Would you keep bidding even if the price keeps creeping up for a second hand cookbook?

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I have this cookbook called The Dairy Book of home baking, i love it but it's getting really old with pages stuck together but i love it. I found another on Ebay in very good condition so put a bid on it but someone keeps out bidding me and so the price is creeping up and up. Would you keep bidding or just wait and see until another book appears on Ebay?

I don't want to end up paying way more than i should for a second hand cookbook.

Oh and they don't sell these books in the shops. My mother got mine years ago from the milkman around 1992.

Put in the maximum price you are prepared to bid, and walk away. Come back after the end of the auction to see if you won or not. Don't sit there watching, ramping up the bids by 50p a time -- that's how people get sucked into paying three times the new price for a Primark top, or whatever.

Thanks speccy, i will do that.

And if you do find, one, tell me - mine has fragmented but I still love it so!

Well i just checked again and it says i have been outbid again and it's up to £8.50 so i am not going to bother bidding again. There's still another 12hrs to go and it will probably be double that by the end. I am sure another will crop up soon.

jaynehater you have one too! Aren't they just the best old cookbook!

I think i had that one. Pretty sure i put it in the charity shop a while ago though!

I used to do what frogs says - I now mostly big the way Speccy says. Either works.

Is it the Dairy book of home baking? Or home cookery?

Book of home baking doesn't seem to exist. Home cookery is all over the place, lots on ebay and elsewhere. There's even a new edition, which apparently has all the old recipes plus some microwave stuff.

Mine is home cookery. And it's got everything. When I can't find a recipe anywhere, even for something relatively basic, it'll be in the DHC! And it's yellow. It just looks loveable (Well, not mine, it foul now, I get a bit excitable with my batters and mixes and it always comes out worse for wear..) Love mine. Am I rambling??

here it is in hardback at amazon, starting at £7.

There are nine of them on ebay.

And there's the new edition, too.

Yeah sorry it's home cookery.

It's the 90s version i love. There are 2 on ebay now, the latest having 8 days to run so i shall not bid yet.

nothing wrong with a recipe book being old and sticky so long as you can still use it.

Just keep your eyes open for another cheap copy over the next 20yrs so you can give DD/DS one when they leave home.

(the microwave steamed sponge pudding from the Dairy Book is DH's favourite pudding in the whole world and takes about 5min)

also, have a look on abebooks.co.uk - some things can be far cheaper on there than on eBay.

And no, there's nothing wrong with paying for a book you love - I speak as someone who has paid, um, well over £40 for a book I really wanted (it's out of print, and so good that everyone who bought it never ever wants to get rid of it, or so it seems!)

Oh, well, you can get a new copy from amazon!

The Amazon copy is cheaper than the ebay one you were bidding on, I think ...

have just had a look - they're starting at £3.50, but I don't know which edition you want. Here's the search:

www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?tn=dairy+home+cookery&sortby=3&sts=t&y=0&x=0

I didn't realise how many people thinks this book is fab!

Hey-I've got this book.I just found it in the kitchen.I've never used it and have been tempted to charity shop it many times,but always thought that it might come in useful one day.

I shall have to try it out now.My personal favourite is the BERO book of home baking.My copy is disintergrating fast.