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The Fannie Farmer Cookbook
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
Item Price
$30.00$19.50
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1979. Hardbound. Twelfth Edition, first printing. Condition: Near Fine. Dust jacket condition: Very Good+. Jacket has light sunning around outer edges and is not price clipped. 811 pp includes index. Text white, clean and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Illustrated throughout with b/w drawings by Lauren Jarrett. Green pastedown and endpapers contain Other Equivalents, Tips and Temperature Charts, etc. The Twelfth Edition is revised by Marion Cunningham with Jeri Laber. Introduction by James Beard includes: "Today more than ever one is proud to be a good cook, and the time was ripe for the true spirit of Fannie Farmer to re-emerge, teaching young people the right way to deal with simple, fresh foods and offering them basic dependable American recipes that would provide a grounding in good cooking and offer opportunity for embellishment in creative ways." A gift-worthy copy of an American standard.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Select Tomes
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100382
- Title
- The Fannie Farmer Cookbook
- Illustrator
- Lauren Jarrett
- Format/Binding
- Glossy patterned boards. Hinges tight. Corners crisp
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Twelfth edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Pages
- 811
- Size
- 6 3/4 x 9 1/2
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Recipes, cookbook
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cookbooks;
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2020
GAHANNA, Ohio
About Select Tomes
I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
Glossary
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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