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Richard Olney's The French Menu Cookbook; signed by him
OLNEY, Richard.
The French Menu Cookbook.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1985.
First edition of the revised edition of this landmark work. Quarto, original cloth. Boldly signed by Richard Olney on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Judith Eldridge.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 72976
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“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since”: First Edition of Salvador Dali's Les Diners de Gala
DALI, Salvador.
Les Diners de Gala.
New York: Felicie, Inc, 1973.
First edition of this extravagant, lavishly illustrated cookbook created by Dalí in honor of his wife, Gala. Quarto, original color-printed pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Translated by Captain J. Peter Moore. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 147232
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First Edition of Julia's Kitchen Wisdom Essential Techniques And Recipes From A Lifetime Of Cooking; Signed by Her
CHILD, Julia.
Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom Essential Techniques And Recipes From A Lifetime Of Cooking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
First edition of this collection of recipes by Julia Child. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Jane Julia Child." Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Front of the jacket photograph by Micheal McLaughlin. Book photograph by Paul Child.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145839
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Elizabeth Moxon's English Housewifery, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Reciepts; Bound with English Housewifery Improved
MOXON, Elizabeth.
English Housewifery, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Reciepts, Giving Directions in Most Parts of Cookery. [WITH] English Housewifery Improved; or, a Supplement to Moxon’s Cookery.
London: Printed for W. Osborne, T. Griffin, and H. Mozley, 1789.
Finely bound edition of this thorough etiquette and recipe book. Two volumes bound in one, three-quarter brown speckled calf over marbled boards with gilt titles on a morocco label and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, illustrated with a folding table and eight woodcut diagrams of table settings, two of which are folding. In very good condition with very light staining to the first few leaves, bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146428
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First Edition of Marcella Cucina; Inscribed by Marcella Hazan
HAZAN, Marcella.
Marcella Cucina.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997.
First edition of this collection of recipes by Hazan. Quarto, original glossy boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs by Alison Harris. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Doris best wishes! Marcella Hazan." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Joel Avirom.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 143511
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Marcella's Italian Kitchen; Signed by Her
HAZAN, Marcella.
Marcella’s Italian Kitchen.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
Early printing of this classic work. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes! Marcella Hazan." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Front-of-jacket photograph by David Massey. Jacket design by Karen Katz.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 143529
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“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since”: First Edition of Salvador Dali's Les Diners De Gala
DALI, Salvador.
Les Diners de Gala.
New York: Felicie Inc, 1973.
First edition of this extravagant, lavishly illustrated cookbook created by Dalí in honor of his wife Gala. Quarto, original color-printed pictorial cloth, original decorative stiff paper dust jacket, illustrated throughout. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Captain J. Peter Moore.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 143953
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First Edition of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Cross Creek Cookery; Signed by Her
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.
Cross Creek Cookery.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943.
First edition of Rawlings’ heartwarming cookbook. Octavo, original pictorial calico-textured cloth. Boldly signed by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on the front free endpaper. In good condition. Illustrations by Robert Camp.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138178
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First Edition of Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child's Restaurant Adventures With 46 Recipes; Inscribed by Alice Waters and Ann Arnold with a sketch
WATERS, Alice with Bob Carrau and Patricia Curtan.
Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child’s Restaurant Adventures With 46 Recipes.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
First edition of this children's book by the creator of Chez Panisse. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Lindsay, Alice Waters." Additionally inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title page with a drawing of herself holding flowers and pointing at the inscription, "With greetings from the illustrator Ann Arnold." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145492
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Julia Child's The Way to Cook; Inscribed by Her
CHILD, Julia.
The Way To Cook.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Later printing of this classic cookbook by Julia Child. Quarto, original boards, illustrated with photographs by Brian Leatart and Jim Scherer. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Lois Johnson Julia Child." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146643
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First Edition of Hugh Johnson's Wine
JOHNSON, Hugh.
Wine.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.
First edition of this early work by the foremost wine expert in the world. Quarto, original cloth, with line drawings by Owen Wood, seven color maps. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145332
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“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since”: First Edition of Salvador Dali's Les Diners de Gala
DALI, Salvador.
Les Diners de Gala.
New York: Felicie, Inc, 1973.
First edition of this extravagant, lavishly illustrated cookbook created by Dalí in honor of his wife, Gala. Quarto, original color-printed pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Translated by Captain J. Peter Moore. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146757
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First Edition of Hugh Johnson's Modern Encyclopedia of Wine; Signed by Him
JOHNSON, Hugh.
Hugh Johnson’s Modern Encyclopedia of Wine.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Hugh Johnson. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 119739
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Elizabeth Raffald's The Experienced English Housekeeper
RAFFALD, Elizabeth.
The Experienced English Housekeeper, For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. Written Purely From Practice, and Dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author Lately Served as Housekeeper: Consisting of Near Nine Hundred Original Receipts, Most of Which Never Appeared in Print.
London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1782.
Early edition of this instruction guide to housekeeping, with nearly nine hundred recipes. Octavo, bound in three quarter reverse calf over marbled boards, frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth Raffald, illustrated with three folding plates with setting plans for a grand table and a diagram of the newly invented fire stove, "wherein any common fuel may be burnt instead of charcoal." In very good condition, some toning throughout, and contemporary manuscript notations to the front free endpaper and title page.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 146407
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First Edition of The Bush Family Cookbook; Signed by George and Barbara Bush and Ariel De Guzman
BUSH, George and Barbara Bush; Ariel De Guzman.
The Bush Family Cookbook: Favorite Recipes and Stories from One of America’s Great Families.
New York: Lisa Drew Books, 2005.
First edition of this collection of recipes from the Bush family. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by George and Barbara Bush, as well as the author on the half-title page. Ariel De Guzman has written in his hand, "8/06 To Jamie & Russ From the Buh's kitchen to yours - .. enjoy!" Forewords by George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush and Jeb Bush. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 147215
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First edition of Charles Baker's The Esquire Culinary Companion; signed by him
BAKER, Charles H.
The Esquire Culinary Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery Book Or, Around Europe with Knife, Fork, and Spoon.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1959.
First edition of Baker's famed Esquire Culinary Companion. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Charles H. Baker Jr." Near fine in the original slipcase which is in very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 127386
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William Buchan's Domestic Medicine: Or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines; from the library of American journalist William Safire
BUCHAN, William [William Safire].
Domestic Medicine: Or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines.
London: Printed for A. Strahan; T. Caldwell and W. Davies, Strand; and J. Balfour, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1803.
Early printing of the book that brought detailed descriptions of the causes and prevention of diseases to the domestic home for the first time. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Title page, advertisement and preface supplied in facsimile. From the library of William Safire, although not marked. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 129584
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First edition of L'Abbe Valentin Dufour's Une Question Historique 1720-1868; in the rare original glassine
DUFOUR, L'Abbe Valentin.
Une Question Historique 1720-1868.
Paris: Librarie de F. Bouquette, 1868.
First edition of L'Abbe Valentin Dufour's historic dissertation on the consumption of horseflesh. Duodecimo, original wrappers as issued, engraved initials. In near fine condition, in the rare original glassine.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 96211
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First Edition of M. Parmentier's Instruction Sur Les Moyens De Suppleer le Sucre
PARMENTIER, M.
Instruction Sur Les Moyens De Suppleer le Sucre Dans Les Principaux Usages Qu’on En Fait Pour La Medecine Et L’Economie Domestique.
A Paris: Chez Maquignon aine, Librarie, rue de lEcole de Medecine, 1808.
First edition of this rare work on vinification. Octavo, contemporary if not original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 114368
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Limited Librarie Dardel Edition of Lucien Tendret's La Table Au Pays De Brillat-Savarin
TENDRET, Lucien.
La Table Au Pays De Brillat-Savarin.
Chambery: Librairie Dardel, 1934.
Limited Librarie Dardel edition of Tendret's best-known work, published posthumously by his direct descendants as a strict reproduction of the original 1892 printing. Octavo, original wrappers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Tendret in 1885. One of 1750 numbered copies, this is number 1390. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 110841