New York: Selmar Hess, 1892. Hardbound. Full leather with gilt titles on spines. Vol. I: 408pp; Vol. II: 408pp; Vol. III: 408pp; Vol. IV: 384pp. 399 plates (including 4 colour frontis., 20 Photogravures & etchings & 306 wood-engravings & typogravures). Some plates with printed tissue guards. original gilt & black-stamped..... More
New York, New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1874. An early printing, copyright 1871. Hardcover. Brown library buckram boards with original reddish brown cover laid down (glued), no dust jacket. 556 pp. Unillustrated. Good index. Age-old advice on food handling and preparation, with recipes, including foods less customary to our..... More
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. Hardcover. Gilt-embossed blue cloth. xii, 511 pp. Numeorus bw plates. More
New York: Selmar Hess, 1896. Hardbound. 8 vols. Olive cloth, gilt letters and decorations on spine and front covers; gilt top edges all around; 1608 total pp., BW and color illus. The complete eight-volume set providing an A-Z encyclopedia of fictional characters found in literature. At first, based only on..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878. First. Hardbound. Brown cloth with black lettering on boards, 716 pp, 6 color plates. From the book: My aim has been to write out, for seven days of four weeks in each month, a menu adapted, in all things, to the average American market;..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1899. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. T. e. g. x, 449 pp. Numerous bw ills. A presentation copy from the owner of one of the houses describes in this book, with an envelope containing two articles about activities at the house. Some of the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910. first. Hardbound. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Gilt page edges on top. 498 pp. By Mary Virginia Terhune, prolific writer of best-selling women's fiction novels as well as non-fiction essays and guides, especially instructions in domestic matters. Marion Harland is her pen..... More
