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Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book
by Betty Crocker
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Minneapolis, MN: General Mills, 1950 General Mills, Minneapolis, MN. 1950. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board bottom edges. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($2.95); shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; missing small pieces at head and along the top of the rear panel. Red and white decorative cloth boards and spine with white and red lettering on the spine and front board. Brown endpapers with cooking instructions. Clean internals; interior hinges are sound and not split. 449 pp 4to. This is a cook book of 2,161 of Betty Crocker's "first choice recipes" for every type of cooking, collected in one volume which is designed to appeal to women of every age, in all kinds of homes, with any size family. It is a treasure chest of basic cooking information. Its glowing color plates and over 1,000 B&W illustrations (photographs and drawings) are chock full of inspirational ideas. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
Reviews
On Oct 11 2011, Coinmelhotmailcom said:
this was a replacement of the book my wife of 60 years recived as a wedding gift
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014130
- Title
- Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book
- Author
- Betty Crocker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- General Mills
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis, MN
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- cooking, cookbooks, cook books, recipes, cooking ideas, General Mills, Betty Crocker, Picture Cook Book, kitchen, kitchen implements, entertaining, dinner ideas, meal ideas,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cookbooks;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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