OLD COOK BOOK COLLECTION

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Further book info and pictures available upon request by email.

• Mary Meade's Modern Homemaker Cookbook, by Ruth Ellen Church, Chicago Tribune's "Mary Meade," published by Rand McNally, 1966. Cloth hardcover, dust jacket in mylar cover, 376 pages. Clean, very good condition. $35.00

• Compendium of Cookery and Reliable Recipes, by Mrs E.C. Blakeslee, Miss Emma Leslie & Dr S.H Hughes, published by The Merchants Specialty Company, 1890. Cloth hardcover, clean, hinges weak, age discoloring, page edges brittle and crumbling on several edges. Cover showing rubbing, bumping and edgewear. $125.00

• Technical Manual The Army Cook, Technical Manual # 10-405, published by The War Department, 1941. Softcover, 257 pages. Clean, good condition, minor soiling to cover. $75.00

• Pillsbury's Best of the Bake-Off Collection, by Pillsbury, published by Consolidated Book Publishers, 1959, Hardcover, 608 pages. Nicely illustrated, color and black and white pictures, clean, good condition with slight edgewear. $95.00

• Woman's Day Cookbook, by Kathy Farrell-Kingsley, published by Viking Press, first printing, 1995. Hfardcover with dust jacket, 720 pages. Clean, good condition. $35.00

• Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Cookbook, published by Golden Press, 1975. Hardcover, 93 pages. Color pictures, recipes for children. Toally clean, good condition with minor edgewear. $45.00 (Sorry, now sold)

• The New Winston Cook Book, by Helen Cramp, published by The John C. Winston Company, 1922. Cloth hardcover, 507 pages. Color and half-tone plates, spotting on a few pages, boards intact but separated from binding and edgewear. $35.00

• The Modern Family Cook Book, by Meta Given, published by J.G. Ferguson & Associates, Chicago, 1942. Cloth hardcover, 938 pages. Thumb indexed, color and black and white pictures, childs scribbles on a few pages and front cover, staining and tears on front endpapers and title page, back endpaper missing, front endpaper stuck to front cover, rubbing, bumping and edgewear. $19.00

• Naomi's Home Companion, by Naomi Judd, published by GT Publishing, first printing, 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 214 pages. Clean, good condition. $35.00

• The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas, by Jeff Smith, published by William Morrow, first edition, first printing, 1991. Hardcover with dust jacket, 297 pages. Clean, good condition. $19.00

• Chez Panisse Vegetables, by Alice Waters, published by Harper Collins, New York, first edition, first printing, 1996. Hardcover, dust jacket, 344 pages. Totally clean, great condition. $35.00

• Recipes You'll Enjoy, edited by Julia Lee Wright, Safeway Stores, Oakland, CA, not dated, but 30's style pictures. Cloth covered three ring binder, nicely illustrated, clean, good condition. $50.00

• The Lily Wallace New American Cook Book,edited by Lily Haxworth Wallace, The Ballard School, New York, NY, published by Books, Inc., 1945. Cloth hardcover, 931 pages. Minor soiling, tear at top front flyleaf, front board cracking, edgewear and soiling to cover. SOLD

• Beyond Bok Choy, by Rosa Lo San Ross, published by Artisian, New York, first printing, 1996. Hardcover with dust jacket, 191 pages. Guide to Asian vegetables and herbs with recipes. Clean, good condition. $25.00

• Scientific Cooking with Scientific Methods, by Sarah E. Woodworth Craig, published by Elles Publishing, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1911. Cloth hardcover, 404 pages. Written for A-B Stove Company of Battle Creek, good condition, binding tight with minor spotting and edgewear to cover. $95.00

• Better Homes and Gardens Commemorative Cook Book, 1965 hardcover ring binder, 400 pages. Clean, good condition. SOLD

• Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, 1956, Text Edition, ring binder. SOLD

• Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, 1950, hardcover, first edition, seventh printing, 463 pages. Clean, good condition, edgewear. $50.00

Other binder type cookbooks available include:

• a. Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, 1998 reprint ...of popular 1950 edition, near mint,....: $ TBD? b. Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, 1950: $ 50.00 c. Betty Crocker's Cook Book, 1955 edition: $ TBD? d. Betty Crocker's Cook Book, 1956 edition: $ TBD? e. Betty Crocker's Cook Book, 1976 edition: $ TBD? f. Betty Crocker's Cook Book, 1981 edition: $ TBD? g. Betty Crocker's Cook Book, 1983 edition: $ TBD? h. Betty Crocker's Cook Book, 1991 40th ed: $ TBD? *****more binder types follow.............. i. Better Homes Cook Book, 1931 edition,..: $ TBD? j. Better Homes Cook Book, 1935 edition,..: $ TBD? k. Better Homes Cook Book, 1937 edition,..: $ TBD? l. Better Homes Cook Book, 1938 edition,..: $ TBD? m. Better Homes Cook Book, 1948 edition,..: $ TBD? n. Better Homes Cook Book, 1965 edition,..: $ 35.00 o. Better Homes Cook Book, 1968 edition,..: $ TBD? p. Better Homes Cook Book, 1970 edition,..: $ TBD? q. Better Homes Cook Book, 1971 edition,..: $ TBD? r. Better Homes Cook Book, 1988 edition,..: $ TBD? s. Better Homes Cook Book, 1989 edition,..: $ TBD? t. Better Homes Cook Book, 1991 edition,..: $ TBD?

As these books and more are in storage, most prices are "To Be Determined" (TBD), so just email me for more information about a any specific item condition and asking price.

• Los Angeles Times Cook Book, 1905, hardcover, 105 pages. Clean, good condition, edge and shelf wear. $85.00

• The Home Menu Cook Book, 1934, hardcover, 253 pages. Clean, good condition, fading to spine and edgewear. $38.50

• The May Company Cook Book, 1932, hardcover, 416 pages. Clean, good condition, former owners name inside front cover, minor soiling and edgewear to cover. $35.00

• Woman's Favorite Cook Book, by Annie R. Gregory, 1902, hardcover, 610 pages. Clean, color plates, good condition, weak hinges and edgewear.....SOLD

• The Blue Ribbon Cook Book, by Annie R. Gregory, 1907, hardcover, 678 pages. Clean, color plates, good condition, hinges are cracking, advertisement in back torn, edgewear. $65.00

• Round-the-World Cook Book, by Ida Bailey Allen, 1934, hardcover, 96 pages. Clean, good condition, minor edgewear. $22.50

• War Gardens, by Rolly Langley, 1943, hardcover, 80 pages. Instructions for planting a Victory Garden. Clean, spine worn. $32.50

• The Congressional Club Cook Book, 1982, cloth hardcover, 744 pages. Introduction by Nancy Reagan, Clean, good condition. $45.00

• Cook Book, A Collection of Favorite Recipes, Native Daughters of the Golden West, Sutter Creek, CA, not dated, 20's?. Softcover, 116 pages. Staining to page edges, spine worn. $27.50

• Cooking Menus Service, by Ida Bailey Allen, 1935, cloth hardcover, 1008 pages. Clean, foxing, good condition, small hole in back cover. $27.00

• Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, 1961, ring binder, first edition, third printing, 455 pages. Soiling inside both covers, last page of index pulled loose, hinges taped, top of spine bent, edgewear. $75.00

• Woman's Home Companion Cook Book, 1945,............................: $155.00

• Woman's Home Companion Cook Book, 1944, ........: $175.00

• All About Home Baking, General Foods, 1933, hardcover, first edition, 144 pages. Clean, good condition, slight shelf wear. $35.00

• All About Home Baking, other editions, 1935/36/39 etc., price and condition provided upon request: $ TBD

• White House Cook Book, 1900, hardcover, 590 pages. Decorated endpapers, clean, good condition, spliting at top front hinge, binding cracking, edgewear. $125.00

• New Presentation of Cooking with Timed Recipes, Auguste Gay, published by Ringsmith and Wellman, San Francisco, 1924. Hardcover, 500 pages. Clean, good condition, edgewear. $38.50

• Teach Me To Cook, published by Hart Book Company, 1955. Childrens cook book, hardcover, 128 pages. Clean, good condition, edgewear. $24.50

• The Williamsburg Art of Cookery, 1965 reprint of a Colonial Williamburg edition, hardcover, decorated endpaper, cloth spine and half cover, 276 pages. Clean, good condition, gift inscription, edgewear. $22.50

• Polite Society at Home and Abroad, published by L. P. Miller & Company, 1891. Etiquette. Embossed cloth hardcover, clean, good condition, hinges showing signs of cracking, gift inscription, edgewear. $67.00

• Eight Immortal Flavors, by Johnny Kan, published by Howell-North Books, 1970. Hardcover, dust jacket, 246 pages. Chinese cuisine from San Francisco. Clean, good condition, gift inscription signed by author, edgewear. $18.00

• The Gentleman's Companion, by Charles H. Baker, Jr., published by Crown Publishers, two volumes, 1946. Cloth hardcovers in board sleeve, vol 1 has 220 pages and vol 2 217 pages. Bindings tight, good condition, sun fading to spines and minor edgewear. Sorry, SOLD

• Joy of Cooking, by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, published by Bobbs-Merrill, 1981. Hardcover with dust jacket, 915 pages. Clean, great condition, slight shelf wear. $27.50

• Christmas Memories with Recipes, published by Wings Books, 1988. Hardcover/dust jacket, 315 pages. Christmas recipes plus memories of twenty-five famous chefs. Clean, almost new condition, two copies. $24.00 each

• Trader Vic's Book of Food and Drink, published by Doubleday & Company, first edition, 1946. Hardcover with dust jacket in mylor cover, 272 pages. Clean, good condition, wear to dust jacket. Sorry Sold

• Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book, published by Culinary Arts Press, 1936. Softcover, illustrated, 48 pages. Minor staining, age discoloring bend in cover and edgewear. $12.50

• Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book, published by Culinary Arts Press, 1936. Softcover, illustrated, 48 pages. Clean, age discoloring and minor edgewear. $14.00

• Sunset Kitchen Cabinet, published by Sunset Magazine, fourth printing, 1940. Softcover with wire spiral binding, profusely illustrated, 223 pages. Clean on inside, minor soiling inside front cover, jam recipe neatly written inside backcover, rubbing, bumping and edgewear to cover. SOLD

• Sunset Kitchen Cabinet, Volume Two, second printing, 1946. Hardcover, profusely illustrated, 128 pages. Clean, good condition, gift inscription inside front cover, recipe neatly written on back endpaper, minor edgewear. $21.50

• Sunset Kitchen Cabinet, Volume Three, second printing, 1946. Hardcover, profusely illustrated, 128 pages. Clean, good condition, minor edgewear. $21.50

• Sunset Kitchen Cabinet, published by Sunset Publishing, first edition, first printing, 1995. Hardcover, illustrated, 224 pages. Sixty-five years of Sunset's Kitchen Cabinet, clean, good condition, minor edgewear. $24.00

• Ateco Simplified Cake Decorating, published by August Thomsen & Company, thirteenth edition, 1960. Hardcover, color pictures, 78 pages. Clean, good condition, minor edgewear and marking from a book cover inside both covers. $15.00

• Eat This Too!, by Dom DeLuise, published by Pocket Books division of Simon and Schuster, first hardcover printing, 1997. Signed by the author. Hardcover, dust jacket, 248 pages. Clean, good condition with slight edgewear. $38.50

• The Dieter's Cook Book by Better Homes and Gardens, first edition, ninth printing, 1986. Hardcover, 384 pages. Clean, good condition with slight edgewear. $15.00

• The Family Vegetable Garden, by the Co-Operative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics, State of California, University of California College of Agriculture Extension Service, not dated, but World War II era. Written for the San Joaquin County with complete instructions for growing a Victory Garden. Booklet, 20 pages, clean, good condition with bumped corners and age discoloring. $25.00

• Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking, by Charmaine Solomon, published by McGraw-Hill, first USA edition, 1984 and first printed in Australia, 1984. Hardcover with dust jacket, 152 pages. Clean, good condition with slight edgewear. $20.00

• White House Cook Book, by Hugo Ziemann and Mrs F. L. Gillette, published by Saalfield Publishing, 1926. Hardcover, 605 pages. Clean, binding tight, but cover is in one piece and detatched, former owners name inside both covers, age discoloring, bumped corners and edgewear. $75.00

• Let's Cook It Right, by Adelle Davis, published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1957. Hardcover, dust jacket in mylor cover, 626 pages. Clean with small stain inside back cover, binding tight, good condition with edgewear and wear to the dust jacket. $20.00

• San Francisco Examiner Prudence Penny Cook Book, published by Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., 1939. Hardcover, decorated endpapers, thumb-indexed, 824 pages. Clean, good condition, binding tight with minor edgewear. $42.00

• Prudence Penny Cook Book, 1947 edition, back cover spine edge taped, usable condition, ....: $12.00

• Searchlight Recipe [Cook] Book, Household Magazine Publication, ~320 pages, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1955,......: $75.00 each

• America's Best Recipes - Hometown Collection, 1992 Oxmore House, 336 pages, 8"x10", spiril binding, ......: $25.00

• Dinner Party Cookbook, Bon Appetit 1983, 276 pages & dust jacket, .........: $30.00

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Ben K. Weed

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