Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink

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Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink Rabelais is a bookseller focused on rare and out-of-print culinary works. Visit our tiny shop in a shipping container at 93 Washinton Avenue.

HOLIDAY HOURS open every day, 10-5, except Christmas and New Year’s Day. Closing January 4th. Summer hours: Thursday through Saturday, 10-4 or by appointment. Rabelais is an antiquarian bookshop specialized in cookery, gastronomy, wine & spirits, and farming & gardening. We buy and sell unusual books on all fields related to food and drink, and work with clients worldwide to source rare books, manuscripts and ephemera and develop private collections. We also appraise books and archives in these and other fields. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, The Ephemera Society of America, The Bibliographical Society of America, and the Maine Organic Farmers' and Gardeners' Association.

02/10/2026
Those aren’t cookbooks! Right, but they are all from the library of Julia Child’s and inscribed to her, or signed by Jul...
12/22/2025

Those aren’t cookbooks! Right, but they are all from the library of Julia Child’s and inscribed to her, or signed by Julia and/or Paul. $20-$150 dollars each Instore only!

If you’ve visited Rabelais on Washington Avenue, you’ve certainly met Emma Cousins, an indispensable part of our team. E...
12/15/2025

If you’ve visited Rabelais on Washington Avenue, you’ve certainly met Emma Cousins, an indispensable part of our team. Emma and her friend Sam Wells (cabinet maker, occasional bookshop sitter, and owner of .bags ) will be opening Total Loss Books in the space Rabelais currently occupies. Total Loss will feature unusual books in art, design, poetry, literature, a lots of other cool stuff. For the latest news on this project, you can follow them on Instagram .

Something special. Anthony Bourdain’s first recorded appearance in print (from the Oct. 1984 issue of the short-lived So...
09/10/2025

Something special. Anthony Bourdain’s first recorded appearance in print (from the Oct. 1984 issue of the short-lived Soho-based zine Zat). That’s him on the right.

In our Washington Ave location and online (link in bio).

A lovely first edition of Ernest Mickler’s “White Trash Cooking”, inscribed by Mickler to a childhood friend & signed by...
09/06/2025

A lovely first edition of Ernest Mickler’s “White Trash Cooking”, inscribed by Mickler to a childhood friend & signed by publisher Jonathan Williams. Link in bio.

New arrivals! More on the way.
08/04/2025

New arrivals! More on the way.

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