olive humphries (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Tape marks to front and rear end paper. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Second edition without jacket on blue cloth With an introductory chapter on AS COOKERY and a concluding chapter on LAUNDRY WORK will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 374 pages; [1935] Cornish Brothers Limited, Birmingham. HC Original blue cloth with brick red titling to spine. Square snug and neat. Prior owner name penned neatly to front end page and dated 1936. No date of printing given, but bibliographic reference at NY Libraries indicates a 1935 publication date. The original Cornish Brothers sale slip is laid in between the front end page and half-title page. Offset toning to both pages from the cheap acidic paper used by Cornish Bros for their letterhead sales receipt. Solid copy with no significant external; wear. No dust jacket, perhaps as issued. Several period c=magazine cookery clippings laid in at front. Solid and neat copy of this very uncommon cook book. VG++.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. An excellent first edition of this scarce interwar cookery book by Olive L. Humphries. The first edition of this scarce cookery book.In the publisher's original cloth binding.Undated, dated from an identical copy held at the British Library.Includes wholesome and accessible recipes for the family, including casseroles, omelettes, scones, pastries, soups and various meat and fish dishes. 'Six Cup Pudding', 'Cauliflower au Gratin', 'Braised Sweetbreads' and 'Kedgeree' make up just a handful of the recipes featured here.Written by Olive L. Humphries. This seems to be the sole work credited to them. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with mild rubbing and bumping to the extremities. A couple minor marks to the spine. Ownership bookplate of one L. C. Prideaux to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with occasional scattered spots, heaviest to the first and last few pages. Near Fine. book.