Add this copy of Little Acorn the Story Behind the Joy of Cooking, 1931 to cart. $50.00, like new condition, Sold by Lillian Clark rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc..
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Seller's Description:
Fine. Written by Irma Rombauer's daughter Marion, this is a wonderfully personal and charming history of the genesis and growth of the cookbook. It includes many intimate details of Starkloff-Rombauer family history, excerpts from reviews and from the many exuberant fan letters, an afterword by Cecily Brownstone, and many sepia illustrations of the people, places, book covers that make up the story. This little work also contains the stirring words from Marion on the independence from endorsements this monumental family enterprise would maintain: "Of the multitudinous ingredients in Joy the uniquely priceless one is its makers' integrity. In this era of tie-ins, imaginary corporation-cooks, and experts who turn out culinary compendiums with a tell-tale accent on foil or oil, we have, from the start, insisted on keeping Joy personalized, critical, detached, uncommitted. We have become masters – and mistresses – of the polite but firm turn-down." And she adds, from the final words of the Dedication in the 1963 Joy: "We...will continue to keep the Joy a family affair, as well as an enterprise in which the authors owe no obligation to anyone but themselves – and to you. "A gift to the Booksellers at their June, 1966 meeting in Washington, D.C. from The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. A Subsidiary of Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc., Indianapolis – New York – Kansas City." 61 unnumbered pages, 1 blank leaf. Ivory wraps with cover illustration of an acorn. Large oak leaf illustration embossed blind on front blank. Slight tanning of spine else a fine uncirculated copy.; Illustrated; Square 8vo; 61 pages.
Add this copy of Little Acorn the Story Behind the Joy of Cooking, 1931 to cart. $125.00, like new condition, Sold by Lillian Clark rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc..
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Seller's Description:
Fine. Inscribed copy. Written by Irma Rombauer's daughter Marion, this is a wonderfully personal and charming history of the genesis and growth of the cookbook. It includes many intimate details of Starkloff-Rombauer family history, excerpts from reviews and from the many exuberant fan letters, an afterword by Cecily Brownstone, and many sepia illustrations of the people, places, book covers that make up the story. This little work also contains the stirring words from Marion on the independence from endorsements this monumental family enterprise would maintain: "Of the multitudinous ingredients in Joy the uniquely priceless one is its makers' integrity. In this era of tie-ins, imaginary corporation-cooks, and experts who turn out culinary compendiums with a tell-tale accent on foil or oil, we have, from the start, insisted on keeping Joy personalized, critical, detached, uncommitted. We have become masters – and mistresses – of the polite but firm turn-down." And she adds, from the final words of the Dedication in the 1963 Joy: "We...will continue to keep the Joy a family affair, as well as an enterprise in which the authors owe no obligation to anyone but themselves – and to you. "A gift to the Booksellers at their June, 1966 meeting in Washington, D.C. from The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. A Subsidiary of Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc., Indianapolis – New York – Kansas City." 61 unnumbered pages, 1 blank leaf. Inscribed by the author. Ivory wraps with cover illustration of an acorn. Large oak leaf illustration embossed blind on front blank. Slight tanning of spine else a fine copy, the best we have seen.; Illustrated; Square 8vo; 61 pages.
