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Hardcover. Condition: Good. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator). WONDERFUL BOOK WITH TWO COOK BOOKS IN ONE. WRIGHT AND HARLAND BOTH CONTRIBUTED THEIR WORKS AND KNOWLEDGE. DARK RED COVER FRONT AND SPINE, BLACK PRINT, WORN ON OUTSIDE FROM YEARS OF USE. INSIDE FRONT COVER WRITTEN MARKER PUBLISH DATE AND SOMETHING MARKED THROUGH, CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. PAGES LIGHTLY BROWN FROM AGING. TERRIFIC BOOK FOR THE COOK BOOK LOVER, COOK AND ANTIQUE LOVER. EXCELLENT INDEX BACK OF BOTH SECTIONS. WONDERFUL DETAIL AND INFORMATION. THIS BOOK IS A VOLUME OF GREAT DETAIL AND KNOWLEDGE. Julia McNair Wright (née McNair; May 1, 1840 - September 2, 1903) was an American writer. She was the main author of Ladies' Home Cook Book: A Complete Cook Book and Manual of Household Duties. Compiled by Julia Mac Nair Wright, et al. Wright began her literary career at age sixteen by the publication of short stories. Her published works include Almost a Nun (1867); Priest and Nun (1869); Jug-or-Not (1870); Saints and Sinners (1873); The Early Church in Britain (1874); Bricks from Babel, a manual of ethnography (1876); The Complete Home (1879); A Wife Hard Won, a novel (1882). Mary Virginia Terhune (née Hawes, December 21, 1830 - June 3, 1922), also known by her penname Marion Harland, was an American author who was prolific and bestselling in both fiction and non-fiction genres. Born in Amelia County, Virginia, she began her career writing articles at the age of 14, using various pennames until 1853, when she settled on Marion Harland. Her first novel Alone was published in 1854 and became an "emphatic success" following its second printing the next year. For fifteen years she was a prolific writer of best-selling women's novels, classified then as "plantation fiction", as well as writing numerous serial works, short stories, and essays for magazines. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.