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Leavenworth: Crew & Bro, 1888. Hardcover. Good. Fifth Edition, Thirteenth Thousand. Octavo: 317 p. with advertisements at the front and rear. The original black cloth binding has been recased with the original spine laid down and some restoration to the gilt titles on the front panel. Holographic recipes ("Graham Pudding" and "Coffee Ice", for example) appear on several of the blank leaves inserted periodically within the text. Mild toning and occasional staining to the contents, with negligible creasing to the top corner of a small number of leaves. The boards are a bit rubbed along the extremities. Brown 1086. First published in 1874, and long believed to be the first cookbook published in Kansas, The Kansas Home Cook-Book was actually the second: it followed The Ladies Floral Calendar and Household Receipt Book (Lawrence, 1868). Both were part of what food historian Janice Bluestein Longone calls "the trickle of early books published in the 1860s and 1870s [that] quickly became a flood that… Read More