The Gentleman's Companion by Charles H. Baker - 1946

Crown. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Volume 1. (recipes, cookery, food) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Crown Publishers. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable. 1946 version with leather cover over hardboards. signs of wear with chipping on the spine tips. heavy foxing. Two pin holes on gutter of front cover.

Crown. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Volume 1. (recipes, cookery, international) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Slipcased hardcover. Square spine, clean crisp pages, no folded page corners. A gift inscription on the half title page, otherwise book looks like new. Outer slipcase is solid, shows some general shelf wear.

Crown Publishers, Inc., 1951. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardback bound in navy leather with round paste-on color illustration on front and gilt title. All edges gilt, marbled end pages. Volume has faded gilt title on spine. No other defects to note. Interior clean, tight and unmarked. 1992, Limited Edition of 2500. Volume I, 220 pages with list of recipes. .

Crown Publishers, 1946. Second Edition. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Volume 1 only in red boards with gilt decoration. some fading and discoloration to the boards. No jacket.

Crown Publishers, Inc, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

From the title page: "Including: A Select Company of Hand-Picked South American Receipts, each one Beloved & Notable in its Place, faithfully collected on a Journey Involving Over 30.000 Air-Miles Visiting & Eating in Every Civilized Section of that Great Continent."
Good condition. Blue cloth over boards with gold gilt silverware image in botton corner, black text on spine. Faded spine and front cover near spine appears to have a water stain, but it is only on the outside. This is 1 volume. Text is clean and binding is tight. It is only rated good because of the fading and staing on covers.
224 pages including Index.

E-325. Good+. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Crown Publishers, New York. 1951. 224 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Bound in blue cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is faded and worn). No ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Volume One of Baker's two-volume set "The South American Gentleman's Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery and Drinking Book", originally published in 1939 by The Derrydale Press. Volume One is concerned exclusively with food recipes. Charles Henry Baker, Jr. (1895-1987) was an American author best known for his culinary and cocktail writings. These books have become highly collectible among cocktail aficionados and culinary historians. Baker spent much of his life traveling the world and chronicling food and drink recipes for magazines like "Esquire", "Town & Country", and "Gourmet", for… Read More