The Joy of Cooking

by Irma S. Rombauer

$7,200 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

St. Louis, MI: A. C. Clayton Printing Co, 1931. First edition, first printing of Irma Rombauer's rare self-published cookbook. Bound in publisher's blue pebble cloth lettered in gilt on the upper board. Very Good with fading to spine, wear at extremities, and light soiling to cloth. Damp staining to top and bottom edges of textblock with associated staining to contents at margins. Hinges tender with front and rear free

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