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1958 Recipes from No. 10: Some Practical Recipes for Discerning Cooks
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Description
First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce, With Dustwrapper
In the publisher's original cloth binding.
First edition.
Complete with the original clipped dust wrapper.
Illustrated with charming decorations by Selma Nankivell.
A collection of personal recipe files and kitchen practices from the Downing Street kitchens, offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse of British political hospitality in the post-war era. Compiled by Georgina Landemare, personal cook to the Churchills from 1939 to 1954, this volume presents 360 practical recipes for discerning cooks, with a foreword by Lady Churchill.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. One or two very minor handling marks and the slightest trace of shelf wear to extremities. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper, smart. Clipped. Slight loss to head of spine. The odd small chip, closed tear and crease to extremities. Slight soiling and the odd light spot to wraps. Slight offsetting to inside wrap. One or two small holes to spine wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with just one or two spots to fore edge.
Very Good Indeed
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