Capper Bently (39 results)

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 322 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. 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 mild marking and tanning. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.

Condition: Good. DJ has some loss and several tears to edges. Contents are clean and reasonably bright.

Cloth Boards, Gilt Titles. Condition: About Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Fifth Edition, Second Printing. First volume only of a three volume set. Contents include - General Management, Design: Furnishing and Equipment, The Licensee and his Staff, Housekeeping and Hygiene. xi, 263pp, photo illustrated, illustrations in text. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. Sound binding, no wear to hinges. Small spot of wear to cloth at head of spine, otherwise, blue cloth is bright and clean. Weight, 770g. We ship Worldwide, at cost, using both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges, at cost, without overcharging. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone as per the USPS. World rates based on specific destination and weight. Online estimates by the Listing Site may not be correct and either additional, or reduced postage may be required, particularly for particularly for heavier books for shipment to Canada and Overseas, but not usually to the USA. Questions? Quotes? Images? - please email. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Condition: Very Good. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. LICENSED HOUSES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT by BENTLY CAPPER ** HARDBACK ** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * PUBLISHER : THE CAXTON PUBLISHING COMPANY * YEAR : UNDATED * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 252 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: DUST COVER IS RUBBED WITH SMALL RIPS AND WORN TO EDGES. THE BLACK BOARD COVER HAS A SLIGHTLY COCKED STINE WITH BUMPED CORNERS, HEADBAND AND TAIL. THE FADED TITLE IS WRITTEN IN GOLD GILT ON THE SPINE. FOXING TO PAGE EDGE AND INSIDE FRONT AND BACK COVER. CRACKED BINDING TO PAGE 80. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. vi + 271 pages. Volume Two. No dustjacket. B&W plates and illustrations. Very clean dark green hardback binding. Light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges lightly browned. Clean and tidy pages which smell moderately musty.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Revised (Post-War) Edition. 250 pages. Volume One. No dustjacket. B&W plates and illustrations. Very clean dark green hardback binding. Light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges lightly browned. Clean and tidy pages which smell moderately musty.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. vi + 322 pages. Volume Three. No dustjacket. B&W plates and illustrations. Very clean dark green hardback binding. Light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges lightly browned. Clean and tidy pages which smell moderately musty.

HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. REPRINT. Progressive Catering A Comprehensive Treatment of Food, Cookery, Drink, Catering Services and Management ( 4 Volume Set); reprint dated July 1952; Navy blue boards - gilt to spine has faded. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Volume I 318 pages; Volume II 353 pages; Volume III 378 pages; Volume IV 406 pages; Four volume set. No dustjackets. DATE PUBLISHED: 1952 EDITION: REPRINT 378.

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Black and White Illustrations (illustrator). Undated Circa 1949. Please email for further details NO EXTRA POSTAGE ABOVE OUR STANDARD RATES! Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". H.G Turner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). Dark green boards, title faded at spine edge, light wear at top corners and spine ends, pages have some foxing, light evidence of use, overall clean and well bound, 6.5 X 9.5" 400 pages Weight: Over 1 Kg. Undated (circa 1960s ?). General Editor W. Bently Capper - editor of "The Hotel Review" - Assisted by 40 experts in various branches of the trade. "A practical work for hotel-keepers, innkeepers, licensed victualers, wine and spirit merchants, off-license holders, club secretaries, club stewards, caterers, etc." Contents : Selling and Service policies; The Guests' point of view; Financial; The Law and the Licensee; Yourself and the trade, etc. Illustrated by 20 glossy black/white photographs, plus 20 specimen forms and entries.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Decorated embossed navy blue boards. Dull spine title. Small tear of paper on front inner hinge. No jacket. Volume two only.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. 2 Volumes of the 3 Volume set. Maroon Cloth with Gilt Titles to Spine, Caxton motif blind stamped on front cover. Illustrated with B&W Photographs and Plans. Pages in very good condition, some wear to covers, mostly at edges and spine. Gilt Lettering and lines still bright. Undated, states New Revised edition. Heavy volumes so postage will be extra. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcovers. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket (as Issued?). Reprint. COMPLETE SET. FOUR HARDBACK BINDING WITHOUT DUSTJACKTS. HEAVY - will be expensive to send outside the UK. Volume One has 318 pages, Volume 2 has 353 pages, Volume 3 has 378 pages and volume 4 has 406 including the index for the four volumes. No dustjackerts. Very clean dark blue textured hardback bindings with light wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Dulled gilt-coloured titles to spine. B&W photographic illustrations throuyghout. Tape marks to inside of boards, pencil name and address to flyleaf of first two volunmes o/w pages are very clean. (ALSO HAVE ANOTHER VOLUME TWO IS WHICH HAS WEAR TO HARDBACK BINDING EDGES AND CORNERS AND BUBBLING TO BACK BOARD WUITH REGLUED BACK ENDPAPER AND WITH LIGHTLY MARKED PAGES FOR £7.00).

Condition: fair. Revised/Fifth Edition. 287, v.2 only, illus., culinary terms in English and French, spine worn, soiled, and small tear at top of front board. This is a wonderful snapshop of pubs, public houses, bars, and other licensed houses and how they operated in Britain shortly after the end of the Second World War. There is clear post-war content with references to "the American bar. ".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Volume 2 - FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Blue bobbled cloth lettered in gold on spine. Minute name stamps on endpapers.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Blue bobbled cloth lettered in gold on spine. Minute name stamps on endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Three volumes, complete: 263 pages (1), 289 pages (2), and 306 pages, plus index (3). Blue cloth with gilt titling and decoration at spines, decoration in blind to front panels. Some rubbing, edgewear on boards. Sound bindings. No jackets, if issued. Pages foxed and lightly toned, else clean, with no prior owner's notes or other readers' markings. Black and white photos and illustrations throughout. This is a multiple-volume set, and may require additional postage to ship.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1952 1st edition. Volume IV of a 4 volume set. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spines, blind stamped Caxton 1474 logo to front, blue speckled edges. Profusely illustrated: b/w plates; b/w in-text illustrations. Index. Condition: Very Good. Light edgewear. Faint foxing to endpapers. Internally clean and bright. Binding firm. Size: 9.5x7.5in / 24x19cm. 406pp. Weight: 1kg.

In 3 vols. Reprint of 5th edition. A practical guide on the keeping of licensed premises. Illustrated with plates, diagrams and graphs. Royal blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine, blindstamped Caxton logo on upper cover, speckled edges. Overall NF. 8vo. 263pp, 289pp, 306pp + index.

In 3 volumes. Hardback. Corners rubbed & boards slightly marked, otherwise good. x + 250; vi + 271; vi + 322pp.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. How to cater - no recipes but everything you will need to know about the ingredients, drinks, and the serving. This is a 4 volume set with a shipping weight of 4kg, please contact us before placing an order. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

green cloth, gilt. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. ND(c. 1925), 3 vols: 252,xvi,pp + 22 b&w pls; 278,xii,pp + 16 b&w pls; 300,xii,pp + 19 b&w pls. The three vols:.Comprehensive analysis of all aspects of pub & hotel management, design, furnishing & fitting out. A brillant insight into the social history of Britain between the wars especially pubs. A very nice set with a little rubbing to the gilt lettering and occassional edge rubbing. Some light foxing.

No date. Caxton Publishing Company, Limited. Hardback. Book - Fair/Good. Ex-lib.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Revised Edition. 3 volumes. "New and Revised" and contributions by experts in the Publican business and brewing. full page photos plates in hotels, restaurants and kitchens of the pre-modern era of catering and pubs. Blue cloth, gilt titles, all near fine as are the contents and still in the card box posted out in 1950. 1st published in 1923 and thoroughly revised for this 4th edition. Volume 1 has 265 pages, volume 2 has 279 pages and volume 3 has 323 pages and volume 3 contains the index. Still has envelope for coupons to ask the "Licensed Victualers" questions. 3 volumes complete (price includes the extra postage costs within the UK).

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG hardbacks. Three volumes, reprinted May 1951. Royal blue pebbled cloth with bright gilt lettering on spines. Blue speckled full edges, with a little foxing on edges and early pages. Light wear/bumping to corners and spine extremities. This is a heavy set (about 2.6kgs packed); additional postage may be required.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. revised (post war) edition .Dark green covers with blind stamped Caxton logo to front Gilt titles to spine. No foxing or damage inside , some very small minor white spots to rear cover. A very smart clean set of books full of interesting information and pictures.

Blue hardback rexine cover. Condition: Very Good. New and Revised Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 263pp; 287pp; 334pp. B/w photographic plates. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. How to cater - no recipes but everything you will need to know about the ingredients, drinks, and the serving. This is a 4 volume set with a shipping weight of 4kg, please contact us before placing an order. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.