Click for full-size.
The Shaker Cook Book: Not By Bread Alone
by Caroline B. Piercy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£24.25£16.98
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1953 Crown Publishers, New York. 1953. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; small smudges on textblock. DJ: Very Good -; Price Clipped; chipping at head and tail; closed tears to top and bottom of front panel; light sun fading to spine. Blue/Green cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. Maps as endpapers. 283 pp 8vo. The author was born in Shaker Heights, OH where she inherited her love and understanding of the Shakers and a manuscript of specially compiled recipes which are the foundation of this book. To the Shakers, preparing food was a joyous task and they were the first in America to can food commercially the Shaker way. This volume brings together time-tested Shaker recipes for all varieties of foods and diets. This book provides ideas about food that are heart-warming and reminiscent of the communal Shaker kitchens throughout the land. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013123
- Title
- The Shaker Cook Book: Not By Bread Alone
- Author
- Caroline B. Piercy
- Illustrator
- Virginia Walsh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- food, cooking, recipes, recipe books, cook books, Shaker Cook Books, Shaker Communities, Shaker Cooking, North Union Shaker Community, Shaker Religion, Shaker recipes, The Shaker Cook Book
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cookbooks;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
Frequently asked questions
This Book’s Categories
What is a first edition?
Even if you’re only peripherally aware of book collecting, you’ve doubtless heard the term, first edition, bandied about but you may still be in the dark as to what makes them such a big deal. Learn about first editions and why collectors value them here.
Collecting food and drink books
Nothing quite whets the appetite for rare and collectible books like old and vintage cookbooks. Be sure to check out our cook books and food section of our rare book room.
