Hiltz Mary Moxon (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 145pp incl index. Green cloth. 7th ed. Binding tight and square; light rubbing along edges; text clean and unmarked. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. [Fifth Revised Edition, Revised]. pp. 133 + index. 12mo., measuring 5" x 7.5". Publisher's textured green cloth over boards, black borders and lettering to the front board. Scarce offering of this, the fifth revised edition, of this remarkably sophisticated early Canadian culinary title (having previously been published as "The Country Cook or the M.A.C. Cook Book" [1922]). Comprises of a rich selection of recipes as compiled by Hiltz & Moxon with sections devoted to: Beverages, Fruits, Vegetables, Canning, Pickling, Preserving, Cereals, Milk, Cheese, Eggs, Soups, Meats, Poultry, Fish and Meat Sauces, Flour Mixtures, Cakes, Doughnuts, Cookies and Small Cakes, Pastry, Salads, Dressings, Sandwiches, Entrees, Luncheon, Supper Dishes, Desserts and Sauces, Candy Making, Recipes for Fifty Servings, Invalid Cookery, etc. Condition: Rubbing to the cloth extremities, light bumping to the spine ends and tips, shaken, front endpapers split at joint revealing mull beneath (bindings remains sound), regrettably lacking the title page, light occasional spotting to some pages (otherwise, quite clean and unmarked). Overall, good. This edition unrecorded in OCLC. No holdings of the fifth revised edition could be located at Fisher, McGill, Guelph, LAC/BAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, et al. Scarce in commerce. Corresponds to Driver's Citation M37.5 (p. 950), wherein, she notes of the authors: "Both Hiltz and Moxon were from Nova Scotia. A photograph of the two women, in a faculty group picture, is in Ec-Ho: Home Economics Annual 1950, University of Manitoba, 1950, p 8. Both were founding members of the Canadian Home Economics Association in 1939 (We Are Tomorrow's Past, pp 35). Mary Hiltz was a native of Dartmouth. After teaching school for over four years at Mill Village and Dartmouth, she took a one-year course at the Macdonald Institute in Guelph, Ontario, earning a Household Science Teacher Certificate in June 1914 (Entrance Record, Registration No. 1866, at OGU). She then taught at Kamsack HighSchool in Saskatchewan and worked for the Saskatchewan Department of Education as an itinerant teacher of home economics, mainly in non-English-speaking school districts (see Peterat/DeZwart, pp 556, regarding Hiltz's work in the Ruthenian settlements, establishing hotlunch programs as a means of cultural transmission). After receiving her BS degree in 1920 from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, she joined the Department of Household Science at the Manitoba Agricultural College. She retired from the University of Manitoba in 1955. Mary Moxon was from Truro. After a two-year course at the Macdonald Institute in Guelph, she graduated with a Domestic Science Teacher Certificate in June 1916, with the highest standing of any student to date (Entrance Record, Registration No. 2004, notes her marks). She taught at the high school in Truro and was an instructor in household science at Truro's Normal College. In 1919 she began teaching at the Manitoba Agricultural College. She helped to revise the public school home economics curriculum for the Manitoba Department of Education. She retired in 1952." [Source: Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825-1949. University of Toronto Press (2008)].

Hardcover. Seventh Revised Edition. pp. 145. 12mo (19x14 cm). Bound in green cloth with black lettering to spine and front board. No detectable flaws, contents clean and unmarked; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed dustjacket showing a few chips along the top of the front panel. Overall, very good+. In the preface to the Seventh Edition the authors state, "In this seventh edition of the Cook Book we have added certain recipes which we hope will be of service to any student of home economics." A scarce and important prairie Canadian cookbook. See Driver, M37.6. At time of cataloguing this title does not appear amongst the holdings at PEEL or L.A.C.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 133 pages. Light rubbing; stain to cloth and top edge at head of spine; last four leaves with faint green tideline to that corner from bleeding. Two student inscriptions to front free endpaper [Provincial Normal School, Nova Scotia]; else unmarked. Binding is sound. 7.5 x 5.3 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 7th Edition. Green cloth hardcover, black titles on front board and spine, it is rubbed on all extremities and lightly soiled. . The binding is firm but pulling away from the spine. The endpapers and pages until the contents are lightly soiled and age-toned. The rest of the pages are clean.