Who / where sells the recipe books? I can't find this info anywhere. I suspect that my brain has failed.
You can find them on any of the Crafting Trainers, outside the crafting instances in the suburbs of Qeynos/Freeport. Also for Freeport, you can find a trainer in the Coalition guildhouse in West Freeport, right by the Coalition tradeskill instance. For other cities, I do not know. Perhaps a search for a Crafting Trainer in Neriak/Gorowyn/Kelethin would work, if that's where you're looking.