The Joy of Cooking

by Irma S. Rombauer

$6,800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

St. Louis, Missouri: Printed by A. C. Clayton Printing Co, 1931. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue pebbled cloth lettered in gilt. Good with light edge wear and minor soiling to cloth. Former owner's heavy notations on early leaves with several newsprint clippings and associated offsetting there as well. Contents toned and with sporadic staining, a few signatures over opened. Initially self-published by

• Printing: first

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