Emma Jane's Souvenir Cook Book and Some Old Virginia Recipes.
Williamsburg, Va. Privately Published, 1937.
Octavo, stapled in wrappers (24 x ?? cm.), 87 pages. Additional unpaginated leaves for "Additional Recipes" throughout. Photographically illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Emma Jane. FIRST EDITION. Emma Jane's narrative and story in the first thirteen pages, with additional stories and anecdotes for selected recipes throughout. "This classic stapled and folded book of one hundred fifty standard recipes collected by a white woman on behalf of her black cook is the best example of the worst practice in cookbook publishing - mocking the chef." (Tipton-Martin's The Jemima Code, page 50). Small, light stains to bottom edge of text block, otherwise internally clan and sound. In publisher's green, yapped wrappers, titled in black. Small chip (about 1 cm. square) to upper right corner of front wrapper panel; Some chipping to spine and wear to edges. Near very good. [OCLC locates twenty-seven copies; Tipton-Martin's Jemima Code, page 50].
Price: $300.00