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The Art of Armenian Cooking

By: Baboian, Rose

Price: $200.00

Publisher: NY, Doubleday: 1971

Seller ID: m200801c

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Stated 1st edition. 8vo, cloth. 264 pp. Dust jacket. Armenian dishes adapted to the modern kitchen - the definitive guide to this centuries-old cuisine. Mark Zanger, a Boston-based food reporter, wrote that Baboian's book "stands out as a model of American ethnic food because she recorded so many traditions" and was the first book to make Turkish Armenian recipes accessible for younger generations of Armenians who spoke only English. No photos or illustrations. The book itself is very good-near fine. The dustjacket is fair only: price-clipped, chipped at edges, with the back panel nearly det...
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Shaker Herbs. [Miniature Book, Ltd to 155 copies]

By: Cynthia Elyce Rubin

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Northampton, MA, Catawba Press: 1984

Seller ID: k200808n

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First thus, limited to 155 signed copies. 2”x2” green paper-covered boards. 37 pp. Printed green paper boards with title and decorative border on cover, labels tipped in on frontispiece and throughout the text. An excerpt from an essay titled "Shaker Industries," which appeared in The Clarion in Fall 1979. The only miniature book printed by Barbara Blumenthal of Catawba Press. The essay starts with a short history of the Shaker religion and their industries and then details the medicinal properties of the herbs Condition: Fine, as-new with bookseller’s penciled notation on fep, a ...
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The Subtle Alchemist / A Book of Wine - A scarce double-signed copy, numbered 50/50

By: George Rainbird [Ronald Searle]

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Michael Joseph : London: 1973

Seller ID: s200613b

Condition: Fine

1st ed., 8vo, purple cloth. 206 pp. White pictorial dustjacket. 14 b/w illusts. by Searle. 2 maps and 1 in-text illust. Signed by both Rainbird and Searle on the half-title and hand-numbered by Searle as 50/50. Aclassic guide to wine with chapters on the wines of France, Spain, Portugal, Mediterranea, South Africa, Australia, and the Americas. While the book is relatively common, we have never seen another copy of this signed, hand-numbered edition -- making it a particularly attractive copy for the Searle enthusiast. ###### Condition: Fine, in price-clipped dust-jacket with small chip ...
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Spuds

By: Hanson, Robert F. (Miniature Book)

Price: $65.00

Publisher: NY, Opuscula Press: 1979

Seller ID: k200808m

Condition: Fine

Cloth, 2 1/8" x 2 7/8" 58pp. Fine. #10/300 copies signed by the author. Text devoted to recipes and culinary preparation of potatoes. Condition: Fine; as-new with penciled bookseller notations on half-title.
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ARTE MEXICANO DEL AZUCAR [First edition, 1959]

By: Maritha de Alvarado

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Encuadernacion Tecnica Editorial SA: 1959

Seller ID: k191109c

Condition: Near fine

The scarce first edition of the definitive work on the art of decorating cakes with sugar. Signed, but not numbered in a limited edition of 5000 copies with an additional inscription on the facing page. 8vo, stamped pictorial brown boards with black and gilt titles. 775pp plus another 150pp of technical inserts and index. Text in Spanish. Profusely illustrated in b/w with photos and drawings, and including several foldout plans with double-sided illustration. Some color plates. This is an illustrated treatment of Mexican confectionary or sugar art, including candy confections and cake de...
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A Butler's Recipe Book 1719. With wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone.

By: Thomas NEWINGTON

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Cambridge: at the University Press: 1935

Seller ID: m200814d

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

“…Some Excelent Manscripts of Phisick, Cookery, Preserves &c which were the Palladum of Man Noble Familyes…” 1st thus, 16mo, cloth backed, paper covered boards. 45 pp. In tattered d/w. Condition±: Good; front hinge lightly cracked, boards darkened. Dustjacket present but both panels tattered and lacking spine. Signature of Grant Dahlstrom (Ampersand Press) on fep.
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Category: Cooking & Culinary Arts

The Art of Armenian Cooking

Shaker Herbs. [Miniature Book, Ltd to 155 copies]

The Subtle Alchemist / A Book of Wine - A scarce double-signed copy, numbered 50/50

Spuds

ARTE MEXICANO DEL AZUCAR [First edition, 1959]

A Butler's Recipe Book 1719. With wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone.