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1950 Food for Pleasure: An Anthology of Recipes
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Description
First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
In the publisher's original cloth binding, complete with the original clipped dust wrapper.
This volume is a first edition.
This is an extensive anthology of refined recipes ranging from egg dishes, soups, fish, vegetables, emta, cakes, biscuits, sauces, and sundries. This volume also includes menus, such as "Luncheons for Guests on Whom a Special Effort is not Wasted," "Luncheons for a Ravenous Schoolboy," "A Sunday Lunch Party in the Country," and "little Dinners for the Girl who Lives Alone and has a Guest".
Ruth Lowinsky (1893-1958) was an English food writer and society hostess, celebrated for her charming and creative recipe collections.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Very slight soiling to extremities. Slight offsetting with scattered spotting to gutter of endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper, generally smart. Clipped. Slight rubbing to wraps. Closed tears to spine. Chipping to extremities with the odd small closed tear. Slight offsetting to inside wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd scattered spot to gutters of first and last leaves and one or two spots heavier to fore edge.
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