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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket (as issued). First Edition. 1st Printing. 1911. Nice Clean Firm copy ! Light general wear. Previous owner name. 410 pages. Board cloth is blue apron gingham, smart ivory Japanese paper paste-down outlined in green, title in red, beautiful green and red trellised rose vine hugging a red cup of coffee sitting on a red handled service plate. Matching title/author paper label on spine. Top page ends gold gilt, other page ends rough-cut. 35 canapes, 100 simple soups, 50 ways to cook shell-fish, 60 ways to cook fish, 150 ways to cook meat and poultry, 20 ways to cook potatoes, 150 ways to cook other vegetables, 30 simple sauces, 150 salads, simple desserts, 365 dinner menus, additional recipes. Olive Green is the pseudonym of Chicagoan Myrtle Reed (1874-1911), a famous romance author. 'Lavender and Old Lace' is the most well-known today. She produced 17 books, innumerable household columns (under another pseudonym, Katherine LaFarge Norton) and the ten cookery volumes in the Putnam's Homemaker Series during her short 13 year writing career. Unfortunately, Myrtle Reed suffered her whole life with bouts of depression and ultimately committed suicide despite her roaring publishing success. 6113.…