Food & Drink from Friday's Child Books

Morning Sun Press, 1992. Paperback. VG. Revised from the 1978 edition. The history of solar cooking, building solar cookers and how to use them. Lots of recipes. Bumped corners: edge wear; heavy reading crease on the front cover. Name written on the first page, other annotations amid the recipes. 

The Liberated Cook Press, 1981. Paperback. VG. Beatrice Ojakangas is an award-winning Minnesota cookbook author. This book contains the best of three years' worth of columns for the Duluth News-Tribune. This book has a metal coil binding. The covers have light soiling and edge wear, creased corners in back and a crease up the back cover along… Read more about this item

Dan Vado, n.d.. Paperback. VG+. Edition, date unknown. This is a 96 page spiral-bound collection of recipes for "Tiki cuisine from Polynesian restaurants of yore". It has a small amount of shelf wear and some corners are bumped, but the covers are still glossy and the inside is clean.

Chronicle, 1998. Hardcover. NF/NF. A flashy little cocktail book with great graphics and retro art. NF in NF DJ.

Scribner's, 1979. Hardcover. Good/none. First edition thus - this is the revised version of her excellent 1966 cookbook, with the essay on the "nickel dinner". This copy has seen better days. The DJ is missing, and in its place a previous owner has glued a color copy of a picture of the front cover of the book… Read more about this item

Scribners, 1979. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition thus - this is the revised version of her excellent 1966 cookbook, with the essay on the "nickel dinner". Ex-library copy. DJ in plastic cover, glued in with usual stickers. Spine is sun-faded. Edges of text block are stamped and lightly soiled. Library pocket glued in on ffep. Rear endpapers have… Read more about this item

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. Hardcover. VG. Elizabethan feasts and recipes adapted for modern cooking. In decorative boards as published. Rubbed; shelf wear. There are two small stains on the spine, and also staining on the bottom edge of the text block. The staining on the text block penetrated into the pages about 2mm at most, and… Read more about this item

Communications Et Cetera, Inc., 1979. Hardcover. VG. G.R. Cheesebrough. Singer and TV personality Jane Johnston's second recipe collection. VG copy. Solid and clean but rubbed in decorative boards.

John Day, 1976. Hardcover. VG/VG-. Book bound in blue cloth with minor wear to top and base of spine; a couple of smudges to edge of text block; a smudge on ffep where a sticker may have been removed? Text is clean.  DJ has significant wear at the edges and some chipping, also rubbing which has removed color… Read more about this item

Hastings House, 1976. Hardcover. Good/Good. Laura Geringer. Ex-library copy with some water warping on the inside. A nice book with good historical content, but in mediocre condition.

Norton, 1997. Hardcover. NF/VG. A gastronomic companion to the Aubrey & Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian. Signed by both authors with inscription. DJ is VG with some wear and slight discoloration at the edges, the book itself is as new (with signatures).

Herter's, 1969. Paperback. Good. 20th edition of this amazing book. Part cookbook, part history book, part...? I would love to see an annotated copy of this where someone has gone through and fact-checked the whole thing. It is a fun and fantastic read, at the very least. This is a copy in an odd condition. It's the… Read more about this item

The Crossing Press, 1996. Paperback. VG. VG copy. Light rubbing and bumped corners, clean inside and out.

Sunset, 2007. Paperback. VG. VG copy. Glossy and clean inside and out, some wear at top edge of back cover where it folds inside to form the inner flap.

Paperback Library, 1966. Paperback. VG. William Hogarth. Paperback Library 55-993 First paperback printing. Humor and recipes from Hyman Goldberg, once "Prudence Penny" of New York newspaper fame. VG copy. Solid. Tanning; light rubbing; curved and creased spine; ink mark on outside edge of text block; price sticker on back cover. Interior clean.  

Fawcett, 1967. Paperback. VG-. Hilary Knight. With over 140 recipes and 323 afterthoughts  First paperback edition. VG- copy. Spine creased but solid; tear at top of front cover (and first two pages); tape residue and color lifted at top of front cover; heavy crease bottom corner front cover. Minor rubbing, edge wear, soiling. Interior looks great… Read more about this item

East Woods Press, 1980. Paperback. VG. Eloise Pope. Fifth Printing. VG copy. Slight tanning to white cover; small mark on back cover, larger mark on front cover (see photos); edges and cornerrs worn. Interior clean.

Geer, 1976. Hardcover. VG. White cover shows light soiling and a partial ring on the front cover where something was set on it. Corners bumped, foxing on edges. Interior is quite clean. Photography by Carlton Bullock. Photographs and descriptions of a dozen or so plantations divided between the front and the back of the book, with… Read more about this item

Bobbs-Merrill, 1970. Hardcover. VG/VG. With Guides to Wines, Shopping & Serving; from the originator of Menus by Mail. Book Club Edition. VG copy bound in green cloth; foxing on endpapers; previous owner's name written on ffep. Interior otherwise clean. DJ lightly rubbed; some damage at corners, top and base of spine.

Simon & Schuster, 1962. Hardcover. VG+/VG. Paul Davis. OR How to Fit Five Continents into an American Kitchen. Book Club Edition.  VG+ book bound in black and peach, with previous owner's name stamped on the front endpaper. Interior otherwise clean. DJ has some tanning and a couple of small spots on the back cover. Front cover has… Read more about this item