FRENCH COOKING.
London. Park Lane Press / M. & S.. 1978.. Recipes from all the regions of France. Stocks, sauces, soups, hors d'oeuvre, entrees, pates, souffles, omelettrs, fish, shellfish, meat, poultry. game, vegetables, plus desserts, cakes, biscuits etc. Recipes illustrated with colour photographs. 224 pages. Near fine, no inscription or marks. Cover near fine, but bottom of spine slightly rubbed. D./w. near fine but slightly worn on corners. 28.5cm. x 21.5cm. (Book ref. 6616) £6.00
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THE BABEES BOOK, Aristotle’s A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans Puer and Mensam, The Lytille Childrenes Lytil Boke, The Bokes of Nurture of Hugh Rhodes and John Russell, Wynkyn de Worde’s Boke of Keruynge, The Book of Demeanor, The Boke of Curtasye, Seager’s Schoole of Vertue, &c. &c. with some French & Latin Poems on like Subjects, and some Forewords on Education in Early England.
Early English Text Society 1868. cxxxvi + 405pp. + 132pp. + [i]. 16 plates. Foxed, marbled e.ps., ex.-Swansea Training College with bookplate, contemporary gilt rule edged half morocco with marbled boards, gilt motifs with gilt ruling and lettering to rubbed spine, minor wear to boards, t.e.g. US$119 (Book ref. 213236) £75.00
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Cuisine Gourmande
Macmillan., 1978. 1st.. Hard Back. VG/VG. 0333242734 448pp. A celebration of nouvelle cuisine. French cookery at its perfectionist best. UNREAD copy in slightly marked d/j, not price clipped. (Book ref. 012246) £12.00
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking: Part 2.
Penguin Books,, 1976. Reprint.. Soft Back. VG.. 0140461191 768pp. Part 2 of of the set about which Caroline Conran said 'It will gladden the heart of all good cooks ... an alchemist's stone which enables any cook to turn base ingredients to gold'. Slight curve to spine o/w VG. (Book ref. 012239) £10.00
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Take 5000 Eggs : Food from the Markets and Fairs of Southern France
Kyle Cathie., 1997. 1st.. Hard Back. VG/VG. 1856262464 192pp. UNREAD copy in unclipped d/j. Traditional southern French cookery on a grand scale. Cookery and travel book in one. (Book ref. 012237) £14.00
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Ou Est Le Garlic
Pengiun Books., 1965. Soft Back. G+. 224pp. French cook book full of advice, methodology and recipes. Cover creased with edge wear but spine show it as unread. (Book ref. 012212) £15.00
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Chez Nous : Home Cooking from the South of France
Harper Collins, 1995. 1st.. Hard Back. VG/VG. 0060172037 303pp. Home cooking from the rural regions of the South of France. (Book ref. 012206) £15.00
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A Table in Provence
Webb & Bower, 1987. 1st.. Hard Back. VG/G++. 0863501303 160pp. A worthy companion to 'A Table in Tuscany'. This time Forbes has put her pen and coloured pencils to describing French provincial cookery. UNREAD copy with foxed d/j. (Book ref. 012200) £5.00
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SIMPLE FRENCH CUISINE From Provence to Languedoc.
London: Faber & Faber. 1990. First edition. 262 pp. |Illustrated by James Baker. Near Fine copy in price-clipped, Near Fine dust-jacket. ISBN 9780571142095 (Book ref. 22431) £10.00
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Menus Made Easy; Or, How to Order Dinner and give theDishes Their French Names;
London, Warne, 1929; Revised & Extended Edit.; 284pp incl. index; Blue dec. covers with gilt title on spine, sm nick bottom; very bright & clean; some foxing & mks on prelims; Good++; DW has portion of bottom front missing, edge wear, grubby; Poor but there!; price 3/6 intact on spine; (Book ref. 2003) £7.00
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French Provincial Cooking.
Cookery Book Club, 1967. Hard Back. VG/VG. 519pp. Invaluable information by THE cookery writer of the 20thC whose knowledge of French cooking was unparalled. Possibly unread copy. (Book ref. 012197) £15.00
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Mediterranean and French Country Food.
Cookery Book Club, 1968. Illustrated by John Minton.. Hard Back. VG/VG. 207pp. A nice copy of a cookery classic. D/j repaired and covered in removeable vinyl film. (Book ref. 012196) £28.00
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Charcuterie and French Cookery
Penguin Books,, 1970. 1st Thus.. Soft Back. VG. 347pp + adverts. Very lightly read vintage manual of how to deal with pork in the French fashion. (Book ref. 012194) £7.00
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Easy French Cookery
London: Cassell & Co Ltd., 1910. Cloth Cover. Good / Fair/No Dustwrapper. 12mo "Containing over 300 edonomical and attractive recipes from a celebrated chef's note-book." 240 pages with the occational smudge / foxing including the English index & French index to recipes. Illustrated with 8 b&wphotographic plates. Tightly bound with endpapers coveredwith ads. for cooking relaed products in light brown cloth covers 7 1/2" tall. Darker rown titles on he front, those on the spine hardly visible, Bird's custard ad on the back. Cover is patchy with stains & colour loss. Small tear in the cloth of the spine. (Book ref. 035904) £10.00
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Mrs. Lucas's French Cookery Book. With Some Additional Hints from English and American Kitchens
London: Christophers, 1929. 1st. Cloth Cover. Very Good/No Dustwrapper. 8vo 231 pages including the index tightly bound in light blue cloth covers, 8" tall, with gilt titles on the spine & embossed titles on the front. (Book ref. 032341) £5.00
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The Art of Simple French Cookery : Paris Bistro Cookery
Macgibbon & Kee for the Cookery Book Club, 1967. Good/Fair. Two books in one, one the " right way around and the other upside-down . Both have indexes in and there is a glossary. Restaurants are listed in the 'Bistro' section. A tight hardback with a few pencilled tick in the text and short notes on the endpapers. The dustwrapper has some tears, has colour rubbed from the edges and has a slightly soiled spine. It has been internally repaired (Book ref. 026849) £5.00
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L'art Du Bien Manger Suivi De L'art De Choisir Les Vins et De Les Servir à Table, D'un Chapitre Spécial, orné De Figures Explicatives Sur Le Découpage, et Denombreux Menus Anciens et Modernes, Illustrés Par rené Binet et Willette Puis Des Aphorismes ..
Editions D'art et De Littérature, 1913. Illustrated by Binet, Rene, Willette Robida, A.. Cloth Covered Hardback. Very Good/No Dustwrapper. 12mo ....Brillat -Savarin en 20 compositions hors texte de A. Robida.. Preface d'Andre Theuriet ... expliques par Gustave Geffroy ... plus de 2000 Recettes. A tight hardback. It has been recased in plain bottle green textured cloth with the original front cover on the new front cover. New plain cream endpapers. Some early and late pages have been professionally washed, backed and repaired. Following the new endpapers, there is a illustaively deorated " ex lbris " page without owner's writing.The next pageis " Note de L'editeur" with on the verso a red and blue "facsimile du manuscript de la Bibliotheque Vaticane ". Ten more pages follow , then an engraved frontispiece opposite the red and black title page. xlvi, an engraved picture pp 1-946 + the publishing page " Acheve D'Imprimer par Ed. Crtee, de Corbeil por Edmond Richardin le 15 novembre 1913. (Book ref. 026678) £80.00
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The French Cheese Book
London, Macmillan, 1989. Tall 8vo, 1st, H/B, d/w VG now protected, xxix, pp522 + apps + index, black cloth boards with gilt title, very clean, foreword by Jane Grigson. VG/VG (Book ref. 788) £75.00
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The French Market : More Recipes from a French Kitchen (1ST EDITION HARDBACK)
Doubleday, 2005 First Edition. Book Condition: Collectible; Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. FINE/FINE 1ST IMPRESSION 1ST EDITION 2005 DOUBLEDAY HARDBACK, UNCLIPPED DJ. SUMPTUOUSLY PRODUCED LARGE HARDBACK, COLOUR PHOTOS THROUGHOUT. LOVELY, GIFT QUALITY, FIRST EDITION HARDBACK. VERY SLIGHT SHELF-RUB TO TOP OF DJ SPINE, ALL ELSE FINE Worldwide Shipping IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Cookery/Gardening/Home; ISBN: 0385608233. Inventory No: 015739. (Book ref. 015739) £16.99
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French Provincial Cooking. Illustrated by Juliet Renny. [Third CBC Edition]
Michael Joseph for the Cookery Book Club, [1967] 8vo., Third Edition thus, with a title-vignette and illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped d/w. David's classic compilation was first published by Joseph in 1960 with a second (substantially revised) edition in 1965. The first Cookery Book Club issue appeared in 1965; the present copy is the third re-issue. (Book ref. 18523) £28.00
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