- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: oldprintbooks, webster, NY, U.S.A.oldprintbooks
AbeBooks seller since June 12, 2008
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 1,922.39
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First printing hardcover. Signed by Irma Rombauer. In good clean condition(no marks). Back endpage states book cover can be cleaned(a unique marketing tool for cook book.Joy of Cooking, often known as "The Joy of Cooking",[1] is one of the United States' most-published cookbooks. It has been in print continuously since 1936 and has sold more than 20 million copies.[2] It was published privately during 1931 by Irma S. Rombauer (1877 1962), a homemaker in St. Louis, Missouri, after her husband's suicide the previous year. Rombauer had 3,000 copies printed by A.C. Clayton, a company which had printed labels for fancy St. Louis shoe companies and for Listerine mouthwash, but never a book. Beginning in 1936, the book was published by a commercial printing house, the Bobbs-Merrill Company. With nine editions, Joy of Cooking is considered the most popular American cookbook.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1743517633011
Bibliographic details
- Title
- the Joy of Cooking
- Author
- irma rombauer signed!
- Publisher
- clayton
- Publication year
- 1931
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Cooking
oldprintbooks
webster, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since June 12, 2008
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