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Fit for a King: The Merle Armitage Book of Food

Large hardcover in green cloth with red titles, matching dust jacket, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches, 258,[3] pages, chapter headings in color and monochromatic illustrations at beginning of chapters, 4 black...

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The Orient Express Chinese Cookbook

Full number line, 4to, 206 pages, black and white illustrations; previous owner's name inked to top of front free endpaper, dust jacket has a closed tear with creasing repaired with scotch tape at top...

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Cooking for Company: A Party Cook Book of Menus and Recipes

First printing stated; large 8vo in gold cloth, 309 pages, color photographs. Boards very lightly rubbed with a bit of wear at extremities, previous owner's bookplate and penciled note in front...

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The Salad Book

No statement of edition, full green cloth, 8vo, 302 pages. Bit of wear at extremities, adhesive remnants on half-title page, internally clean and sound; clipped dust jacket with mild edge wear, now in...

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What to Cook for Company

Fifth printing; full blue cloth with red titles, 8vo, 516 pages, illustrated with drawings and black and white photographs, pictorial endpapers. Slight bow to spine, clean and bright with sound...

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Love and Dishes

First edition stated; gray cloth boards decorated with blue titles and red lips, 8vo, 416 pages, small black and white illustrations by Roger Duvoisin, who designed the dust jacket as well. Top edge of...

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Around the World in Eighty Dishes: The World Through the Kitchen Window

Full gray cloth, small 4to, 172 pages, illustrations by the author. Dust jacket rubbed, smudged and edge worn with some light soiling on rear, sunned spine, now in protective mylar cover. A fascinating...

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Cook, My Darling Daughter

First edition stated; pictorial cloth, 8vo, 619,xxi,[3] pages, occasional small decorative illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate in front endpaper, faded water spots to top edge of text block; dust...

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The Art of Turkish Cooking Or, Delectable Delights of Topkapi

First edition stated; brown cloth backed in yellow cloth, 8vo, 308 pages, illustrated. Previous owner's bookplate in front endpaper, yellowed glue residue in rear endpaper; shelf worn dust jacket with...

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The Frances Parkinson Keyes Cookbook

First edition stated; Gray cloth, 8vo, 322 pages, pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate in preliminary blank page, shel worn dust jacket with scotch tape reinforcement at head of spine, now...

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Cooking with the Chinese Flavor

Decorative paper covered boards with red titles, 8vo, 196 pages, illustrated with drawings by Siu Lan Loh. Ownership inscription in front free endpaper; edgeworn dust jacket with chipping at...

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Dim Sum: The Delicious Secrets of Home-Cooked Chinese Tea Lunch

Trade paperback; square 8vo; 92 pp.; black & white illustrations. Light edgewear to wraps, crease at rear edge, binding is solid, pages are clean & bright. The author taught at California...

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Delights And Prejudices

First edition stated; signed and inscribed by Beard on blank prelim, 4to (9 3/4 x 5 1/2) inches, blind embossed green paper over boards backed in blue cloth, black and white drawings by Earl Thollander...

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Lancashire Cookery

Perfect bound paperback in pictorial covers, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 62,[1] pages, occasional black and white photographs. Light rubbing and wear along extremities, internally clean and bright in sound...

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The Sportsman's Game and Fish Cookbook

No statement of edition; full green cloth, 8vo, 225 pages. Faint scattered foxing to boards, internally clean and sound, clipped dust jacket with mild rubbing and edge wear, now in protective mylar...

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The San Francisco Cook Book

Full tan cloth, 8vo, 143 pages, with illustrations by Wendy Larrence. Previous owner's bookplate and inked inscription in front endpapers, tiny scorch mark in front endpaper, inside edges of dust...

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The Pacific Hostess Cookbook

Yellow cloth covered boards backed in blue cloth, 8vo, 256 pages, small line drawings throughout. Top corners turn in slightly, light tanning in pictorial endpapers; Edge worn dust jacket with chipping...

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La Cuisine: Secrets of Modern French Cooking

Fifth printing; blue coated cloth, 9 1/2 x 6 5/8 inches, 894 pages, profusely illustrated with photographs by Charles Affif. Light crease to cloth over front board (binding error), lightly toned pages,...

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The New Kali Orexi: A Greek Cookbook

Undated, circa1970s; comb-bound in pictorial stock covers, 67 mimeographed pages, decorative chapter heads. Covers toned with a mild stain (milk, yogurt?) on front cover, internally clean and sound....

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Esquire Culinary Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery Book Or, Around Europe...

Second printing; full red cloth, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, 320 pages, decorative red border on title page. Faint bumps to bottom corners, lightly toned dust jacket with edge wear and a few tiny closed...

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