First edition of this charming mid-century cookbook from the giant of the US culinary scene, meant for the thrifty chef who is looking to entertain.

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 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.

Signed first edition of this memoir about the author's investigations into his family's conflicts surrounding family business: Sweet and Low artificial sweetener.

Second printing of Hayes's memoir-style cookbook, with a bookplate signed by Hayes affixed to the front fly leaf.

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.

Scarce first edition of this part-narrative, part-cookbook memoir of the experiences of a Gullah Geechee woman, prescient in style and content.

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.

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 this hybrid household manual and Victorian novel with feminist undertones, in which a young housewife learns to trust her instincts and become more independent.