The Heart of The Settlement Cook Book by Kander - 1958

Paperback. Good.

New York: The Settlement Cook Book Co.. Good. 1951. Nineteenth Edition. First Printing; Soft Cover. 7.8 X 5.5 X 1.5 inches; viii, 312 pages; Soft cover has a blue spine with white box and red lettering. Covers have rubbing, scuffing, sunning and staining. All edges red. Pages are tight, but have signs of use and edge of text block staining. This is the first printing of the 19th edition from 1951. A great classic of American cooking. Table of contents on back cover. Great look at cooking before microwaves and all of the modern conveniences we take for granted. Also a view of life when it was expected that women would do all of the cooking/food prep. .

NY: Simon & Schuster Pub. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965 VERSO. Revised Edition,ENLARGED; 6th Printing". HARDCOVER. 7x9"oversized. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD CLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET...dj has 1" edgetear...else Clean, Solid light green hard covers ... high stepping little woman cook as cover decoration line.; 535ps thick pages; "Way To A Man'S Heart" on title page.. Indexed Recipes.. red & white endpapers with contents, weights, equivalents.. .

Milwaukee, WI: The Settlement Cook Book Company, 1951. Thirtieth Edition. Hardcover. pp. xlvi, 624. Small 8vo., measuring 5.5" x 7.25". Publisher's illustrated ivory cloth over boards, yellow endpapers, all maroon edges. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of the author, Mrs. Kander. An exceptionally well-preserved copy of this venerable American cookery title with only the slightest edgewear apparent to the extremities, contents entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine. See Margaret Cook's: "America's Charitable Cooks", p. 268., where the author states: "The Settlement Cook Book has probably been the most successful of fund-raising cookery books. All of the proceeds for the past 70 years have been donated to Milwaukee charities, including the original Settlement House for immigrants, the nursery school at Milwaukee State Teachers College, child care centers of Milwaukee, camps for under-privileged children, the Jewish Vocational… Read More