Cyril Ray Editor (60 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is an anthology of fact and fiction on the subjects of food and drink, combining serious prose, jokes and poems and satire. This edition contains a tall story by Wynford Vaughan Thomas, a new translation of a Chekhov story about food and wine and a diary extract from Evelyn Waugh. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 217 pp. Dark teal boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. Illustrated with 36 line drawings from Punch Magazine. This collection contains: Animals by Gerald Durrell; Art by Bevis Hillier; Business by Robert Heller; Communications by David Taylor; Drink by Cyril Ray; Films by Alexander Walker; Food by Clement Freud; Law and Crime by Fenton Bresler; Literature by Anthony Burgess; Medicine by Richard Gordon; Men's Fashion by John Taylor; The Military by Alun Chalfont; Music by Alan Blyth; Playtime by Nigel Dempster; Politics by Paul Johnson; Pop Culture by Kenneth Robinson; Sport by Ian Wooldridge; Theatre by Sheridan Morley; Travel by Alan Whicker; Women's Fashion by Ann Ryan; and Young World by Benny Green. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Green cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil. Slight remainder mark on top text block edge near binding, otherwise as issued. Dust jacket shows very slight shelf wear, nearly as issued. 191 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 192 pages, "Illustrated with sixteen splendid colour plates and eight pages of maps---"; very attractive book in burgundy and cream-coloured covers, bookplate on first blank page, but very gently read, otherwise very clean and unmarked; DJ heavily chipped and torn, particularly along top edge.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (wine, drinking customs, dining) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket present with edge wear.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Sorry, No international shipping on this item.Ex-library paperback in very nice condition with the usual markings and attachments.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. the jacket is torn and creased. a bit marked. contents are clean and presentable. heavy, may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good ++. First Edition. 224 pages. Illustrated with B&W plates and B&W illustrations in text. Dark red background dustjacket with moderate wear to edges and corners, small tear bottom corner. Clean dark brown hardback binding. Very clean pages.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in America.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine; fine dust jacket. 8 vo. 191 pp. Introduction Kingsley Amis, b/w illustrations, green boards. Entertaining compilation of prose & verse, fact & fiction with speically commisioned contributions including a Jemima Shore story by Antonia Fraser. Book.…

Pictorial Card. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. This is the first edition of this edition. Browned pages and fore'edges. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Contributors include : Anthony Powell ; Hugh Johnson & Vernon Watkins ; dust wrapper would be very good but on front cover 2 tears - both 2" ; no inscriptions. Black & White photographic and drawings (illustrator).

1st edition. Tall 8vo. 224pp. Frontispiece and illustrations. Original boards. Pictorial d/w., rubbed and chipped to edges, spine faded, tape repair to tear. ISBN 090989708 US$17.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. 256pp; No DJ, orange cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, boards square & clean, spine faded, illustrated purple endpapers, previous owner's name to flyleaf, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Vintage collection of writings about imbibing alcoholic beverages. Illustrated.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** First title page has a gift inscription which has been covered by a plain label, otherwise a very nice hard cover copy in Slipcase without flaw. 8.25 X 11" 719 pages Weight Over 2.5 Kg. (1967). "Maybe wine costs too much to be put away and given all the time it needs to grow as great as it might be. But let us be grateful that there is as much and as good wine as there is throughout the world, wines of many different types and styles, wines to suit every taste and occasion, wines which may be dear but are worth more than any money that we have to pay for them: joy and health are the gifts of wine, and they are priceless" Andre L. Simon. Illustrated by colour photographs.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good book in light card covers. Internally very good and free of inscriptions to flyleaf; well illustrated with maps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Wilson Harris "THE FAILURE OF U.N.O." / George Brinsmead "Argentina Today" / Peter Townsend "The New Tide In China" / Brigadier A H Head "The Army We Need" / Cyril Ray "New Deal For Old Vic" (Papers).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 28 pages. Professor D W Brogan U.S.A., Britain & Palestine" / D Sturge Moore "Crises In France" / Wilson Harris "Trouble Over Germany" / Oscar R Hobson "Less Money, More Goods?" / J P W Mallalieu "Test Match Gallery" / Cyril Ray "The Antique Trade" / Harold Nicolson "Marginal Comment" (Papers).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Wilson Harris "The Kremlin And Korea" / Peter Fleming "War in Korea" / Cyril Ray "Dr. Malan's Mission" / Richard Lee Strout "America at War" / Cleland Scott "Kyanite" / Christopher Sykes "The Bab and Bahaism" / J P W Mallalieu "Lord's Unseen" / Graham Binns "On Painting Wells Cathedral" Papers).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. COAL BOARD UNDER FIRE / Wilson Harris "Paris Week-End" / Edward Hodgkin "At The Tribunal" / Rawle Knox "'Up The Republic'" / Peter Campbell "The Odds For 1950" / Cyril Ray "New Film Techniques" / Cleland Scott "Hippopotamus Land" / George Godwin "Horse Trade" (Papers).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 40 pages. Honor Croome "Standard And Privilege" / Willard Price "Peron's Antarctica" / Dr C K Allen "The Pinpricked Life" / Cyril Ray "Bookstall Centenary" Maurice Edelman "Motors In The Window" / Peter Fleming "A Theatre For Oxford?" (Papers).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Leslie Smith "Communism In Asia" / Wilson Harris "Australia Turns Right" / Cyril Ray "Where Greece Meets Albania" / C M Woodhouse "The Latest Film Crisis" / M H Middleton "French Landscape" (Papers).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Tall 8vo. yellow cloth hardback with decorative gilt titles to spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. 208pp., illustrated in b/w, one and two colours with great contemporary graphic design by F. H.K. Henrion. Articles by Kingsley Amis, Angus Wilson, Iris Murdoch, James Laver and Laurie Lee among others. A clean copy with no markings or inscriptions. Slight discolouration to cloth spine and dulling to gilt titles. A Very Good Copy.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 224 pages : 26 cm. Subjects; Wine. Cognac. Distilleries. Cellaring. Cognac : educational guidebook. Imbiber. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 224 pages : 26 cm. Subjects; Wine. Cognac. Distilleries. Cellaring. Cognac : educational guidebook. Imbiber. 1 Kg. …

Condition: Good. First edition of volume 10 (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 16cm), 224pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. There is some tanning of the contents, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good condition (some chafing of the edges, price-clipped). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it. ISBN 0090989708. …

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This fine unmarked copy is bound in cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The price clipped dust wrapper is in fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. An illustrated anthology of wine and food in prose and poetry from such luminaries as Laurie Lee, Katherine Whitehorn, Charles Causley, Diana Athill, Simon Raven and James Cameron. Ref AAA2.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** 'Canada Wire Company /' Red Reel Library selection, in tattered, copper-colored, presentation dust jacket. [3" x 1" cutout to bottom front of dust jacket reveals the recipients' name embossed on red cloth cover]. 6 X 8" 505 pages Weight Over 1 Kg (1963). A fascinating anthology in celebration of the splendors {and occasionally the miseries} of table and cellar. In his anthology Mr. Ray ranges widely and variously with the great chefs and memorable meals and re-lives the years of some memorable vintages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Type: Book 1st printing. An unread book. DJ shows use, is complete.