{"product_id":"farm-journal-complete-pie-cookbook","title":"Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook 1965 Nell B. Nichols Doubleday Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eFarm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook is the 1965 Doubleday collection edited by Nell B. Nichols, holding 700 dessert and main dish pies between its covers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe front and back jacket panels are both still with the book, the jacket paper is rubbed through to white along the bottom edge and corners, and there is a small chip at the top of the spine, all of it in the photos. Inside, the pages are clean and easy to read, with no writing found anywhere in them. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe back panel promises perfect crusts, unusual edgings, tarts, turnovers, party pickups, and meat, fish and vegetable pies, and the inside pages deliver on it, with chapter headings for Fruit Pies, Deep-Dish and Cake Pies, Cobblers and Dumplings, and recipes for Egg Yolk Pastry, Apple Molasses Pie, North Pole Cherry Pie, Golden Peach Pie, Spiced Rhubarb-Strawberry Pie, Rhubarb-Orange Pie, Peach-Plum Pie, and a Black Bottom Lemon Pie, with color plates of the finished pies facing pages 55 and 182.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e It suits a baker who wants a mid century farm kitchen way with a crust on the shelf next to the mixing bowls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDetails\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cookbook\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nell B. Nichols, editor, with the food staff of Farm Journal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrator:\u003c\/strong\u003e Not confirmed from photos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Doubleday and Company, Garden City, New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Year:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1965\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition and Printing:\u003c\/strong\u003e Not confirmed from photos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat and Binding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover with dust jacket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDust Jacket:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes, present\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 308\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cookbook\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e None printed, Library of Congress catalog card 65-16174\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.5 in. by 6 in. by 1.3 in.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition Grade: Good\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePositives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGraded Good:\u003c\/strong\u003e a complete, readable cookbook with its full jacket and clean pages, with the jacket wear named below.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe dust jacket keeps both its front and back panels, with the strawberry rhubarb pie photograph on the front and the lattice pie on the back both bright and unfaded.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe red hardcover underneath carries the title in gold on the front board, still crisp and unfaded.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe front jacket flap still carries its original printed price, F.J.C.P.C. $4.95, at the top right, above the flap blurb that opens Proud country cooks know a good pie begins with a good crust.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe title page reads Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook, 700 Best Dessert and Main-Dish Pies in the Country, edited by Nell B. Nichols, Field Food Editor, with photography supervised by Al J. Reagan, art director of The Farmer's Wife.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe copyright page prints Copyright 1965 by Farm Journal, Inc., All Rights Reserved, and Printed in the United States of America, with Library of Congress catalog card 65-16174.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe color plates are intact and hold their color, including the cherry and peach pies facing page 55 and the lemon pies facing page 182.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe recipe pages are complete and legible, from the Egg Yolk Pastry and Apple Molasses Pie on page 55 to the rhubarb pies on page 98 and the peach and plum pies on page 182.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe page block is tight and square, and the book stands and opens the way it should.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe pages are clean throughout, with no writing and no turned corners.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIssues \/ Wear\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe jacket is rubbed along the bottom edge and at the corners, with the glossy paper worn through to white in places.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA small chip and tear sit at the top of the spine, where the jacket has lifted.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe jacket surface carries light scuffing and a few small marks, mostly along the edges and on the back panel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe page edges are tanned and yellowed from age, and the fore edge is darker than the margins.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe gutter shows some strain where the book is opened wide at the color plates, though the pages stay attached.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeveral pages at the fore edge carry small nicks, chips and short jagged tears, most of them near the front of the book.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA few of the front pages show vertical creases near the gutter, and the bottom edge of the page block is slightly uneven.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy still has both jacket panels, the gold title on the red board, and the full set of color plates, and it belongs within reach of a\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/myreadingvintage.com\/collections\/vintage-cookbooks-and-recipes\" title=\"baker who works from a farm kitchen\"\u003e baker who works from a farm kitchen \u003c\/a\u003ebook. 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