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Lot 73:
Description
C-18859
c. 1940s-1960s; Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. – New York, New York / Grosset & Dunlap – New York, New York Two-volume lot of mid-20th-century American cookbooks reflecting domestic cooking trends from the wartime through postwar period. The group includes The Good Housekeeping Cook Book, a comprehensive household reference emphasizing practical, standardized recipes for everyday cooking, and Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook, revised deluxe edition, offering an expansive alphabetical format with instructional illustrations and broad culinary coverage. Together, these volumes represent the era’s shift toward instructional clarity, efficiency, and mass-market home cooking education. Good Housekeeping and the Culinary Arts Institute were influential forces in shaping American domestic cooking standards, publishing widely circulated reference works that emphasized reliability, consistency, and modern kitchen practices.
Both books show surface and edge wear consistent with use, including rubbing to covers, corner wear, and age toning to pages. Bindings remain intact and pages are complete. Overall condition reflects honest kitchen use rather than display copies.
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