Morphy Countess, First Edition (22 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Third Printing. Clean tight copy. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Condition: Fair. 1946. First Edition. 717 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains colour illustrated plates throughout. Pages are heavily tanned with mild foxing. Heavy foxing to endpapers. Mild cracking to rear hinge, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Moderate tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Mild water stains and droplets to boards. Mild erosion to upper edge of front board.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Arc Books, 1966. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 800pp hardback, blue cloth yellow-lettered, with blank leaves bound-in for owner's additional recipes, one with recipe written on reverse, illustrated end-papers, spine sunned, undated ca 1935.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by the author. Small octavo. Pictorial paper over boards. Some rubbing and wear, near very good, lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition, Chatto & Windus 1937 London. This book is in good condition - pages tanning; mild lean on spine; some discoloration and foxing to ffep and rfep and pages next to these. The dustjacket is in good+ condition - price-clipped; mild edge wear; a little grubby looking.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. wear to covers and cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. slight wear to cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: worn edges Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: Near very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Original blue cloth, small tears to crown and heel of spine, front hinge loose. A think volume, 821 pages. Seldom encountered in fine condition due to its size and inexpensive binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Front endpaper is missing. Pages are clean, no spots or drips. VG/VG+.

Booklabel of Alan Davidson, Spine badly creased else VG in slightly rubbed publishers decorated boards. 1st edition.

Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. First Edition. Undated - believed to be 1936 Firm with some tanning to the endpapers. Pics available Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

1st edition chipped dust jacket Very Good small octavo 124p., The Kitchen Library Series, No.4.

8vo., First Edition; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small loss at upper edge of front panel. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book is tight and clean. Spine is loose from text-block. Foxing throughout - heavier at start and end. No Dust Jacket. First Edition 1933. Please see photos.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Slight wear, otherwise very good indeed in slightly torn and dust-soiled jacket, chipped at head of spine.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A very smart copy of this traditional English cookery book by Countess Morphy, complete with the original dust wrapper. First edition of this uncommon volume.With the publisher's scarce dust wrapper, unclipped.This work is the companion volume to the author's previous work, 'Recipes of All Nations', which consists of eighteen chapters each covering a different country's cuisine. In comparison, this collection comprises the traditional dishes of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, distinctly national and uninfluenced of the cookery of other countries.Recipes include hot cross buns, kedgeree, shepherd's pie, toad-in-the-hole, treacle pudding and gooseberry fool.Written by Countess Morphy, the pen name of Marcelle Azra Hincks, a British food writer, dance critic and cookery demonstrator who was born in New Orleans in 1883, moving to England as a young girl in 1891. 'Recipes of All Nations' is arguably her best known work, which also included two chapter on 'The Creole Cookery of New Orleans'. She aimed to dispel the myths and fears commonly associated with foreign cookery at the time. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with mild rubbing and bumping to the edges of the cloth. Dust wrapper is smart, with edge wear to the spine head and tail and a few scattered spots and handling marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers and occasional spots, heaviest and most scattered to the first and last few leaves. Near Fine. book.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original sea green cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. The Kitchen Encyclopaedia was published posthumously. Contains 717 + 1 printed pages of text with full-page colour and monochrome plates throughout. Cheap paper browning. Very Good condition book in scarce Good condition dust wrapper with closed tears and small chips to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. FOOD [Cuisine Française].

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Large 12mo. In dustjacket. Illustrated, hardcover paper binding. Former owner signature to front page. A recipe book featuring cartoons by the author. Good in Good dustjacket. Some ripping to dustjacket with sunning to dustjacket spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Herbert Joseph, London, nd. but the British Library states 1932. Hardback, 8vo. 197pp. plus (unused) blanks, original decorated washable oil-cloth cover with light wear, contents very good. Each section printed on to different coloured pages and there is a pocket pasted to rear paste down to house collected recipes prior to being pasted onto the blanks. Inscribed and signed by the author on f.f.e.p.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. David Knight (illustrator). First edition. A fantastic selection of cookery books and culinary histories, including the writings of Oscar A. Mendelsohn and Countess Morphy. All first editions, first impressions except for 'The Earnest Drinker', which is a second impression.Complete with the publisher's original dust wrappers, all unclipped except for 'The Good Fare', 'Cooking for Love' and 'Drinking with Pepys'.An interesting collection of culinary titles offering a range of recipes, histories and gastronomic reminiscences. Among other volmes, this set includes three works from Norwegian historian Oscar A. Mendelsohn, a collection of mushroom recipes by Countess Morphy (Marcelle Hincks), stew recipes from Elizabeth Craig, and a study of the development of food fads by Terence McLaughlin.The entirety of this set includes the following works: 'The Earnest Drinker' (1951) by Oscar A. Mendelsohn 'Good Appetite My Companion: A Gourmand at Large' (1955) by Victor MacClure 'Cooking for Love' (1959) by Maria Floris 'The Good Fare and Cheer of Old England' (1960) by Joan Parry Dutton 'Drinking with Pepys' (1963) by Oscar A. Mendelsohn 'Kitchen and Table: A Bedside History of Eating in the Western World' (1964) by Colin Clair 'A Salute to Onions: Some Reflections on Cookery and Cooks' (1965) by Oscar A. Mendelsohn 'Mushroom Recipes' (1966) by Countess Morphy 'Mrs Manders" Cookbook' (1968) by Olga Sarah Manders - With illustrations by David Knight. 'Elizabeth Craig"s Hotch Potch' (1978) 'A Diet of Tripe: The Chequered History of Food Reform' (1978) by Terence McLaughlin In the original cloth bindings. With the original dust wrappers, Externally, majority of volumes are very smart, with mild instances of shelf wear. With the exception of 'Earnest Drinker', which is damp stained to the boards. Dust wrappers display varying degrees of wear, with most notable instances to 'Good Appetite', 'Good Fare', and 'Earnest Drinker'. With chipping to the spine head and tail. 'Good Appetite' wrap is split in two parts, with additional edge wear. Sunning to the spine of 'Drinking with Pepys' and tape reinforcing a closed tear to the spine of 'Kitchen and Table'. Remaining dust wrappers are very smart, with milder edge wear and handling marks only. Internally, firmly bound. Majority of volumes are bright and clean, with the bookplate of ones Martin and Pamela Finch to the front free endpapers of several. Exceptions include spotting to the fore edge of 'Cooking for Love', affecting the margins of the pages and with spots to the endpapers. Offsetting and light spotting to the endpapers of 'Good Appetite'. Very Good. book.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Countess Morphy (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of two very scarce folding recipe cards for children by Countess Morphy. The first edition.Very scarce.Both volumes are held in their original glassine envelopes, in a good condition.Two of Countess Morphy's 'The Kiddies Cookery Cards'.Both of these folding cards present five recipes each for children, accompanied by entertaining cartoons by the author.Recipes include: sugared monkey nuts, stuffed baked apples, honey nougat, fried bananas, coconut pralines, compote of prunes, croquignoles, orange biscuits, caramel chestnuts, and the kiddies cocktail.By Countess Morphy, the pen name of Marcelle Azra Hincks. Morphy was a noted food writer, famed for her 1935 'Recipes of all Nations', an impressive global volume of recipes.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. Two folding cards of six panels each, in their original glassine envelopes. Smart, with very light rubbing to the folds. Glassine envelopes are a little worn, one more so, with chips and tears. Glassine envelopes are in a good condition. Fine. book.