Housekeepers (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Plastic Spiral Bound Wraps, VERY GOOD price tag on rear cover, front cover has some scratching. 13th edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Glencoe Housekeepers' Club. Regional cookbook title, Glencoe Housekeepers' Club Cook Book of Tested Recipes 1925 (Glencoe, MN: Glencoe Housekeepers' Club, 1925). Stiff paper covers, bound with two metal snap ring clasps; [5], 103, [11] pp, including 12 pages of regional Glencoe business advertisements; several blank pages are inserted between numbered pages to allow for handwritten recipes to be added to the cook book; measures 6 x 9 inches. The stiff paper covers and internal pages are a tan color; the front cover shows some toning around the edges and is chipped along the edges and lower right corner; front cover and first interior leaf is torn away from the snap ring clasps, but are present. Overall, this scarce cook book (only one found listed in OCLC at the University of Denver library and none found for sale on-line) is in VG to VG+ condition. [22-414] The cook book contains recipes for beverages; bread, rolls and muffins; cakes; candy; cocktails; cookies and doughnuts; desserts, puddings and sauces; fish and sauces; frozen desserts; icings and fillings; luncheon dishes; meats; pies; pickles; poultry, game and dressing; preserves; salads and dressings; sandwiches; soups; and vegetables. In addition, there are four pages of handwritten recipes (including one on the back cover) and one slip of paper inserted with a handwritten recipe for Plain Cookies. The names of the women who submitted selected recipes are included with their submittal(s). There is an advertisement along the top of each numbered page advertising Knox Gelatine. Glencoe is the county seat of McLeod County, Minnesota, and is located just a little over 50 miles west of Minneapolis. The community, laid out in 1855, was subsequently incorporated and in 1909 adopted its city charter. At the time of the printing of this cook book, the population of Glencoe was around 1,800 (there are currently just a little under 6,000 residents today). The cover indicates that the Glencoe Housekeepers' Club was organized in 1916 and federated in 1917. The 1919 Register of Women's Clubs in America listed the Glencoe Housekeepers' Club as having 25 members and Mrs. W. E. Churchill as its president. Mrs. Churchill was one of the many contributing "Housekeepers" contributing recipes to this regional cookbook.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Usual food stains and overall wear, brownish cloth covers with no title on spine, condition is Good only, many ads from New Brunswick merchants, 60pps, various recipes in all categories with names of contributors (Women members of the Church), includes ices, delicacies for the sick, griddle cakes, candies, jellies, pickles, etc., rare.

Original wrappers. 1st. Most likely first and only edition. 8vo. [2], 288 pp. Date of publication based on advertising matter. Index. Advertising matter of local merchants interspersed throughout. Publisher's orange wrappers with black lettering. A good copy of an uncommon regional cookbook; only 4 copies located in institutional holdings. Not in Glozer & Glozer or Bitting. Includes sections on Beverages -- Breads -- Breakfast, luncheon and tea dishes -- Cakes -- Candies -- Catsups, sauces and pickles -- Chafing dish cookery -- Fish -- Ices -- Invalid diet -- Meats -- Miscellaneous -- Pies -- Preserves, jellies, etc. -- Puddings -- Salads -- Sauces -- Soups -- Vegetables.

[2], 57, [5] pp. 8-1/2" x 5-5/8" "Of all appeals - although/ I grant the power of pathos and of gold,/ Of beauty, flattery, threats, a shilling - no/ Method's more sure at moments to take hold/ Of the best feelings of mankind, which grow/ More tender, as we every day behold,/ Than that all-softening, overpowering knell,/ The tocsin of the soul - the dinner bell. -Byron". Rare in the trade. OCLC records 16 insitutional holdings of this title. Moderate wear to boards (soiling and rubbing). Otherwise, a VG example. Blue flexible printed cloth boards. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve 1st edition (Brown 55; Cook p. 26; Glozer 61).

Half Calf and Boards. Condition: Good. First Edition. [5], ii-xvi, [1], 2-540pp, [16], plates. Modern half calf and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spine in six panels, leather title label to second panel. Spine slightly faded, lightly browned throughout, occasional light foxing, very occasionally heavier (ie. the final plate), occasional creasing, tear to top margin of Rr1, Tt2 and Tt3 loose but present. Slightly later ownership inscription of a Sarah Pope to head of title. With six engraved plates as called for. Mainly cookery, but also advice on reading, letter writing (with sample letters), drawing, painting, history and geography. Cagle 1074; Oxford, page 140; Wellcome V:515. Five locations in Library Hub Size: 8vo.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1916 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 16 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.