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Specialità Culinarie Italiane: 137 tested recipes of famous Italian foods. Sold for the benefit of North Bennet's Industrial Training & Social Service Work in the North End of Boston
19367886Boston Mass: North Bennet Street Industrial School 1936. Wire-O metal coil binding 26 x 18.5 cm. 57 7 pages. Index is table of contents. Advertisements. Foreword printed on a separate sheet laid-in at front. Title author and publication data from cover. Date from information in second edition of 1937. FIRST EDITION. A community fundraising cookbook for the benefit of North Bennett Street Industrial School. There is no front matter title page intro etc. and the recipes are not attributed but are drawn from members of the surrounding community Boston's North End. Other fundraising efforts for the school are featured in the advertising section including The Perfection Bottle Rack "made by the unemployed" and an unnamed Spanish olive oil "sold exclusively by the North Bennett Street Industrial School". There is also a full page illustrated ad for Prince Superfine Macaroni. ~ Card stock boards printed in blue and silver; edge wear and pulls at a few wire coils. Ownership inscription "Martha Taylor 98 Chestnut Street". OCLC locates five copies and four copies of the 1937 second edition. North Bennet Street Industrial School hardcover books
