Signed copy of the 1952 revised edition. Patterned blue cloth hardcover, 1011 pp., index, including 4000 recipes, 150 line drawings by the author's daughter Marion Rombauer Becker. Signed and inscribed on the ffe "For Marion Dickey - with the best of wishes, most cordially, Irma S. Rombauer." With a heavily worn and torn partial dj, wear and light staining to the cloth binding especially upper spine, corners bumped, otherwise a very good and uncommon signed copy of a book seldom found in good condition and one of the few cookbooks to have transcended its place as a culinary collectible into the ranks of important Americana.

"The Joy of Cooking" has been in print continuously since 1936 and has sold more than 20 million copies. First published privately during 1931 by Irma S. Rombauer, a homemaker in St. Louis, Missouri, after her husband's suicide the previous year, beginning in 1936, the book was published by a commercial printing house, the Bobbs-Merrill Company. With nine editions, it is considered the most popular American cookbook.