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Betty Crocker's Cookbook
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Betty Crocker's Cookbook

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  • very good
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Used - Very Good
Edition
First edition, First Printing stated
Binding
Hardcover
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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Golden Press, NY, 1969. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition with stated first printing, 1969. No owner's name or other markings, just a touch of rubbing to the cover corner tips. Title page torn at each of the five metal rings, otherwise solid Very Good copy; The number 9800 is printed to the top of the spine, yellow printed endpaper with info on herbs and spices, [1-6] 7-480pp, index. Color & B&W photos of prepared dishes. Fool-proof recipes and kitchen tips, cooking and shopping hints. An excellent compilation of over 1600 recipes dating from the late 1960s.
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Mirro Cook Book
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Mirro Cook Book: Approved Recipes from the Mirro Test Kitchen

by Laura Wilson, Director

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  • Hardcover
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Condition
Used - Very Good+
Edition
First edition
Binding
Hardcover
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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$150.00
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Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1937. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Approved recipes from the MIRRO Test Kitchen. 284 pp. Text with black and white photos is clean and unmarked with light tanning. No owner attribution. Very good copy of this scare early cooking title.
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Better Homes and Gardens Encyclopedia of Cooking
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Better Homes and Gardens Encyclopedia of Cooking

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  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good+
Edition
First and second printings in 20 volume set
Binding
Hardcover
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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$100.00
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Meredith Corporation, 1973-74. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket as Issued. All volumes have clean, unmarked text. No owner attribution. Volumes 1-5, 1973 stated second printing, special edition; Volumes 6-8, 10-15 and 17-19 1974 stated second printing, special edition; and Volumes 9, 16 and 20 stated first printing, special edition. The Complete Encyclopedia Set has over 2,500 pages, over 4,200 recipes, over 1,500 photographs (many in full color), hundreds of "how-to" illustrations. A classic, rare example of Better Homes and Gardens' most complete cookbooks. Scarce, Out of print. Large multi-volume set will require extra shipping.
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Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book
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Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book

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  • Fine
  • Hardcover
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Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
First edition, ninth printing
Binding
Hardcover
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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$180.00
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McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A., 1950. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Ninth Printing. 1st hardbound edition, bound red cloth boards with white Pennsylvania Dutch design in white. 463 pp. including index. Loose-leaf pages in 5 ring metal binder with heavy stock and metal text protectors front and back. Card stock yellow tabbed dividers (20) are crisp and unbent. Text is clean and in like new condition. Recipe note added in pen on page 189. No previous owner attribution. Brown end pastedowns with white decoration. Illustrations on almost every page, mainly line drawings, B&W photographs and several full color photographs. This is General Mills first hardcover cookbook, published in 1950, which quickly became a national best seller and is now a family heirloom for many. This book contains illustrations and unique tips to "dress up food for eye appeal" fitting for dinner parties of the 1950s. A First Edition in this condition is rare. Note: pictures… Read More
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Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book
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Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book

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  • Fine
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Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
First edition, third printing
Binding
Hardcover
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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$235.00
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McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. , New York, Toronto and London and General Mills, Minneapolis, 1950. The rare First edition, third printing is the first collaboration of General Mills with McGraw-Hill Book Company in printing this book. 463 pp including index. Text is glossy, clean and unmarked. Chapters separated with yellow paper. Color drawings, b/w photos and full color photographs illustrate this book. No owner attribution. Brown pastedown endpapers with white decoration. Dust Jacket is brightly colored on front. Light sunning to rear dust jacket with picture of Betty Crocker along with her biography. Dust jacket has small one-inch tear at top rear hinge. Otherwise, fully intact as protected by mylar cover. This book in Fine Condition, despite its age. The pictures attached to this posting are of the actual book and not stock images.
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Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book
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Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book: Every recipe triple-tested by our Tasting-Test Kitchens staff

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  • Fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
First edition, fifth printing
Binding
Hardcover
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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$125.00
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Meredith Publishing Company, 1953. Binder Condition: Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Five (5) Ring Binder. Stated First Edition, fifth printing. 416 pp +four bonus pages of recipes clipped from the Better Homes & Gardens magazine with dates of March 1949; January, 1950; November, 1956; and February, 1957. Small tear on page 59 caused by a paperclip that was removed. Text is lightly tanned typical of age and edges are lightly sunned. No written notations within although a few recipes are marked with a small checkmark. 20 numbered pink card stock chapter index tabs including an index. Loose-leaf binder with 5 metal rings in excellent like new condition; all pages are original and are clean and complete. Card stock binder protector after index. This edition has illustrated front and back endpapers, with pink temperature and measurement charts and a full color photograph of a blue and white rolling pin and several pies, which is continued onto the title page. This is a classic, rare copy in Fine… Read More
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Riders of the Purple Sage
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Riders of the Purple Sage

by Zane Grey

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  • fair
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Fair
Edition
First edition
Binding
Hardcover
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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$200.00
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Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A., published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers 1912. First Edition. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Douglas Duer, illustrator. 335 pp. plus 4 pages of advertisements at back. Text is clean and unmarked but tanned, typical of the paper used in 1912. Light foxing on front free endpapers and title page. Previous owner's attribution stamped on front pastedown. A Western novel about a Mormon woman defending her ranch and the period conflicts between Mormons and Gentiles near the the southern Utah border as written by a classic American writer.
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Desert Gold
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Desert Gold

by Zane Grey

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  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First edition
Binding
Hardcover
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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$105.00
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Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A., published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers 1913. First Edition. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Douglas Duer, illustrator. 326 pp. plus 2 pages of advertisements at back for other Zane Grey books. Text is clean and unmarked but tanned, typical of the paper used in 1912. Text has light foxing scattered throughout. Previous owner's attribution stamped on front pastedown. Desert Gold, a Romance of the Border.
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Fancy Work for Pleasure and Profit
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Thompson & Thomas, Chicago, IL.1905. Condition: Very Good+ No dust jacket. 496 pp. Text slight yellowing typical of age. Text block has brown tinted top edge and marbled fore edge. Illustrated throughout with over 350 woodcut illustrations and numerous color plates, including frontispiece. Second printing of this scarce and comprehensive work on embroidery, crochet, knitting, needlework, beading, and much more for women and homemaking. Published during the Victorian era, this book served as a guide in providing new, beautiful and inexpensive items for the home. Book was first published in conjunction with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and was dedicated to Mrs. Potter Palmer, its President Board of Lady Managers. Remarkable condition for its age.
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$160.00
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The Good Housekeeping Cookbook
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The Good Housekeeping Cookbook

by Dorothy B. Marsh, editor

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  • Fine
  • Hardcover
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Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
First edition, first printing
Binding
Hardcover
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. New York, 1963. Hardcover. First Edition, no printing edition shown, presumed first printing. Condition: Fine. No dust jacket. 805 pp. Text white, clean and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Orange paper front and rear pastedown and endpaper showing drawing of a lobster.Like new inside and out.
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The New Good Housekeeping Cookbook
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The New Good Housekeeping Cookbook

by Dorothy B. Marsh, editor

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  • Fine
  • first
Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
First edition, second printing
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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$110.00
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Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. New York, 1963. Hardcover. First Edition, second printing. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Fair. Mylar separating from dj paper at rear front cover. Three inch tear from top edge near spine repaired with cellophane tape. Ragged top edge of DJ both front and back. Large grease stain near top outer edge. 805 pp. Text white, clean and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Orange paper front and rear pastedown and endpaper showing drawing of a lobster.Book like new inside and out.
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Vivilore
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Vivilore: The Pathway to Mental and Physical Perfection, The Twentieth Centry Book for Every Woman

by Mary Ries Melendy

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Condition
Used - Very Good-
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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W. R. Vansant, 1904. Hardbound. Condition: Very Good-. No dust jacket. First Edition. 649 pp. Text white with light sunning along top edge. Clean, unmarked with green design endpapers. Prior owner attribution in pencil on front free endpaper. Illustrated with b/w and full color illustrations and diagrams. "Vivilore: the pathway to mental and physical perfection; the twentieth century book for every woman; a brave and scholarly treatment of sex-life, parenthood, child training, beauty laws and vital interests of women and of men; also a comprehensive treatment of disease and its remedies, including materia medcia. A plea for self-knowledge, self-mastery, and self-development. Embellished with 140 illustrations in rich colors and exquisite half-tones, with numerous scientific pictu res which answer essential questions. Complete index and glossary."
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$110.00
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Victory Binding of the American Women's Cook Book
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Victory Binding of the American Women's Cook Book: Wartime Edition With Victory Substitutes and Economical Recipes for Delicious Wartime Meals

by Ruth Berolzheimer, editor

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  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Fair
Edition
Wartime Edition
Binding
Hardcover
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., Chicago, 1943. Condition: Fair. Wartime Edition with victory substitutes and economical recipes for delicious wartime meals. 816 pp to original book, plus eight pages on Wartime Cookery and 64 pages on How To Feed a Family of Five on $15.00 Per Week. Book has been recovered with orange vinyl cloth to keep all pages intact. Text is clean and unmarked with no foxing and arranged in 22 sections with finger tabs similar to a dictionary. Former owner attribution on frontispiece dedication page.B/W photo of General Douglas MacArthur frontispiece with this dedication: "This Wartime Edition of the American Woman's Cook Book is respectfully dedicated with affection and gratitude to General Douglas MacArthur. His heroic leadership and gallant fight against overwhelming odds should inspire every American woman to make the most of daily opportunities to support the war effort in her home and in every sphere of worthwhile war activity. There must be thousands of little… Read More
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Works of J. Fenimore Cooper
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Works of J. Fenimore Cooper: Complete in Ten Volumes

by J. Fenimore Cooper

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  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good+
Edition
First Editions
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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P. F. Collier, New York, 1892, Ten volume set. First Editions. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 7,233 pp in ten volumes. Text clean, no foxing, lightly yellowed with age, no prior owner attributions or markings in any of the volumes. Illustrated with 54 wood-engravings, including a a depiction of the author on the frontispiece of volume one. Gilting on front cover and spine of each volume shows various evidence of shelfwear. Speckled outer edges.Volume I has a small tear near tail of spine and contains: The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder and The Pioneers. Volume II contains: Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie and The Spy. Volume III has light markings on rear cover and contains: The Pilot, The Red Rover and The Two Admirals. Volume IV has pages 119-120 partially missing and contains: The Sea Lions, Afloat and Ashore and The Water Witch. Volume V has a large tear in pages 607/608 and two tears on page 717-718 (all tears intact) and contains: The Crater, Miles Wallingford and… Read More
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The New Book of Etiquette
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The New Book of Etiquette

by Lillian Eichler

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  • Hardcover
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Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1924. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, First Edition. 283 pp in Part One and 277 pp in Part Two. Text clean and unmarked, lightly yellowed by age. Deckled outer edge and yellow tinted top edge. Very small gouge in front cover. Prior owner attribution in ink on front free endpaper. An authority on social behavior and manners as deemed appropriate circa 1924. Part One chapters include: The Dawn and Development of Social Life, An Outline of Etiquette, The New Etiquette, The Social Environment, Friends and Friendship, Introductions, The Little Courtesies of Daily Life, Self-Consciousness, The Rules of Precedence, Cards and Title, Calling Customs, Social Correspondence, Invitations and Acknowledgements, The Give of Voice, Ease in Speech and Correct Dress. Part Two chapters cover: On the Threshold, Childhood and Youth, Courtship and Betrothal, Marriage, The Bride and Her Trousseau, Correct Gifts for Every Occasion, Showers, Divorce,… Read More
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