DAVID Elizabeth

Summer Cooking. Illustrated by Adrian Daintrey. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Penguin,, [1976]. 8vo., with title-vignette and illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Her fourth book, David's classic collection was first published in 1955. A decade later she revised and enlarged it for its first issue in the well-known Penguin Handbooks series (which guaranteed its continuing success).

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Book number: 5766

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, recipes, cooking, elizabeth david, adrian daintrey

DAVID Elizabeth

Syllabubs and Fruit Fools. [Second Impression] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

Elizabeth David, Kitchen Utensils,, [1971]. 8vo., Second Impression, original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. First published in 1969. One of a short series of pamphlets produced for sale at David's shop in Bourne Street near London's Sloane Square. Scarce in this condition

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Book number: 14521

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: mstock, cookery, gastronomy, elizabeth david, syllabubs

DAVIDSON Alan

North Atlantic Seafood.

Penguin,, [1980]. 8vo., First Paperback Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; library binding of laminated boards preserving front and rear panels of dustwrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution in its binding with label trace on front free endpaper and cancelled stamp on title. This classic work was first published by Macmillan in the previous year. The author was awarded the Glenfiddich Book Author of the Year (Food) as a result

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Book number: 5048

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, seafood, alan davidson, sports, pastimes, cookery, gastronomy, north, atlantic, seafood

DAVIDSON Alan

North Atlantic Seafood.

Penguin,, [1980]. 8vo., First Paperback Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text, initials on inside front cover; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. This classic work was first published by Macmillan in the previous year. The author was awarded the Glenfiddich Book Author of the Year (Food)

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Book number: 9699

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: davidson, cookery, gastronomy, seafood, pastimes, alan davidson, sports, pastimes, cookery, gastronomy, north, atlantic, seafood

DAVIES W. E.

Fly Dressing and some Tackle-Making. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Elliot's Right Way Books, Kingswood,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Uncommon in this condition.

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Book number: 11543

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: angling, fishing, fly fishing, fly dressing, flies, sports, sporting, pastimes, bill davies

DAVIES Hunter

Wainwright. The Biography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Michael Joseph,, [1995]. 8vo., First Edition, with 37 plates on 16 and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 42895

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, mountaineering, fell walking, topography, cumberland, cumbs, westmorland, lake district, wainwright, alfred wainwright, hunter davies

DAVY] [H.

Salmonia: or, Days of Fly Fishing in a Series of Conversations. With some Account of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the Genus Salmo. By an Angler. IN FULL CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO

John Murray,, 1828. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 3 engraved plates of flies (two with original tissue guards present) and several wood-engraved illustrations in the text, title and first plate lightly age-soiled; attractively bound in mid-nineteenth century green full morocco, sides with double frame border in gilt stopped at corners by rosettes, back gilt extra with four flat bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with a multiple floral design and ruled in gilt, gilt doublures, very neatly rebacked with new endpapers to style, old backstrip laid down, a most attractive copy. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ANGLING BOOKS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 'Salmonia ranks high in the scale of angling literature' (Westwood & Satchell). The wood-engraved illustrations are by the author. The first and second editions were anonymous. A fourth edition was reached by 1851; the first US edition appeared in 1832. The first edition is very scarce, especially in this condition. Westwood & Satchell, p. 77.

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Book number: 11102

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: angling, sporting, sports, pastimes, fishing, fly-fishing, salmon, trout, salmonia, humphrey davy, h. davy, sports, pastimes, angling, salmonia, days, fly, fishing, series, conversations

DAY J. Wentworth

Sporting Adventure. With Illustrations by 'Fish-Hawk'. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Harrap,, 1937. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 12 plates and illustrations in the text, free endpapers lightly spotted; green cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, green top, a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 42483

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sporting, field sports, hunting, shooting, wildfowling, wildfowl, wentworth day

DAY-LEWIS Tamasin

Tarts with Tops On. Or How to Make the Perfect Pie. Photography by David Loftus.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [2004]. Sm. 4to., with coloured photographic title and numerous fine coloured photographs (the majority full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, gold endpapers, silk marker, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 13458

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, recipes, pies, tarts, tamasin day-lewis, tamasin day-lewis, sports, pastimes, cookery, gastronomy, tarts, tops, on

DAY William

Turf Celebrities I have known. BRIGHT, FIRM COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

F V White,, 1891. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper verso, half-title very lightly spotted; original red pictorial cloth, upper board blocked with racehorse in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, backstrip faded (but all lettering entirely legible in blind) and chafed without material loss at extreme head and tail, else a very good, clean copy. With separate 2pp and 18pp catalogues of the author's works bound in at end. Valuable series of personal recollections vividly portrayed by the well-known author of the turf. Subjects include Lord Anglesey, Sir William Codrington, Lord Ribblesdale, Henry Robinson, Fitz Oldaker and - notably - 'Types of Foreigners'. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 19491

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: horses, horse-racing, turf, racehorses, william day

DE SALIS Mrs. Harriet

Entrees a la Mode. Twelfth Impression. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1900. 8vo., Twelfth Impression; original patterned paper boards lettered in green, green cloth back, an unusually bright clean copy. This interesting period collection is arguably the scarcest of the author's 'a la Mode' series. It was first published in 1887 and reprinted at least three times in that year. This fourth edition was followed by a fifth in the same year, and the work remained in print throughout the Edwardian period reaching at least sixteen editions by 1915. Interestingly this edition is not recorded by Driver who lists the third (306.3) and fifth (306.4) editions. Not in Cagle.

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Book number: 14056

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, recipes, de salis, harriet de salis, entrees

DE SALIS Mrs. Harriet

Sweets and Supper Dishes a la Mode. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1888. 8vo., First Edition, free endpapers lightly browned; original patterned paper boards lettered in green, blue cloth back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Driver 313.14; not in Cagle.

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Book number: 38015

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, recipes, de salis, harriet de salis, sweets, supper dishes,

DIAZ-CANABATE Antonio

The Magic World of the Bullfighter. Introduction by John Marks. Translated by R.H. Stevens. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Burke,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, neat initials on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, yellow top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. With relevant cuttings mounted on front and rear free endpapers, and the trade ticket of Charles Wilson of Liverpool on front paste-down. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 29690

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sporting, sports, bullfighting, bullfighters, matadors, toreadors, antonio diaz-canabate

DOBEREINER Peter

Down the Nineteenth Fairway. Illustrated by Tim Havers. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Andre Deutsch,, [1982]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 24235

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: golf, peter dobereiner, p. dobereiner, sports, pastimes, golf, down, the, nineteenth, fairway

DOE John

The Bridge Manual. An Illustrated Practical Course of Instruction and Complete Guide to the Conventions of the Game REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

Mudie & Sons,, 1900. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, title and plates in red and black, title mildly browned; brown pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, promrose endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. With trade advertisements at rear. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 30339

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: card games, bridge, contract bridge, john doe