Grant Doris M L (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Name of the previous owner written on the front free end paper page. Publication of 266 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. There is some foxing throughout the body of the book. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. George G. Harrap & Co., 1937. Hardback, 8vo, 268pp, adverts. Patchy foxing. Original maroon cloth, slightly bumped. A good copy. /0.5uk.

[0-9735836-0-6] 2004. (Trade paperback) Near fine. 168pp. Signed by 7 of the 9 authors. Photographs, illustrations. Contributors include Elaine L. Adam, Ruth M. Breckman, Barb Cook, Jo Douglas, Kathleen Forrester, Helen Grant, Jean Hewko, Doris Lehmann, Marie Woodrow. (Fiction, Canadian).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. The Hay System Cookery Book by Doris M L Grant antique 1939 3rd edition cook book unorthodox food health treatment food combining diet. Box #4.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1937 hardcover with dust jacket. The book is in very good condition+++. clean, square and tight. The dust jacket is in good condition. clean and bright. chipped and bumped to extremities, a few tears. see photos.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A smart third impression of this cookery book based on the Hay System, created by American physician William Howard Hay. Third impression. A cookbook based on the official book of the Hay System or The Hay Diet, a nutrition method developed in the 1920s that claims to work by separating food into three groups: alkaline, acidic, and neutral. With chapters on alkaline or base forming foods, protein foods, carbohydrate foods, and others. As well as menus and suggestions for the different meals of the day, seasonings, home preserving, vitamins, alcohol, and more. Includes a chapter on weight control which promotes a "reasonable and natural weight" being maintained, especially for women. The food-combining diet has been the subject of one peer-reviewed randomized clinical trial, which found no benefit from the diet in terms of weight loss. Written by Doris Margaret Louise Grant, a British nutritionist and food writer, the inventor of the wartime Grant loaf. With an introduction from William Howard Hay, an American physician and director of The East Aurora Sun and Diet Sanatorium. He is principally known for the 'Hay diet', a food-combining dietary system. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine with the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Minor spotting and light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A smart seven-volume collection of scarce domestic science and cookery books charting the shift from Victorian thrift to interwar modernity, with three first editions. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.This is a smart seven-volume collection of British domestic cookery and home management, from 1898 to 1938, charting the shift from Victorian thrift to interwar modernity, consisting of: Up-to-date and Economical Cookery [1898]. This volume is the second edition. This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc from copies held at The British Library and National Library of Scotland. Publisher"s advertisements to rear. This volume offers Victorian, budget-minded recipes and household economy. Cookery by Mary Duke Gordon and Eleanor Sinclair Rohde (1922). This volume is a first edition. This is a comprehensive interwar guide to everyday and entertaining cookery. Food Wisdom: A Book for the Housewife and Everyone Responsible for the Care and Preparation of Food by D. D. Cottington Taylor assisted by P. L. Garbutt (1926). This volume is a first edition. A concise manual on nutrition, planning, safe storage, and thrifty cooking. The Green Label Cookery Book (1930). This volume is the first edition, first printing of this work, with numerous practical recipes and menus for modern kitchens. Practical Home Making by D. D. Cottington Taylor [1930]. This volume is undated. Dated here, using Jisc, from a copy held at the University of Cambridge Libraires. This is an interwar domestic handbook on cookery, cleaning, budgeting, and efficiency. Meatless Dishes for Hay Dieters by Mabel Osborne with a foreword by Doris M. L. Grant (1937). This edition is a reprint of this compact vegetarian cookbook. Good Food from Sweden: Selections from Swedish Dishes Suited to an English Table compiled by Inga Norberg (1938). This is the third impression of this work. This copy has 7 pages for additional recipes to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, generally very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Previous seller"s small sticker to rear paste down of "Food Wisdom". Bookplates from "martin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique" to front free endpapers. Previous owner"s written recipes to front and rear paste downs and rear free endpapers of "Meatless Dishes". Previous owner"s pencil recipe inscriptions to two rear blank "additional recipes" pages of "Food from Sweden". Blind stamp to front free endpaper of "Cookery" from "Hampton Park, Hereford", with previous owner"s inscriptions to front endpapers. Tide marks and heavier offsetting to endpapers of "Cookery". Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot and slight age toning heavier to older copies. Very Good. Various (illustrator). book.…