Pullar R G (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co Ltd Dunedin 1957 First Edition 92pp illus (bw) VG- (green cloth w gilt title on front board, sl worn, some of dw is adhering to cloth boards, edges sl foxed) in VG DW (sl rubbed and worn, sl discolouration, sl bumping to extrems).

No Jacket. SIGNED; octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece, 92pp, illus, VG, lacks d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Owner's signature. Slight rubbing to ends of spine. Some rubbing at head of dust wrapper spine. 3/4" tear at tail of front fold of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 92 pages + frontis + plates. Green boards with gilt lettering. Selected illustrations: Map of Blueskin, Waitati and Murchison; Early view of Waitaki; Mrs McLennan's old home; The flaxmill; The First Waitaki School; First Presbyterian Church at Waitati."; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Owner's signature rubbed out on front free endpaper leaving a couple of holes. Some spotting to page edges. Some rubbing to ends of spine and corners of boards. 1/4" loss of cloth to bottom corner of rear board. ; 92 pages + frontis + plates. Green papered boards with gilt lettering. Signed by the author in blue ink on the title page. Selected illustrations: Map of Blueskin, Waitati and Murchison; Early view of Waitaki; Mrs McLennan's old home; The flaxmill; The First Waitaki School; First Presbyterian Church at Waitati."; 8vo; Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A compelling selection of historical works all relating to the culinary world, complete with the unclipped dust wrappers. A intriguing collection of works on food history, offering accounts of Roman cookery, sugar as a 'sweet malefactor', the life of pioneering zoologist and natural historian Frank Buckland, and a fascinating study of the parallels between English eating habits, religion and sex.All volumes are complete with the publisher's unclipped dust wrappers.This set includes the following titles:The Roman Cookery Book: A Critical Translation of The Art of Cooking (1961) by Apicius, translated by Barbara Flower and Elisabeth Rosenbaum - Second impression of this new translated editionThe Curious World of Frank Buckland (1967) by G. H. O. Burgess - First edition. Frontispiece and fifteen plates.Sweet Malefactor: Sugar, Slavery and Human Society (1967) by W. R. Aykroyd - First edition. Six double-sided plates containing eighteen illustrations.Consuming Passions: A History of English Food and Appetite (1977) by Philippa Pullar - Book Club Edition. Frontispiece and twenty plates.Collated, complete. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent with shelf wear, most notable to 'The Roman Cookery Book'. Dust wrappers are smart, with loss to the spine head and the front cover of 'Roman Cookery', which has had archival reinforcements. With sunning to its spine and spots to the rear. With general edge wear to the other wraps and handling marks to 'Sweet Malefactor'. Spots to the wrap of 'Curious World'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with an ownership bookplate to the front free endpaper of 'Roman Cookery' and light spotting to the first and last few leaves of 'Curious World'. Near Fine. book.