Sale 20DF01 | Lot 55

[COOKBOOKS] Group of approximately fifty cookbooks from the author's personal kitchen library.

Catalogue: Collection of Dorothea Benton Frank
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[COOKBOOKS] Group of approximately fifty cookbooks from the author's personal kitchen library.

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Lot 55
[COOKBOOKS] Group of approximately fifty cookbooks from the author's personal kitchen library.
Various publishers, dates and formats. Original bindings of issue, most in dust jackets, worn overall.
Includes Southern Plate, Crabtree and Evelyn Cookbook, From Blacktie to Blackeyed Peas, The Gone with the Wind Cookbook, At Home Charleston. Includes five Dorothea Benton Frank library bookplates.

Many of Dottie's books include passages referencing family meals which were such a part of her South Carolina upbringing. Always one for exacting detail, Dottie's personal collection of cookbooks served as reference for the dishes in her novels and also as the foundations for her own dinner parties.


C The Collection of Dorothea Benton Frank

Estimate: $200 - $300
Sold for $250 (includes buyer's premium)

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Estimate: $200 - $300
Sold for $250 (includes buyer's premium)
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Collection of Dorothea Benton Frank

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