Betty Crocker Dinner for Two 1958 and Guide to Easy Entertaining 1959 Two Vintage Ring Bound Cookbooks
$44.00
Two Betty Crocker books from General Mills, both ring bound and both first editions. Dinner for Two Cook Book is the third printing from 1958, and Guide to Easy Entertaining is the first printing from 1959, the two issued a year apart by Golden Press in New York.
Dinner for Two carries 491 recipes and menus and Charles Harper's drawings, and its blue cover shows a table set for two. Guide to Easy Entertaining has a yellow needlepoint cover patterned with houses and fruit, Peter Spier's drawings inside, and a subtitle that promises guests you can enjoy.
The entertaining book is clean, with wear only at the corners and edges. The dinner book has had a hard life: its title page is detached from the rings, the punch holes are torn, and old yellowed tape holds the page together.
Details
- Item: Two vintage Betty Crocker ring bound cookbooks
- Title: Betty Crocker's Dinner for Two Cook Book and Betty Crocker's Guide to Easy Entertaining
- Author: Betty Crocker, a General Mills name
- Illustrator: Charles Harper for Dinner for Two; Peter Spier for Guide to Easy Entertaining
- Publisher: General Mills with Golden Press, New York
- Publication Year: 1958 and 1959
- Edition and Printing: Dinner for Two is the First Edition, Third Printing; Guide to Easy Entertaining is the First Edition, First Printing
- Format and Binding: Two ring bound hardcovers with metal rings
- Dust Jacket: None
- Pages: Not confirmed from photos
- Genre: Cooking for two and home entertaining
- Language: English
- ISBN: None, published before ISBN use
- Dimensions: Not confirmed from photos
Positives
- Graded Fair: Both books are complete, with all their recipe pages and their covers.
- Guide to Easy Entertaining is a stated first edition and first printing, clean inside with wear only at the corners.
- Dinner for Two holds 491 recipes and menus, with Charles Harper's drawings throughout.
- The yellow needlepoint cover of Guide to Easy Entertaining is still bright, with the house and fruit motifs clear.
Issues / Wear
- The title page of Dinner for Two is detached from the rings, with torn punch holes and old yellowed tape across the page.
- The spine material of Dinner for Two is torn at the top and bottom, and the cover corners are rubbed through to the board.
- Guide to Easy Entertaining shows light corner and edge wear to its cover.
- A small inventory mark reading 195 over 100 sits at the top right of the Dinner for Two cover.
If you collect Betty Crocker books, this pair brings the 1958 dinner book and the 1959 entertaining book together. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.
Condition Grade: Fair
- 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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