The Mary Frances' First Cook Book

Washington DC: Jane Eayre Fryer (Self Published), 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Color paste-down front cover illustration. . 175 pages. 24 x 17 cm. This particular copy is a bit of an anomaly - from what we can gather, since this was a self published book, there are two different covers. Also, the title varies - our previous copies were titled: "The Mary Frances Cook Book. An adventurous book within a book. Young Mary Frances is enchanted by her friends, the Kitchen People, who explain the mysterious secrets of the kitchen. Lovely anthropomorphic kitchen utensils bring the reader along for this charming adventure with recipes included. Full page illustrations by Margaret G. Hays, other illustrations by Jane Allen Boyer. First edition thus; previously self-published. Clean, crisp interior. Blue cloth boards rubbed and soiled, rubbed at edges. [BROWN 426].