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... View More...
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 3/16” ... View More...
1st paperback edition, inscribed by Fisher on the half-title to Elaine Corn, former food editor and writer. Corn headed up the food sections for the Louisville Courier-Journal and then the Sacramento Bee. While at the Bee, the paper won awards for Best Food Section and Best Food Reporting from the Association of Food Journalists. Corn is also author of six cookbooks herself and won both the Julia Child and James Beard culinary awards. CONDITION: Good+; typical pb surface wear, but no chips or tears. Light damp stain to lower front cover, bottom rear cover near spine. But let's face it; you ar... View More...
1st American edition, first printing. 8vo, illustrated boards. Warmly inscribed by Bocuse in French to US food writer Elaine Corn. A fine copy in a very good dustjacket. View More...
“…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. View More...