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London: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd 1955. Small 8vo. First Edition. 142 pp. Hardcover with faded gilt lettering to spine in an unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Jacket has some marking to panels, minor chipping to edges and a tear at the base of the spine. Boards are clean with some fading to top edge. Minor scattered foxing throughout. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1955.

New York: Tudor Publishing Company 1937. Small 4to. 271 pp. Publisher's original green cloth in pictorial dust wrapper. In publisher's box with pictorial onlay. Box somewhat worn with split to the corners of the lid. Tears to dust jacket, but still bright. Cloth mottled. Foxing to eps and page edges. With twelve plates in full colour by E. J. Detmold. VG/Good . Very Good. Cloth. Seventh Printing. 1937.

Italy: Electa 1991. 4to. ITALIAN TEXT 154 pp, illustrated in colour and b/w . Very Good. Cloth. 1991.

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. 1929. 8vo. Presentation copy from the editor Fred Brittain with his inscription to the front endpaper. vi, 42 pp. Original printed boards with lettering to front board & spine. Small spot to front board. Staining to endpapers. Internally clean. A nice copy. Scarce. . Very Good. Boards. First Edition. 1929.

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. 1929. 8vo. vi, 42 pp. Original boards. Covered in a silk cloth, which is glued down to the boards. Hand-lettered title to front board with printed paper title-label to spine. Underlining & marking to text. Staining to endpapers with ink owner's name to title-page. A scarce title. . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1929.

London: George Routledge and Sons Limited N.d. [1935]. 4to.Illustrated. xii, 958 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt decoration & lettering to spine. Marks and rubbing to the spine and boards with some splints to the joints. Binding shaken and internally clean. This re-issue of the 1911 edition has 'Cost of Recipe' appendix dated 1935. Illustrated with 48 lovely coloured plates of various dishes, with a further 250 in-text b&w illustrations. Charmingly it includes an appendix listing the cost of each dish to prepare in the year of its publication. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. 1935.

London: George Routledge and Sons Limited N.d. [1935]. 4to.Illustrated. xii, 945 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt decoration & lettering to spine; all edges marbled. Minor marks to the spine and boards, wear to extremities. Ink name to prelim. Binding slightly shaken, with a split to rear hinge, but all together and internally clean. This re-issue of the 1911 edition has 'Cost of Recipe' appendix dated 1935. Illustrated with 48 lovely coloured plates of various dishes, with a further 250 in-text b&w illustrations. Weirdly it has copies of the last two pages bound in between page vi and vii, but it also already has these in their proper place. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. 1935.

London: Merrell 2006. 4to. 172 pp, illustrated in colour and b/w 1858942837 . Near Fine. Hardcover. 2006.

Athens: Patakis Publishers 2004. 4to. 490 PP. Copper cloth hardcover with lettering to front board and spine, in pictorial dustjacket. Photography by Fakidi and Minaidi throughout. Markings and some wear to the edges of the dustjacket. Ink presentation by Fakidi to title. Internally clean and bright. In VG condition. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 960161253X . Very Good. Hardcover. 2004.

Oxford: Phaidon / Christies 1987. 4to. 370 pp, illustrated in colour some damage to rear of dustwrapper 0714880485 . Near Fine. Hardback. 1987.

London: Rockliff 1950. 8vo. xvi,223 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust wrapper. Jacket slightly chipped & edgeworn. Cloth clean. Internally clean. No ownership marks. With 130 half-tone illustrations and ten line drawings. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1950.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1933. Large 8vo.Illustrated. 79 pp. Pictorial boards in colour illustrated jacket. Jacket slightly marked at rear. Pictorial boards are in fine condition, completely clean and bright. Endpapers yellowed but otherwise internally clean. Full-page colour illustrations by Rosalind Thornycroft. . Near Fine. Pictorial Boards. First Edition. 1933.

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1940. 8vo.Illustrated. 388 pp. First edition. Original pictorial boards. Some wear and darkening to the extremities, with minor marks to the boards. Binding firm and internally clean, no ownership marks. Numerous illustrations throughout in black and white. . Good. Decorative Boards. First Edition. 1940.

London: Routledge 1993. Large 4to. 673 pp, b/w illustration previous owners name on front page corner. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 0415010225 . Very Good. Laminated Boards. 1993.

London: Eveleigh Nash 1906. Large 8vo. xii, 448 pp. Red half morocco binding over red boards, a ribbed spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white photograph plates; also contains several fold-out maps of the contemporary palace of Versailles, its gardens, etc. Boards clean, but some (not easily noticed) cracking to joints at head of spine; block solid. Very minor foxing to page edges, otherwise internally clean. . Good. Half Morocco. Second Impression. 1906.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1878. 8vo. xx, 41 pp. Contemporary full calf. Raised bands to spine with gilt panels & black leather title label. Prize binding with gilt school device of Dulwich College to front board & prize bookplate to front pastedown. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Minor fading to boards. Slight foxing to prelims. Two colour folding maps at rear. . Very Good. Full Calf - Prize Binding. 1878.

London: Williams & Norgate Ltd 1950. 8vo. First Edition. 242 pp. Green hardback with gilt lettering to spine in a colour illustrated jacket, not price clipped. Slight wear to jacket edges, yellowing and minor stains to jacket spine. Fading to board edges. Internally clean. Farrar was killed in World War II before turning 21; but he was seen as a very promising writer with interest in his work resurging in 2008. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1950.

London: Frederick Muller Ltd. 1954. 8vo. First edition. 275 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in dustjacket. Top edge burnished blue. With illustrated endpaper and a frontis portrait. Jacket edgeworn with some creasing. Ink ownership inscription to first free endpaper and some minor foxing to the prelims and extremities. Otherwise clean internally. An account of the Battle of the Imjin River which took place during the Korean War. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1954.

Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. 1880. Folio. Unpaginated. Folio measuring 30cm x 41cm. Publisher's original gilt-decorated green cloth. Bevelled edges. Top edge gilt. Slight wear to spine ends and extremities. Text-block loose in binding. Early ink inscription to title page. With 36 finely engraved full-page etchings by the author R. Farren. Plates complete. . Very Good. Gilt Decorated Cloth. 1880.

Hertford: Privately printed and printed by Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd. 1949. 8vo. 43 pp. Original printed paper wraps. Limited to 1000 copies. Compliments slip from the Iranian Consulate loosely laid in. Lecture delivered before the Royal Asiatic Sociey and the Iran Society in London in 1949. Covers slightly age-darkened & marked. A VG copy. . Very Good. Wraps. 1949.