Vintage Books

Vintage Rand McNally Junior Elf book, Let’s Read About Rocks by Iris Tracy Comfort. Illustrated by Seymour Fleishman. Book number 8165.

Book measures about 4 7/8 x 6 3/8  inches.  Copyright date of 1969. Original price printed on cover 19c.

Condition is good with  scuffing to the cover, some soiling, and wear around the edges of the cover.  Former owners name written inside front cover. And aome age toning to the pages.

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A cute collectible book!

Vintage Original Hardcover Cookbook.

Nyal Cook Book.

Prepared by Janet McKenzie Hill.  Editor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine.

For Sale Only At Nyal Quality Drug Stores.

Copyright 1916 by The Boston Cooking School Magazine Co.

Many Black and White Photos sprinkled throughout the cookbook.

Full index at the back of the book.

Condition is used with overall wear.

Cover has soiling and wear around the edges.

Penciled inscription inside the front cover.

The pages are pretty nice with a few dog eared pages and age toning.  

Vintage Original Recipe Book.

Hamilton Beach Instructions and Tested Recipes Model K Food Mixer

Softcover cookbook, stapled spine. measures about 6” x 8 1/2” with 42 pages.

Condition is good with overall wear and light soiling to the covers.  Interior pages are very clean.  

Vintage Original Recipe Booklet Cookbook.

Good Things To Eat.

Edition 136. Copyright 1943 by Church & Dwight Co., Inc.

Favorite hot breads recipes from Martha Lee Anderson.

Softcover booklet, stapled spine. measures about 6” x 4 1/2” with 16 pages.

Condition is very good with some light overall wear and light soiling.

Vintage Original Hardcover Cookbook.

A Calendar of Dinners with 615 Recipes by Marion Harris Neil.

Including The Story of Crisco.

Sixteenth Edition 1920. The Proctor & Gamble Co. Cincinnati.

Hard cover book measuring about 5 1/4” x 8” with 231 pages.

Contents include:

Table of Contents 

Recipe Index

The Story of Crisco

 General Recipes

Calendar of Dinners (January - December) at the back of the book.

Condition is used with overall wear.

Cover has major wear to the blue around the edges and along the spine.

Penciled poem inside the front cover, along with pencil and ink addresses.

The pages are pretty nice with a few dog eared pages, a few yellowed areas where a newspaper clipping must have been, and note jotted in the inside back cover.

Vintage Original Cookbook.

National Presto Cooker Model 60 Recipe Book.

Copyright 1946, National Pressure Cooker Company.

Softcover book, stapled spine. 

Measures about 4 3/4” x 6 3/4” with 128 pages.

Condition is used with overall wear, cover creases, and soiling.

First and last few pages are loose from the spine.  The paper is brittle around the edges of the loose pages.

Not in the best shape, but some very good pressure cooker recipes inside.

Vintage Original Recipe Book.

The KNCK Bicentennial Cookbook.

Patsy Person, The Ladies Home Show.

Favorite dishes of cooks on North Central Kansas and beyond.

Two page list of recipe contributors at the front.

Sections include: 

Breads

Vegetables & Salads

Meat & Entrees

Potpourri

Bicentennial

The Bicentennial section includes recipes that were passed down through families for generations.

Softcover book, stapled spine. 

Measures about 6” x 8 1/2” with 151 pages.

Condition is very good with some light overall wear.

Vintage Original Recipe Booklet Cookbook.

New Fashioned Old Fashioned Recipes.

Copyright 1949 Church & Dwight Co., Inc.

Dessert recipes including: Date and Nut Bread, Soda Biscuits, Corn Bread, Pancakes, Waffles, Cake, Frostings, Donuts, and Cookies.

Softcover booklet, stapled spine. measures about 6” x 4 1/2” with 18 pages.

Condition is very good with some light overall wear.

Vintage Original circa 1962 Swift's Premium Recipe Booklet Cookbook.

Party Recipe Ideas, by Martha Logan.

Softcover booklet, stapled spine. measures about 5" x 7" with 10 pages.

Condition is good with some light overall wear.

Vintage Original circa 1920s Cookbook.

KMA Radio Recipes. 

Earl E. May Seed & Nursery Co. Shenandoah, Iowa.

Compiled by KMA Radio Friends and Recipe Lady.

Some recipes give the name and town of the submitter.

Some of the submission locations include:

• Auburn, Nebraska
• Alma, Nebraska
• Beatrice, Nebraska
• Brainard, Nebraska
• Malcolm, Nebraska
• Royal, Nebraska
• Wahoo, Nebraska
• West Point, Nebraska
• Grant City, Missouri
• Pattonsburg, Missouri
• Anita, Iowa
• Creston, Iowa
• Denison, Iowa
• Iowa City, Iowa
• Lake City, Iowa
• Lineville, Iowa
• Milo, Iowa
• Percival, Iowa
• Red Oak, Iowa
• Webster City, Iowa
• Weston, Iowa
• Shenandoah, Iowa
• Belvue, Kansas
• Claflin, Kansas
• Effingham, Kansas
• Fall River, Kansas
• Hollis, Kansas
• Fairfax, Wisconsin

Softcover book, stapled spine. measures about 6" x 9" with 64 pages.

Condition is fair with overall wear, dog eared pages, soiling, and spine is split at the bottom and top.

Center pages (23-42) are loose.

Vintage original 1969 recipe book.

Calico Kate’s 3 Days Before Pay Day Cook Book.

Spiral bound softcover book measuring 5 1/2” x 8" with 44 pages.

Condition is used with major grease(?) stain to the front cover that permeates through the first 22 pages. Some paper loss to cover, other cover stains, and overall wear.

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Priced accordingly.

Vintage original circa 1960s cookbook.

Mirro Matic Electric Fry Pan directions and recipes.

Softcover book measuring 9 1/4” x 9 1/4" with 12 pages.

Condition is used scuffing, small tears and soiling to the covers, and overall wear.

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Vintage original 1980 Recipe Book.

Osterizer Blender Creative Cookery Cookbook.

Softcover book measuring 5 1/2” x 8 3/8" with 35 pages.

Condition is used with some wear  and scuffing to the covers, and light soiling.

Vintage original circa 1930s Cookbook.

The Healthyway of Canning and Cooking.

For the Health Pressure Cooker.

National Aluminum Manufacturing Co. Peoria, Illinois.

Softcover book measuring 6" x 9" with 48 pages.

Condition is used with overall wear, including small tears, dog eared corners, and soiling.

All pages are present with the centerfold loose from the staples.

Vintage instruction book.

Preserve, Store and Freeze your own food supply with CROSLEY Frostmaster.

How to prepare your foods for the freezer.

Dated 1947.

Softcover book measuring 6" x 8” with 18 pages. Stapled spine.

Condition is fair with soiling, wear and split at the bottom of the spine.  And upper left corner missing from the back cover.

Vintage Cookbook.

Your Waring Cookbook. The Pleasures of Blending. For the 7 speed blender.

Recipes and Instructions Book.

Dated 1970.

Softcover book measuring 5 3/8" x 7 1/2” with 45 pages. Stapled spine.

Condition is good with light wear and soiling.

Vintage Cookbook.

Sunbeam Frypan Recipes and Instructions Book.

Dated 1978.

Softcover book measuring 5 3/8" x 8 1/2” with 55 pages. Stapled spine.

Condition is good with light wear.

Vintage Original Cookbook.

Aunt Sammy’s Radio Recipes.

Developed by The Bureau Of Home Economics. U.S. Department Of Agriculture.

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927.

Softcover book, stapled spine. measures about 6" x 9" with 86 pages.

Condition is fair with overall wear, soiling, and spine is split at the bottom.

Vintage Original Cookbook.

The Philadelphia Inquirer Cookbook Book by Mrs. Anna B. Scott.

Supplement to the Philadelphia Inquirer Cookbook Book, November 15, 1936.

Softcover book measuring 6 1/8” x 9" with 32 pages.

Condition is used with overall general wear. Cover are soiled with some creases and small tears around the edges.

Inside pages have age toning and a few soiled spots.

Vintage Kerr Cookbook.

Home canning book and how to freeze foods.

Softcover book measuring 6" x 9" with 56 pages.

Condition is good with general wear, moisture stain at the bottom of the back cover, some soiling and spine is split at the bottom.

Interior pages have a few soiled spots.

Vintage Rand McNally Elf book #8332.

My Happy Day. A Word Book.

Copyright 1951.

Hardcover book measuring about 6 5/8” wide x 8 1/4” long.

Used condition with some cover wear. Interior pages are good with age toning and a few small soiled spots.

Really cute kids book!

Vintage Little Golden Book 25.

The Taxi That Hurried.

I believe this is a first edition.

Copyright 1946 by Simon and Schuster.

Hardcover book measuring about 6 3/4” wide x 8” long.

Book is in used condition with cover wear and tear and soiling, age toned pages, and one pages is torn in half (see photos).

Really cute kids book!

Vintage Cookbook. Recipes and Instructions for Saladmaster Stainless Steel Set.

Softcover book measuring 6" x 9" with 47 pages.

Condition is good with general wear, creases and small tears along the cover edges, some soiling and spine is split at the bottom.

Interior pages have some soiling and age toning.

Vintage 1911 advertising cookbook. 

Royal Baker and Pastry Cook

A Manual of Practical Receipts for Home Baking and Cooking

Copyright 1911, by Royal Baking Powder Company of New York, U.S.A.

Recipes index at the front.

Softcover book, with 46 pages.

Book measures about 5 inches wide x 8 inches long.

Book is in good condition, with creases, wear and soiling to the covers.  Pages are pretty clean, with a few soiled areas, a few dog eared pages, and some age toning.