Cookbook Collectibles 1985 Boxed Set Favorite Recipes of Home Economics Teachers 4 Spiral Cookbooks

This 1985 Cookbook Collectibles set gathers four spiral bound volumes from Favorite Recipes of Home Economics Teachers in their original red box.

The volumes are The Complete Cake Cookbook including Fancy Cakes and Frostings, The Just for Two Cookbook including Menus for Special Occasions, Potpourri of Poultry and Seafood Favorites, and The Complete Vegetable Cookbook including Nutritious Main Dishes, each printed with the home economics specialists who edited it.

The recipes are the practical, tested kind community cookbooks are built on, gathered from home economics teachers across the country and printed in Favorite Recipes Press's clean two column layouts.

Details

• Item: Boxed set of four spiral bound cookbooks with the original box
• Title: Cookbook Collectibles, Favorite Recipes of Home Economics Teachers
• Author: Compiled, with an editorial board of home economics specialists
• Illustrator: Line drawings and photographs through the volumes
• Publisher: Favorite Recipes Press, Nashville, Tennessee
• Publication Year: 1985
• Edition and Printing: 1985 set, boxed
• Format and Binding: Four softcover cookbooks with white plastic spiral bindings, in a red cardboard box
• Dust Jacket: Not applicable, boxed set
• Genre: Cookbooks, home economics and community recipe collections
• Language: English
• ISBN: Cake volume 0-87197-194-1, vegetable volume 0-87197-193-3
• Dimensions: Box 9.75 x 7.25 x 3 inches, each volume about 9.25 x 7 x 0.25 inches

Positives

• Graded Good: All four volumes are present with the original red box.
• The plastic spiral bindings are intact and the books lie flat.
• The gold box lettering still reads clearly.
• Page interiors are clean with only light cream toning.
• Each volume prints the home economics specialists who edited it, which is the charm of this series.

Issues / Wear

• The red box shows edge and corner wear, with a rubbed and chipped area along its spine side.
• The box has light surface scuffing and general shelf wear.
• Volume covers show light wear and some surface marks, most on the blue and green books.
• Page edges are age toned.
• A name in blue ink dated 1987 is written on the vegetable volume's title page, and a pencil note reading Vegetable casserole p. 83 sits on the same page.

The 1985 set arrives complete in its own red box with all four spiral volumes. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.

Condition Grade: Good