Birds Eggs by Simon Andre (10 results)

Condition: Fair. 1946. Reprint. 183 pages. No dust jacket. Section VI. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Notable foxing to endpapers and page edges. Pencil scribble to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Notable scuffing, faded staining and marking to boards.

Condition: Good. 1944. First Edition. 185 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Book has a forward lean. Boards are bowed.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Spine and boards sun-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii,183 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Cookery Encyclopedias; Eggs as food; Game and game-birds; Gastronomy Encyclopedias; Poultry. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Spine and boards sun-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii,183 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Cookery Encyclopedias; Eggs as food; Game and game-birds; Gastronomy Encyclopedias; Poultry. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Heavily sunned spine else very good plus lacking the dustwrapper.

First Reprinting. This is one volume of a series of nine. The books are divided into nine categories: e.g., sauces; vegetables; fish; meat; birds and eggs; cheese; and wine. Each category includes lengthy definitions and recipes arranged alphabetically. Definitions, sources, and time of year availability for cheeses are detailed, as are definitions and sources of wines. A list of the sources quoted in the definitions is included.Hard cover with dust jacket that has significant damage. Otherwise a good tight copy with a written recipe on the last page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Viii, 185 Pp. First Printing, "First Published" With 1944 Date On Title And Copyright Pages. Softcover. Light Wear And Slight Browning To Covers. No Marks. Robert Balzer's Copy Although Not Marked As Such.

First Edition. Condition: vg. vg 1st edition Wine & Food Society 1944 trade paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, boards and binding tidy, light sunning to spine. Size: 8vo.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A collection of Andre L. Simon's gastronomic volumes, including eight from his 'Concise Encyclopaedia' series. New impressions of these works, except for 'Soups, Salads, Souses'. With the publisher's original clipped dust wrappers.Very scarce to find these volumes in a collection such as this.Comprising the following volumes by Andre L. Simon, a French-born wine merchant, gourmet and prolific author on the subject:Of 'A Concise Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy': Section I: Sauces (fifth impression), Section II: Fish (fifth impression), Section III: Vegetables (fourth impression), Section IV: Cereals (third impression), Section V: Fruit (second impression), Section VI: Birds and Their Eggs (third impression), Section VIII: Wine (third impression) and Section IX: Cheese (second impression).Each instalment to this series offers an alphabetic list of ingredients falling under its respective category, with details of their origins, traditional pairings, and methods of preparation, cooking and serving.Also with 'Soups, Salads, Souses: Wartime Fare for the Fastidious' (1942) - With a foreword by Eugene Herbodeau and a postscript by Mrs. Jessop Hulton. In the original cloth bindings, except for 'Soups', in the original wraps. In the original price-clipped dust wrappers. Externally, very smart, with mild rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Faded spot to the front board of 'Wine'. 'Soups' wraps are sunned, with general edge wear. Dust wrappers are sunned and have varying degrees of wear. 'Birds' is the most worn, with separations to the fly leaf and spine and a large chip to the rear. With chipping to the rest of wraps, majority concentrated to the spine heads and tails, and most notable instances to 'Vegetables' and 'Fish'. Closed tear to the spine tail of 'Fruit'. Handling marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers and the odd spot to the contents. Heavier scattering to 'Soups'. Ink inscription to the front free endpaper of 'Birds'. Very Good. book.