Purity Flour Mills (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. Poor condition. Heavy wear to spine and edges. Binding is loose, pages age toned. Front and rear covers nearly detached from spine. Pictures available upon request.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Condition: 'Very Good' Notes: Vintage PURITY COOK BOOK: 875 Tested Recipes. Re-written and revised by Mrs. Kathleen M. Watson. Purity Flour Mills Limited. 1945. Interesting because design and illustrations were by Sampson-Matthews Limited of Toronto w illustrations by A.J. Casson (Group of Seven member). Very good condition, binding is solid and pages are unmarked. Bump to spine end.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. french translation,2nd revision by rose lacroix 1945.minor damage onspine bottom and small tear on top otherwise vg.875 recipes.hard to find copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Condition: 'Near Fine' Notes: Some scrapes to spine on front cover. Some chips to corners of covers. Fold and crease on title page. Age wear/discoloration to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Revised edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. 1937 printing. No notes, inscriptions or underlining. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Card covers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 288 pages, 1/4" diagonal crease to top rigtht corner of fron cover, red edge dye uniformly faded, no reading creases, no spine creases Harlequin # 51.

Hardcover. Second Revised Edition. pp. [12] 3209 [210]. 8vo., measuring 23.5 × 16.0 cm. Illustrated bright red cloth over boards bearing the distinctive logo of the Purity Flour Mills Company to the centre of the front cover, cream lettered borders. Richly illustrated throughout with many black-and-white photographs, in-text illustrations, and full-page colour plates attributed to A.J. Casson (1898-1992), noted Canadian artist and a member of the Group of Seven. An exceedingly scarce offering of the French-language equivalent of one of the most notable Canadian cookery titles of the last century: The Purity Cook Book as translated into French by Mdme. Rose C. Lacroix ('directrice de "Les écoles ménagères provinciales"' and 'auteur d'un recueil de recettes intitulé "Le menu dujour"). Comprises of a rich selection of recipes with sections devoted to Yeast Breads and Rolls; Quick Breads; Cakes; Cookies and Squares; Pastry and Pies; Desserts; Appetizers; Soups; Main Dishes; Cheese and Eggs; Poultry; Fish; Meats; Deep Fat Frying; Vegetables; Savoury Dishes; Salads and Salad Dressings; Sandwiches; Cooking for a Crowd; Homemade Candies; Home Freezing; Preserved Foods; Beverages, and much more. Remarkably retains all six of the original coupons on the last page (p.209). Extremities show light edgewear, bumping to spine ends and tips, handwritten recipe in ink to the ffep, a few occasional faint spotting to some leaves (entirely unaffecting the legibility of the text). Text-block otherwise unmarked, and with firm, sound binding; very good. See Driver's Citation No. O771.2 [p. 737].…