Search Results: Ice Cream from Select Tomes

Warner-Jenkins Mfg. Co., St. Louis, 1924. First Edition. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 134 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Illustrated with many b/w photographs and b/w drawings. Prior owner attributions on front free endpaper. A "textbook covering a variety of subjects including bacteriology, chemistry and physics, of which some knowledge is indispensable in modern methods of manufacture." This early primer on the science of ice cream making is rare in part because: "This book will not be broadcast to the trade as the cost is too great, but a copy will be mailed free to any of our customers applying for one. A charge of $1.00 will be made if a second copy is wanted. To all those who are not on our books as customers, the price is $2.00."

Loyless Publishing Co., Atlanta, Georgia, 1927. Hardcover. First Edition. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 158 pp. with deckled top and outer edge. Text lightly sunned typical of age and materials used. Clean and unmarked. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Paper label attached to front pastedown indicating "C. D. Dahle's Manual for Ice Cream Makers, published by Ice Cream Field, National Journal. The National Magazine of the Ice Cream Industry." The author served as an associate professor of dairy manufactures, Pennsylvania State College. This book was "designed principally for the small manufacturer, and the men in the mixing and freezing departmens of ice cream factories. It is written in simple language and is practically devoid of theory and technical terms." Rare to find a copy in this condition.

Herman Gratz, Philadelphia PA, 1912. Hardcover. Revised Second Edition stated. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 92 pp includes seven pages of supplement added to "keeping up with the progress made in the ice cream trade." Text block clean, unmarked and lightly sunned typical of age and materials used. No prior owner attribution. A small chip marks the front spine near the top head. The book covers "explaining the freezing process, the handling of ice and salt, the keeping of ice cream...in fact everything for a man in the ice cream business worth knowing." Few copies of this 1912 version are known to exist.

The Olsen Publishing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1927. Hardcover. First Edition. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 136 pp including seven full pages of advertising in back. Text clean and lightly sunned typical of age and materials used. Prior ownership attribution and formula notes on front free endpapers. Professor Baer served as Head of Department of Dairy Husbandry, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, School of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station, Stillwater, Okalahoma.