F Le Mesurier (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Cloth hardcover, still has the fold out chart showing the recipes and ingredients. Light signs of age and wear. We ship fast. Wolfe, Berthold (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. 3 pages, 1 colour plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 65 classic and traditional French and English sauces that any man can make at home. 82 pages, line drawings. Fold out sauce ingredient chart for each recipe. Marking to boards, age tanning to endpapers. No previous owner inscriptions Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. …

Cloth Backed Boards. Condition: Good. None. Third Edition. 147 pages and blank pages at end for notes. Name and name stamp on front pastedown. Some edgewear to boards.

Hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covers, gilt lettering and navy illustrations to the spine and upper panel. Quarto 10'' x 7¼'' viii, 760 [pp]. Colour frontispiece, full and part-page monochrome illustrations throughout. End papers cracked, rubbing to cloth corners and across spine tips, sporadic light foxing to some pages and end papers. Member of the P.B.F.A. NAUTICAL (Shipbuilding).…

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original course beige cloth with a small illustration in silver to the upper board and titles in silver to the spine, in the Berthold Wolpe illustrated dustwrapper. With line block illustrations by Berthold Wolpe throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with some offsetting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good, lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a few minor marks and a little toning to the spine and panel edges. Not price-clipped (5s net to the lower front flap). Scarce in the dustwrapper. An early illustrated work by German émigré typographer, designer and illustrator Berthold Wolpe. Wolpe is best known for his four-decade association with Faber and Faber, for whom he created more than 1,500 book covers and dustwrapper designs. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Tresilian, S.; Abbey, S.; Peddie, Tom; Inns, Kenneth; Wigfull; Faulks, Jack M.; De Walton, John (illustrator).…

Full Morocco. Condition: Near Fine. Third Edition. xvi, 1507 pp. Full dark green morocco bound by Zaehnsdorf, with gilt date at spine of raised bands and gilt crown to board. All edges gilt, gilt-decorated turn-ins and marbled endpapers. A few small scuffs to binding. Ink inscription to blanks dated 1946, otherwise clean. Binding is 18.5cms tall. 16mo.…