Boston Cooking School Magazine to take full advantage of the potency of KC Baking Powder. Blanks at rear include recipes such as “Creamed Salmon in heart cases” “Lemon Fluff Pie” and an unidentified nut loaf. Hill 1852-1933 attended the Boston Cooking School founded and served as editor of the Boston Cooking School magazine and was an advocate of reforming cooking methods and recipes as well as progressive concepts of scientific cooking and cleanliness. Worldcat locates 2 copies of this edition KSU Rutherford B. Hayes Center. Jaques Manufacturing Co., unknown
1938Best.-Nr. 64577Glendale CA: The Arthur H. Clark Co. 1938. Tall 8vo. 182 pp. Extra-illustrated title by Hernando Villa 2 plates. Orange publisher’s cloth black lettering offset toning on endpapers minor sunning to spine minor tidemark to lower corner fore-edge of textblock still a G copy from the library of William H. Bishop b. 1922 scion of the Bishop textiles family in Oregon & Washington re-enrolled at USC after his discharge to finish his undergraduate work studied law at Willamette Univ. and by 1950 was directing the Dyeing Department of the Pendleton Woolen Mills in Portland Oregon & wife Marilyn Bishop b. 1922. First edition 1 of 1019 copies. The “first and only authentic record of Spanish California cookery revealing many secret recipes and menus of the period handed down through five generations by the author’s illustrious Spanish ancestors who first trod the soil of California with Padre Junipero Serra.” As a direct descendant of Juan Francisco Reyes early alcalde of Los Angeles and Maximo Alanaiz founder of Rancho San Jose de Buenos Aires now Woodland Hills the author has presented authentic recipes for native California foods breads vegetables salads relishes olives cakes pastries cheeses meats daily menus and customs. The Arthur H. Clark Co., hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. 64558New York NY: Wieser & Wieser Inc. 1981. Oblong 4to. 176 pp. Title in white & black on red colour-illustrated throughout colour photo plates text illustrations. White publisher’s boards gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing w/ d.j. minor edgewear slight soiling still VG/VG copy. First edition of this lavish cookbook promoting the Camino Real Hotels in Mexico with recepes drawn from the Las Brisas in Acapulco Las Hadas in Manzanillo and the best hotels in Cancun Ixtapa and Mexico City. Recipes range from authentic Mole Poblano to Yucatan style Cochinita Pibil Enchiladas and Frijoles to Albondigas and Crema de Aguacate. Wieser & Wieser, Inc., hardcover
1893Best.-Nr. 64726St. Louis MO Chicago IL & Milwaukee WI: William J. Lemp Brewing Co. Miwlaukee Litho. & Engr. Co. 1893. Oblong 12mo. 5.25 x 3.25 in. 8 pp. With 42 leaves of Albertype sepia-tinted lithograph plates 3 colour chromolithograph plates 1 colour-lithograph folding map sized 6 x 9.5 in. mounted at rear. Colour-chromolithograph illustrated textured softcovers cover art of gnome holding a frothy mug setting on hops & rye w/ decorative lettering minor scuffing slight loss on first leaf neatly filled-in scuffing & minor loss to image on back cover still a VG- bright copy. First edition of this exceptional 1893 Columbian World’s Fair souvenir for the historic Western brewery first opened by Johann Adam Lemp in 1840 in St. Louis Missouri and vastly expanded by his son William J. Lemp and grandson William J. Lemp Jr. The St. Louis brewer was built atop a complex of natural caves which proved perfect for lagering beer used as underground beer gardens and eventually by the 1890’s the Lemp brewery covered 27 buildings on a 13.7 acre site. This souvenir’s illustrations provide an essential visual document of the brewery operations including a massive early refrigerating machine department followed by views of their breweries in Los Angeles & San Francisco CA Leadville Pueblo & Denver CO Wichita & Atchison KS El Paso Galveston Houston Austin & Dallas TX Portland OR and Salt Lake City UT along with the view of the booth at the World’s Fair. The beautifully chromolithographed images of Lemp Beer bottles include those for Standard Extra Pale and Culmbacher. Family tragedies including suicide by William J. Lemp Sr. in 1904 his son in 1922 and Prohibition forced the brewery operations to cease by 1920 and their Western breweries were spun off to other companies and the St. Louis Complex was sold to the International Shoe company in 1922. Worldcat locates 3 copies Hagley Newberry & The Strong. William J. Lemp Brewing Co., [Miwlaukee Litho. & Engr. Co.], paperback
1940Best.-Nr. 64674Chicago IL: Published by Jessie Marie DeBoth 1940. 8vo. 96 pp. Illustrated title page text illustrations throughout. Pictorial blue cloth gilt illustration & lettering w/ d.j. minor shelfwear rubbing NF/NF copy. First edition of this wonderful anthology sportsmen’s recipes recommending how to handle fish wild game and fowl by such authors as Chef Amiet of the Palmer House Chicago; explorer and wild animal collector Frank Buck; western author Zane Grey; big game hunter Elmer Keith; actor & gourmand Vincent Price’s Brook Trout au vin blanc; and Theodore Roosevelt’s duck rolled and baked in clay. Ms. DeBoth 1890-1959 was a noted homemaker’s popular lecturer toured the country delivering sessions at cooking and homemaking classes in Home Economics lectures and her daily column “Jessie’s Notebook” was a popular daily installment in the Chicago Daily Tribune and also owned and operated the DeBoth Homemakers Schools and later expanded to radio and television cooking programming by the 1940’s-1950’s. Published by Jessie Marie DeBoth, hardcover
1908Best.-Nr. 64629Boston MA Denver CO Spokane WA & London UK: Anthony Augent Tremp 1908-1910. Six parts in one vol. 12; 4; 4; 20; 18 pp various paginated & unpaginated. illustrated throughout with booth diagrams floorplans fair display ideas photo illustrations 2 mounted silver gelatin photos sized 8 x 10 in. on front & back wrappers additional paper clippings and magazine clippings tipped-in. Original purple softcovers silver lettering fro the Boston Food Fair program w/ the rest mounted & sewn-in by Tremp w/ red ties at gutter margin some edgewear thumbing minor tears scuffing some lifting still a surprisingly intact Sammelband in G condition despite heavy use. This intriguing Pure Food Fair promotion guide compiled by the noted Swiss-American western food fair display designer and promoter captures the energy and impact in Colorado Washington Massachusetts and the United Kingdom following the passage of the Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906. Across the United States and in the UK there was a tremendous growth of the public’s interest in sanitary food manufacturing packaging new products and more importantly booths designed to demonstrate that there products were unadulterated safe & modern. The Denver Retail Grocers Association and the Spokane Grocers’ Association contracted with the intrepid salesman and show promoter to present “up-to-date carefully managed City and State-wide advertised indoor exposition of pure foods household electrical gas auto labor-saving appliances and industrial exhibits of every nature” in the two Western Cities. The 1908 Boston Food Fair was a lavish Progressive Era production which featured the band and performances of John Philip Sousa to entertain participants and fair-goers. Tremp b. 1873 first emigrated into Oakland CA before setting himself up in Denver CO until just before World War I with a focus on “Pure Food” fairs but after World War I would move back to California and remained there as a show promoter until the 1950’s. No similar copies of the Denver Spokane or Boston Food Fair promotional catalogues and prospectuses are located in Worldcat or food & drink or advertising specialty institutional holdings. [Anthony Augent Tremp, paperback
1931Best.-Nr. 64685Schenectady & Albany NY; Cleveland OH; Sales Promotion Division Electric Refrigeration Dept. General Electric Co. 1931-1932. Two vols. 1st -- Seven parts. in 1 vol. 4to. 174 19 leaves w/ hand-penciled numeration i.e. 384 pp. photo-illustrated text illustrations colour-illustrated diagrams throughout colour blueprints mimeographed & dittoed typescript price lists for a couple sections and divided by orange-coloured sheets w/ thumb tabs confiled to the rear most individual parts w/ self-printed illustrated softcovers or printed softcovers occasional thumbing edgewear & toning. Deep burgundy-brown flexible cloth post-binder 3 brass screw-posts at gutter margin rounded corners embossed gilt illustration on front cover of GE Refrigerator minor shelfwear rubbing still VG bright copy; 2nd - 8vo. 5.75 x 8 in. 2 75 7 pp. With numerous text illustrations colour diagram. Flexible textured dark-brown paper split-bin binder embossed gilt illustration of GE Refrigerator on front cover minor scuffing edgewear occasional soiling still VG copy. First editions thus of these exceedingly scarce General Electric sales catalogues containing price lists sales brochures sales information and technical instructions for salesmen to retail appliance department stores hardware stores and electrical utilities across America detailing to their potential customers the home and commercial refrigerator possibilities for better preserving foodstuffs and providing cool water and ice cream. General Electric during the opening years of the Great Depression launched themselves to the top of the fast expanding refrigeration and electrification movement as they transitioned to their Monitor Top refrigerator as well as introducing their “Thermocraft” insulation material which significantly reduced weight per cubic foot and allowed them to easily out-compete their main competitors including Westinghouse and Maytag. These Monitor-top refrigerator units were marketed widely with an ad campaign emphasizing the sanitary white enamel finish on steel that “simplifies housekeeping and safeguards health” for the family built as one air-tight units for both home and commercial uses operating relatively quitely and protecting the food inside from unwanted bacteria and decay. The name Monitor-Top derives from the refrigeration unit’s resemblance to the turret on the Civil War battleship the USS Monitor and would become the bestselling refrigerator over the next decade. The Salesman’s Handbook emphasizes how the interest on the money invested in an electric refrigerator is less than the average price paid by a consumer for ice deliveries for antiquated “Iceboxes” as well as emphasizing just how much food can be stored in them ice made inside the units and how invaluable they are for keeping healthy milk and dairy products at the proper temperatures. No similar salesman’s catalogues or individual brochures located in Worldcat; See: Andrew Shanken Better Living: Toward a Cultural History of a Business Slogan Enterprise and Society Advance Access 2006 pp. 17-30; GE Monitor-Top Refrigerator The Capital Region in 50 Objects Albany Institute of History & Art 2025; Large Appliances: Innovating the Kitchen Google Arts & Culture Celebrating 1s! 2026. Sales Promotion Division, Electric Refrigeration Dept., General Electric Co., paperback
1920Best.-Nr. 64634Minneapolis MN & Chicago IL: Washburn-Crosby Co. Edwards & Deutsch Lithographing Co. ca. 1920. Two large colour lithograph linen-backed posters sized 28 x 41 in. with the first illustrating the 24 steps with illustrations and text in green black & red green & red borders and lettering; 2nd cutaway image of wheat kernel on deep blue background minor edgewear dustsoiling to fore-edges some minor creasing & wear still a VG pair of original posters. First editions thus of these marvelous colour lithograph advertising and education posters detailing the Gold Medal Flour Milling process by the Washburn-Crosby Co. mills during the Progressive Era. Washburn-Crosby Co. had been founded in the 19th-Century and after inventing the middlings purifier for producing high quality flour from the Spring wheat grown in Minnesota and the Dakotas quickly expanded. Washburn-Crosby also introduced the gradual reduction process through pulverizing porcelain chilled iron or steel rollers to gradually pulverize the purified middlings and integrate the gluten with starch and finally they installed the exhaust system of William de la Barre to reduce the risk of explostions. A smaller version of this cutaway design of a Washburn-Crosby flour mill first appeared in the 1915 Wheat & Flour Primer advertising their Gold Medal Flour and this one was issued just a few hours later in a larger format detailing how the consumer could trust the purity of Gold Medal Flour. The second cutaway poster vividly illustrates the ideal Spring wheat kernel used by the company and details the various layers and their terminology. Edwards & Deutsch Lithographing Co. was first founded in 1896 and continued to be one of Chicago’s most successful poster and packaging colour lithography printers through the 1920’s. Worldcat locates 2 copies of the 1st Cleveland Pub. & Nat. Agr. Lib.; No copies located of 2nd. Washburn-Crosby Co., Edwards & Deutsch Lithographing Co., unknown
1943Best.-Nr. 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
1930Best.-Nr. 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
1953Best.-Nr. 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
1921Best.-Nr. 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
1952Best.-Nr. 63445Shishmaref Nome & Anchorage Alaska: Published exclusively by Alaska Crippled Children’s Association 1952. 12mo. 1 36 1 leaves mimeograph typescript throghout. Light-green tinted illustrated softcovers yapp fore-edges minor soiling edgewear some rubbing still a good copy. Second edition of this fascinating fund-raiser local cookbook drawn from recipes collected and edited by the Shismaref Day School students from their family traditions. These fascinating recipes with instructions encompass desserts such as Lingcod Eskimo Ice-Cream & Sue-wok Dried Salmon Eggs assorted boiled fried and dried fish; Pussy Willow greens Sourah & Ah-lowe-kuk Wild Chard along with roasted bear meat fried & baked seal liver and others. Sockpick Evans 1937-2021 helped to raise her 12 brothers & sisters in Shishmaref attended the Day School through the 8th Grade contracted tuberculosis during the epidemic and spent two years in the same sanatorium as Betty MacDonald and was noted for her accomplished ivory carfvings and traditional parkas uspuks and Eskimo dolls. Published exclusively by Alaska Crippled Children’s Association, paperback
1890Best.-Nr. 63446Rochester NY: American Public Health Association 1890. 8vo. viii 188 pp. Plum-coloured publisher’s cloth embossed covers gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear rubbing j& scuffing minor sunning still a VG- copy inscribed by Henry Lomb 1828-1908 founder of Bausch & Lomb with John Jacob Bausch and later the Mechanics Institute of Rochester NY now RIT with a special focus on providing 8th-grade girl graduates in and around Rochester with free cooking courses at the Mechanics Institute as well as the sponsor of the Lomb Prize presented to Mary Helena Brayton 1848-1922 longtime cooking & public health instructor at the Mechanics Institute. Second printing of this excellent Progressive Era cookbook which became a standard reference for cooking schools and particularly focused on training poor girls often working in factories as child labor to learn not only employable skills but raise their health and standards of living by eating and cooking more nutritious foods at home. See: Mary Hinman Abel: A Revolutionary in Domestic Science Food for Thought 2025. American Public Health Association, hardcover
1976Best.-Nr. 63553Seattle WA: Peanut Butter Partners Epicure 1976. 4to. 160 pp. printed on tan-tinted paper illustrations throughout 1 map. Colour-illustrated softcovers wraparound cover art photo birdseye view of Portland OR by Jan Jackson shot from Washington Park slight shelfwear very slight scuffing back cover NF copy. First edition thus of this installment in the noted Epicure menu guidebook for Portland OR purportedly issued biannually from 1976 through 1983 by the entrepreneurial Mort Cone partner with his brother Gerald Cone in Cone Company Printers and later editor and publisher for Epicure menu guides in Portland Seattle Sun Valley Aspen Vail St. Louis and even Hawaii. Featuring a blizzard of original restaurant menus in the Bicentennial Year with all their original cover art this guidebook covering Portland Vancouver and environs includes such noted local staples as Asparro’s Union Ave. Social Club the Dan & Louis Oyster Bar the Fish Grotto Henry Thiele’s London Grill Mr. C’s Hippopotamus Old Spaghetti Factory The Ringside Trader Vic’s and any others. Also included are a significant number of Asian and Hispanic ethnic restaurants including Casa Molina The Chili Pepper Hong’s Cantonese Pavilion Benihana of Tokyo Paco’s Sang’s Chinatown Zen and others. Worldcat locates 3 copies Multnomah Co. U of W State Lib. of OR. Peanut Butter Partners], Epicure, paperback
1942Best.-Nr. 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
1937Best.-Nr. 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
1917Best.-Nr. 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
1947Best.-Nr. 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
1519Best.-Nr. 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
1928Best.-Nr. 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
1935Best.-Nr. 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
1934Best.-Nr. 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