The People’s Home Library: A Library of Three Practical Books

The People’s Home Library: A Library of Three Practical Books is a non-fiction compilation published in 1923 by Oceanic Publishing, featuring The People’s Home Medical Book by T.J. Ritter, The People’s Home Recipe Book by Alice Gitchell Kirk, and The People’s Home Stock Book by W.C. Fair. This large, leather-bound volume served as a practical guide for the everyday home, containing advice from ordinary people worldwide, and a copyright for the collection was first granted to its compiler, R.C. Barnum, in 1910.

Publisher: The Oceanic Publishing Company
Date Published: 1923
Book Condition: Good hardcover with minor surface wear, edge wear and corner bumping to boards.The marbled pastedowns and endpapers are clean and unmarked.There was a binding fault and page 11 and 12 follow on to page 29 and 30 and show creasing and a closed tear to outer edges. All other pages are in the correct sequence. There is minor tanning to the text block edges, with thumb notch at side foredge for easy access to individual books, speckled foredges, hardcover with leather binding. Otherwise, a good copy for age.