THE JOY OF COOKING A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with an Occasional Culinary Chat by Rombauer, Irma S - 1946

The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1946. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Mark to fore-edge. Internally clean. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket 1946 printing. (Cooking, Cookbook) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1946. Second Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Light wear at corners and spne ends. Traces of cover soiling. Interior clean -- very good. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 884 pages .

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1946 Bobbs-Merrill Company reprint (of 1943 edition) hardback, no dj; acceptable condition copy, blue boards are very worn, wear to spine edges and split spine edge; age-browned end papers and page edges, small corner tear loss to fep, good reading copy inside, 884 pages, scarce item; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Acceptable. Hardcover. 1946.

Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1943. Later Edition. Very Good. Marion Rombauer Becker, Illustrator. [6x8.5"]; Light Blue cloth covers with white lettering on a dark blue field on spine and front, blue and white lined diamond patterns on cover; 884 pp., chapter and other illustrations in text; Minor soiling and shelf wear to covers and edges, darkening of top edges and spine, small white spot on back cover, prior owner ink signature and date on front endpaper. Irma Rombauer [1877-1962] was and still is a major figure in American cooking. The Joy of Cooking was first issued on 1931 and is still in print. This is the war rationing edition with added chapters sugarless and sugar-saving recipes, and meat stretching, substitutes and supplementary dishes.

Indianapolis:: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. Inc. ,. Fair/NONE. 1946. Hardcover. 1946 hardback edition with blue-and-white cover with moderate to heavy wear, including edgewear, one-inch split at top edge near spine, smaller dings/nicks, moderate soil. Textblock edges and some pages food-stained. Hinges uncracked but for one-inch split at upper front and back hinge, but overall wobbly/shaken. Pages tight, with occasional markings. No DJ. No ribbon marker with this edition. Illustrations by Marion Rombauer Becker. ; .

The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Hardcover . Used - Acceptable/No Jacket. Pages tanning with age. Reading creases to front and/or back covers. taped recipe on first blank page Some stains on a few pages. Spine a long rip on edge Domestic orders shipped with USPS tracking numbers.

Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946. Later edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Becker, Marion Rombauer. Longtime kitchen bible for thousands of American cooks, this vintage edition is a more scarce early one with the blue-and-white latticed covers & only Irma listed as author, though daughter Marion (who would later assume co-authorship) is credited with illustrations. Originally published in 1931, this edition is from 1946, in 884 pages including the new Preface to the 1943 Edition, which traces the history of the cookbook & upholds its important role as a "record of our American way of life." Includes adjustments to "the new order, for the cook,'' eg, sugarless & sugar-saving recipes designed to accommodate the wartime rationing of sugar & other staples. Hardcover book is in Good+ condition: exterior blue/white diamond-patterned covers are very clean, with slight rubbing, heavy to extremities. Tearing at head of spine with some fraying of the… Read More

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946T. hardcover. Good. 2.3000 in x 9.0000 in x 6.4000 in. Notes on end pages. Front and back hinges cracked. Stains on back cover and right side of book. Sharpie marks on back cover.

Bobbs-Merrill, Idpls., c.1941, 6th.prtg., 8vo., cloth, 628pp., badly torn spine, frayed corners, cracked inner hinges, slightly yellowed paper, last page of index detached but present, recipes taped to endpapers, half-title & to title page, waterstained corner of last pages, poor condition, $