DAVID (E). GUTTUSO (R), illus.: Italian Food, Drawings by Renato Guttuso. [Second Impression]. THE AUTHOR'S THIRD BOOK , Macdonald, [1954]

8vo., Second Impression, with a frontispiece and 9 full-page illustrations in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original blue cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. Published three months after the first edition. DAVID'S THIRD BOOK AND THE LAST OF THE CLASSIC TRILOGY THAT CHANGED THE NATURE OF ENGLISH COOKERY FOR EVER. Dedicated to Viola and Arthur Johnson, the third book of David's classic trilogy brought an entirely novel world of taste, ingredients and cookery to a ration-oriented and culinary sombre Britain still in the aftermath of WWII. Very scarce in anything like this condition. (Book ref. 19691)  £180.00

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