Streamlined Cooking by Rombauer Irma (11 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Original edition. Good condition with wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, Copyright, 1939, by the Bobbs-Merrrill Company. Tower Books Edition, First Printing, February, 1942. From the author of "Joy of Cooking," instructions and recipes for fast and inexpensive meals made from canned and packaged foods. Hardcover, bound in green cloth. Illustrated chapter headings. 210 pages. Considerable wear to binding with splits, tears and fraying to cloth. Binding is loose. Pages browned. Fair condition. Scarce, collectible, and useful. Marion Rombauer Becker (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards may have fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages unmarked. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery. …

Condition: Good. Original edition. Good condition with wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. by Marion Rombauer Becker, 8.25 x 6", blue cloth, 210pp with index, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and fraying, former owner's ink name inside front cover, small bookseller's address label inside rear cover, pp toned but still nice, in a rubbed, edge-worn/chipped/creased, soiled, spine-darkened and badly abraded, price-clipped dustjacket with another tiny bookseller label at top of rear flap. FIRST EDITION (blue cloth). SCARCE follow-up to Rombauer's "The Joy of Cooking". …

Hardcover. First Edition. 210 pages. 21 x 15 cm. From the author of The Joy Of Cooking, this follow up to her first smash hit found its audience with busy cooks - working women, daughters helping out at home, students, homemakers without help, and bachelors. With a nod towards packaged foods, Rombauer tried to lighten the work of homemakers by using both fresh and canned foods. Rombauer (ahead of her time) recognized the need to publish a practical guide for the realities of modern (1930s-1940s) life, as opposed to the more elaborate or time-consuming cooking manuals. Pages lightly toned but otherwise clean and crisp. Dust wrapper heavily rubbed at edges. Covered in protective mylar. Blue cloth covered boards. Very good, in good dust wrapper. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrations by Marion Rombauer Becker. 210pp. Edges gently rubbed, one page with a small chip on the foredge, near fine in a worn, about very good dust jacket with chips and creased tears along the edges, and a bit of interior foxing. Rombauer's follow-up to her hit book *The Joy of Cooking*, focused on the more hurried cook.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fabulous first printing 1939 hardcover and jacket signed "cordially yours Irma s. Rombauer". 210 pages loaded with old fashioned recipes and rapid recipes for fresh foods. This is a wonderful condition one of a kind find from the premier cook book lady who started it all with the Joy of cooking. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Illustrations by Marion Rombauer Becker. 210pp. Edges very lightly rubbed, else fine in a moderately worn, very good dust jacket with a few nicks and small creased tears along the edges, a few scratches, and a sunned spine. Rombauer's follow-up to her hit book *The Joy of Cooking*, focused on the more hurried cook.…

First Edition. Octavo. Most likely a second issue binding. After her landmark work, The Joy of Cooking, the author decided to write a quick and easy book she says is more economical and practical for the hurry-up cook, one that will actually lighten her work, give her new ideas and at the same time satisfy the most critical and discriminating family. A lovely copy bound in red cloth lettered in black, spine lettering black, in an unclipped dust jacket lettered and decorated in black, red, white and blue, chip along upper edge of from panel and a few small chips to flap fold, some chipping to spine ends and corners and a few closed edge tears. Very scarce in the red binding.…