Adie ballantyne (5 risultati)

Condizione: Good. 1945. Third Impression. 84 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Mild water staining to rear board. Boards are mildly warped.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo. 84 pp., illus. Some light edgewear, else a very nice copy. Everything you need to know about the post-war English kitchen.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 8vo,first edition,pp,84, illustrated, lightly toned blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and top cover, uncommon.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition. 8 b/w plates plus b/w diagrams and illustrations. Drawings by J.W. Butler, plans by the author. Blue cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Binding firm. A little white damp staining to front outer edge and back top corner. Toning to endpapers. Content generally clean with occasional marks. Jacket clipped to all four corners, priced at 5/- net, losses to spine ends, tears and creasing to edges, some staining to front and back panels. Not ex-library. No labels, names, notes nor inscriptions. 84 pp. Scarce book especially with jacket. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked. J.W. Butler (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First edition. A six-volume collection of mid-century British cookery and domestic works, with four first editions and original dust wrappers, reflecting evolving home tastes from the 1930s to 1960s. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, complete with the original dust wrappers.Three dust wrappers are unclipped.Four of these volumes are the first editions.This is a six-volume collection of works that reflect the evolving tastes and needs of home cooks from the 1930s to the 1960s, with contributions from notable food writers of the period, consisting of:Round the World with an Appetite by Molly Castle (1936) This volume is a first edition. This copy is alively and anecdotal culinary travelogue exploring global cuisine through a British lens. Choose Your Kitchen by Adie Ballantyne (1944) This volume is a first edition, illustrated with two monochrome photographic plates. collated and complete. This is a practical guide to designing and equipping an efficient wartime kitchen. Cooking for One by Marjorie Baron Russell (1946) This volume is a first edition. This volume is acompact and practical cookbook offering simple, economical meals tailored for solo households. Hungarian Cooking by Elisabeth de Biro, edited by Katalin Frank (1952). This volume is the second edition, offering an accessible introduction to traditional Hungarian cuisine, translated and adapted for English-speaking cooks. Home Baking Recipe Book by Ivan Baker (1957). This is a comprehensive and reliable collection of baking recipes for the home cook.The Plain Man"s Guide to Wine by Raymond Postgate (1963). This volume is the eleventh impression, revised and brought up to date in December 1963; includes a frontispiece map of the Bordeaux wine area. This is a clear and practical guide to understanding and enjoying wine. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, generally very smart. Bookplate from "Martin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique" to front free endpapers. Small bookseller"s label to front paste down of "Choose". Previous owner"s small inscription to front paste down of "Cooking for One", to front free endpaper of "Choose". Slight offsetting with the odd spot to endpapers. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Dust wrappers, generally smart. Dust wrapper of "Plain Man"s Guide", "Choose Your Kitchen" and "Around the World" clipped. Tape reinforcements to extremities of "Home Baking", with spine faded, and rings of damp staining to rear wrap, chipping and tearing heavier to this wrap. The odd small chip and closed tear, more so to older copies. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Slight age toning, one or two spots and handling marks, heavier to fore edges and first and last few leaves of older copies. Very Good Indeed. Various (illustratore). book.…