Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent by Farmer, Fannie M - 1909

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1909. Octavo (19.5 x 13.25 cm.), 289, [16] pages. Advertisements. Photographically illustrated. Fourth Edition. Originally issued in 1904. while best known for The Boston Cooking School Cookbook, Fannie Farmer had more than a passing acquaintance with issues of health, convalescence and medicine. Farmer suffered a debilitating stroke following high school, and struggled for years to regain her mobility. After her studies at the Boston Cooking School she took summer courses at the Harvard Medical School, where she later would lecture. The school she founded under her own name, Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, developed special equipment for the invalid or convalescent. Previous owner's name to front endpaper, and "Seneca Falls" penciled to rear paste down, otherwise very good in publisher's decorated green cloth. In the scarce dust jacket, with edgewear and some loss to the foot of the spine and a small chip in the center of the back panel. Rare in the dust jacket. [Axford page 162; Wheaton & Kelly 2085; Cagle 248 (all citing the first edition); Bitting, page 153 (later edition)].