mirror features (8 results)

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 192 pages. Spiral bound with card covers. Unique recipe book in the style of a comic. Illustrated throughout in colour. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. A few of the spiral holes have split at the top and bottom on the front panel but the cover remains firmly attached. Slight dog earing to the bottom corner throughout. Paper cover is similarly bent at the corners. White sticker to rear cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Tony Royle (illustrator). 1st Edition. A Daily Mail comic strip adventure featuring runaways Belinda "Blue Eyes" and "Dismal" Desmond. Set in the post-WW2 East End of London (bombed out buildings, rationing, handsome vicars running boxing clubs, river police, etc). Vintage Mars Bar advert on back cover. The Belinda series appeared in the Daily Mirror from 1936 to 1959. Unpaginated, 32pp. Small tear top left front, back cover slightly marked and some rust around staples but in remarkably good condition for such a fragile item.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. * PUBLISHER : MIRROR FEATURES * YEAR : UNDATED * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 192 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD/ACCEPTABLE * OTHER: THE COVER IS HEAVILY RUBBED, WORN AND CREASED WITH SOME SMALL PORTIONS MISSING. THERE IS A NAME AND ADDRESS PENNED ON THE FRONT COVER. THE SPIRAL BINDING IS BENT AND MIS-SHAPEN. THE PAGES ARE TANNED WITH HEAVY WEAR AND FOXING TO THE EDGES. THERE IS A DEDICATION PENNED ON THE TITLE PAGE DATED XMAS 1951. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Card covers have some rubbing and wear especially to edges of spine. Priced to front cover at five shillings. There is a previous owners name to inside of front cover, no other inscriptions, some spotting to title page but rest of text is clean and bright, no loose pages. Illustrated, by the author, happy to supply photos on request.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). Delightful spiral-bound comic-style cookery book, following The Daily Mirror's Patsy and friends. In publisher's original card boards with spiral-bound spines.Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library.Illustrated throughout in colour.Multiple full-page contemporary advertisements from prominent brands such as Wall's and Salter.Charming comic-style cookery book following the character of Patsy and friends with the idea that the reader learns to cook at the same time as the protagonist. Resourcefully sectioned into chapters such as "Soups & Sauces", "Fish", "Meat", "Vegetables" and "Sweets & Puddings". Recipes include numerous British classics and are intended to be easy enough for beginners to follow. In publisher's original card boards with spiral-bound spines. Externally, smart with slight marking and discolouration. A few very minor tears where the front board has started to come away from the spine. Small chip to paper at corner of front paste down. Internally, front board coming away very slightly from spine, otherwise firmly bound. Very bright and clean with the occasional spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed. book.

Spiral-Bound. Condition: Good. Dunkley (illustrator). First Edition. 192 pages. Surely one of the most delightful vintage/retro cookbooks we have ever had the pleasure to lay eyes on! Open the mundane front cover and immediately inside you will find a glorious colour vintage ad for Salter cooker scales. Other colour ads are to be found within. And what of the contents? They are presented exclusively in colour comic format with literally hundreds of illustrations. Far out! Undated but appears to be circa 1949. Average wear. Prior owner's discrete signature upon both covers and first page. Average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy. Place this on your kitchen table, sit back and watch your guests gasp with pleasure. :-).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). Three uncommon Patsy comic style cookery books, being charming introductory guides to cooking with illustrations throughout. Three volumes. Scarce works. "When Patsy and Peter got marries, she couldn't even boil an egg. Cookery books were difficult to get, and most of the recipes in them required more ingredient that the rations for two would afford. So with the help of Mum (to say nothing of Dad) and her two cheery neighbours, old Mrs. Always and young Mrs. Peatherpenny, she set out to teach herself to cook." A collection of comic-style cookery books, following the story of Patsy, an ex-private in the A.T.S. who hasn't had much chance to learn to cook. With recipes interspersed in the charming story intended to encourage and develop knowledge of cooking with pictures and illustrations. This set contains: Patsy: Learn to Cook by Pictures, c1949. An introductory volume, providing comic recipes for potatoes with watercress, breakfast eggs, and baked fish. Patsy's Reflections: Learn to Cook by Pictures, 1949. A larger volume providing all sorts of recipes in simple language, arranged in sections for soups and sauces, vegetables, sweets and puddings, cakes and biscuits, and much more. Patsy's Christmas Reflections: Learn to Cook by Pictures, 1949. A collection of festive recipes with tips for cooking all of your Christmas favourites, from vegetables and chestnuts to marzipan and preserves. Dated from the British Library. In the original card wraps with spiral bound spines. Externally, smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark. Light sunning to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good. book.

Undated, c. 1950. 192pp landscape format in spiral wire binding. Light foxing to page edges and inside covers; otherwise internally VG. Covers worn with some foxing and corners slightly bent. Used - Good. Good paperback in spiral binding.