Cookbooks from Select Tomes

Home Service Department, Carnation Company, Los Angeles, California, 1951. Softcover. First Edition. Condition: Very Good, minor shelfwear typical of age. No dust jacket. 96 pp. Text has ivory colored pages, some recipes have penciled adjustments, evidence book has been used with minimal food stains, no prior owner attribution, illustrated with full color and B/W photographs and drawings throughout. Book features… Read more about this item

Golden Press, New York, 1958. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. Stated first edition, fourth printing. 207 pp, text white, clean and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Illustrated throughout by Charles Harper with full color photographs and colored drawings. Title page and last pages of index have become detatched from wire spine, but are included. Corners lightly… Read more about this item

Aluminum Goods Mfg. Co., Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1939. Soft cover with metal spiral binding. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 264 pp. Text clean and off-white. No prior owner attribution. Several pages have recipe alterations in pen or pencil. Front cover is creased down the middle. Many Features includes: "Lies flat when open, saves space folds completely over, pages turn easily,… Read more about this item

Tested Recipe Institute, Inc., Long Island City, New York, 1953. Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 128 pp. Color photographs by Albert Gommi on every page. Text clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Minor shelfwear along spine and corners. Light food stain on pp 8-9. This is a scarce colorful book of cooking recipes from… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1961. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. Third printing, April 1961 of this revised edition. 718 pp. Illustrated with 96 pp of b/w photographs and drawings. Text clean, ivory and unmarked. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Front hinge is cracked, but intact. Outer edges indicate usage with food spots.

The Butterick Publishing Company, 1929. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. Missing 1 1/2 inches of tail spine. Light shelfwear on outer edges and front hinge. 222 pp. Text yellowed with light foxing. Book has been used with liquid spotting on page 178--does not affect readability. No prior owner attribution, but pencil notation on front free enpaper… Read more about this item

The J. R.. Watkins Company, Newark (et al) 1946. Stated second edition. Condition: Very Good+. Dust jacket condition: Good+. 251 pp plus pages of index. Text lightly yellowed, typical of age and materials used. Text clean, unmarked with no foxing or prior owner attribution. Dust jacket has small chips at outer edges and shelfwear to back cover. Inside dust jacket… Read more about this item

1974 facsimily reprint of the 1925 edition. Publisher unknown. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No dust jacket issued. 256 pp. Text bright white, clean and unmarked. No prior owner attribution, but the date 5-17-74 appears onfront pastedown.

Simon and Schuster, New York, 1954. Hardcover. Stated first printing. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 496 pp. Text clean, unmarked and off-white. Small food stain on pages 366-367. No foxing or prior owner attribution. B/w and dark orange illustrations in text. In 1948 Furness was performing in the television series Studio One which was broadcast live. She filled in… Read more about this item

David White Company, New York, 1964. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust jacket condition: Good. 623 pp. Text clean, white and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Book club edition as indicated by punched imprint on lower right edge of back cover. Dust jacket is price clipped, has several chips along top and bottom edges and small water… Read more about this item

Culinary Arts Institute, 1962. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 974 pp plus 66 pp indes. Text is clean and mostly unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Book has wear from usage with a light grease or water spot on page 398 and spots on pages 552-553. Minor sunning to outer edges of text. Illustrated throughout with b/w photos… Read more about this item

The Peoples Gas, Light, and Coke Co. Condition: Good-. No dust jacket. Missing title page so date and edition is unknown. Belived to be between 1925-1930. 255pp. Text with deckled edge is ivory with minor usage stains. Otherwise unmarked with no prior owner attribution.

Success Company, Petersburg, NY; Toledo, OH, Danville, IL; Oklahoma City, OK and San Jose, CA, 1908 and 1909. Hardcover. First editions. Condition: Very Good-. No dust jacket issued. Two complete books in one volume. 744 and 280 pp. Text is clean and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Date 1909 is hand-written in blue ink on front free endpaper along… Read more about this item

Better Homes & Gardens Meredith Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1935. Hardcover 3-ring binder with lightly soiled outer edge. Condition: Very Good+, No dust jacket issued. 204 pp includes 12 unnumbered blank Miscellany leaves to add recipes. Also includes a trimmed envelope "to hold recipes and food information you obtain from Better Homes & Gardens food manufacturers, and other sources."… Read more about this item

David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1938. Hardcover. Sixth Edition, Enlarged and Revised. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 751 pp. Text lightly yellowed, typical of age and materials used. Green tinted top edge. No prior owner attribution. Several ink or pencil notations on selected recipes. Handwritten recipes added on blank pages.… Read more about this item

The Pictorial Review Company, New York, 1931. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No dust jacket issued. 463 pp. Text block lightly sunned, typical of age and materials used. Otherwise clean, unmarked with no foxing or prior owner attribution. Remarkably clean condition for its age.

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… Read more about this item

Meridith Press, 1963. First edition, first printing. Hardbound. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket as issued. Small chip on front cover at head of spine. 62 pp. Profusely illustrated with full color and b/w photographs and drawings. Text white, clean and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Volume 8 in… Read more about this item

Time-Life Books, New York, 1976. Hardbound. First edition, first printing. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 320 pp. Text clean, lightly sunned and unmarked except for prior owner dedication on front free endpaper. Compilation of special recipes designed specifically for the holidays throughout the year. Full color photographs throughout.

Meredith Press, Des Moines, IA, 1969. First edition, ninth printing. Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 160 pp. White, clean and unmarked with light foxing along top edge. No prior owner attribution. Illustrated throughout with multi-color drawings and fill color photographs. Special recipes for holidays including: New Year's Eve,… Read more about this item