Ah adair (16 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. 217p + index, illustrated. A very good copy in blue cloth.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1928. First edition. 252pp. and a fropntispiece portrait of the author by Marie Laurencin. After and introduction by the French chef, restaurateur and author Xavier Marcel Boulestin (1878-1943), there are essays on the Cook and the Mistress and Polite wine Drinking. These are followed by a Gastronomic Calendar, Luncheon Menus, Dinner Menus, and a large number of recipes. There is an index of recipes, with translations from the French, at the end of the book. The book is bound in the original black cloth covered boards with orange titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the boards. There are a few white scrapes to the cloth near the top edge of the front board and the spine ends are lightly bumped. The contents are tight and clean with browning to the free endpapers and the half-title page. There is no inscription.…

Zustand: Good. Alfred A Knopf New York 1929 Binding: Hardcover.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. A little collection of 150 recipes for salads - plain and complex, sweet and savoury - together with much sound advice on their preparation. Preface by Boulestin. 103 pages. Damage to pages 67/68 but no loss of text, otherwise good throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 4th. imp. William Heinemann, London, 1937. Hardback, 8vo. boards, x, 75pp. Boards grubby, very light foxing to contents else good. A collection of delicious light dishes suitable, these days, for lunch or supper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Chapman and Hall, 1933. Preface by Marcel Boulestin. Hardback, cloth, 103pp. covers a little worn but contents clean and tight, no d.w. Name on f.e.p. D. Parker Bowles. A good selection of salads simple and complicated, savoury and sweet.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover without dust jacket, as issued. Boards are tanned and lightly marked, spine is more tanned and lightly scuffed at ends. Bookshop sticker to inside front cover and page block faintly marked. Internally, clean and unmarked throughout. AD. Used.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 40pp stapled into decorated red card wrappers. With a title page decoration and eight illustrations by Eric Fraser (identified only by his initials to certain drawings). The staples rusted and partially defective, and with just a touch of wear and soiling to the rear wrapper. A very good copy of an uncommon item. Alec Henry Adair (1901-56) was a cookery writer, and life partner of the restaurateur Marcel Boulestin, himself the author of a series of seminal cookery books that popularised French cuisine in the English-speaking world (Adair translated them into English). I fear his partner may not have approved of the present text. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American edition. Preface by Sheila Kaye-Smith. Introduction by X. Marcel Boulestin. Illustrated by J.E. Laboureur. Small octavo. xxvi, 217, xvi pp. Spine lightly soiled, a bit of foxing on the page edges and on a few pages, near fine in a rubbed and soiled, very good dust jacket with a few chips and tears, a sunned spine, and a small abrasion and residue from a sticker on the front cover, affecting a bit of the text. "Here are 52 menus for 52 lunches and 52 dinners menus for formal and informal occasions with recipes for every dish, notes for the treatment, keeping and serving of appropriate wines, and a calendar of foods in season." (from the back cover).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good Only. First edition. A first edition of this collection of exciting salad recipes, with the very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of one hundred and fifty salad recipes with advice and tips on their preparation. Some are simple, some complex, some sweet and some savoury, but all have the saving grace of relish and good taste. Written by A. H. Adair. With a preface from Xavier Marcel Boulestin, a French chef, restaurateur, and the author of cookery books that popularised French cuisine in the English-speaking world. Dated from the British Library. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light wear and fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is worn with light loss to the head of the spine and both panels. Sympathetic repairs have been made with paper to the internal side. Light chipping to the extremities with the odd small closed tear or crease. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A delightful copy of this scarce cocktail recipe book from A. H. Adair and Nina Troye, prefaced by French chef Marcel Boulestin. A new impression. First published in 1925.In the original decorative cloth binding.A pleasing copy of this scarce title, offering a series of cocktail recipes including those with gin, rum and whisky, as well as cold and hot punches and non-alcoholic drinks.Compiled by Nina Toye and A. H. Adair.Prefaced by influential French chef (and business partner and companion of Adair) Marcel Boulestin, who simultaneously expresses his disapproval and appreciation of cocktails. In the original decorative cloth binding, with spine paper label. Externally, smart, with fading to the spine and sunning to the label. With minor rubbing and bumping to the head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spots to the endpapers and an ownership bookplate to the front free endpaper. Very Good. J. E. Laboureur (illustrator). book.…

Illustrations de Laboureur. in-12, couverture cartonnée illustrée en couleurs, 132 pages. Toutes les recettes de cocktails avec ou sans alcool, de juleps, de punchs glacés ou chauds, de limonades ou d'orangeades et de liqueurs constituent ce petit ouvrage, joliment illustré par Laboureur. Collection of cocktail recipes. Original pictorial stiffened card cover with illustration to the front and catalogue of books to the back. An excellent copy with each cocktail identified by both its English and French name. Main text in French. Illustrations de Laboureur. in-12, couverture cartonnée illustrée en couleurs, 132 pages. Toutes les recettes de cocktails avec ou sans alcool, de juleps, de punchs glacés ou chauds, de limonades ou d'orangeades et de liqueurs constituent ce petit ouvrage, joliment illustré par Laboureur. Collection of cocktail recipes. Original pictorial stiffened card cover with illustration to the front and catalogue of books to the back. An excellent copy with each cocktail identified by both its English and French name. Main text in French. Book.…

paperback. Zustand: near fine. Full page black & white illustrations with tissue guards by J.-E. Laboureur. 132 pages, small 4to, colorful stiff pictorial wrappers. Paris: Au Sans Pareil, (1927). A near fine copy of this unusual cocktail book. J.-E. Laboureur (illustrator).

In-8° (19x14,3 cm). 131 p., 1 p., 1 f. Avec quelques illustrations dans le texte. Broché, couverture illustrée. Sur la couverture: 6e mille. - Paru aussi in-4° avec dix gravures au burin hors texte. - Quelques soulignements. Sprache: französisch.

First edition. 8vo. xii, 67, (1) pp. Publisher's colour patterned cloth, printed spine label, dust jacket. Jacket spine tanned and worn with loss to the ends and a few subtle tissue repairs on the verso, most of the original cloth spine expertly laid down on a close matching plain material, remaining an attractive copy of a fragile and scarce title. …