244 items, an assortment of material on Agriculture, Beverages, Cookery, Domestic Economy, Horticulture, & Women. The usual range of interesting stuff, including what is billed as the first commercially published soul food cook book, Inez Yergan Kaiser’s Soul Food Cookery (Kansas City, Mo., 1968); Mr. Finer notes of this modest spiral-bound item, “this self-published First Edition is virtually unobtainable in the marketplace. Some in the book trade have even doubted its existence.” This ontological lesson in vernacular cuisine is free; the book itself is priced $250.
Also includes an archive of family papers from the Huey family, including an unpublished account of a 1906 bicycle tour in Europe (the lot, $2,500), a couple of items from Catharine Sedgwick, and the first volume of Lydia Maria Child’s The History and Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations (Boston, 1835).
Steve Finer – Rare Books, P.O. Box 758, Greenfield MA 01302. (413) 773-5811. email: finerbks@verizon.net
