As American in origin as the totem pole, the cookie jar was born in the 1920s, grew up in the 1940s, and became highly collectible in the 1980s. Relying on more than 2,000 color photographs, Mike Schneider presents a visual and textual history of this unique kitchen art form in the largest and most thoroughly detailed work ever published on cookie jars. In addition to American pottery cookie jars, imported jars are covered, along with jars made of...