Vintage Cookbook Collection (10 Books) | Community, Canadian, French & American Cookery | 1917–1972

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Vintage Cookbook Collection (10 Books) | Community, Canadian, French & American Cookery | 1917–1972

Offered here is a varied collection of ten vintage cookbooks spanning more than fifty years of culinary history, from a charming 1917 volume to classic mid-century cookbooks that reflect changing tastes, technologies, and home kitchens.

Highlights include the 1917 edition of A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron, a title that remains a conversation piece more than a century after publication. Also included is the 1937 edition of America’s Cook Book, compiled by the Home Institute of the New York Herald Tribune and published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, an influential reference work from the pre-war era.

Canadian cookbook enthusiasts will appreciate The Pot of Gold, a community cookbook compiled by the Junior Auxiliary of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Victoria, British Columbia and copyrighted in 1947. Filled with contributed recipes, household favourites, preserves, desserts, and cocktails, it offers a fascinating glimpse into community cooking and domestic life on Vancouver Island in the mid-twentieth century.

The collection continues through the golden age of cookbook publishing with The Classic French Cuisine by Joseph Donon (1959), The Gold Cook Book by Master Chef Louis P. De Gouy (1960), The Art of Fine Baking by Paula Peck (1961), the Ladies’ Home Journal Dessert Cookbook (1964), the Chatelaine Cookbook (1969), Hazel Meyer’s Freezer Cook Book (1970), and Betty Crocker’s New Boys and Girls Cookbook (1972).

Included in this collection:

• A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron. Decorations by Elizabeth Colbourne. Published 1917.

• America’s Cook Book. Compiled by The Home Institute of the New York Herald Tribune. Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937.

 

• The Pot of Gold: A Treasure Chest of Selected Recipes. Compiled by the Junior Auxiliary of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Victoria, B.C. Copyright 1947.

 

 

• The Classic French Cuisine by Joseph Donon. Decorations by Warren Chappell. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.

 

 

• The Gold Cook Book by Master Chef Louis P. De Gouy. Published by Chilton Company, 1960.

 

 

• The Art of Fine Baking by Paula Peck. Drawings by Grambs Miller. Published by Simon and Schuster, 1961.

 

• Ladies’ Home Journal Dessert Cookbook. Edited by Carol Truax. Published by Doubleday & Company, 1964.

 

 

• Chatelaine Cookbook: The Definitive Canadian Cookbook. Published by Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company Ltd., 1969.

 

 

• Hazel Meyer’s Freezer Cook Book. Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, 1970.

 

 

• Betty Crocker’s New Boys and Girls Cookbook. Illustrated by Gloria Kamen. Published by Golden Press, 1972.

Condition varies throughout the collection. Notable flaws include a full seam split to A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband and a partial seam split to America’s Cook Book. The Art of Fine Baking retains its dust jacket, which shows tears along the edges. The Pot of Gold displays the expected wear associated with a well-used community cookbook. Additional condition details are shown in the photographs.

This collection is being offered together as a single lot and presents an engaging survey of twentieth-century cooking, baking, household management, and culinary culture.

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