The American Frugal Housewife. Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy. Twelfth Edition. Enlarged and Corrected by the Author de Child, Mrs. (Lydia Maria Francis Child), 1802-1880

Chapman Billies, 1833. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston: Applewood Books. VG. nd. Reprint. First published in 1828, an extremely popular 19th century manual for homemakers, interesting recipes & remedies, advice . on parenting & myriad responsibilities of housekeeping put forth in straightforward, no-nonsense Yankee prose. Fading toward spine edge. .

Sandwich, MA: Chapman Billies, Inc, 2005. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. 130p. Facsimile reprint. A small orange hardcover book in very good condition. Price sticker scuff on front cover. Owner's stamps on endpapers. Otherwise clean and tight. Facsimile of 12th edition from 1833. Measures approx. 7.5" x 4.25

Worthington, Ohio: The Friends of the Libraries of Ohio State University, 1985. 1st Edition thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 5300 shelf. Smaller beige bds, small sticker ghost front cover. Long 1988 gift note FEP. Clean text. No cooking stains. No dust jacket. "Enlarged and collected by the author." Foreword: Mary Louise Baker. Facsimile of the 1832 edition pub. by Carter, Hendee, Boston. Index.

Chapman Billies, 1833-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, No 261 Pearl Street, 1838. Octavo (18.5 x 11 cm.), 128 pages. Publisher's advertisements to rear boards. Styled "twenty second edition, enlarged and corrected by the author" on both the title-page and the printed boards [actual 4th edition, 12th printing]. Originally published as The Frugal Housewife (Boston, 1828) with an explanation of the change on the copyright page. The change was made so as to avoid confusion with Susannah Carter's British work of the same name and with an earlier origin. Light foxing throughout. A few individual leaves pulling; shaken and separating at rear hinge. Pencil scribbles to final page of Index and rear blanks. In printed sugar paper-covered boards, edgeworn, over tan cloth. Good only, but wholly original. [OCLC locates twenty-one copies; Bitting, page 86 (various printings); Cagle 153; Lowenstein 212].