1975 edition of Joy of Cooking (Palo Alto, near Cal Ave)

For a cook book, this book is in good shape. I have great sentimental attachment to this book because it's the book that I used to learn how to cook when I was ages six through twelve. This is the copy I bought for myself as a teen. I haven't cooked out of it in decades, so almost all of the pages are in good shape. The one that has a lot of "evidence of cooking" is the section on meatballs. But the binding on this book was made with the understanding that it was going to get a lot of hard use and was designed to last.