Allen Ida Bailey Dudley (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 58 pages; No date given [circa 1928-29]. Square format paperback designed for display and use from the wall. Formatted much like a wall calendar, with a braided pink silk rope binding looped to serve as a wall hang. Pages formatted horizontally with leaves printed signle side only. Salad recipes grouped sequentially by month. 58 pages, lacking the final page (#59, the index page of salads from L - Z). Front cover doubles as the title page, illustrated with a striking jazz age, flapper themed color design signed "Dudley". Rear part of cover detached and missing. Front cover with horizontal stress creases from prior use. Cover has a small chip from the lower front corner, several short closed tears and general edge rubbing. Some scattered kitchen soiling to recipe pages. Somewhat rough but quite uncommon and striking. Fair to Good only; with faults.…

Soft cover. Condition: Almost As New. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. In original box with same design as front of book (lady with mantilla and fan, guitar strumming suitor). perhaps a shade lighter than book. Box has a small chip on one side and otherwise just a bit of rubbing to eolds. Book is pristine. A real collector's item. Carrie Dudley (illustrator).…

[COOKERY] [HOME ARTS] [GIFT BOOK] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Carrie DUDLEY, illustrator. 12mo square (7 7/8" x 7 3/8"); 53 numbered leaves printed recto only; stiff color pictorial wrapper, an elaborate design of a woman with a fan serenaded by a guitar player on the front; folded spine on upper edge secured with a twisted pale green silk tasseled cord; b&w portrait vignette on title page; blue printed Art Deco border on every leaf enclosing black type; lightly age-toned paper edges; gift box with chipping and lacking some sides; near fine in good minus gift box. OCLC locates 10 copies. A lovely gift-style cookbook published by the Buzza Company and their subsidiary Craftacres Greeting Card Company, both owned by George Buzza in Minneapolis, with approximate dates of operation from 1921-1942. The contents follow a calendar schedule with recipes for each month interspersed with lessons on cooking and entertaining for the hostess. The front wrapper illustration is by the children's artist and noted paper doll creator, Carrie [Douglas] Dudley [Ewen] (1894-1985). (Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY). Carrie DUDLEY (illustrator).…