Rea Dora (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good. New & revised edition 1926. Stiffish card pictorial cover. Tight and clean copy, boards are darkened and rubbed with a small tear to lower end of the top panel. Text is lightly tanned but without marks or stains.decent copy.

New and revised edition, 1926. Foxing, largely to page edges. Some rusty stains from old paperclips. Handwritten recipe for strawberry jam on early page. Binding tight. Red cloth lightly worn on spine; gilt lettering to front board and spine. Used - Good. Good hardback in red cloth.

Paperback. Condition: Good. New & revised edition 1926. Stiffish card pictorial cover. There are some marks, some light wear & a very small tear at the base of the spine of the cover which is mainly clean & bright, The page edges are foxed but inside the pages are mostly clean, Gift inscription on 1st page dated 1926. No torn, loose or missing pages. Some adverts at the front & rear of the book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this very scarce cookery book full of helpful and simple recipes from British cook Dora Rea. First edition. Very scarce work. A collection of over four hundred simple and delicious recipes for the contemporary housewife, being a selection of the recipes that the author herself found most helpful during her twenty years of cookery teaching. With examples from mock turtle soup, stuffed steak, and orange tartlets, to damson wine and raspberry vinegar. Written by Dora Rea, a British food writer. With publisher's advertisements to the front and rear of the text. In the original card wraps. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Light sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. The previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Very Good. book.