Washington Women's Cook Book
Seattle, WA: The Washington Equal Suffrage Association, 1909.
First edition, first printing. [viii], 256 pp. Bound in publisher's white coated cloth stamped in orange, with banners reading "Votes for Women / Good Things to Eat." Very Good with light soiling and wear to covers. Light offsetting at endsheets, former owner's name at front free endpaper, toning to contents and rear hinge exposed. A first wave feminist fundraising cook book in support of the suffrage movement dedicated "to the first woman who realized that half of the human race were not getting a square deal, and who had the courage to voice a protest." Includes a number of vegetarian recipes, information on household tips and kitchen science, and a few essays by leaders of the Washington state women's voter movement; uncommon in the trade.
Price: $1,850