Joy Cooking by Irma Rombauer, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1,136 pp. Tightly bound.Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. NOTE: Bumping to top corners and at heal of spine. NOTE: Inscribed by K. R. Romabuer. Koerner Rombauer, was the founder of Rombauer Vineyards. He was he was Irma Rombauer's grand-nephew.Inscription: "To great food, friends and wine! All the best. KR Rombauer 8-27-99". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Laura Hartman Maestro (illustrator). 2nd thus. Bright gilt titles on white cloth. Two bound-in ribbon bookmark. Ethan Becker's (son of Marion Rombauer Becker and the grandson of Irma S. Rombauer) personalized inscription verso ffep. A large, heavy book which will require extra shipping charges - cannot ship outside U.S.A. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New and Enlarged Edition. Inscribed by Rombauer on the front endpaper. Fair in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), rubbed at the edges, tidemarks on the back panel. Blue cloth on the boards, generally soiled, rubbed, fraying and with short tears on the spine. Square, cracked hinges, stains at the edges. A well used copy of the classic cookbook, scarce signed.

Cloth. Condition: Good. 884 pages. Inscribed by Irma Rombauer on front free endpaper to one Katherine Morgan. The 1943 edition: "When the revision of this book was begun a year ago we had no intimation that international obligations would lead our land of plenty to ration cards. It now goes to print with a number of emergency chapters added, written to meet the difficulties that beset the present-day cook" [author's Preface]. Spine professionally mended, rebacked, new rear endpapers, cloth lightly cleaned. General soiling to cloth and textblock edges; occasional light staining within. Binding is sound. 8.5 x 5.8 inches. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

Early printing of Irma S. Rombauer's culinary classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Joe with all good wishes most cordially Irma S. Rombauer." In very good condition. In 1931, Irma Rombauer announced that she intended to turn her personal collection of recipes and cooking techniques into a cookbook. Cooking could no longer remain a private passion for Irma. She had recently been widowed and needed to find a way to support her family. Irma was a celebrated St. Louis hostess who sensed that she was not alone in her need for a no-nonsense, practical resource in the kitchen. So, mustering what assets she had, she self-published The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. Out of these unlikely circumstances was born the most authoritative cookbook in America, the book your grandmother and mother probably learned to cook from.

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Reprint. Signed by Irma S. Rombauer on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's blue and white patterned cloth. Very Good. Rubbing to cloth and white stain on front cover. Pages lightly toned, rear free endpaper creased. This classic has gone on to become the most published cookbook in America; scarce signed by the author.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. First edition, first printing of Irma S. Rombauer's self-published cookbook, The Joy of Cooking. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [xxxii], 395pp, [3]. Green pebbled cloth, title in gilt on front cover. Stated "Printed by A.C. Clayton Printing Co." on copyright page, with no additional printings listed. Solid text block, light wear to corners, covers previously cleaned per the instructions in the book. Thumbmarks to endpapers. Marginalia on endpapers and throughout, mostly in pencil. Illustrations by Irma's daughter, Marion. Lacking the original dust jacket. Housed in custom blue cloth clamshell, title in gilt on black label affixed to spine. (Bitting, p. 407) A scarce work. Irma S. Rombauer (1877-1962) wrote The Joy of Cooking as a way to earn a living and cope with the sudden loss of her husband, Edgar. Rombauer collected recipes from members of her hometown, St. Louis, and found a local printer to produce 3,000 copies. Their contract, signed with A.C. Clayton Printing, called for all first printings to be made with "washable cover fabrics. mailing cartons and individualized stickers." (Mendelson 91) The Joy of Cooking remains in print today, with more than 18 million copies sold from updated editions continuously edited by Rombauer's extended family.

Patterned Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Marion Rombauer Becker (illustrator). An exceptional copy of the May 1936 1st trade edition of arguably the 20th century's most iconic American cookbook. THIS COPY BOASTS A WARM, FULL-PAGE INSCRIPTION BY ITS AUTHOR IRMA S. ROMBAUER along the front free endpaper AND IS IN REMARKABLY CRISP, CLEAN CONDITION TO BOOT. Tight and Near Fine (just a touch of very light soiling along the edges) in a bright, price-intact ($2.75), easily Near Fine dustjacket, with just the slightest hint of faint creasing to the top-edges and the spine crown. Still though, unusually attractive and well-preserved. One could even imagine, of the 10,000 copies initially published (Mendelson 151-161), this copy would certainly rank, if not at the very top, among a tiny handful of elite copies somehow to have survived in such superb condition. Thick octavo, illustrated in woodblock by the author's daughter Marion Rombauer Becker. One of the few cookbooks, in its original format, to have transcended its place as a culinary collectible into the ranks of important Americana.