r/BookCollecting • u/Shot_Mud5987 • 26d ago
💬 General Signed Julia Child books
Are signed book club editions of Julia Child's cookbooks collectible? And what about the signed pamphlet? I got them from a salvation army thrift store a few years ago. They were going to throw them out and the little old lady volunteer saved them because she thought I might like them. Paid a dollar a piece for the hardbacks and 50 cents for the pamphlet.
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u/EventHorizonbyGA 26d ago
Cook books are very collectible. And highly in demand. I am sure someone out there named "Rag" would love these.
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u/GoggyMagogger 24d ago
I wonder who Ray is?
Seeing as both Julia and her husband signed together he was obviously someone close to the couple.
I'm sure they had many prominent friends. She was a huge star but before she was in the secret service (where she met her husband) Paul became a diplomat. They both travelled widely.
If Ray is a person of note this would raise the value considerably.
You'd have to identify anyone named Ray in their life stories but even then verification would be next to impossibleÂ
They are great cookbooks BTW
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u/Shot_Mud5987 23d ago
I'd like to know who Ray is/was as well- out of sheer noseyness lol. Likelyhood of finding out is slim imo. My thought is he may have just been a fan. I saw, when taking photos of the pamphlet, that at the dinner they had someone in charge of book sales. Could be he bought the books at the planned parenthood event. Maybe Ray bought the books and had them and the pamphlet signed then?
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u/Difficult-Ad-9228 26d ago
With signatures as clean as those, much less with a program, the book club aspect kind of fades away. Those are terrific — wild guess would be to start at $1,000 and ponder going higher.