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1946 Recipes from Baghdad
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce
A vanishingly scarce first edition.
With a folding table of weights and measures, and a small number of vignette illustrations by Suad Salim.
A very scarce cookery work presenting recipes popular in Iraq in the 1940s, adapted for English tastes. With instructions for making various liqueurs, Kubba Lebania, Yuen Tsi, Khankar Bakmadi, and various other dishes.
With an introduction from Her Majesty the Queen Mother of Iraq, this work is edited by May H. Beattie, with the assistance of Bedia Afnan, Renée Al Kabir, Helen Gaudin, and Ann Walter.
With bookplate of Martin and Pamela Finch to front free endpaper. They were antiquarian booksellers with an interest in antiquarian gastronomy.
With a former owner's inscription to front free endpaper.
Condition
In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Handling marks to boards. Rubbing to back strip head and tail and joints. Tail of front joint starting, with board firmly held. Inscription and bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned due to paper type, but generally clean, with only the odd spot.
Good
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