[Rarebooks] FS: Uncommon early Maine Cookbook

[Charles Agvent]

[COOKBOOK,  MAINE].  THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY  TRIED  AND
          TESTED  FORMULAS  BY THE LADIES OF THE SECOND  CONGREGATIONAL
          CHURCH,  BIDDEFORD, MAINE. 1886. Biddeford [ME]: Times  Steam
          Job Print  1886.  First  Edition. 116 [1]  pp.  Small  octavo
          (5-1/4"  x  7-1/4")  in original  brownish-green  cloth  with
          "Home Cook  Book"  in  gilt on the front  cover.  With  about
          twenty  or  so pages of advertisements  printed  interspersed
          among the  recipes.  Not  in  Brown. OCLC  only  locates  two
          copies,  one  at  Radcliffe and the other  at  Texas  Women's
          University.  Occasional  staining  but  a  nice  copy  of  an
          uncommon cookbook. Very Good or better.               $350.00

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