Childrens Cookbooks Mix and Fix 1975 Dishes Children Love 1955 and A First Cook Book for Boys and Girls Three Vintage Books
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Three cookbooks written for children, one from each decade between the 1950s and the 1970s. Young Children's Mix and Fix Cook Book is a Parents' Magazine Press book with a 1975 copyright, Dishes Children Love comes from the Culinary Arts Institute with a 1955 copyright, and A First Cook Book for Boys and Girls is Henrietta Fleck's bright yellow pamphlet.
Mix and Fix has a white hardcover with a red spine and a boy in a chef's hat on the front, and its recipes are written for children to follow on their own, with Puffy Mallow Snowballs among the desserts. Dishes Children Love promises 264 favorite recipes of all children, illustrated by Beatrice Derwinski, with an index at page 66 and acknowledgments naming Arm and Hammer, Blue Bonnet Margarine, Brer Rabbit Molasses, Kraft Foods, and the Wheat Flour Institute.
A First Cook Book for Boys and Girls is by Henrietta Fleck of the Department of Home Economics at New York University, opening with A Word to Mother and A Word to You before the Banana Milk Shake and Cowboy Hamburgers. The cover of Mix and Fix is frayed at the top of the spine with color loss, and the pamphlet's staples have oxidized with age.
Details
- Item: Three vintage children's cookbooks
- Title: Young Children's Mix and Fix Cook Book, Dishes Children Love, and A First Cook Book for Boys and Girls
- Author: Parents' Magazine Enterprises Inc.; the staff home economists of the Culinary Arts Institute under Melanie De Proft; Henrietta Fleck
- Illustrator: Beatrice Derwinski for Dishes Children Love; the other illustrations are not confirmed from photos
- Publisher: Parents' Magazine Enterprises Inc.; Culinary Arts Institute, Chicago; publisher of A First Cook Book for Boys and Girls not confirmed from photos
- Publication Year: 1975 and 1955 for the first two; the third is not confirmed from photos
- Edition and Printing: Not confirmed from photos
- Format and Binding: Mix and Fix is a hardcover; Dishes Children Love is a stapled softcover; A First Cook Book for Boys and Girls is a stapled pamphlet
- Dust Jacket: None
- Pages: Dishes Children Love indexes at page 66; the other counts are not confirmed from photos
- Genre: Children's cookery
- Language: English
- ISBN: None, published before ISBN use
- Dimensions: Not confirmed from photos
Positives
- Graded Good: All three books are complete, with their covers and every page.
- Mix and Fix keeps its white cover, red spine, and the boy in a chef's hat on the front.
- Dishes Children Love is illustrated throughout by Beatrice Derwinski, with its index at page 66.
- A First Cook Book for Boys and Girls keeps its bright yellow cover and its opening notes for parents and children.
Issues / Wear
- The top of the Mix and Fix spine is frayed, with color and paper loss at the corner.
- Dishes Children Love shows edge wear and rubbing, a dog eared bottom corner, and a small price sticker at the bottom right.
- A slight vertical crease runs near the spine of Dishes Children Love.
- The staples in A First Cook Book for Boys and Girls are oxidized, and the pamphlet is toned with light creasing at the spine.
If you collect children's cookbooks, this trio reaches from a 1955 Culinary Arts Institute book to Mix and Fix in 1975. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.
Condition Grade: Good
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- Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.
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