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First edition, 8vo, 335, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations. Original blue cloth, rubbed, light wear to the ends of the upper joint. Seller Inventory # 40322
Title: Italian Food. Drawings by Renato Guttuso
Publisher: London: Macdonald (1954).
Publication Date: 1954
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
8vo, 364, (2) pp. Inscribed from the author to Joan Baylis ".Greetings for Christmas 1963" on the half title, marginal browning throughout, original covers bound in at the end, marbled endpapers. Recent dark green full morocco, a.e.g. Seller Inventory # 29523
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Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 9 full-page illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in dark green full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt to a tureen motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. First CBC edition of David's third book and the last of the trilogy that changed the nature of English cookery forever. First published in 1954 with a revised second edition a year later, it presented an entirely novel world of taste, ingredients and cookery to a ration-oriented and culinary sombre Britain still in the aftermath of WWII. Seller Inventory # 37049
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