I got my Betty Crocker when I graduated from High School in 1867. Two years ago, I went through it and put the recipes I use all the time in page protectors and stored the rest of it. The covers were gone and some of the index pages. When my daughter got married 11 years ago, she wanted a cookbook like Mom's. HA the ones made then didn't have real recipes in them so we found a 1950 copy and that's what she uses. Her Grandmother talked them down to 50 cents for it! And it's priceless to my daughter!