Anonoymous - 'Bestway' Cookery Gift Book. Amalgamated Press, ND. Illustrated with a monochrome picture of each recipe and 3 colour plates. 9" x 7", 158pp plus 3 plates, light blue, printed in dark blue, buckram, hb. Index. Good only, no wrapper. [Order code: 2334 / Price £3.00]
Beeton, Mrs - Mrs Beeton's Every~Day Cookery. Ward, Lock & Co., 'New Edition', ND, 1930s? 8¼" x 5¼", 768pp plus plates, dark brown-green silk-like cloth blocked in black, hb. Index. Illustrated with 16 colour plates and 64 sides of monochrome illustrations. Front bottom corner bumped, faint 'shadow' impression on lower half of front board, very slight wear to head and foot of spine, very slight foxing to edges, slight foxing to first few pages, o/w a nice, clean and sound copy, no wrapper. [Order code: 4685 / Price £20.00]
Cordon Bleu - Winter Puddings. Macdonald and Jane's, 1977 reprint. Illustrated throughtout in colour. 8¾" x 5½", 158pp, laminated illustrated boards, hb. Index. Very good. [Order code: 2819 / Price £4.00]
Dairy - Dairy Diary for the Home 1987. Jarrold. Dairy - Dairy Diary for the Home, 1987 Jarrold/Milk Marketing Board. Contains many recipes and a great deal of houshold information. 8½" x 5¾", 192pp, laminated boards, hardback. Illustrated in colour. Inscription at head of front-free endpper; fine, not used (no wrapper, as issued). [Order code: 15094 / Price £1.00]
Eating - Eating Well in Retirement & Eating Well on a Pension With Cheese. Milk Marketing Board, ND, 1980s? 6" x 8¼", 26pp, card, sb. Fine. [Order code: 4365 / Price £1.50]
Gluck, Malcolm - Superplonk 1995: Gluck's Guide to Supermarket Wine. Faber and Faber. 1994, new edition. 346pp standard paperback. Read, very good plus. Above average. [Order code: 7175 / Price £0.50]
Good - Good Housekeeping Freeser Handbook. Ebury, revised edition, 1983. 9½" x 6¾", 96pp, illustrated card, sb. Index. Illustrated in monochrome and colour. Very good. [Order code: 4119 / Price £1.00]
Jefferson~Brown, Michael - Your Vines and Wines: A Guide to Wine Growing Outside in Britain. Tyneside Enterprises, 1977, 1st. 88pp standard paperback. Index. Ins. on half-titel, centre section loose (8pp), annotation, what appears to be the previous owners wine stock listed on back endpapers, splitting in half (about half-way from bottom of spine), however text is clean. Below average. [Order code: 5723 / Price £0.50] plus post at cost.
Lane, G. R. - G R L's Own Cookery Book: A Man's Book for Every Woman. G. R. Lane School of Confectionery, Gloucester, 2nd edition 1932. The book covers all food, not just confectionery. 'Every Recipe tested by our Experts at the School of Confectionery, Gloucester. Therefore you can rely on every single one' (title-page). 8½" x 5½", 444pp, green 'cloth' covered card, softback. Index. Includes an extensive price list of materials and utensils with many of the utensils illustrated by monochrome drawings within the text. Cover very creased and with a few marks; corner-curling; small (½" x ¼" at worst) ink-blot effecting the edges of pages 93 to 128, front-edge of pages 417 to 420 torn and a bit scrunched-up (since flattened); obviously well used, good only, however internally clean and complete. An interesting item. [Order code: 5279 / Price £2.50]
Light - Light Fare Recipes for Corn Flour and Raisley Cookery. Brown & Polson. Light - Light Fare Recipes for Corn Flour and Raisley Cookery. Brown & Polson, not dated, late 1920s? 8½" x 4¼", 124pp, creamish cloth, paper onlay front and back, hardback. 4pp of Brown & Polson adverts at back including illustrations of their cookery utensils. Spine browned, 2" split along lower edge of spine/back-board making a 'flap'; back-board heavilly (folded) creased ¾" above foot; boards 'dusty'/browned; onlays rubbed a bit, corners rounded/bumped, a few fox spots/marks, pages a little loose at back; good only, NO wrapper. [Order code: 14508 / Price £2.00]
Lindlaw, Myrtle - The Book of Sweets and Puddings. Spectator Publications, 1st, 1967. Illustrated in colour. 9¾" x 10¼", 96pp, laminated boards, hb. Index. Bottom 3" of spine pulled but still attached, rest of spine chipped along the edges o/w very good without wrapper. [Order code: 2568 / Price £3.00]
Norwak, Mary - Easy Freezing. Everest Good Food Club, ND, '70s? 7¾" x 5¼", 56pp, illustrated card, sb. Index. Illustrated with drawings by Roy Dewar. Very good. Average. [Order code: 6470 / Price £1.00] plus post at cost.
Parkinson - Perfect Cooking: A Comprehensive Guide to Success in the Kitchen. Parkinson Stove Co Ltd. Parkinson - Perfect Cooking: A Comprehensive Guide to Success in the Kitchen. Written and Compiled by the Staff of The Demonstration and Research Department of the Parkinson Stove Co. Ltd. June 1950, revised edtion. 8½" x 5½", 276pp plus 16 plates, green cloth, hardback. Index. Ilustrated with 32 sides of monochrome photographs. This book has got the lot; very 1950s. Spine sunned, edge wear, name/address/date inscription on front-free endpaper, externally good only, internally very good, no wrapper. [Order code: 13196 / Price £3.00]
Patten, Marguerite - Savoury Cooking. Hamlyn, 1st, 1961. 11½" x 8", not numbered, pale grey-blue cloth, hb. Illustrated in monochrome and colour. Faded around the edges, generally very good, c/w a wrapper that is considerably rubbed around the edges. [Order code: 3481 / Price £8.00]
Richardson, Rosamond - The Herb Recipe Book. Sainsbury, 1992 reprint. 7¾" x 5", 96pp, illustrated card, softback. Index. Remnants of sticker over barcode on back; slight edge-wear; very good (no inscriptions, not ex-library). [Order code: 4353 / Price £1.50]
Rise - Rise Park Recipes. Rise Park Church. Not dated. 8¼" x 6", 72pp, light-card covers, plastic spiral bound, softback. Rise Park is an area of Nottingham; locally produced booklet. Very good. [Order code: 8447 / Price £2.00]
Sharwood's - Chinese Food. J. A. Sharwood, ND, '80s? 8¼" x 6", 24pp, illustrated card, booklet. Colour illustrations. Cover worn round edges, o/w fine. Above average. [Order code: 6036 / Price £0.50] plus post at cost.
Summer - Summer Cooking. Tate & Lyle. Not dated. 8¼" x 5½", 30pp, spiral bound card covers, softback. Illustrated in colour. Very good. Average. [Order code: 8451 / Price £2.00]
Tuxford, Miss Hester H. Tuxford - Cookery for the Middle Classes. John Heywood, 8th edition, ND c. late '20s. 7¼" x 4¾", 212pp, brown printed boards, hb. Index. Externally poor, especially the spine and spine/board joints, 'loosely' bound, internally good to very good, no wrapper. [Order code: 2584 / Price £6.00]