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    By Sheila Kaye-Smith; Charlotte Walter Ruth Lowinsky; Gertrude Mann; Barbara Wilcox
    London   Cassell and Company; Ward, Lock and Co; Arco et al
    7.5" by 5" v, 210; 208; 159, [1]; 224; 72; 186, [4]pp
    A charming selection of mid-20th-century cookbooks and one etiquette guide, all complete with the original dust wrappers.
    By Sheila Kaye-Smith; Charlotte Walter Ruth Lowinsky; Gertrude Mann; Barbara Wilcox

    1945-1959 Kitchen Fugue; Food for Pleasure: An Anthology of Recipes; Etiquette for Gentlemen: A Guide to the Observances of Good Society; Cook It the Farmhouse Way; Berry Cooking; Recipes from Vienna

    London   Cassell and Company; Ward, Lock and Co; Arco et al
    7.5" by 5" v, 210; 208; 159, [1]; 224; 72; 186, [4]pp
    A charming selection of mid-20th-century cookbooks and one etiquette guide, all complete with the original dust wrappers.
    £440.00
    : 2kgs / : 974Y3
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    Description

    Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

    A delightful set offering five cookery works and one guide to etiquette for gentlemen. 

    With the original dust wrappers, all price-clipped except for 'Food for Pleasure' and 'Kitchen Fugue'.

    Works include Sheila Kaye-Smith's autobiographical volume 'Kitchen Fugue', which discusses her pets, childhood and life in wartime Sussex, interwoven with excellent simple recipes, as well as Gertrude Mann's charming berry recipes, including fruit pies, sweets, jams, jellies, wines and sauces. 

    The entirety of this set comprises the following works:

    Kitchen Fugue by Sheila Kaye-Smith (1945) – First edition. 
    Etiquette for Gentlemen: A Guide to the Observances of Good Society (1950) – New edition

    Food for Pleasure: An Anthology of Recipes by Ruth Lowinsky (1950) - First edition 

    Cook It the Farmhouse Way by Barbara Wilcox (1951) - First edition 

    Berry Cooking by Gertrude Mann (1954) - First edition 

    Recipes from Vienna by Charlotte Walter, edited and revised by Hannah Miller (1959) - First edition 


    Condition

    In the original cloth bindings. With the original dust wrappers, all price-clipped except for 'Food for Pleasure' and 'Kitchen Fugue'. Externally, very smart, with only mild instances of shelf wear. Fading to the spine of 'Fugue'. Dust wrappers are generally smart, with a couple chips to 'Vienna', which has been reinforced with tape. Loss to the spine head and tail of 'Farmhouse' and to the head of 'Etiquette'. Sunning to the spines. Handling marks most visibly to 'Fugue'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to several of the volumes' endpapers and an ownership bookplate tipped-in to the front free endpapers of several.

    Very Good Indeed

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