Constance Spry, First Edition (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. with 42 reproductions (19 in full colour) of flower decorations for festive occasions (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound cream cloth boards, gilt titles, name and date written on the front end paper. Jacket is price clipped untidily with some dust marks and light wear.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

Condition: Good. 1953. First Edition Thus. 69 pages. No dust jacket. White cloth with gilt lettering. Contains ex-libris plate. Contains colour photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and notable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Mild water droplets to boards.

Condition: Good. 1961. First Edition. 126 pages. Plastic clear dust jacket over yellow cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor wear marks to spine and panels.

Condition: Good. 1953. First Edition. 68 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth with gilt lettering. Colour photographic plates. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near Fine maroon paperback slightly bumped at the top corner. 160 pages, unmarked. 2 inserts; OOCO W5W; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages.

Original decorated gilt cloth. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Fifth Printing. With coloured frontispiece & b/w plates & diagrams. With several loosely inserted recipes (hand-written & from magazines). Gift inscription from Alan to Jane for her birthday and thanking her for the many years they have spent together. Some staining to fore edge and front free endpaper. Spine and parts of front cover faded. Slight wera & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light wear only to book, owner's name in pencil top of title page, pages are clean and bright, binding is tight, book encased in plastic sleeve with titles written in white, a truly lovely copy. No jacket as issued. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. The Constance Spry cookery book. Autora: Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume. J.M. Dent and sons Ltd., 1964, London. Tapa dura, tela editorial, cubierta y guardas ilustradas, protector plástico. Fotografías en b/n. 1235 págs. Libro de recetas de cocina.

Cloth. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book is near fine in like dustwrapper,pp 144 with index. Color & black & white photos throughout. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Cover a little soiled and with mark on front - see photos. Some foxing to first pages and extremeties.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1942 first edition, only the remains of the wraps, rear and small patrt of the dust jacket's spine remain. Page edges tanned, foxing, owner's inscripiton and the first few pages have a creased corner.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Cloth front board faintly shadow-stained from the dust-wrapper design; text edges faintly foxed. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; viii, 112 pages, [39] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour), colour frontispiece ; 25 cm. Notes; With illustrations by Rex Whistler and Lesley Blanch. Includes eight colour plates and thirty-one black and white plates. Anthology of writings by Constance Spry. Subjects; Spry, Constance 1886-1960. Flower arrangement. Floral decorations. Flower arrangers Great Britain Biography. Gardening Great Britain. 3 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Folded stiff wrappers (softcover), 94 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. Good/very good, light edge-wear. Scarce.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Cloth front board faintly shadow-stained from the dust-wrapper design; text edges faintly foxed. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; viii, 112 pages, [39] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour), colour frontispiece ; 25 cm. Notes; With illustrations by Rex Whistler and Lesley Blanch. Includes eight colour plates and thirty-one black and white plates. Anthology of writings by Constance Spry. Subjects; Spry, Constance 1886-1960. Flower arrangement. Floral decorations. Flower arrangers Great Britain Biography. Gardening Great Britain. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback, lacks dustjacket, white cloth covereed boards with black cloth to spine. Boards are grubby and slight rubbing to spine edges. Previous owners n=bookplate inside front board and slight foxing to page edges otherwise internally clean. Good condition.

First American Edition. Hardcover in jacket, good with shelf wear, slight toning. jacket chipped and rubbed. Illustrated,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two Books. First editions. Hostess: Demy 8vo; (128)pp. Yellow boards with gilt title on spine and gilt illustration on upper board. Binding square and tight. Clear plastic dust jacket with very light wear, price unclipped. Top edge yellow. Clean within. B/w illustrations. B/w portrait frontispiece. A 'Very Good' copy. Shorter Course in Housewifery: 1946, 1st. Small Octavo. xi, 148pp. Illustrated. Publisher's blue cloth. A 'Very Good' copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition 1st edition See photos.

Paperback. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Slight cover wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request. previous owners names written inside on a sticker.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated notebook on gardening from British educator Constance Spry. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-nine plates. Collated complete. A charming notebook and guide to gardening year-round, with chapters on each month. This work provides information on the changes in the garden through the seasons and important times of the year for any gardener. With tips for planting and pruning. Written by Constance Spry, a British educator, florist and author. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with minor spotting to the foredge and endpapers. Light age toning to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lesley Blanch (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this delightful collection of domestic tips and recipes from British author Constance Spry. First edition. Illustrated throughout. A charming guide to entertaining at home, with commentary of the author's own experiences as a hostess. Includes chapters on flower decoration, afternoon tea, table cloths, cooking at home, and parties, amongst other events. Written by Constance Spry, a British educator, florist and author. With recipes and menus from Rosemary Ethel Hume, an English chef and writer who taught at Le Cordon Bleu cookery school in London, and co-devised coronation chicken in 1953. Illustrated by Lesley Blanch, a British writer, illustrator, and traveller. Edited by Anthony Marr, the son and only child of Constance Spry. With an introduction from Elizabeth Home, the Countess of Home. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities and the odd small mark. Original price-clipped transparent dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Very Good Indeed. book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Lesley Blanch (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this delightful collection of domestic tips and recipes from British author Constance Spry. First edition. Illustrated throughout. A charming guide to entertaining at home, with commentary of the author's own experiences as a hostess. Includes chapters on flower decoration, afternoon tea, table cloths, cooking at home, and parties, amongst other events. Written by Constance Spry, a British educator, florist and author. With recipes and menus from Rosemary Ethel Hume, an English chef and writer who taught at Le Cordon Bleu cookery school in London, and co-devised coronation chicken in 1953. Illustrated by Lesley Blanch, a British writer, illustrator, and traveller. Edited by Anthony Marr, the son and only child of Constance Spry. With an introduction from Elizabeth Home, the Countess of Home. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities and the odd small mark. Original unclipped transparent dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. A red sticker to the front pastedown. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Lovely clean book.Contains menus and recipes by Rosemary Hume, Edited by Anthony Marr and preface by The Countess of Home. The clean and bright yellow (waterproof!) cover has lovely design to front. There is one single hand-added receipe for taramasalata.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. pp XI, 267. 1st printing. Joints a little weak, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 267 pages colour frontispiece plate, b/w photographic illustrations. Original green cloth binding, gilt lettering to the spine, good with a little general wear. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, no foxing. a very good, clean copy of this extremely rare title. Size: 8vo. Book.