Balkan Cooking by Howe Robin (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Tight, square and unmarked. Some pale foxing to upper page edges. 272pp. Good only jacket is rubbed, chipped and spine ends, and has a sticker scuff at lower spine. Size: 12mo - over 6" - 8" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First US edition. Yellow cloth boards under grey illustrated dust jacket, 272 pp. Each recipe has the country of origin and regional name. Most recipes also have a little information about how the dish is prepared or served. A nice collection of recipes from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania (Romania), Yugoslavia, and Turkey.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First American Edition. 272pgs. yellow boards.dark red lettering.wear to the top edge, otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket tattered. along the spne edges. A collection of recipes from Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey. Size: Ocavo. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in near fine condition, generally crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. 8vo. 272 pp. Including index. In protective Mylar. 233957294. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. *"Bundle Up and Save On Postage** Dust jacket is worn, text has light foxing on edges, bookstore stamp last page, otherwise without flaw. 5 X 7.5" 272 pages, published 1965. Mrs. Howe lived and traveled in the Balkans and made a collection of recipes from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey. Anyone familiar with one or more of these countries will share her nostalgic delight; others will be rewarded in discovering these culinary treasures.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 272pp., index, The cooking of Turkey, Bosnia, Slovenia, Serbia, Greece, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia & Albania. Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A pleasing set of four mid-20th century cookery books, including a very scarce first edition of 'Cream, Butter and Wine' by Sybil Goffinet. All first editions except for 'High Protein', which is a second impression copy.Offering a variety of wholesome recipes across these four cookbooks.In the original yellow cloth bindings and all published by Andre Deutsch, forming a pleasing uniform set.Cream, Butter and Wine by Sybil Goffinet (1955) - A very scarce first edition copy of this work. With recipes including lemon omelette souffle, stuffed peaches, lobster thermidor, boeuf bourguignon and duchesse potatoes.The High Protein Diet and Cookery Book by Theodora Fitzgibbon and Michael Hemans (1959) - With a list of foods allowed and not allowed in the proposed diet, as well as a series of debunked fallacies about slimming. Fitzgibbon was an Irish cookery writer, model and actress.Cooking Afloat by Molly Graham (1963) - A unique guide to cooking on the water, with hints on galley equipment and entertaining afloat. With recipes utilising largely canned ingredients, such as caramel custard, canned pork pie, meat curry and meat cakes.Balkan Cooking by Robin Howe (1965) - Exploring a range of Balkan cuisine, with recipes such as mussels fried in batter, lamb soup, tuna fish in marinade, paprika chicken and dumplings. In the original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart, with minor handling marks to majority of boards, with more notable damp marks to the boards of 'High Protein'. Minor shelf wear across the set. Fading to the spines of 'Cream' and 'High Protein'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers of 'Cream'. Scattered spots largely concentrated to the first and last few pages of 'High Protein', as well as to the fore-edge, affecting the occasional margins. Ownership bookplate tipped-in to the front free endpapers of all but 'Balkan'. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…