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The Ichiban Cook Book

by Protestant Womens' Group of Camp Sendai

$40 · Offered by eBay

Epilonian Books presents ... The Ichiban Cook Book Author:Protestant Womens' Group of Camp Sendai Publisher:Protestant Womens' Group of Camp Sendai Release Date:1951 Seller Category:General Non-Fiction Qty Available:1 Condition:Used: Acceptable Sku: 20260829006 Notes: Protestant Womens' Group of Camp Sendai, Published 1951. Hardcover, 166 pp.; 22 cm; dated October 1951 on title page, printed by Choichi Sasaki, Sendai; 4 black-and-white photographic plates; index. In Acceptable condition, no dust jacket. Boards covered in red cotton printed with a kokeshi doll pattern, no lettering; cloth soiled and stained, fraying and nicking along edges and at corner tips, moderate shelf wear. Front hinge broken: pastedown split at gutter with paper loss and an old tape remnant, faint pencil line on front pastedown. Text block nearly detached from the case and held only by the sewing. Sewing has pulled apart between pp. 28-29, where the gutter is open to the spine, but the two halves remain joined by the blue binding tape that carries the signature threads; signatures still attached to one another and no loose leaves, all pages present. Pages toned, with moderate spotting and soiling throughout and heavier kitchen staining to several leaves (pp. 28-29 and 124-125 among them). Frontispiece has offset onto the thin title leaf. Otherwise unmarked. Community cookbook compiled by the wives of American servicemen at Camp Sendai (Camp Schimmelpfennig), the largest U.S. Army post north of Tokyo dur

  • Publisher: Protestant Womens' Group of Camp Sendai
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Condition: Fair

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