Cook it the French Way
by Barbara Wilcox and Paul Vigoureux
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Stanmore, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
This slim volume has dark red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket.135 pages. Includes menus and recipes for every course, focusing on food that is economical and attractive, particularly important when first published in 1949. "The less food we have, the more important it is to cook it well".
Boards have slight rub wear and marking with bending at bottom corners. Endpapers show brown markings from a previously fitted jacket, and remnants of a previous seller's price sticker and stamp. Also pencilled markings. Clear and bold text with firm binding. Boards have slight rub wear and marking with bending at bottom corners. Please see photos.
Sent within 2 business days, carefully packaged, tracking available.
Boards have slight rub wear and marking with bending at bottom corners. Endpapers show brown markings from a previously fitted jacket, and remnants of a previous seller's price sticker and stamp. Also pencilled markings. Clear and bold text with firm binding. Boards have slight rub wear and marking with bending at bottom corners. Please see photos.
Sent within 2 business days, carefully packaged, tracking available.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Beth's Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- VC011
- Title
- Cook it the French Way
- Author
- Barbara Wilcox and Paul Vigoureux
- Format/Binding
- Dark red cloth boards with holt lettering
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Allan Wingate
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 0.39 lbs
- Keywords
- cookery, nostalgia, 1950's
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage Cook Books; European Cookery; Cook Books;
Terms of Sale
Beth's Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. All items are packaged carefully for travel from Australia.
About the Seller
Beth's Books
Biblio member since 2018
Stanmore, New South Wales
About Beth's Books
An avid collector over many years, I am now parting with some of my beloved books. Most of my collection is over 50 years old. My particular interests include cookery, poetry, philosophy, natural therapies, and Scottish literature.
Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...