The 1946 edition of this classic cookbook, sometimes called the Post-war edition, is an update of the 1943 War-time edition. Today The Joy of Cooking is the most popular and best-selling cookbook in American history, with nearly eighteen million copies sold to-date. It is the only cookbook to be included in the New York Public Library's list of 150 Influential Books of the Century. A good, clean copy in the gingham-patterned, light blue cloth.

Hardcover, 884 pages. Cover and pages are clean. Minor wear along the interior of the binding. No dust jacket.