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FRENCH PROVINCIAL COOKING
by ELIZABETH DAVID , JULIET RENNY ,
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: MICHAEL JOSEPH, 1960 Green Boards with maroon title block and gilt titles and maroon blocked culinary image to front board. 235 x 160 mm approx.494 pp.Top edge of book block stained maroon. Chapter head vignettes and other line illustrations by Juliet Renny. First Edition 1st printing of David's influential cookery book. VG/Fair (Book- Fading to extremities of boards including spine, mild offset browning to end papers and half title. Paper of book block evenly age tanned and light foxing spots to fore edge of book block. No previous owner name or other notable defects. Dust Jacket- moderate to heavt rubbing with loss - most significant being a triangular chip to top rear panel of 20 x 18 mm approx. This and other smaller loss has been masked by the insertion of "best colour match" paper in front of the backing paper of the proprietary protective sleeve in which now housed. Liquid splash marks to spine and moderate general shelf soiling mainly to rear panel. Non price clipped cover 35s.) Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.
Synopsis
It is difficult to think of any home that can do without Elizabeth David's FRENCH PROVINCIAL COOKING...One could cook for a lifetime on the book alone' - Observer Elizabeth David succeeds in inducing a desire to use each recipe as soon as it is read. Whether she is describing the preparation of a plain green salad, or the marinading of a haunch of wild boar, she writes with the same imaginative directness. Recipes like 'pot au feu' are described in all their delicious simplicity, which, it is made clear, means cooking without elaboration and has nothing to do with the higgledy piggledy 'let's hope it's all right' technique. Some excellent advice is included on the choice of the tools that would always be needed in any kitchen.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 123467
- Title
- FRENCH PROVINCIAL COOKING
- Author
- ELIZABETH DAVID , JULIET RENNY ,
- Illustrator
- JULIET RENNY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- MICHAEL JOSEPH
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- 1st Edition Cookery Books , Elizabeth David, 1960 , 35/- , French Provincial Cooking, Culinary Books, Food and Drink, Cookery Books, Books on line Brighton,
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