Gurney ann (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. John Steven Gurney (illustrator).

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. John Steven Gurney (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Gurney, John Steven (illustrator). …

1st edition. 7pp; thin card cover. A clean copy Used - Very Good. VG stapled paperback Used - Very Good. VG stapled paperback.

Undated - probably c.1940. 20pp in thin card cover with thin thread binding. Cover browned & worn, with tiny loss at bottom corner Used - Good. Good strung paperback.

1st edition, 1941. 32pp stapled paperback. Blank 'with all good wishes from' insert at front. Internally VG. Covers yellowed and a little edge worn. Used - Good. Good stapled paperback.

2nd edition. 32p in thin card cover, with thread binding. Illustrated by Kathleen Ogilvy. Internally near VG, but cover discoloured & worn Used - Good. Good strung paperback.

Zustand: Good. Third edition (softcover). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), iv, 44pp. Text illustrations by Katherine Ogilvy. Original illustrated card wrappers with yapped edges. The edges of the covers are chipped, and there is some spotting of the rear cover; overall, this booklet is in good condition. Possibly an author's presentation copy, as there is an inscription to the half-ttile page that reads "To Auntie Ri, with special Christmas love from Ann, 1943". …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. The Medici Society, London, c.1936. Decorated wraps, slightly discoloured else v.g. 19pp. decorations from old sources. Being a collection of simple receipts many from old books.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd Edition. 2nd. edn. The Medici Society, London, 1942. Decorated hand-sewn wraps, 32pp. fragile. Being a collection of simple receipts. Economical recipes from grand country houses, many Scottish. Woodcut illustrations by Katherine Ogilvy. War Time cookery.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A second impression of this very scarce collection of recipes for breakfast and tea from Anne Gurney. Second impression, printed December 1936. Originally published August 1936. With a frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations. A collection of recipes for breakfast and tea, with examples of dishes such as: baked eggs, omelettes, fried scallops, baked smokies, herrings in oatmeal, sweetcorn cakes, breads, scones, cakes, and preserves. With three pages of notes to the rear for the reader to add their own recipes and tips. Written by Ann Gurney, a British cook. In the original paper wraps. Externally, sound with light wear and minor creases to the extremities. Light discolouration to the board edges with the odd small mark. String binding spilt but firm. Internally, firmly bound with text block able to be detached from boards due to the string having split. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Good. None (illustrator). book.…

See Anna Gurney's entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient and her husband had spent some time in Rome in 1842, and in 1838 had befriended the Alpinist Henriette d'Angeville at Geneva. 4pp, 4to. Bifolium with mourning border and watermark year 1840. In good condition, lightly aged, with minor traces of glue from label on outsides of gutter. The letter begins: 'My dear Lady Cullum | I think You & Sir Thomas may be home by this time & I must wish to enquire how you both are after your long wanderings. Your letters gave me very true pleasure - & indeed gratified many of your Friends in these parts - amongst them Miss Fowler - I had the comfort of a visit from her not long ago - & she spoke with much pleasure of the prospect of one day renewing the pleasant acquaintance formed on the Rhine'. She continues with news of Miss Fowler (visiting 'her Brother & Sister near Melksham in Wiltshire') and of 'Lady Buxton' (who 'does not continue quite so sound as we cd. have wished'), whose own 'Italian sojourn' gives 'pleasure to all the party'. With regard to the Cullums' own trip, she repeats her thanks for 'giving us so entertaining a history - & very glad shd. I be to hear the completion at N Repps Cottage'. She wonders if they ever 'come near this corner of the world', and thanks them for their 'truly kind wish to see me one day at Hardwick [.] The return to our dear Home was a [giant?] trial to me, & I know [sic] see by experience that real happiness once [reached?], is not to be [?] on earth'. She commends them for having taken 'a rest at Kissingen before entering on the great fatigues of home life', and thanks them for news of her 'old friend Francois', before concluding.…