Let's Celebrate Jani Gardner, Baking is Fun 1948, Prevention Better Living and Heloise, Four Vintage Cookbooks
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Four books for cooking and keeping a house. Let's Celebrate! Surprise Celebrations with Recipes to Match is by Jani Gardner, published by Hawthorn Books of New York with a pink jacket and a red haired chef on the cover.
Baking is Fun! Ann Pillsbury's Basic Recipes is the third edition from Pillsbury Mills of Minneapolis, priced at 25 cents a copy and carrying copyrights of 1945, 1946, and 1948. Prevention's Better Living Cookbook is by Emma Bailey and the Prevention Editors, published by Rodale Press of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, with a 1976 copyright and an eighth printing from 1980.
Heloise's Housekeeping Hints is the fourth, a Prentice Hall edition from November 1962 with a Pocket Books first printing from January 1965 and a 1962 King Features Syndicate copyright. Its yellow cover has a red stained page edge.
Details
- Item: Four vintage cookbooks and household guides
- Title: Let's Celebrate!; Baking is Fun!; Prevention's Better Living Cookbook; Heloise's Housekeeping Hints
- Author: Jani Gardner; Ann Pillsbury; Emma Bailey and the Prevention Editors; Heloise
- Illustrator: Not confirmed from photos
- Publisher: Hawthorn Books, Inc., New York; Pillsbury Mills, Inc., Minneapolis; Rodale Press, Inc., Emmaus, Pennsylvania; Prentice Hall and Pocket Books, Inc., New York
- Publication Year: 1976 for Better Living; 1948 for Baking is Fun; 1962 for Heloise; the Let's Celebrate date is not confirmed from photos
- Edition and Printing: Baking is Fun is the Third Edition; Better Living is the Eighth Printing, 1980; Heloise is the Pocket Books first printing, January 1965
- Format and Binding: Let's Celebrate is a hardcover with jacket, Better Living and Baking is Fun are softcover, and Heloise is a mass market paperback
- Dust Jacket: Present on Let's Celebrate only
- Genre: Cooking, baking, and household hints
- Language: English
- ISBN: None, printed before ISBN use
- Dimensions: About 9 x 6 inches for the hardcovers; the Heloise paperback is smaller
Positives
- Graded Good: All four books are complete, with their covers and their pages.
- Baking is Fun is the third edition, with copyrights of 1945, 1946, and 1948 printed inside.
- Better Living carries its 1976 Rodale copyright and its eighth printing from 1980.
- Heloise prints both its 1962 copyright and its January 1965 first Pocket Books printing.
- The Let's Celebrate jacket keeps its pink color and its chef illustration.
Issues / Wear
- The Let's Celebrate jacket is worn and chipped at the top and bottom edges and along the spine.
- The Baking is Fun cover is scuffed and chipped, with wear at its corners.
- The Better Living cover is tanned and shows a small mark near the bottom right edge.
- The Heloise spine shows scuffing at the bottom edge.
If you collect mid century cookbooks, this set brings a Pillsbury third edition, a Rodale cookbook, Heloise, and Jani Gardner together. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.
Condition Grade: Good
- Near Fine: Close to new. Any flaw is small and named above.
- Very Good: Light use. Every flaw is named above, and none of them get in the way of reading or display.
- Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use. Every flaw is named above.
- Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.
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