Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Co., [1905]. 105,[1]pp. Original printed cloth boards. Light wear to spine and edges; boards slightly rubbed, with minor soiling; front hinge. Title page somewhat browned; light tanning and soiling elsewhere. First edition, first issue (with "Price 25 Cents" printed on the front board) of this early 20th-century..... More
Habana: Imprenta de Spencer y Comp. 1856. 308,[1]pp. plus four plates. Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, edges sprinkled blue. Boards somewhat scuffed; spine ends and edges worn. Signed and numbered by the author on verso of title page. Light tanning internally. The first edition of an extremely..... More
![Manuscript Notebook Containing the Household Expenses of a Woman in Denver]. Colorado](/pictures/thumb/138.JPG?v=1553201028)
[Denver]: 1913-1916. [44] leaves. Original calf covers, manuscript cover title "Household Expenses." Light wear. Contents clean. Household expense accounts kept by an unnamed woman in Denver. Covering the period from January 1913 to July 1916, the volume contains a monthly expense report over the course of three and a half..... More
Brighton, Co. Brighton Printing Co., 1921. 95,[1]pp. plus one leaf of color ads. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Lightly soiled, spine rubbed, manuscript ink doodle on cover. Title page torn slightly at upper staple. Minor soiling internally. Second edition, revised. This work, first published in 1912, this edition was printed in..... More
Preston, Ia: Preston Times Print, 1925. 32pp. plus manuscript leaf laid in. Original printed orange cloth wrappers. Light wear to spine, some fraying at edges. Minor toning and wear to text. Unrecorded local cook book compiled by the Lutheran church of Preston, Iowa, a small town located halfway between Davenport..... More
Albany: B. Taylor, 1860. 113pp. 16mo. Lacking wrappers, stitched as issued. Wear and soiling, slightly heavier to outer leaves; light scattered foxing. Corners worn. Handy little guide for the homemaker "embracing a mass of information never before published." The compiler, a W. Morey, writes in the introduction that he has..... More
Charleston: Plain Dealer Press, [ca. 1905]. 85,[1]pp. Original printed wrapper, string-tied. Spine perished, wrappers heavily worn and chipped, soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Wear and soiling to text, p.33 torn away but present, p.35 torn. An early and apparently unrecorded regional cook book from a small town in..... More
Evanston: Mumm Print Shop, [1920?]. 119,[7]pp. Original green cloth, cover stamped in black. Spine and corners rubbed. Internally clean. A handsome little cook book compiled by the PTA of the Oakton School in Evanston, Illinois. "This is not intended to be a cook book...This is simply a collection of favorite..... More
Denison, Ia. 1915. 136,[1]pp. Original printed cloth wrappers, nearly separated from text block. Moderate wear and soiling to wraps; endpapers chipped. Some childish manuscript scrawlings. Light tanning, some soiling internally. Scarce World War I-era cook book for this ladies' club in the small town of Denison in western Iowa. With..... More
[Council Bluffs, Ia. 1908]. 161,[3]pp. Original printed cloth wrappers. Some wear, scuffing, and creasing to wraps. Light tanning and scattered minor soiling internally. Scarce, early 20th-century community cook book published by the Ladies Aid Society of the Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church in Council Bluffs, Iowa. “Four hundred recipes, embracing the..... More
![Friendship Cook Book. Dorcas Society of Bethesda Lutheran Church [cover title]. Kansas, Cook Books](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1291_01.jpg?v=1584634025)
Page City, Ks. 1931. 130pp. Original orange printed wrappers, brown linen spine. Light wear and creasing, upper rear corner torn away. Minor toning and soiling. Community cook book published by the Dorcas Society of the Bethesda Lutheran Church in Page City, Kansas. Recipes were contributed by local ladies, often with..... More
![C.P.H. Cook Book 1924 [cover title]. Michigan, Cook Books](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1330_01.jpg?v=1586817006)
[Grand Rapids]: 1924. 99,[13]pp. Original green printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers heavily chipped and worn, front cover detached. Text block lightly worn, light soiling. Contemporary pencil notations, blank leaves at end with manuscript recipes. Unrecorded cook book published by the East Fulton Circle of the Christian Psychopathic Hospital Association at Cuterville..... More
Elm Creek, Nb. 1937. 166pp., erratically paginated; plus two color plates. Several blank pages interspersed. Original printed limp cloth wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling to covers. Contemporary ownership inscription on title page; light wear to contents, a few small edge tears; final leaf torn but intact. An unrecorded community..... More
Wayne, Ne. 1926. 228pp. plus two plates of ads. Original cream boards, cover stamped in black. Light wear and soiling, particularly to spine. Very minor soiling internally. A handsomely produced cook book from the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wayne, Nebraska, a small town about a hundred miles north of Lincoln..... More
Portland: 1914. 329,[1]pp. Original printed boards. Hinges lightly worn and soiled, corners and covers rubbed. Front hinge tender, front endpapers removed. Light soiling and wear to contents, scattered manuscript notations in pencil. Manuscript recipes laid in, with several written on the blank leaves at the end. Second edition, revised and..... More
Houston: 1930. [8],264pp. Original cream cloth boards, cover stamped in black. Slightly bowed, lightly soiled. Corners and spine moderately worn. Internally clean. An extensive community cook book compiled and published by the Ladies Association of the First Presbyterian Church in Houston. Each recipe bears the name of its contributor, and..... More
Port Arthur, Tx. H.E. MacBride Company, [ca. 1930]. 46pp. Original gray wrappers printed in blue, stapled. Light soiling and wear. Contemporary pencil recipes on front flyleaf. Light soiling to contents. Rare charity cook book published by the ladies of the Trinity Methodist Missionary Society in Port Arthur, Texas. Dishes here..... More
![Woman's Exchange of Texas, Austin, Texas [cover title]. Texas, Women](/pictures/thumb/McBRB931_01.JPG?v=1572390363)
Austin: Statesman Steam Print, [ca. 1880]. 8pp. Original tan printed wrappers. Minor soiling and wear. A rebranding of the "Woman's Art Exchange" of Texas, removing the mistaken emphasis on art to encourage wider participation. "It was never intended to devote our energies to Art alone, but to the encouragement of..... More
Tacoma: Thos. L. Jacobs, 1908. 39,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Hole punched in upper corner, light soiling and wear. Minor soiling and a few leaves loose. "This little booklet is published with the primary object of meeting the needs of cooks who come to the coast country from the central..... More