National Yeast Co. Cook Book. Established 1870, Daily Production 12 Tons. Depots New York, Boston, Troy, Detroit, Chicago & St. Louis. Factory at Seneca Falls.]

[Seneca Falls, New York: the company, 1887].

Machine sewn booklet (15.5 x 9 cm.), 47 & [1] pages. Title from cover; date from calendar (page [48]). FIRST EDITION. An attractive promotional cookbook, with recipes for griddle cakes, biscuits, and breads, as one might expect, but also for Boston & Maine Railroad pie, “sick room” & invalid recipes, and quite a few recipes requiring no yeast at all. Pictorial sewn stiff paper wrapper in color (lithographed by L. Ottmann, New York); some light edgewear, small scuff at verso of the upper wrap and first page of text obscuring a few words, text age-toned. Good or better. [OCLC locates four copies].

Price: $90.00

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