Featured I HAVE AN OLD FANNIE FARMER COOKBOOK IN HORRIBLE CONDITION, WAS JUST

Wondering if it had any value by way of interest, as I don't think the condition rates it as being financially worth much of ANYTHING......I know there are a couple of you young ladies out there interested in cookbooks who might offer some input?? THANK YOU SO MUCH as ALWAYS!!!









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@pearlsnblume !

 

i would think a cook, would still like it for the contents..

 

LOL, AJ, I was going to flag her too!

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I think Aqui is just asking if it has any value.

 

LAUGHS, THANKS AJ!
Deleting my post now! *smiles+waves*

 

Deleted the quote in my post too.

 

Let me take a look see if I can find the same year. And I will let ya know.
It can always be sold as a tattered book if nothing else.

 

I doubt it's worth much as a collectible. As an Old Reliable on the other hand it's priceless.

 

I took a fast look and found one sold on etsy in a bit better shape for $20
https://www.etsy.com/listing/557642...how_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

I am by no means an expert. I sold a book falling apart not too long ago, Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook that was printed during war time. Not for a lot of $$ tho.

I know that did not help much but to me cookbooks are history and it is always a shame to see them so beaten up like that. But time is not kind to cookbooks that get used a lot by homemakers.

The Settlement Cookbooks (the old ones) really fall apart and yet they sell. But not for much.
I am rambling.
Whatever you decide much good luck.

 

Here is another one that is currently on etsy
https://www.etsy.com/listing/927943...-boston-cooking?ref=shop_home_active_98&frs=1

 

Looks like Aqui's copy is the first printing of the second edition (completely revised). Due to the condition I don't think it has much value as a collectible. However, as mentioned by others, the recipes, and the number of others others of that edition that are available, will factor into a selling price.

I do like cookbooks. Not being an actual collector I would accept any edition if I like the recipes. I am squeamish about condition, though. Unless it had been owned by my own grandmother or something like that.

 

Thank You ALL!!!! Due to the condition, I honestly didn't think there was much of ANY value....just in looking through it could see it wasn't any first edition!

Interesting!! The second one you found isn't in a whole lot better shape than mine!!! But I don't have any venue I sell on, anyway!! But that looks like a decent price!!! AND now I don't remember where the heck I put it....but it can't be too far............I did those pictures before I banged my head!!!

 

Yeahwell.

I buy beat-up old cookbooks but I hoard those for myself. I like the ones with handwriting all over them, preferably two or more peoples'. There's one sitting here in Swedish that someone got about when Titanic sank. I can't read the recipes, but the flyleaves are covered in pictures, writing, and glued-in bits that make it as much a historic document as a cookbook.