Collector's Guide To Cookbooks: Identification & Values

by Frank Daniels

Check out Collector Books' brand new guide to cookbooks. Over 600 color photographs and 2,000 listings of cookbooks are presented, along with title, publisher, date, availability, and current collector value. The book is organized chronologically and a handy index is provided -- so if you know either the date or the name of the cookbook, you'll be able to find it easily. The Culinary Institute of Chicago, General Mills (Betty Crocker), Pillsbury, and many other major companies are featured, from 1880 to the 1980s. A scarcity index is provided, indicating the relative difficulty in locating a particular item. General as well as regional volumes are included. Collector's Guide to Cookbooks needs to be on your bookshelf! 2005 values.

221 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Max Gretinski]

I wrote it, so naturally, I enjoyed it.
Rather than merely include the books that are in my own collection, my effort was to chronicle some of the larger publishers of cookbooks -- up through 1969.