Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1934. First edition. Large 8vo (approx. 11.88 x 9 inches), original printed card-stock wrappers, 111 pages, with the original folding card stock portfolio stamped in ink, “Sweet Corn.” Color illustrations throughout. A gorgeous attempt on the part of New York to publish a “more..... More

[New York: n. p., 1834]. First edition. Ticket of admission on white coated card stock, 3 x 4.13 inches, printed in black and tan ink. “In 1834 the 28-year-old star sailed for Europe, sent off by the elite of New York, who feted him as a symbol of American culture”..... More

[Parchment, Michigan: Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, 1931?]. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial boards, [2], 42 pages. Illus. Tipped-in price sheet to the verso of the front board. A promotional book on the many domestic uses (cooking, cleaning, writing) of the paper product of the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co. As befits..... More

Little Falls, N. Y. Journal & Courier Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1873. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 32 pages. Illus. A fine, comprehensive trade catalog, with everything a dairy or cheese operation needs to operate--from steam boilers or tubular dairy heaters (includes a discharge curd gate), to..... More

Wilmington, Del. Ferris Bros., Printers and Bookbinders, 1886. First edition. Original printed blue wrappers, 6.25 x 4.5 inches, [i-iv], [7]-31, [1] pages. “When I was nineteen years of age I walked a thousand miles to overcome a constitutional ailment that was dragging me down to an early grave. I spent..... More

London: Published by William Cobbett, 183 Fleet-Street, 1828. First edition. 8vo, later 19th century polished half calf, marbled boards, [269] unnumbered pages. Three plates. On the cultivation of American corn, with much on American agriculture and customs; the first two leaves are printed on corn paper. Cobbett also includes glances..... More

[Chicago: Apyrotropher Publishing and Supply House], 1924. First edition. Original self wrappers, 8.88 x 6 inches, [20] pages. Illus. A wonderful look at alternative living in Roaring Twenties Chicago, essentially an extended advertisement for Drews’s concern: raw foods, sunlight baths, uplifting publications on vegetarian raw diets, food mills, carrot graters..... More

(Providence, R.I. Rumford Chemical Works), [ca. 1900?]. Thin 12mo, original printed wrappers, 24 pages. Quick-rise baking recipes. Haxworth, a Gold Medalist and Graduate of National Training School of Cooking (London), advocates the use of Rumford baking powder in fulfilling the three watchwords of the intelligent housekeeper: purity, economy, and utility..... More

(Le Roy, N.Y. The Jell-O Company, Inc., 1931). First edition. 12mo, original color pictorial self-wrappers, 23, [1] pages. Illus. A characteristic promotional recipe pamphlet from Jell-O, elegant art deco illustrations hinting at a certain glamor despite the early Depression Era claims to thriftiness. More

(Le Roy, N.Y. Jell-O Company Inc., 1932). First edition. 16mo, original color printed self-wrappers, 23, [1] pages. Illus. "The new Jell-O is made with water only slightly hotter than lukewarm!" Recipes, characteristic color illustrations. More

Great Bend, Penna. Published by the Author, 1879. First edition. 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, 8 pages. "Now I am *not* prepared to say that it was alcoholic wine Paul prescribed for Timothy. The unfermented wine would have nutritious qualities the other would not, and be a cooling drink, something..... More

Cincinnati: Procter & Gamble, 1925. Small 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, [2], 128 pages. Illus. General cookbook and cooking hints, the recipes tending toward the use of Crisco. Includes essays on Crisco's manufacture, on using Crisco to feed children, its conformity to Jewish dietary laws, etc. More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1903. First edition, one of 330 numbered copies. Small folio, original brown quarter buckram, marbled boards, printed paper label, xii, 171, [1] pages, untrimmed. 28 plates of mounted facsimiles. An excellent discursive description of one of the great American cookery collections (assembled..... More