A TRULY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE JOY OF COOKING (1931) IN THE EXTREMELY RARE PICTORIAL DUST JACKET

ROMBAUER, Irma S (1877 – 1962). The Joy of Cooking. A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. 8vo, illustrated by Marion Rombauer, original cloth, pictorial dust jacket. St. Louis, MO.: A. C. Clayton Printing Co., 1931. First edition, privately published by the author in an edition of 3000 copies, and illustrated by the author’s daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker, who also designed the dust jacket depicting St. Martha of Bethany, the patron saint of cooking, who took up a mop to fend off the dragon Tarasque. Irma von Starkloff Rombauer, the daughter of Max von Starkloff, an affluent St. Louis doctor, studied art at Washington University, and enjoyed a brief romance with the writer Booth Tarkington before marrying Edgar Rombauer, a lawyer, in 1899... $40,000.00 (more)