Hess Karen Notes (6 results)
- Hardcover
Seller: Turn-The-Page Books, Skyway, WA, U.S.A.Turn-The-Page Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Quarter cloth binding Book Club hardcover in a dust jacket. Gift note inked on front flyleaf. Dust jacket is good only, with edge wear, sunned spine. Offered nowin a new mylar cover. More than an inspired collection of recipes, it is the culminat…ion of five years of research and Mrs. David's informative and highly readable essays on the history and traditions of bread baking, the different types of flours available to today's cook, the miracle of the yeast plant, and the merits of the various ovens that can be used to bake bread, are masterpieces in the art of food writing. Karen Hess, who has worked closely with Mrs. David in preparing the American edition of this classic volume, has written an introduction expressly for American readers and provided each recipe with American measurements. 592pp., index, line drawings by Wendy Jones. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Jones, Wendy (illustrator).
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Turn-The-Page Books, Skyway, WA, U.S.A.Turn-The-Page Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. 1st printing hardcover with dust jacket. Unmarked copy shows some use and handling. Good only jacket is price-clipped, moderately rubbed along edges, with chip from upper edge back panel, sunned spine. Now in a new mylar cover. More than an ins…pired collection of recipes, it is the culmination of five years of research and Mrs. David's informative and highly readable essays on the history and traditions of bread baking, the different types of flours available to today's cook, the miracle of the yeast plant, and the merits of the various ovens that can be used to bake bread, are masterpieces in the art of food writing. Karen Hess, who has worked closely with Mrs. David in preparing the American edition of this classic volume, has written an introduction expressly for American readers and provided each recipe with American measurements. 592pp., index, line drawings by Wendy Jones. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Jones, Wendy (illustrator).
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- First Edition
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United KingdomROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD
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Condition: Very Good. First US edition. Hardback. Large octavo. xxxii, 592pp. Original quarter black cloth over pale yellow boards with gilt spine titles. Near very good indeed in a lightly edge worn, nicked and repaired, very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Wendy Jones (illustrator).
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.Time Tested Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. No additional date, edition or printing indicated. Very good plus, if not near fine hardback in very good plus, if not near fine dust jacket. Book has 1/2 inch band of light, if not very light pink to top edge of front pastedown and fr…ont free endpaper, due undoubtedly to dampness and trivial, if not barely noticeable dampstain to to edge of first 10 leaves. Dust jacket has a heavy crease to the center of the front panel running from top edge to bottom edge and has had tape expertly removed from interior of front panel along crease. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.
Published by Columbia University Press, New York 1981
- Hardcover
Seller: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo.,518 pp. Third print. Illustrated with photographs of the original manuscript. A transcription of this seventeenth century manuscript of collected recipes, being a family collection 'copied by an unknown hand' and passed down through generations. With notes and explanations of terms and techn…iques unfamiliar to the modern kitchen, showing how to make old fashioned recipes the traditional way. Containing recipes such as: rose petal vinegar, roast capon with oysters, mince pie, syllabub and apple cider. Written by Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, the wife of George Washington. Transcribed with historical notes and annotations by Karen Loft Hess, an American culinary historian. Near Fine with gold embossing in red cloth.
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- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. Handsomely bound in wovon burgundy cloth. Clean and tight throughout In a lightly worn dust jacket with the spine faded; with the price of $19.95 Signed " Best Wishes" by "Karen Hess" on the front endpaper. Signed "Best Wishes Karen Hell." on the front endpaper 2nd Edition with "2" as the lowest number.
