Sybil Goffinet (8 results)

Condition: Good. 1959. 2nd Impression. 120 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 120 pages, 12mo. Second Impression, July 1959. Jacket prince unclipped. Shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges and covers, tanning along edges and spine. DJ in mylar. Tanned page leafs. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st US Edition. 120 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Page edges are lightly darkened. Bound in yellow hardcovers with red titles. Lightly worn around the edges. White illustrated dustjacket in good condition with purple and red titles. Worn around the edges and spine with small holes and tears. Darkened and lightly smudged and stained. SCARCE. 1ST US EDITION. VG-/G. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Boards marked and lightly rubbed, spine darkened, pencil inscriptions on front free endpaper. Clean throughout. Good. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Impression. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 120. Original publisher's yellow cloth, lettered red on spine. Front panel of jacket designed by Heather Standring. Very good in bright, clean, very good minus dust jacket, with small thumb sized chip at top edge. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A pleasing set of four mid-20th century cookery books, including a very scarce first edition of 'Cream, Butter and Wine' by Sybil Goffinet. All first editions except for 'High Protein', which is a second impression copy.Offering a variety of wholesome recipes across these four cookbooks.In the original yellow cloth bindings and all published by Andre Deutsch, forming a pleasing uniform set.Cream, Butter and Wine by Sybil Goffinet (1955) - A very scarce first edition copy of this work. With recipes including lemon omelette souffle, stuffed peaches, lobster thermidor, boeuf bourguignon and duchesse potatoes.The High Protein Diet and Cookery Book by Theodora Fitzgibbon and Michael Hemans (1959) - With a list of foods allowed and not allowed in the proposed diet, as well as a series of debunked fallacies about slimming. Fitzgibbon was an Irish cookery writer, model and actress.Cooking Afloat by Molly Graham (1963) - A unique guide to cooking on the water, with hints on galley equipment and entertaining afloat. With recipes utilising largely canned ingredients, such as caramel custard, canned pork pie, meat curry and meat cakes.Balkan Cooking by Robin Howe (1965) - Exploring a range of Balkan cuisine, with recipes such as mussels fried in batter, lamb soup, tuna fish in marinade, paprika chicken and dumplings. In the original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart, with minor handling marks to majority of boards, with more notable damp marks to the boards of 'High Protein'. Minor shelf wear across the set. Fading to the spines of 'Cream' and 'High Protein'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers of 'Cream'. Scattered spots largely concentrated to the first and last few pages of 'High Protein', as well as to the fore-edge, affecting the occasional margins. Ownership bookplate tipped-in to the front free endpapers of all but 'Balkan'. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. GOFFINET, Sybil [120] pp. Andre Deutsch 1959 Second Impression 7 1/2" x 5 1/8" Jacket designed by Heather Standring.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. GOFFINET, Sybil [120] pp. Andre Deutsch 1959 First Impression 7 1/2" x 5 1/8" Jacket designed by Heather Standring.