Category: Cooking

Original Trade Card - "The Great American Tea Company, 31 & 33 Vesey Street, New York City."

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 023460

Original trade card with a color illustration of a man punching a bartender in the face with the caption, "A Claret Punch. The result of not using The Great American Tea Co.'s Celebrated Teas and Coffees." Includes a gilt background. No date, circa 1880s-1910s. 3" x 4 1/4." Trade card is clean and intact overall on front but there is slight darkening on front and back and several surface chips on back that have led to some loss of text. A Good copy. Trade card for the Great American Tea Company. The text on back offers customers a promotional gift, a special "toilet set," when they buy...
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Watkins Bookfax: A Book of Practical Pointers for the City, Town or Farm Family

By: The J. R. Watkins Company

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Winona, MN, The J. R. Watkins Company : 1925

Seller ID: 022062

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's beige wrappers with staple binding. Color illustration on the front cover shows a man hunting a duck with his dog. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2." Ninety-six pages, complete. Many black and white illustrated advertisements of J. R. Watkins products, complete. Back cover shows a composite illustration of J. R. Watkin's plants and branches. There is a purple stamp of one of the company's agents: "G. F. Stockfleth, P. O. Box 422, Vacaville, Calif." Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. There are a few light stains on the front cover. A small spot of the front cover is rubb...
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A New Way of Living

By: The Kellogg Company

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Canada?, The Kellogg Company : 1932

Seller ID: 024602

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's multicolored pictorial paper wrappers with staple binding. No lettering on spine. Blue, black, and red lettering on front cover. Front cover shows an illustration of a happy family bathed in rays of sunshine who contrast with a group of unhappy-looking people in the upper-right corner. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2." Thirty-one pages, complete. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact except for minuscule wear to extremities, slight rubbing to front and back, and a few small spots of soiling or discoloration on front. Binding is tight. A Fine copy. Reprinted under diff...
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Tested Recipes

By: The Ladies of the First Lutheran Church, Tacoma, Washington

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Tacoma, WA, First Lutheran Church, Tacoma, Washington

Seller ID: 023487

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's brown paper leaves in stiff brown paper boards. Bound by two metal rings through two sets of hole punches. Black-and-white illustration of the First Lutheran Church on front cover. No date, circa 1929. 6" x 9." 136 pages, complete. 116 advertisements, many of which include black-and-white illustrations. Some advertisements are full-page. Some pages are completely filled with ads. Most of the ads promote local businesses and products, but a few advertise major companies such as Chevrolet and Carnation Milk Products Co. A sampling of the other companies or products...
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Watkins Almanac and Home Book of Useful Information

By: The Watkins Company

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Winona, MN, The Watkins Press : 1934

Seller ID: 020652

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's multicolored trade catalog and almanac with staple binding. Multicolored illustration on the front cover shows a Watkins salesman talking with a woman in front of her house while she holds her child's hand. Back cover has a calendar for 1934 and an original purple stamp that says, "A. G. Williams, The Watkins Dealer, Box 116, Seneca, S. Dak." 5 1/2" x 8." Forty-six pages, complete. Four plates in color, complete. The plates advertise Watkins products. Inside of back cover also features a similar multicolored illustration of Watkins products. Inside of front cover s...
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Ten Racy Recipes

By: Thomajan, P. K.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, A. R. Tommasini : 1973

Seller ID: 019483

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

No. 543 of 700 copies. No. 26 in A. R. Tommasini's Christmas Keepsakes series. Original publisher's blue wrapper with a white snowflake image on the front cover. 3 5/8" x 5 1/4." Twenty pages, complete. Original white card laid-in: "This little book comes to you with sincerest best wishes for your happiness, good health, good cheer at Christmas and in the New Year ahead from A. R. Tommy Tommasini." Colophon in the back has information on the book's printing and the edition number. Pages and covers are clean; binding is tight. A pristine, fine copy. A collection of ten humorous "recipe...
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Reducing Menus for The Hostess of To-Day; Jack Sprat Spreads

By: Tipton, Edna Sibley

Price: $17.50

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company. 1925. New York. : 1925

Seller ID: 1837

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

First edition. Cloth. Slight stain front cover. Book plate front end paper. In the Preface, the author notes, "The hostess of the Jack Sprat party is sure to gain popularity, for almost every one to-day wants to reduce". The author writes about : Wh y Reduce? Jack Sprat Parties; Hors d'oeuvres That Do Not Fatten; Desserts That Do Not Fatten; Jack Sprat Economy Breakfasts; etc.
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Original Trade Card - "Van Houten's Cocoa: Best & Goes Farthest; Laren, (North Holland). A shepherd returning home."

By: Van Houten

Price: $12.50

Seller ID: 023637

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original trade card with a color illustration of a domestic scene showing a shepherd returning his sheep from pasture in the evening with his sheepdog following behind him. No date, circa 1890s-1910s. 5 1/4" x 4 1/2." Trade card is very clean and intact except for minuscule age toning and a few small wrinkles. A Very Good copy. Trade card for Van Houten, the famous chocolate company. The company is named after its founder, Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801-1887), a Dutch chemist and chocolatier who invented the "Dutch process" of making chocolate, which greatly reduced the bitter taste ...
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Original Trade Card - "Van Houten's Cocoa; Coraopolis Pharmacy, Oellig & Lecrone, Successors To"

By: Van Houten; Coraopolis Pharmacy

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 023258

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original trade card with a color illustration of different fish species shown underwater, namely, the grey gurnard, turbot, and flounder. The illustration is accompanied with a caption of their names and scientific names. No date, circa 1880s-1910s. 5 1/2" x 4." Trade card is very clean and intact except for age toning, slight corner and edge wear, and a few faint marks. A Fine copy. Trade card for both Van Houten's Cocoa and the Coraopolis Pharmacy owned by Messrs. Oellig & Lecrone. Informational text on back is titled, "Flat-fishes and Grey Gurnard," and includes brief descriptions of...
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365 Luncheon Dishes, A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year; Selected From Marion Harland, Christine Terhune Herrick, Boston Cooking School Magazine, Table Talk, Good Housekeeping, and Others.

By: Various

Price: $25.00

Publisher: George W. Jacobs & Co. (1902). Philadelphia. : 1902

Seller ID: 1866

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Boards, illustrated cover. Margin illustrations. Small water spot upper corner last third of book. Luncheon dishes for each day of the year, by month, with alphabetical index by dish title.
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A Delicious Obsession : Collecting the Works of MFK Fisher. A Centenary Show of Books, Periodicals & Ephemera from the Collection of Randall Tarpey-Schwed. On Exhibition September 8 - October 27, 2008.

By: Various

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, California, The Book Club of California : 2008

Seller ID: 11701

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Two parts in a folding case with cover title "MFK Fisher, A Delicious Obsession". First part is a large foldout printed on one side (23 x 19 inch) which folds to (5 3/4 x 9 1/2 inch) contains: extract from a publication of Fisher's; note by the collector; and a 76 title bibliography. Also a 2 page fold by Joan Reardon "Autobiography & Biography: Channeling MFK Fisher (8 x 10 inch). Printed by Patrick Reagh and John Sullivan.
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Choice Recipes by Members of the Fruit and Flower Mission

By: Various

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lowman & Hanford Company. (1930). Seattle, Washington. : 1930

Seller ID: 1853

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Illustrated cloth. Some spotting on covers. Water stain bottom edges of entire book. Some pages have small cooking stains. The Mission is a group of volunteer women who give dietary information to the sick and undernourished. Some advertising. Book has recipes for everything from appetizers to pickles along with helpful hints, table of weights and measures, etc.
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What's New in Cookery from the Mirro Test Kitchen

By: Various

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Aluminum Good Manufacturing Company : 1928

Seller ID: 8051

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Wrappers, with color illustrations both on the covers and internally. Very attractively printed. Recipes for the Mirro"Vapo-Seal" line of aluminum pots and pans. 30 pages, plus cooking chart at end.
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Original Billhead - W. R. Arthur, Auburn, California, 1893

By: W. R. Arthur; Freeman, W. A. (?)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1893

Seller ID: 025261

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original billhead printed in black ink on light beige paper. Also includes handwriting in black ink and pencil. Datelined January 7, 1893 in Auburn, California. 8 1/4" x 7." Billhead is very clean and intact overall except for light age toning, two vertical fold lines, slight wear to extremities, and pink-red dampstaining at left, top, and bottom edges (limited to margins). A Very Good copy. An original billhead from W. R. Arthur of Auburn, California to "[W.?] A. Freeman." There are four line items for different dates in January among which are "flour" and "[--?] sugar." The printed h...
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Original Billhead - W. Wylie & Co., Sacramento, California, 1895

By: W. Wylie & Co.; Kaseburg, J. [?]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1895

Seller ID: 025148

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original billhead printed in blue ink on light beige paper. Also includes handwriting in black ink and pencil. Datelined January 5, 1895 in Sacramento, California. 8 1/4" x 4 1/2." Billhead is very clean and intact but has light age toning, browning on front-left side, two vertical fold lines, and a small closed tear measuring 1/2" and slight wear on front-left side. A Very Good copy. An original billhead from W. Wylie & Company of Sacramento, California to J. [Kaseburg?] of Roseville, California. Kaseburg bought five line items, among which are "Apples," "[Cobb?]," and "Onions." A pur...
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Good Bread from Illinois Soft-Wheat Flours (Cover Title)

By: Wardall, Ruth A., and Natalie K. Fitch

Price: $15.00

Publisher: (Urbana, Illinois), University of Illinois, College of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station : 1927

Seller ID: 3933

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Three pamphlets. Book 1 -- "Good Bread From Illinois Soft-Wheat Flours", cover title, (1927), Circular 317, illustrations, hard-wheat flours versus soft-wheat flours in the bread making process; Book 2 - "Breadmaking with Arizona Early Baart Flour", cover title, by Margaret Cammack Smith, University of Arizona, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, Tucson, 1927, No. 158, illustrations, from the Introduction -- 'Practically all of the wheat grown in Arizona is soft wheat, 75 percent of it being classed as the Early Baart variety', hard wheat versus soft wheat in the bread mak...
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Fillet Recipes; Harvard Brand Fillet of Haddock (Cover Title)

By: Whitman, Ward and Lee Company

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Whitman, Ward and Lee Company

Seller ID: 020630

Binding: Audio Book (Cassette)

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's beige wrapper with an illustration on the front cover showing a woman preparing a fish recipe in a kitchen. Also on front cover is a circular emblem with the following text: "Fish from Boston, Whitman, Ward $ Lee Co. Fish Pier, Boston." No date, circa 1920s. 4 1/4" x 9." Six pages, complete (pages/panels are unnumbered; this pamphlet is folded into thirds with text on each panel). Minimal age wear. Booklet was folded in half horizontally at the center. Pamphlet is very clean and intact. This pamphlet promotes the Harvard brand of haddock and other fish such as cod...
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Household Hints and Recipes

By: Williams, Henry T., and "Daisy Eyebright"

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Peoples Publishing Company. 1884. Boston. : 1884

Seller ID: 1862

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Illustrated cloth. Browning to end papers. Chipping and small tears spine top, slight chipping spine bottom. Front end paper loose. The authors describe numerous methods for keeping a home and family; how to keep meat in summer, how to obtain sl eep , spring house-cleaning, how to iron, how to remove pimples from the face, kill animals without pain, good roads, etc.
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Original Trade Card - "Old Country Tea House. Wm. Haslage & Son, Importers, Old Country Teas & Fancy Groceries, 18 Diamond Pittsburgh."

By: Wm. Haslage & Son

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 023241

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original trade card with a half-tone sepia illustration of a smiling baby wearing a bonnet amid floral decorations. No date, circa 1880s-1910s. 2 3/4" x 4 1/2." Trade card is clean and intact overall except for age toning and some surface tears limited to the back and bits of paper stuck on the back (may have been glued previously). A Very Good copy. Trade card for William Haslage & Son, grocers based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Trade cards were antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards...
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Original Billhead (Monthly Statement) - Woodin & Little, San Francisco, 1899

By: Woodin & Little; P. H. Hjul

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1899

Seller ID: 025265

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Good

Original billhead (monthly statement) printed in black ink on light pink paper. Small black-and-white illustration printed at top. Also includes handwriting in black ink. Datelined [July 31?], 1899 in San Francisco, California. 4 1/2" x 7 1/2." Billhead is intact overall but has significant dampstaining (resulting in yellow discoloration), soiling at top on front and back (dirt- or clay-like material), a few small punctures, and slight wrinkling. A Good copy. An original billhead (monthly statement) from Woodin & Little of San Francisco, California to "P. H. Hjul" of Eureka, Nevada. P....
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