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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Globe, AZ. 1972. Softcover/Trade Wraps/Plastic Comb binding. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to tips, corners, and edges. No DJ. Printed card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is secure in binding. Cameo cutout on front wrap with picture guard laid in. Brown plastic comb is unbroken. 71 pp 8vo. These recipes were collected by Mrs. Grierson during her husband's military career (1862-1888) and used to some extent at the many postings he had until her death in 1888. During a posting to Fort Davis Texas the family obtained some ranch land there and this is where the cookbook came to light in 1935. The book was a hodge podge of handwritten recipes, newspaper clippings, and recipes from friend and relatives pasted into a book format. Over 100 recipes in this book were selected and tested by National Park wives. Mrs. Grierson's recipe is listed first and the modern adaptation and method of preparation below. Her recipes reflect the ingenuity of a frontier wife for substitutes when certain ingredients were unavailable. Also included are some home remedies and housekeeping hints from the 1880s. A clean very presentable copy. Etta M. Koch (illustratore).…

Spiralbound. Reprint. Fourth printing [stated]. 72 p. Illustrations. Background Materials and quotation sources. Index. The original cookbook was donated to the Fort Davis National Historic Site in 1968, it has been in the possion of George Griersion the youngest of the author's children. The original work contained approximately 600 recipies, only a portion of which are included in the present work. National Park Service wives and their friends tested over one hundred recipies and noted the preparation procedures. In this edition Mrs. Grierson's recipe is printed first, and underneath the modern adaptation and method of preparation is provided. Good. Sticker removed from title page leaving scuff. Plastic sheet between front cover and title page. Pencil erasure residue on t-p. Koch, Etta M. (illustratore).…

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hard. Condizione: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, inscription on front endpaper, light shelf wear and rubbing to boards. Size: 16mo.