[Rarebooks] FS: 3 titles on Modern Cooking, circa 1920

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Offered today: 

_3 Titles on Modern Cooking (circa 1910s and 1920s)_ 

HILL, JANET MCKENZIE (1825-1933). 

[3 TITLES]  1) _Recipes for Everyday_. Cincinnati: Procter & Gamble,
(1919). FIRST EDITION. 96 pp. 2) _The Whys of Cooking_. Cincinnati:
Procter & Gamble, (1919). SECOND EDITION. 106, [2] pp. 3) _Balanced
Daily Diet_. Cincinnati: Procter & Gamble, (1920). LATER PRINTING (first
edition, 1916). 96 pp. 

12mos. 7 x 5 inches. Each volume illustrated in color and black and
white, includes many recipes in each, the whys of cooking provides plans
for the modern kitchen and its furnishing; some page soling in _The Why
of Cooking_ volume, else text of other two volumes clean, none of the
pages are marked. Uniformly bound in blue paper wrappers embossed in
dark blue and gold; bindings square and tight, some toning to the
covers, top corner of The Whys of Cooking bumped, adhering of pages in
the index at page 106 affect 5 lines of the index. Good to Very Good. 

$ 30 

See above for edition statements. Together these books by Janet McKenzie
Hill provide a thorough introduction to the cooking methods of the 1910s
and 1920s in America. Hill was the editor of the Boston Cooking School
Magazine. She also endorsed many American food products, as she does in
Recipes for Everyday, which promotes the use of Crisco, a Procter &
Gamble product that was listed as a substitute for butter for the public
during World War I. 

Let me know if these are of interest. 

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firm can be billed, otherwise, payment with order. Trade courtesies
apply. 

Thank you for looking, 

John Howell