John grigson (21 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 'When all's said and written, there's nothing better than field mushrooms that you have gathered yourself, on toast, for breakfast.' Jane Grigson, The Mushroom Feast The Mushroom Feast is an indispensable classic for all those who love mushrooms. It is a fine, timeless, literary cookbook, Truffles.ceps.morels, they all conjure visions of one of the most intriguing and subtle of all gastronomic treats. With more than 250 recipes, Jane Grigson describes the preparation of the best fresh and preserved mushrooms. Included are helpful tips for selecting and preserving the best edible mushrooms (both wild and cultivated), the folklore behind the recipes, a brief history of mushroom cultivation, guides to distinguish edible from poisonous fungi for those who venture to pick their own, and line drawings of the twenty-one most common species. Jane Grigson was one of the leading cookery writers of her generation. In 1968 she began her long association with the Observer Colour Magazine for whom she wrote right up to her death in March 1990. The Mushroom Feast is an indispensable classic for all those who love mushrooms. It is a fine, timeless, literary cookbook. Truffles.ceps.morels, they all conjure visions of one of the most intriguing and subtle of all gastronomic treats. Yet amateur cooks can be mystified by how best to prepare them, while epicures hunger for new ways to expand their repertoires. With more than 250 recipes, Jane Grigson describes the preparation of the best fresh and preserved mushrooms. Besides the traditional use of mushrooms to enhance meat and vegetable dishes, edible fungi are made into pate, powdered, pureed into mushroom ketchup, baked into a flan (an Alice B. Toklas specialty), baked as a cake and used in many other dishes - from the simple to the highly sophisticated - for soups, sauces, stuffings, main courses, too intriguing to resist. Included are helpful tips for selecting and preserving the best edible mushrooms (both wild and cultivated), the folklore behind the recipes, a brief history of mushroom cultivation, guides to distinguish edible from poisonous fungi for those who venture to pick their own, and charming line drawings of the twenty-one most common species. …

hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. . Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. First Edition, 1950. A previous owner's name on the flyleaf. Otherwise a nice, clear copy in dust jacket. …

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Magazine. Small octavo. 26pp. Printed wrappers. Spots on the front and rear, near fine. A poetry anthology with contributions from Allen Tate, Stephen Spender, Martin Boldero, Gavin Ewart, Elizabeth Heaton, Rayner Heppenstall, Joseph Gordon Macleod, Charles Madge, and John Pudney.…

Zustand: New. 2026. Hardback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Acceptable. Hardcover in good condition. Unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is marked, scuffed and sunned, with tears and chips at the inner flap folds. Edges are creased and torn. Light marks to the boards, and corners and spine ends are bumped. Page block is tanned and blemished. Endpapers are foxed. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. 57pp. Fine. Contributions by Douglas Le Pan, Howard Nemerov, W. Moelwyn Merchant, Maxine Kumin, Daniel Hoffman, Charles North, Andrew Oerke, Phoebe Pettingell, Patricia Hooper, John Unterecker, and Geoffrey Grigson.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. 57pp. Small stain and bump near spine tail, near fine. Contributions by Douglas Le Pan, Howard Nemerov, W. Moelwyn Merchant, Maxine Kumin, Daniel Hoffman, Charles North, Andrew Oerke, Phoebe Pettingell, Patricia Hooper, John Unterecker, and Geoffrey Grigson. …

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original taupe paper covered boards, black title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8¾'' x 5½''. Contains 61 printed pages of text. Lower spine end creased. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with shallow nicks to the upper spine end, a little sun fading to the spine, not price clipped 25s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 212983628 POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Yellow boards. A few brown marks to boards by spine. Dustwrapper titles clear but well worn at edges. Presentable in new Brodart plastic overwrapper. John Piper (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback with pictorial cloth designed and lettered by Craxton to front and rear boards. 21 × 14cm, vi + 122pp. Visionary Poems and Passages; or, The Poet's Eye was the second title in the New Excursions into English Poetry series. Grigson assembled a collection of English poetry centred on intense visual observation and visionary experience. The anthology brought together poets ranging from Thomas Traherne, William Blake, and John Clare to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and modern contemporaries. The 22 year old John Craxton was chosen as an emerging figure in the British Neo-Romantic movement to illustrate, and he created sixteen full-page colour lithographs, as well as smaller black and white drawings within the text. All sixteen are present. Condition: This is a good plus copy. There is tanning and foxing to the page's and board's edges but the contents are in very good condition, with just a little marginal tanning. As mentioned, the book has been collated and all plates are present. Neat previous owner's inscription to ffep.…

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Very good in cream stapled wrappers. Front cover lightly stained at the top. Staples rusty but holding. Covers somewhat discoloured with age and handling. Some light creasing. No tears. Contents very good. 210mm x 155mm. 18 pages. ***The second issue of this literary periodical, published by Geoffrey Grigson at Cambridge University. This issue includes articles and poems by the following writers: George Barker, William Empson, Herbert Read, John Pudney, Louis Macneice, Allen Tate and Geoffrey Grigson. ***A very good copy of this 1930s literary magazine, including the poem "On Hearing a Legend Played on the Viola" by Herbert Read. Also includes the poem "The Meaning of Life" by Allen Tate, who first published his poetry the year before in 1932. ***This important literary magazine helped to establish the reputation of the more favoured poets of the thirties, notably Auden, Spender and Macneice, as well as bringing to the fore many of the then little known or unknown writers. Although mainly a vehicle for English poets and critics, the American Scene was also represented. The magazine eventually ran to 34 numbers in 32 issues, and folded at the outbreak of war in 1939. ***Uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color printed boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; Shell guide. Physical description; [24] pages : colour illustrations, minor illustrations ; 28 cm. Notes; "Premium. The key to the countryside." - Colophon. Subjects; Wildlife painting Great Britain. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949. Binding firm. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Dust Jacket split in two NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Zustand: Good. Publisher's printed white paper stapled tabloid. 12½" x 10". Monochrome photographs throughout. New short stories and articles by: H. E. Bates 'Book Reviews'; S. G. Soal 'Some Successes and Many Failures - Dr. Rhone's Experiments Examined - Our Notions of Time and Space May Have to be Revised'; John Brophy 'Last Empress of France'; A. Akers-Douglas 'Blood Orange' Short Story; Seton Gordon 'The Flight of the Gannet'; Donald Carswell 'Germany at Home and Abroad'; Geoffrey Grigson 'On The Roof of the World - Life Among the Black Peaks of the Krakoram'. Cheap paper browning and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974).…

8 vols. 8vo (8¾ x 5¾ ins). Original printed card covers (softbacks) (VG). Unpaginated (no inscriptions). First Impressions (limited edn of 250, 1983), Village Under the Sea (limited edn of 250, 1983), Between Root & Sky (limited edn of 235, 1982), Winter Hostages (limited edn of 250, 1980), Man Dancing with the Moon (limited edn of 250, 1979), The January Divan (limited edn of 300, 1980), The Coast of Bohemia (limited edn of 200, 1981), Twists of the Way (limited edn of 250, 1980).…

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol.2, No.8 - the eighth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with the Henry Moore designed colour cover illustration of The Lyre Bird. This is an exceptional copy in virtually fine condition - a very rare wartime survivor. ***Near fine in the original colour illustrated stapled card covers. The covers are exceptionally clean, even the white back cover. Light creasing to the bottom corner tips of the last few pages. Slight splitting to the paper at the top of the spine. Staples rusted as usual. Internally also near fine - pages clean with hardly any of the usual foxing. A few marks and light creases - mainly production creasing as very thin paper was used (wartime paper restrictions were in force). No tears. The centre-spread of illustrations is printed on higher quality cartridge paper. Spine tight. ***64 pages (plus adverts on inside of front cover, and to make the maximum use of the covers, continuation of text on both sides of the back cover. 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Kenneth Allott: The Memory of Yeats; Audrey Beecham: Poem; Laurence Clark: To the Muse, Memo, First Fortnight of War; Stephen Coates: Poem; G. S. Fraser: To a Scottish Poet, Syntax and Imagery in Poetry; Robert Gittings: September 3rd, 1939; W. S. Graham: Here Next the Chair, I, No More Real than Evil, Who, With a Pen; Keith Douglas: The Prisoner; Geoffrey Grigson: Journey in May, The Well in the Valley; John Hall: The Fairs, No Mercy; John Heath-Stubbs: Elegy in a Town Churchyard; Sean Jennett: Spring Tide, Andromeda and Perseus, Missing; Sidney Keyes: The Uncreated Images, Two Variations, Seascape, Rome Remember; Francis King: On a Child's Hand, Endymion and the Moon; Patricia Ledward: Air Raid Shelter; The Corn Ripens; Emanuel Litvinoff: What do You Look for in World, in War?, Passover; H. B. Mallalieu: Excerpt from a Play; Fred & Senta Marnau: Red and Black; Nicholas Moore: Requiem; Norman Nicholson: Before I was Born; Barbara Norman: Song of the Mary who Did Not Turn Back, For the Children of Eve; Robert Payne: The Persian Boy, A Song for Yao and Shen, The Chinese Solder Speaks of Death; Francis Scarfe: The Pearl of Life, Ode to Christ; Terence Tiller: The Acid of the Heart, On One Side Lay the Ocean; Vernon Watkins: Sonnets of Resurrection; George Woodcock: Song from the North, Spoken in Love; David Wright: Illusions Perdues, For George Rapp; Points of View: The Poet as Critic by Kathleen Raine; Poets and Journalists by Francis King; Time and the Poet by George Woodcock; A Book of New Lyric by Derek Stanford; Cover by Henry Moore. ***Vol. 2. No. 8 - the eighth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. Issue No. 8 was the second of the series to have a full colour cover, and be expanded from 36 to 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. A superb example of this magazine. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Henry Moore (Colour cover design) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 12 colour plates all with tissue guards, 24 collotype black and white plates. Original dust jacket near fine, a couple of scuffs to the spine, colour plate tipped onto the front panel. Attractive original binding, paper covered boards, contrasting cloth to spine, leather spine labels, fine. Contents good and tight, internally clean, plates clean, no inscriptions. A near fine copy. Size: Sm Folio. Thornton, Robert John (illustrator). Book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. A beautiful reproduction of Robert John Thornton's important nineteenth century botanical volume, complete with the original striking colour plates. A striking botanical volume .When first published in 1807, this work was known for its impressive and distinctive plates, a beautiful work highlighted with scientific and informative descriptions of the flowers depicted.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eleven colour plates, and twenty-two monochrome plates.Collated, complete.Robert John Thornton is best known for this ambitious work.Engraved by Thomas Medland after paintings by Philip Reinagle. In the publisher's original half cloth binding, with paper covered boards. Light rubbing to leather back strip label, with light spotting to tail of front board. Spotting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. Robert John Thornton (illustrator). book.…

Full Leather. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. "To which is added at the request of several Learned Persons, a Catalogue of his MUSAEUM, with the curiosities Natural and Artificial and the Antiquities, particularly the Roman, British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Scotch Coins, with Modern Medals. Also a Catalogue of Manuscripts; the various Editions of the Bible, and of Books Published in the Infancy of the Art of Printing. With an Account of some unusual Accidents that have attended some Persons, attempted after the Method of Dr. Plot. First Edition. 2 parts in one. pp xxii, 1-268, [2], 275-628, [12] . Engraved frontis plate of R. Adulphus Thoresby by Vertue, large fold-out engraved map of leeds, double page engraving - "Prospect of Leeds from the Knostrop Road" 8 other double or fold-out engravings plus 2 single page engravings - all correct and in accordance with "Directions for placing the cuts", the fold-out plt at page 165 has a small piece missing. Numerous other engravings within text, a small crests on pages 131 and 182 have been neatly excised, o/w all present and correct. Original boards - worn a with a number of repairs, the leather spine is not contemporary but circa early 19th century. Contents are very good with some toning of the paper and a little age/finger soiling to some page edges. Engraved bookplate of Melville Joseph Hardcastle to front paste-down. A very good copy of the first edition. Size: Sm Folio. Book.…

Folio (44cm); brown cloth spine and corners over gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped on leather spine label in gilt, peach paper title label on front cover; dustjacket; viii,20,[xxvii],[xxxi]pp; black-and-white and colorful illustrative (unnumbered) plates to frontispiece and throughout. Light soil to front cover, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper has modest shelf-wear and soil, with 1" tape-mend to tear on lower front panel, tape mends to crown, off-setting from leather to spine panel verso, and tape mends along verso of spine ends, and upper and lower panels; Good. Text includes descriptions by Grigson, bibliographical notes, and botanical notes. Illustrations include "The Night Blowing Cereus", "The Dragon Arum", and "The Sacred Egyptian Bean". [85142]. …