New Orleans: Francois Mignon, 1956. First edition. Publisher's original yellow plastic comb-bound wraps printed in brown. Near Fine or better with just light rubbing to wraps, but perhaps as nice a copy as one could find. A book co-authored by Francois Mignon and the renown African-American folk artist Clementine Hunter..... More
New York: Bloomsbury, 2000. Sixteenth printing. Signed by Anthony Bourdain and inscribed to former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light bumping to spine ends, pages toned, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf..... More
Omaha: [no publisher], 1919. First edition of what is apparently the third cookbook written by an African-American woman, after rarities by Malinda Russell (1866) and Abby Fisher (1881), and published just eight years after Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat. An eclectic mix of 700 recipes, with some Southern. 112..... More
Pittsburgh: The Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania, 1915. 244 pp. First edition. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in yellow, with front cover showing an illustration of Uncle Sam weighing men against women on a scale. Very Good, with cloth lightly toned at spine and rubbed and a bit..... More