Chocolate Ltd (4 results)

Booklet. Condition: Good. 28 p. 14 cm. Stapled paper covers. Worn edges, some creases, pencil notes on rear. Advertises Planters Hi-Hat Peanut Oil and Peanut Butter, provides recipes for French Onion Soup, French Fried Fish, Southern Fried Chicken, Peanut Butter Muffins, Peanut Butter Cookies (Young Bride's Special Pride"). Recipes approved by Chatelaine Institute.

78 (2) pages, 4 (at least 3 photographic) plates; 4 both-side printed chromolithographic cardbords between pages 16/17, 40/41 (2 cardboards) and 64/65. - Publisher's artistically embossed colour-illustrated stapled wrappers with embossed titleprint at front- and -gold-medals at rearcover; small-8vo.(ca. 14,8 x 9 cm). *** FIRST EDITION; THE VERY RARE AMERICAN ORIGINAL (most bibliographies only refer to and praise the canadian reprint); contains 'Choice Recipes by Miss Maria Parloa, specially prepared for Walter Baker & . . .'; 'Recipes specially prepared by Miss Elizabeth Kevil Burr'; 'Recipes from other noted Teachers' (Mrs. or Miss Rorer, Lincoln, Lemcke, Farmer, Salzbacher, Robinson, Ewing, Hill, Bedford, Armstrong and Abel); 'State Recipes', 'Miscellaneous Recipes', 'Some Notes on the Food Value of Cocoa and Chocolate', 'Walter Baker & Co.'s Cocoa and Chocolate Preperations' and Indexes to all sections. --- Condition, acceptably used: Wrapper slightly rubbed and with brown spot (chocolate?, ca. 2 x 5 cm) at bottom of frontcover, offsettig but quickly diminishuing to needlehead-size until page 27; another hardly visible spot at frontcover left-center is slightly offsetting to inner frontcover, titlepage and first textpage; lower outer corner at frontcover with greater double-dogear incl. a very short (ca. 2-3 mm) tear close to the sharp-corner, some textpages with smallest dogear; last chromolithogr. cardboard with horizontal kink, ca. 2 cm parallel to spine; upper outer corner of rearpanel with smallest material-loss (ca. 4 x 3 mm); overall a very good copy of the fragile publication.

Condition: Very good. 2 colouring books: 21 x 27 cm and 19 x 26 cm. Unpaginate. Stapled paper covers. Also a special gift offer dated 1953 for a nut chopper. In 23 x 30 cm brown paper envelope with label to B. Young, Mount Vernon, Ontario. Envelope has tears and chips to edges. 3 illustrations coloured in first book, none in second. Mr. Peanut and children visit Parliament Hill, pick oranges in Florida, go to peanut farms, view a reservoir in Alberta, a dirigible, a submarine, and many other activities.

48 pp. Illustrated; some color. Approx 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches, original embossed illustrated wrappers printed in color. Slightest of use to wrappers; a very attractive copy.