Vintage 1942 Cross Creek Cookery Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Scribner Hardcover

This 1942 hardcover edition of Cross Creek Cookery by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings brings together food, place, and literary history. Published by Scribner, the book reflects the author’s life in rural Florida through recipes and commentary rooted in the landscape and traditions surrounding Cross Creek.

Vintage regional cookbooks are appealing both for their recipes and for the social history preserved in their ingredients, methods, and storytelling. Rawlings’s literary reputation gives this volume added interest for collectors of Southern writing, Florida history, and classic American food books.

Display it in a kitchen library, pair it with a copy of Cross Creek, or give it to a reader who enjoys regional cooking and literary memoir. The surviving dust-jacket flap noted in the inventory should be photographed and described clearly as part of the book’s history.

Details:
Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Publisher: Scribner
Year: 1942
Format: Hardcover
Dust-jacket flap retained inside the book

Condition:
Pre-owned vintage condition with expected wear consistent with an early-1940s cookbook. The boards and spine may show rubbing, edge wear, fading, or small marks, while the pages may have age toning, foxing, cooking-related spots, or handling wear. A detached dust-jacket flap is retained inside the book as noted. Binding stability, recipe and page completeness, and any writing, annotations, stains, or ownership marks should be confirmed. Please review the photographs for the condition of the cover, spine, page block, interior, and retained jacket flap.