"THE FIRST COOKING GUIDE TO FEATURE PRIZE-WINNING FAIR RECIPES": SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THE STATE FAIR BLUE RIBBON COOK BOOK
HURLEY, Lois J.; GROETZINGER, Isabelle J. The State Fair Blue Ribbon Cook Book. New York: Frederick Fell, (1950). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition, first printing of Hurley and Groetzinger's collection of “the treasured secrets of America's finest cooks—more than 250 pages of blue ribbon prize-winning recipes from state fairs” (Publisher’s Weekly), in scarce dust jacket.
Considered "the first cooking guide to feature prize-winning fair recipes" (Milwaukee Journal), Hurley and Groetzinger's State Fair Blue Ribbon Cook Book contains "the treasured secrets of America's finest cooks—more than 250 pages of blue ribbon prize-winning recipes from state fairs" (Publisher's Weekly). It is "more than a cookbook… a bit of Americana with its history, color and feeling of the state fair" (New York Public Library). "First Printing June 1950" on copyright page. With illustrations by H. Lawrence Hoffman.
Book fine; light edge-wear, minor tape reinforcement to verso of colorful extremely good dust jacket.