Language: English
Published by The Wine and Food Society, London, 1948
Seller: Cacklegoose Press, London, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 119pp. Section 2 in the Wine and Food Society Concise Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy. Focuses on Fish.
Published by The Wine and Food Society, London, 1948
Seller: Cacklegoose Press, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 5th Printing (first published 1940). 119pp; spine darkened and detached a little a top, but a good entire copy.
Published by The Wine and Food Society Limited, 1948
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1948. Reprinted. 119 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Language: English
Published by The Wine And Food Society, London, 1948
Seller: Great Matter Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Comprising an alphabetical list of edible fishes and a selection of American, English and French recipes for their culinary preparation and presentation. Blue cloth covers have light wear on bottom edges, corners and spine. Gold gilt lettering on spine is bright. Previous owners signature on inside front cover along with a small sticker from a previous bookseller. Hinges are tight. Text is clean and unmarked. Light soiling to page ends and inside front and back covers. DJ is in a protective mylar cover with small chips and tears to edges, corners and spine ends. Light soiling to spine and covers. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never ex-lib unless explicitly described as such.
Published by The Wine And Food Society, London, 1940
Seller: cookbookjj, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1948 ptg. VERY GOOD.
Published by Wine and Food Society, London, 1948
Seller: Books & Bygones, Reading, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. 119 pages. From Abalone to Zarthe. Private Ex-Libris Label to inside front board Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by London: Wine & Food Society, 1942
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 118p and 136p blue paperback, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, light foxing, many b&w illustrations, very good condition Language: English.
Published by The Wine and Food Society 1948, 1948
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
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Published by London: The Wine and Food Society [1942], 1942
OKart., xii, 118 Seiten, 8°, Umschlag leicht berieben, eingerissen und beschmutzt. Besitzerunterschrift, Signaturen auf dem Titelblatt, sonst guter Zustand. Book Language/s: English.
Published by The Wine and Food Society, London, 1945
Leather. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). A fourth impression of this gastronomical encyclopaedia edited by André L. Simon, this volume regarding fish, internally bright and clean. A concise encyclopaedia of gastronomy compiled under the editorial direction of André L. Simon, this being the second section which focusses on Fish: with an alphabetical list of edible fish and a selection of American, English, and French recipes for their culinary preparation and presentation.The fourth reprint of 1945, originally published in 1940.Internally, this work is in excellent conditions. In a quarter calf binding over cloth covered boards. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and some rubbing to the spine, resulting in some minor losses to the leather. With a minor faint marking to the front board. From the library of John L. Marks, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Good. book.
Published by The Wine and Food Society 1942-1948, London, 1942
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.
Published by The Wine And Food society, 1948
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. SIMON, Andre L. [compiled by] [119] pp. The Wine And Food Society 1948 Fifth Printing 8 1/2" x 5 7/8" A concise encyclopedia of gastronomy compiled under the editorial direction of André L. Simon, this being the second section which focusses on Fish: with an alphabetical list of edible fish and a selection of American, English, and French recipes for their culinary preparation and presentation.