Category: Cooking

Original Trade Card - "Silver Star Baking Powder; Has a world-wide reputation for purity and healthfulness."

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 023445

Original trade card with a red and white illustration of two small children, one of whom holds a hat, the other, a bag of perhaps the advertised product, Silver Star Baking Powder. They interact with an anthropomorphic beetle standing at center. Features a gilt background. The back is blank. No date, circa 1880s-1890s. 4 1/2" x 2 3/4." Trade card is very clean and intact overall but has slight corner and edge wear and some rubbing and age toning on front and back. A Very Good copy. Trade card advertising Silver Star Baking Powder. Although the manufacturer is not printed on this card,...
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How to Mix Drinks

By: Edwards, Bill

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, David McKay Company : 1936

Seller ID: 021475

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's blue cloth binding with an illustration on the front cover showing an artistic rendering of the American flag with a blue star-spangled shape in the upper-left corner, a white background, and red hands and sleeves resembling the stripes. One of the hands holds a glass with a drink. Upper-left corner has an original punched hole extending through the whole book with an original red string tie to hang the book while making the recipes. Printed text on front cover: "Drinks: How to Make Them, How to Serve Them." 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 102 pages, complete. Black and white illus...
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The Table and Its Service: An Encyclopedia of Its Full Requirements, Service and Supply; What to Eat, What to Buy, How to Cook, How to Serve; A New and Valuable Cook Book Relating to Everything Concerning the Table, Its Wants and Requirements for the Family, with a Special Chapter on Cooking for Two

By: Edwards, Permelia

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Spokane, WA,

Seller ID: 024432

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's glossy white cloth binding with brown lettering on front cover and spine. No date, circa 1905. 9" x 7 1/2." 488 pages, complete. Blank pages in back for handwriting custom recipes. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Pages have slight age toning and very faint dampstaining along top edges of pages, not affecting text. Covers have slight darkening on inside edges, small marks and indentations on front and back, and surface cracking along front and back outer joints. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. A comprehensive cookbook containing a diverse range ...
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Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes; The Elegant Art of Dining

By: Edwords, Clarence E.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Paul Elder and Company : 1914

Seller ID: 025113

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's light brown cloth binding with dark brown lettering on front cover and spine. Decorative gilt square (part of an illustration) on front cover. 6" x 8 1/4." 138 pages, complete. Appendix and Index in back. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light to moderate age toning. Covers are very clean and intact overall but have tiny specks of rubbing throughout and slight wear to extremities. Binding is tight. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. Author Clarence E. Edwords takes readers on a culinary tour of "Bohemian San Francisco." Edwords intersperses his...
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Original Trade Card - "Pettijohn's California Breakfast Food"

By: Eli Pettijohn Cereal Company?; American Cereal Company?

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Rochester, NY, Vredenburg & Co. : 1902

Seller ID: 023541

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original trade card with a color illustration of songbird perched on a branch in a wintry landscape. Snow-covered houses are shown in the back. 5" x 3 1/2." Trade card is very clean and intact except for age toning on back and light smudges on front. A Very Good copy. Trade card promoting the product, "Pettijohn's California Breakfast Food." The back of the card shows a small black-and-white illustration of a California grizzly bear, a recurring image on Pettijohn products, and promotional text by the company discouraging the consumption and purchase of oatmeal. According to this text, ...
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Heartburn

By: Ephron, Nora

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1983

Seller ID: 025213

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's pale yellow paper-covered boards backed with light gray cloth. Gilt lettering on front cover and book spine. Original off-white illustrated dust jacket included. Black and maroon lettering on front panel and dust jacket spine. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2." 179 pages, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for a former owner's signature in black ink on front free endpaper ("Maria Gaura"). Covers are very clean and intact except for slight wear to extremities, slight rippling or wrinkling to paper on front, ...
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Original Billhead - Frankenthal, Bachman & Co., San Francisco, California, 1886

By: Frankenthal, Bachman & Co.; J. Goldman & Co.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1886

Seller ID: 025268

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Good

Original billhead printed in black ink on light beige paper. Also includes handwriting in black ink and pencil. Datelined June 24, 1886 in San Francisco, California. 8 1/2" x 5 1/4." Billhead is clean and intact overall but has a large scribble in blue colored pencil on front, light age toning, slight wrinkling, and moderate staining (spot at center and several stains at left and bottom edges when viewed from front). A Good copy. An original billhead from Frankenthal, Bachman & Company of San Francisco, California to "J. Goldman & Co." of Tulare, California. J. Goldman & Company was onc...
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Wines of America

By: Fruit Industries, Ltd.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Fruit Industries, Ltd. : 1934

Seller ID: 024406

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's multicolored paper wrappers with staple binding. Color illustration of five different wines and the Statue of Liberty on front. 5" x 7." Unpaginated, sixteen pages, complete. A few illustrations in black-and-white and color, complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall, but there is slight wrinkling, a vertical crease at center that runs through the entire pamphlet, and a red stain on front cover. A Very Good copy. A promotional booklet about wines. Tabs demarcate each section with topics such as the different types of wines, which foods to pair wines wi...
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F. W. McNess' Cook Book

By: Furst-McNess Company

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Freeport, IL, Furst-McNess Company

Seller ID: 020344

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's multicolored wrapper with an illustration of a woman cooking using F. W. McNess products. No date, circa 1920s. 6" x 9." Thirty pages, complete. Many multicolored illustrations, complete. Multicolored advertisements for McNess products throughout publication. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Slight age wear. A printed white box for a stamp on the back cover contains a purple stamp that says, "Thomas Plant, The McNess Man, R.F.D.#1, Anaheim, Calif." This is a cookbook that promotes F. W. McNess products and includes multiple recipes for a variety of s...
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The How and When

By: Gale, Hyman (Editor); Marco, Gerald F. (Editor)

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL?, Hyman Gale and Gerald F. Marco : 1937

Seller ID: 023661

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's glossy black paper-covered boards backed with gilt cloth. Gilt lettering and gilt and multicolored coat of arms decoration on front cover. Decorative glassine flyleaf or tissue guard with spiderweb pattern after the Preface. 6" x 8 1/2." 203 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Index in back. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Slight smoky smell. Pages are pristine and intact except for marginal small tears at the back endpaper and Pages 190 and 191, which may have resulted from the leaves being stuck together; text is unaffected. ...
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Small Broadside - Announcement of the Consolidation of Grocery House of Torrey and Gardiner and W. P. Wheeler Under the Name of the Gardiner-Mitchell Company

By: Gardiner-Mitchell Company

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Oakland, CA, Gardiner-Mitchell Company? : 1904

Seller ID: 021189

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original small broadside printed on beige paper. Datelined "Oakland, Cal, May 27, '04." 8 1/2" x 11." One page, complete. Paper is very clean and intact with very slight wrinkling. The announcement is printed as a letter and reads as follows: "To Our Patrons:-- We take pleasure in announcing the consolidation of the old and favorably known grocery house of Torrey & Gardiner and W. P. Wheeler under the name of the Gardiner-Mitchell Company. Our remodeled store is now ready for inspection and in it will be found a large, varied and carefully selected stock of choice groceries, suitable for...
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New Presentation of Cooking with Timed Recipes

By: Gay, Auguste, and Anne Page

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Ringsmith and Wellman. (1924). San Francisco. : 1924

Seller ID: 1828

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cloth. The author was educated in medicine and dietetics in Paris. With the U.S. at war in 1917, Mr. Gay examined over 3000 cooks for the army. He created the best war time bread which became known as the Liberty Bread. The book contains his recipes for the preparation of a wide range of simple, yet wholesome and easily cooked dishes, with directions for preserving foods.
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Joys of Jell-O, Gelatin Dessert

By: General Foods Corporation; General Foods Kitchens

Price: $15.00

Publisher: White Plains, NY, General Foods Corporation

Seller ID: 024615

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Sixth Edition. Original publisher's multicolored pictorial paper wrappers with staple binding. Wrap-around color illustration of Jell-O creations on covers. No date, circa 1967-1973. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4." Ninety-five pages, complete. Many illustrations in black-and-white and color, complete. One additional page in back with a color illustration and text advertising Jell-O molds. Pages are pristine and intact except for occasional minuscule rubbing, a red "x" in margin on Page 67, a few red dash marks on page numbers on Page 89, and a few other small annotations in red ink in the form of und...
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Original Recipe Brochure - "For an Avalanche of Compliments ...; Series 3"

By: General Mills, Inc.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, MN?, General Mills, Inc.?

Seller ID: 024619

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Good

Original folding brochure printed on white paper. Features Betty Crocker recipes. No date, circa 1930s. 2 1/2" x 4 1/2" folded. 20" x 4 1/2" unfolded. Sixteen pages (eight panels printed front and back), complete. Two of the pages comprise an advertisement for silverware. Color illustrations, complete. Paper is fragile. Brochure is clean and intact overall except for a horizontal fold line (perhaps original), a crease and a couple of small chips in the lower-right corner, and slight age toning. A Good copy. A collection of Betty Crocker recipes, mostly for desserts, on a brochure. ...
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"Dame Curtsey's" Book of Candy Making

By: Glover, Ellye Howell

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Chicago, IL, A. G. McClurg and Company : 1913

Seller ID: 020124

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's green, beige, and brown boards backed with red cloth. 5" x 6 7/8." 110 pages, complete. Former ownership inscription written in black ink on front free endpaper: "Wishing you the best of success!, L. H., December 1913." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. A recipe book for candy and desserts from the early 1900s. The author begins with a brief introductory chapter on candy making basics. The rest of the book includes recipes for fondant, French cream fondant, fudges, caramels, pulled candy, brittles, taffies, kisses, puffs, creamy candies, glaced nuts and f...
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Original Trade Card - "Great Atlantic Tea Co., Blossburg, PA. M. O'Brien, Manager."

By: Great Atlantic Tea Co.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Novelty Co.

Seller ID: 023439

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original trade card with a color illustration of woman wearing stylish clothes of the day. No date, circa 1880s-1890s. 3" x 4." Printer's information at bottom on back: "Metropolitan Novelty Co., Adv. Nov., 392 Canal St., N. Y." Trade card is very clean and intact except for age toning on back and a few small wrinkles. A Very Good copy. Trade card for Great Atlantic Tea Company in Blossburg, Pennsylvania. The Great Atlantic Tea Co. (A&P) was founded in 1859 by George Gilman as a tea and coffee store. It was then known as Gilman & Company and had been built upon his father's leather ta...
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Original Trade Card - "Ask Your Grocer for 'Deep Sea' Mess Mackerel. Fat, Juicy, Fine Flavored."

By: H. K. & F. B. Thurber & Co.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Forbes Co.

Seller ID: 023546

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original trade card with a black-and-white illustration of mackerel in a fishing net and many seafaring sailboats or ships in the background. No date, circa 1875-1884. 5" x 3." Printer/publisher is the Forbes Company. Its locations are listed as Boston and New York. Trade card is very clean and intact except for light age toning to front and back and a few small marks limited to the back. A Very Good copy. Trade card promoting "Deep Sea" Mess Mackerel as made by H. K. & F. B. Thurber & Company, a food manufacturing and wholesale grocery business. Brothers Horace Kingsley Thurber (1828-...
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Original Billhead - Haas Brothers, San Francisco, 1886

By: Haas Brothers; Heyman, Jacob

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1886

Seller ID: 025264

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Good

Original billhead printed in black ink on light pink paper. Also includes handwriting in black ink and pencil. Datelined October 13, 1886 in San Francisco, California. 8 1/2" x 41/2." Billhead is intact overall but has significant dampstaining (resulting in yellow discoloration) on left half on front, extensive dampstaining and a few brown stains on back, a few horizontal and vertical fold lines, silght wrinkling, and a split (about 1") along one of the fold lines. A Good copy. An original billhead from the Haas Brothers of San Francisco, California to "Jacob Heyman" of Grass Valley, Cal...
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Modern Cold Storage Company

By: Hall, Everett

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Mount Vernon, Washington,

Seller ID: 10190

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

[16] pages; red wrapper with title on the cover (4 1/2 x 6 inch). Short pamphlet on items that can be stored and the proper method to package them, along with going storage rates.
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The Cook's Book : Containing a Talk on Baking Powder - Useful Cooking Hints - Weights and Measures - and a Collection of Choice Recipes

By: Hill, Janet McKenzie

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, Jaques Mfg. Co. : 1933

Seller ID: 11576

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

48 pages; color illustrations; brown stiff paper wrapper with gilt lettering and design on the cover (5 x7 3/4 inch). Slight pencil notes and some soiling from using while cooking. Ads and recommendations in the front with recipes for Buckwheat Griddle cakes, puddings, cakes, cookies, and dumplings using KC Baking Powder.
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Category: Cooking