Search Results: Food and Drink from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd. [1955]. 16mo. 96 pp. Original card wraps with colour pictorial wrapper. Jacket is marked with chipping to the edges and rubbing to the panels. Slight marks to the boards. Spots throughout. 3/id price. . Good. Wraps. 1955.

London: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd. Circa 1940s. Small 8vo. 96 pp. Bound with paper spine and red cloth boards with pictorial Jacket. Jacket is chipped and edge worn with loss to the head. Some foxing to the extremities and binding is slightly shaken. A war-time reprint with a 1/6d price . Good. Hardcover. 1940.

Belgium: RENAISSANCE DU LIVRE 2003. 4to. The less common English Text version of this very popular regional cookery book. 2804608468 . Very Good. Hard Cover. First Edition in English. 2003.

London: Harvill Press 1960. Tall 8vo. 40 pp., Decorative boards with dustjacket. jacket slightly edgeworn with slight tear to the rear. Boards clean and bright. Some scattered spotting internally and binding firm. Illustrated with black and white illustrations based on the Author's sketches. Printed at the Curwen press. . Very Good. Decorated Boards. First Edition. 1960.

Leeds: Printed by John Waddington [1952]. 8vo.Pamphlet. Unpaginated [16 pp., including wraps] Pictorial paper wraps with original card sleeve. Covers fresh and generally internally clean and bright with minor spotting to the centre fold. A Guinness promotional pamphlet based on the story of Alice in Wonderland. Illustrated throughout in colour by Antony Groves-Raines. . Very Good. Illustrated Paper Covers. 1952.

London: Arthur Guinness Son & Co. 1964. 8vo.Illustrated. Unpaginated [16 pp. including pictorial wraps] A scarce Guinness promotional title in its original card sleeve. Covers fresh with a small mark to the spine. Internally generally clean and bright with minor marks to the binding due to the usual corrosion of the staples. . Very Good. Illustrated Paper Covers. First Edition. 1964.

London: W & R Chambers [1905]. Small 4to.Illustrated. viii, 296 pp., Illustrated green cloth binding with gilt decoration. Boards are generally unmarked with slight rubbing to illustration and wear to corners. Spine is worn and faded, but binding firm. Minor foxing throughout. An early title illustrated by Mabel Lucie Atwell, with title, four plates (including frontis), tailpieces & cover art by the illustrator. Previous owners lists of favourite recipes from the book on the reverse of the title page plate and pp. ii, and occasional pencil annotations in the body of the text. 19.5 cms tall. . Good. Decorative Cloth. 1905.

London: W & R Chambers [1905]. 8vo.Illustrated. vii, 296 pp., Red cloth binding with gilt decoration. Slight rubbing to the boards with some sunning to the spine and minor wear to the ends. Binding firm with minor occasional spotting and slight marks to the endpapers. An early title illustrated by Mabel Lucie Atwell, with title, four plates (including frontis), tailpieces & cover art by the illustrator. . Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1905.

London: N.p. 1850. 24mo. Re-printed from the American edition. 447 pp. Original blind-stamped red cloth with decorative gilt to spine. All edges gilt. Small format measuring 9cm x 13cm. Frontis engraving. Boards clean. Internally clean. . Very Good. Blind-stamped Cloth. 1850.

London: Oxford University Press 1936. 8vo. xxxv, 161 pp. Publisher's full cloth in dust wrapper. Dj slightly edgeworn. Cloth very clean. Internally clean. No ownership marks. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1936.

London: Constable & Co. Ltd. 1929. 8vo. xii, 201, (2) pp. Orange cloth binding with top edge gilt and gilt lettered title label. Minor bumping to the extremities. Internally clean, with a gastronomic vocabulary and wine dictionary. . Very Good. Cloth. Second Impression. 1929.

London: Geo. B Whittaker 1828. Small 8vo. ix, 338 pp. Recently bound in pale blue paper, with title label to spine. Slight lean, minor marking throughout. . Very Good. Paper Covered Boards. 6th Edition. 1828.

London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited [circa 1928]. 8vo. 128 pp., Illustrated tan cloth binding with dustjacket. Jacket is edge worn with some loss to the edges and slight sunning to the spine. Boards clean with slight lean to the binding and slight spotting to the foredge. Illustrated throughout with 80 black and white illustrations. A guide to table service and the hospitality industry. . Very Good. Cloth. 4th Edition. 1930.

London: The Food & Cookery Publishing Agency [1911]. Tall Narrow 8vo.Illustrated. 94,(2) pp., First edition. Illustrated blue decorative cloth binding. Some marks to the boards, text bright. Spine is sunned with text no longer visible. Binding firm. Internally fresh and bright with avertisers stamp tipped on to the rear. Illustrated throughout in black and white. A guide to table service and the hospitality industry. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1930.

Lisbon: Typographia da Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Uteis 1845. 8vo. vii, 331, (viii) pp. PORTUGUESE TEXT. Bound in later half calf over snakeskin-patterned boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & lettering. New endpapers. Slight waterto the boards particularly the rear. Light water damage to the leaves particularly affecting the front endpapers and tail edge and corner . With three folding plates at rear. Neat paper repairs to plates. Aglae Adanson (1775-1852) was a French naturalist and author of books on gardening and rural economy. Her first book 'The Country House,' published in 1822, was reprinted several times due to its popularity. This Portuguese translation of the gastronomy section is extracted from the French edition. Rare. Not mentioned in Bitting or Vicaire. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1845.

London: Hutchinson & Co. 1905. Small 8vo. 320 pp. Publisher's dark blue decorated cloth. Cloth clean. Internally clean. No ownership marks. Illustrations. . Very Good. Decorated Cloth. 1905.

London: Jonathan Cape 1968. 12mo.Facsimile. [iv], xl., 1112 pp., Facsimile of first edition in 1861. Hardcover with cloth boards, gilt lettered spine and jacket. Minor marks to the jacket, with some chipping to the extremities and split to the front joint. Boards clean with slight bumping to the head of the spine. Minor spotting to the fore edge an gift inscription to the front endpaper dated 1969, otherwise clean and bright. Illustrated throughout in both black and white intext and colour plates, including illustrated title page. Contains a postcard printed on the 107th anniversary of the original publication of Mrs Beeton's book of household management as part of the facsimile, detailing the wages paid to domestics. . Very Good. Hardcover. FACSIMILE. 1968.

London: Pater-noster-Row 1748. 12mo. x, 204 pp. Recently bound in full brown calf. Raised bands to spine with maroon leather title label. New endpapers. Staining to prelims. Some worming, mostly affecting first ten leaves. Chapters include: The Necessity of a Laudable Mastication Evinced, Of the Various Kinds of Aliments, Practical Rules of Diet and Regimen, Of the Cold Bath, Of the Danger of Keeping the Body Too Warm, Of the Air, Of the Passions, Of Diseases Peculiar to the Different Classes of Tradesmen, etc. ESTC T189898 . Very Good. Full Calf. First Edition. 1748.

London: Conran Octupus Ltd 2008. 4to. 224 pp., illustrated throughout 1840915056 . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2008.

London: Holland Press 1972. 4to. Limited Edition, French language. Two volumes in one. xviii, 239; viii, 255 pp. Blue hardback in illustrated jacket, price clipped. Jacket spine discoloured, with a couple of small tears to edges, but generally clean. One or two slight dents to edges of boards and minor fingerprints but otherwise clean inside and out. Bibliography of early books relating to wine and drinking. Facsimile of a scarce original published in 1927/1932. Limited Edition - one of 350 copies. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 1972.