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

Mount Vernon, New York:: Ed Hutchins,, 2000.. Edition of 48. 3.75 x 6" custom crafted box with opaque window to view taco book. Seven shaped pages of “colorful foamy material” inserted into taco shaped shell. Silk-screened text panels on each side of page. Text in Spanish with English translation on reverse page. Box numbered. Signed and numbered on taco. Seven filling-shaped pages stuff a taco shaped shell. The ingredient pages are silk-screened with sayings about food, hunger, and desire. "Un taco sin salsa es como un beso sin bigote." "A Taco without salsa is like a kiss without a moustache."Ed Hutchins, colopohon: "In July 2000 Steve Warren and I set out on a year-long visit to Mexico. Our first stop was Cuernavaca. Antonio Ortega, once he learned of my interest in unusual books, presented me with the tortilla paper and asked, "Can you do anything with this?" The taco shells were assembled after Steve and I moved to Guanajuato.… 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. Fair with no dust jacket; Hard Cover; C. Clement ; 1882; First Thus. Brown hard cover boards, fair. Previous owner name on front board, heavy chipping to spine, edges worn. Previous owner name, bookseller label inside front board, (Will. m Reynolds). Hinges starting, First Thus. Containing Information relative to the brewing of Beer, making of Bread, keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry, and Rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family. 207 pages plus index. Scattered foxing. ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .

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.

Rochester, N.Y: Joseph Harris / Office of the Genesee Farmer / Dewey & Dutton, Printers, Daily American Office, 1857. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. On the front endpaper is the name Thomas T. Newby in pencil. Newby was an Indiana Quaker and vocal abolitionist. Boards rubbed, leather drying, joints weakening, several pages appear to have been excised from the end of the 1858 and 1859 volumes. 1857 Half-Leather. viii, 132; vi, 106; vi, 108; vi, 100; iv, 100 pp. Five annual issues of this agricultural periodical, bound in one volume. Engraved illustrations throughout. Includes: The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory: for the Year 1857: Containing Treatises on Rural Architecture, Laying Out and Managing Fruit, Flower and Kitchen Gardens, with Practical Suggestions on Various Subjects Connected with Rural Pursuits. Also, Brief Hints of the Rearing and Management of Poultry, List of Fruits Recommended by the American Pomological Society. Lists of Nurserymen and Agricultural Implement Makers in… Read More

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

[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

New York: Ecco / HarperCollins, 2010. Signed on the half-title page by Anthony Bourdain. First edition / First printing. Navy paper-covered spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.