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Reference Works on Collectible Cookbooks

A curated list of price guides, bibliographies, and collectors' guides relating to cookbooks and recipe literature. Most of these titles are out of print — search ABEBooks or Biblio for used copies.

Allen, Colonel Bob — A Guide to Collecting Cookbooks: A History of People, Companies and Cooking
1998. Collector Books. 213 pages.
Barile, Mary — Cookbooks Worth Collecting
1993. Wallace-Homestead Book Co. 232 pages.
Dickinson, Linda J. — Price Guide to Cookbooks and Recipe Leaflets
1990. Collector Books. 190 pages. Prices updated in 1997.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 listings.
Dusablon, Mary Anna — America's Collectible Cookbooks: The History, the Politics, the Recipes
1994. Ohio University Press. 229 pages.
Norman, Sandra J. and Andes, Karrie K. — Vintage Cookbooks and Advertising Leaflets
1998. Schiffer Publishing.
A pictorial review and price guide with over 850 colour photographs of cookery pamphlets and advertising memorabilia from the 1860s to the 1950s.
Quayle, Eric — Old Cook Books: An Illustrated History
This list was originally compiled for Littera Scripta, my long-gone but not forgotten reference site for book collectors and booksellers. Additions and corrections are welcome — get in touch.