CURRAN Jim

K2. Triumph and Tragedy. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1987]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured plates, and maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 38878

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sporting, mountaineering, climbing, himalaya, himalayas, k2, jim curran

CYCLISTS' TOURING CLUB.

British Road Book. Volume III. Comprising the Northern Counties (Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Portions of Lincoln, Notts, Derby, Staffs, Cheshire, Isle of Man). Compiled and edited by R.T. Lang. Third and Revised Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE THIRD EDITION

E.R. Shipton,, 1899. 8vo., Third Edition, with large folding coloured map on cloth in pocket at front; original green limp cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, red sprinkled edges, primrose endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.

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Book number: 32714

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, cycling, cycles, cyclists, cyclists touring club, ctc, road books

CYCLISTS' TOURING CLUB.

Continental Road Book. France Part I. North, East and South-East. Second Edition. Compiled by W.G.W. Goodworth. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION

E.R. Shipton,, 1895. 8vo., Second Edition; original green limp cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, radial corners, red sprinkled edges, primrose endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 32712

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, cycling, cycles, cyclists, cyclists touring club, ctc, road books

DARWIN Bernard

Every Idle Dream. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Collins,, 1948. 8vo., First Edition, front endpapers lightly spotted, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; sand cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted on (predominantly white) rear panel.

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Book number: 23816

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: golf, bernard darwin, bernard darwin, sports, pastimes, golf, every, idle, dream

DAVID Elizabeth

A Book of Mediterranean Food [with] French Country Cooking. [Illustrations by John Minton. First CBC Omnibus Edition.] TWO CULINARY CLASSICS IN FULL MOROCCO

Cookery Book Club,, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, illustrated titles and illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in dark red full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Two of David's mighty trilogy in a single volume for the first time. Collects 'A Book of Mediterranean Food' (second edition with revisions, 1958) and 'French Country Cooking' (second edition with revisions, 1958). All the wonderful Minton illustrations are preserved. AN ELEGANT COPY OF AN EDITION NOW SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT.

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Book number: 41405

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Keywords: sporting, pastimes, cookery, gastronomy, elizabeth david, mediterranean food, french country cooking, cookery book club

DAVID Elizabeth

A Book of Mediterranean Food. Decorated by John Minton. [Recipes from Provence, Greece, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Syria, Egypt and North Africa. Second Impression.] SECOND IMPRESSION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK

John Lehmann,, [1951]. 8vo., Second Impression, on laid paper, with frontispiece, illustrated title and numerous illustrations (several full-page) in the text; original grey tweed cloth, backstrip blocked in brown and lettered in gilt, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. Published eight months after the first edition. DAVID'S FIRST BOOK, AND THE FIRST OF THE THREE VOLUMES THAT WOULD CHANGE ENGLISH COOKING FOR EVER. Lehmann's first edition of 1950 was a small print run, in relative terms expensive and intended to appeal primarily to the converted. Dedicated to Veronica Nicholson, it was also the work that combined for the first time David's highly characteristic style with Minton's wonderfully complementary illustrations. Certainly it can be argued that this is the most influential English cookery book of the twentieth century. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION

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Book number: 42114

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Keywords: cookery, cooking, gastronomy, elizabeth david, john minton, mediterranean food

DAVID Elizabeth

A Book of Mediterranean Food. Line Drawings by John Minton. [Recipes from Provence, Greece, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Syria, Egypt and North Africa]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Dorling Kindersley,, [1988]. 4to., with a coloured frontispiece, coloured plates and numerous illustrations in the text; red pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in white, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lavishly illustrated reissue of the author's first book, with Minton's original illustrations augmented by well-chosen plates by Old and Modern Masters. David contributes a new introduction written expressly for this edition; in it she provides a fascinating and hard-hitting account of her publishing history. The introduction to the original edition of 1950 is preserved. A well-produced and respectful version of one of the first of the author's three cookery books that changed English cooking forever. NIOW SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT.

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Book number: 47472

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DAVID Elizabeth

Cooking with Le Creuset and Cousances. NEAR FINE COPY

[Clarbat],, [1969]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, radial corners, comb-bound as issued, a near fine copy. One of a short series of pamphlets produced by David for the cookware manufacturer. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 49361

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, elizabeth david, le creuset, cousances

DAVID Elizabeth

Dried Herbs, Aromatics and Condiments. BRIGHT. CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

[Elizabeth David, Kitchen Utensils],, [1967]. 8vo., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. 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: 14519

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, elizabeth david, herbs, aromatics, condiments

DAVID Elizabeth

English Bread and Yeast Cookery. With Illustrations by Wendy Jones. [Fifth Impression thus].

Penguin, [Harmondsworth,, 1979]. 8vo., Fifth Paperback Impression, with numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. David's classic text was first published in 1977, with the paperback edition following in 1979.

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Book number: 15999

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, cooking, gastronomy, elizabeth david, baking, bread, yeast, elizabeth david, sports, pastimes, cookery, gastronomy, english, bread, yeast, cookery

DAVID Elizabeth

English Bread and Yeast Cookery. With Illustrations by Wendy Jones. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Allen Lane,, [1977]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title, numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 49097

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Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, recipes, bread, yeast, baking, david, elizabeth david

DAVID Elizabeth

French Country Cooking. Decorated by John Minton. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

John Lehmann,, [1952]. 8vo., Third Impression, on laid paper, with frontispiece, illustrated title, and numerous full-page and smaller illustrations in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edges very lightly speckled; original holland cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in bright, clean, unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip and with small loss at upper edge of rear panel. Published nine months after the first impression. David's second book, and to many the finest of the three classic titles that changed the nature of English cookery for ever. In common with her first work 'A Book of Mediterranean Food' this volume is greatly enhanced by the wonderful Minton illustrations. All early issues are very scarce in anything like this condition.

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Book number: 17247

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DAVID Elizabeth

French Country Cooking. Decorated by John Minton. [Second Impression]. SECOND IMPRESSION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

John Lehmann,, [1952]. 8vo., Second Impression, on laid paper, with frontispiece, illustrated title, and numerous full-page and smaller illustrations in the text, small, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, fore-edge very lightly speckled; original holland cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in bright, clean unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (just affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Published four months after the first impression. David's second book, and to many the finest of the three classic titles that changed the nature of English cookery for ever. In common with her first work 'A Book of Mediterranean Food' this volume is greatly enhanced by the wonderful Minton illustrations. All early issues are very scarce in anything like this condition

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Book number: 30124

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, cooking, recipes, elizabeth david, french cuisine, french country cooking, john minton

DAVID Elizabeth

French Country Cooking. Decorated by John Minton. [Second Edition. With new Preface by the Author]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Macdonald,, [1958]. 8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, illustrated title, and numerous full-page and smaller illustrations in the text, some relevant annotations in pencil to several recipes; original olive cloth, backstrip blocked in red and lettered in gilt, a very good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned at fold-ins, rubbed at joints, and mildly browned at backstrip. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE in the usual blue ink with double line. David's second book, fitst published in 1951 and to many the finest of the three classic titles that changed the nature of English cookery for ever. In common with her first work 'A Book of Mediterranean Food' this volume is greatly enhanced by the wonderful Minton illustrations, particularly the artwork for the wrap-around dustwrapper. In this second edition (from Macdonald rather than Lehmann) David adds a new Preface explaining the scope of the work, and excludes certain details relative to wartime rationing as no longer necessary. SIGNED COPIES OF DAVID'S WORKS ARE VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 33225

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, cooking, recipes, elizabeth david, french cuisine, french country cooking, john minton

DAVID Elizabeth

French Provincial Cooking. Illustrated by Juliet Renny. [Third Impression]. IN FULL MOROCCO SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Michael Joseph,, [1961]. 8vo., Third Impression, with title-vignette, title in green and black, and illustrations in the text, half-title mildly browned, edges mildly dust-soiled; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled with a gilt marmite, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, Renny illustration from original front board mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE in the usual blue ink with double line. Published a year after the first edition. SIGNED COPIES OF DAVID'S WORKS ARE VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 33227

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, elizabeth david, renny, juliet renny, french cookery, french cooking