DELIGHTS & PREJUDICES
Inscribed Fireside printing of the "autobiographical journal of America's most noted food authority."
Inscribed Fireside printing of the "autobiographical journal of America's most noted food authority."
First edition, first issue of the most famous book in English domestic arts and home cooking of the Victorian era, rare in full contemporary binding without any restoration.
First American edition of the one of the most influential books in culinary history.
Indignant broadside bemoaning the flamboyant advertising techniques of fellow public house owners – and directing readers to his own establishment, which is "NOT A GIN PALACE."
First edition of the memoir of the famous bartender of the Stork Club and beyond, filled with colorful anecdotes of the people for whom he mixed drinks.
First edition of an important book in the American discourse on vegetarianism, in which a Yale Medical School graduate argues the medical benefits of eating less meat.
First printing of the first cook book by the manager of the Algonquin Hotel, who formed the famous Algonquin Round Table with members Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and Edna Ferber, and who counted as regulars John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, and Orson Welles.
An unusually attractive and unblemished first printing of a book which served as many cooks' lifelong working companion.
Second printing of Hayes's memoir-style cookbook, with a bookplate signed by Hayes affixed to the front fly leaf.
Inscribed first printing of this follow-up to to Hazan's legendary culinary debut.
First edition of the first published book on this culinary tradition, "an invaluable record of the history of Creole food, New Orleans, and Louisiana" (John T. Edge).
Inscribed first edition of this mid-century guide to New Orleans restaurants and cookbook on Creole cuisine, celebrating its heterogeneous mix of French, Spanish, Caribbean, Native American, and West African influences.
First edition of this cocktail book created to advertise a liquor company based in Great Neck, NY, the setting of THE GREAT GATSBY a generation before.
First printing of the famous American book on how to cultivate "the Best Society" – not through the aristocratic values of Europe, but through the American value of self-education.
Updated edition of the Prohibition-era cocktail classic, this printing published the year after Prohibition ended in the United States, in the scarce original dust jacket.
Early reprint, published the same year as the George Sully first, of the popular world travelogue using the cheeky theme – in the Prohibition-era – of cocktails.
First edition of "the earliest California imprint devoted solely to wine making as distinct from vine growing" (Gabler), with terrific California winemaking provenance: from the library of the first statewide board to promote California winemakers, the State Viticultural Commission.
Inscribed first printing of this memoir-cum-cookbook of a WWII fighter pilot who saw combat in the Pacific.
Second printing (issued simultaneously with the first printing) of the second edition, a resurrection in the middle of the Prohibition era of the scarce 19th-century classic that codified American cocktails.